Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra

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Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra

Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra don’t care what genre you choose to put them in, as long as you understand that they’re 100% sincere and 100% immersed - they live and breathe this music and want you to get immersed with them.

The Tea Pad are ten years into a remarkable story that began with four friends studying at Newcastle University and now sees them playing venues and festivals across the UK and mainland Europe. Based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, but with members hailing from Orkney to Warwickshire, the Tea Pad sound draws on myriad influences – from Hank Williams to Django Reinhardt, Tom Waits to The Beatles – yet ultimately sounds like nobody else, that North Eastern Swing style that’s utterly their own and changing all the time.

Across the four wonderful albums – 2012’s Money Isn’t Everything, 2014’s Talk About The Weather, 2016’s Something Blue, and 2019’s Soul Of My City – the band have constantly added new flavours to their sound: Heron in particular is a vinyl obsessive, always fired up about some new passion – calypso or boogaloo or whatever this week brings – and that eclecticism feeds into their songs, with the newest releases adding twangy 60s guitar tones and modernist R&B styles.

October 2022 will see the band release their fifth studio album, The Party’s Over, which takes their signature blend of classic country and rhythm and blues to a new level. After a decade of honing their craft, this might be the best album to date!

'Newcastle's finest swing-honkytonk-rockabilly band'
fRoots

'Rob Heron evokes the spirit of Bob Wills and Django Reinhardt with a quintet that shuffles and boogies with panache. Infectiously good-humoured'
Uncut Magazine

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The band are:

Rob Heron (vocals/guitar)
Tom Cronin (mandolin/harmonica/guitar)
Colin Nicholson (accordion/organ/piano)
Ted Harbot (double bass/electric bass)
Paul Archibald (drums)