Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra

Americana UK’s top albums of 2022 – the rest of the best

December 22, 2022 Mark Whitfield 0

Over the last few days we’ve been counting down our top 10 albums of 2022 which concluded yesterday with Bonny Light Horseman and The Delines holding our top two places. In the process of coming up […]

Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra kick off UK tour next week

October 3, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

Newcastle-based genre-hopping roots quintet Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra, who Uncut described as “evoking the spirit of Bob Wills and Django Reinhardt” will be setting off on a UK tour next week which runs […]

Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra “Eta Carinae” (Tea Pad Recordings, 2019)

September 30, 2019 Tim Martin 1

Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra describe themselves as a genre-hopping roots quintet from Newcastle. Their new EP, named after a star system, certainly covers a fair bit of ground. Opener ‘Swinging Like a Brick‘ […]

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Well that’s it from us for this week and we leave you dear reader with a new video for a new song by Alberta-based sextet Starpainter which YES I KNOW we ran last week, but Jon […]

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