The Sir Bald Diddley aka Hipbone Slim aka The Bald Bomber, has been a leading world force in the field of surf and rock 'n' roll instrumentals for a decade or more. Check out numerous Sir Bald Diddley albums on Alopecia, Sympathy, Raucous, Corduroy and others. His ‘Go Japan’ mini-album features a guest spot by the 5678s! He has also recorded with members of Jackie and the Cedrics, Mummies, Finks, Bomboras, Huntingdon Cads, Johnny Bartlett and Supersnazz. Currently, he also fronts his own garage-freak-beat combo 'The Snags' , ska and rhythm ‘n’ blues champions ‘The Nine Ton Peanut Smugglers’, Rock ‘n’ Roll/Rockabilly aces ‘Hipbone Slim and the Kneetremblers’ plus ‘The Legs’ with Jorge and Mr. Peeblee (both Dr. Explosion - Spain). He also runs the fantastic Alopecia Records. Check out the great ‘Locked In’ compilation series featuring many fantastic surf instrumental outfits and several mysterious ‘super-groups’! Bald is infamous for his rather daring stage antics which include surfin’ along bar tops, clamberin’ on tables and somersaultin’ and rollin’ around on the floor doing the ‘P-bug’! Between them and often together, Matt and Brian have backed, worked with, recorded, and occasionally held together the following acts! Ray Sharpe, Teddy Paige (Jesters), Ronnie Dawson, Planet Rockers, Deke Dickerson, Big Sandy, Panasonics, Neanderthals, Eddie Angel, Big Joe Louis, Sonny Burgess, James Hunter, Holly Golightly and many more!!!
Influences
Influences on the band include Dick Dale, Pyramids, Link Wray, Bobby Fuller, Ventures, Atlantics, Astronauts, New Dimensions, Trashmen, Rivieras, Wailers, Sonics, Kingsmen, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Chuck Berry, Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly, Travis Wammack, The Kinks and various (often obscure) surf, frat, rnb, garage,rock ‘n’ roll and rockabilly artists of the late 50s and early 60s.
Hey folks! Watch out! Here is new dynamite surf, frat and twistin’ rock ‘n’ roll combo of ‘Britain’s String King’ himself Sir Bald Diddley. In this new outfit he is joined by one of Britain’s (in fact the world’s!) finest rock ‘n’ roll / rhythm ‘n’ blues rhythm sections, namely Matt ‘Sleepy Louie’ Radford on bass and Brain ‘Ramblin’ Louie’ Nevill on drums.
The Sir Bald Diddley aka Hipbone Slim aka The Bald Bomber, has been a leading world force in the field of surf and rock 'n' roll instrumentals for a decade or more. Bald has a made a stack of records in various guises and is particularly infamous for his rather daring stage antics which include surfin’ along bar tops, clamberin’ on tables and somersaultin’ and rollin’ around on the floor doing the ‘P-bug’!
Between them and often together, Matt and Brian have backed and/or recorded with many fantastic acts, including Ray Sharpe, Ronnie Dawson, Planet Rockers, Deke Dickerson, Billy Riley, Sonny Burgess, James Hunter and Holly Golightly!!!
The Louies have a single out on Alopecia (Standoff/Birdman). Both sides have been played by Mark Lamar on Radio 2 (even fooling listeners that 'Standoff' was actually lost Link Wray and the Wraymen 1963 recording!!). A 4 track EP will be released on Butterfly (Spain) very soon and an album is ready to go!
The Louies play a great mix of surf instros and vocals, rockin’ frat workouts, Link Wray style rumblers and early garage style blowouts!
They have recently toured in Spain and hope to be playing across continental europe in the near future.
BAND CONTACT : ALOPECIARECORDS@HOTMAIL.COM
Hey Sir Bald & Guys, I Picked up your Birdman single from Bob Thomas at Luton Record fair a few weeks back and everywhere I play it people keep asking who it is. I played it at the Hotrod Hayride last weekend & 3 people came up!! It's a winnner!! All the best Carl
howdy oh bald one! had the great pleasure of listening to you boys on Mr Lamarr's show last week. Great stuff! we'll be in London in October - you got any gigs around then? Love to experience the Louies live in the flesh! Haven't seen Matt and Brian for several years either. All the best, and keep it rockin. Andy (aka Razor Jack)
