Jive Bombers
Mick on Wheels
Ivor S K
Since 1985 the Jive Bombers have been performing all around Australia at music festivals, clubs and functions. They have won prestigious music awards for both jazz (APRA music awards 2001) and rhythm & blues (Wintersun Festival 2002) and have gained praise as one of the finest bands in the country. With the return of Don Hopkins on piano/vocals the Jive Bombers are back to their original line up, almost, and we now have Mark Roulston on double bass/vocals.
The band members have performed and/or recorded with some of the world’s greatest artists including The Beatles, Little Richard, Long John Baldry and many more.
Don Hopkins came second place at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, 2012 competing against 84 other regional winners from around the globe in the solo/duo category.
The music ranges from swing, blues, boogie woogie, and latin. The band has released three CDs.
www.jivebombers.com.au
Mick delivers a powerful vocal range through various genres of music. These styles can range from Jazz, Blues, Rock, Funk, Soul, Reggae and much more.
Mick has performed in numerous events connecting with the audience not only as a brilliant performer but as an entertainer. Working as a professional singer since 1995 he has worked with artists such as Human Nature, Dragon front man Mark Williams, Rose Tattoo front man Angry Anderson, Singer Jacky Love, Guitar Vertuoso: Bruce Mathiske and regulary performs with ‘A’ Grade session guitarist Peter Northcote.
Mick performs on a regular basis with his band and various other set ups in venues around the country.
Ivor is an acoustic blues guitarist, singer and songwriter living the dream, walking in the footsteps of the American Blues Giants.
Moving to New Orleans he has thrust himself into the daily life in the Deep South, absorbing all that this rich blues heritage has to offer.
For six years now he has been playing in the revered rooms of New Orleans, the jumpin’ jukes of the Delta, and the seaside shacks
of the gulf, setting himself to conquer the blues heartlands of the States of Louisiana and Mississippi.
“Ivor Simpson Kennedy re-interprets Delta Blues so faith-fully you’d swear he was a muddy footed native….In a drawl that sounds like his throat is clotted with Mississippi mud….S.K. floats through originals that sound like they were excavated from underneath the porch of some stilt house in the alluvial bottomlands….please, keep ‘em coming.” – Grant Britt, No Depression, The Journal of Roots Music, UK.