Jimmy Young - guitar
Lach Leckie - bass
Jesse Bailey - vocals
Dan Briffa - drums
Rogerthat international tour:
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australian Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
19 - music video
Dir: Kaelen Ohm
Higher Plain live @ Annandale Hotel Sydney
Green Room - music video
Influences
Pretty much everything. Especially....blues, pyschedelic rock, reggae and rock'n'roll
Sounds Like
.:: buy our cd's online ::.
Vanilla Gorillas (2007)
Or download our songs on....
shipped anywhere in the world from waterfront ::
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REQUEST 'GREEN ROOM' on TRIPLE J ... the radical Sarah Howells has given 'Tangerine Bird' and Green Room a spin during her morning weekend show on Triple J. If you get a chance we'd be so stoked if you could hit up super request, or just Triple J in general, to play 'Green Room'
And to do it all you need to do is go to the links below ...
Or call or text:
Triple J Super Request Line: 1300055536
Triple J Request SMS: 19757555
Sydney - FBI Request Line: 02 83322900
Sydney - 2SER FM Request Line: 02 95149514
They are the sound of spiralling petrol prices, political scandal, a ready supply of the drug of your choice, roaming bikie gangs, botched invasion attempts, one raised finger to the man, a surfboard hitting that wave and fucking it all. They fly that freak flag up on high and into the sky. Swaying like the breeze, mind whistling like leaves, it's all in the way Bailey on vocals (with his Amish beard and anti-establishment grooves) make THIS band the very Zeitgeist of it all!
If ever there was anything lacking from our apocalypse as envisioned in childhood, it's in the sights THEY bring to our feverish minds – it’s in the second coming of the mad 70's blunt groove, Rogerthat style. Bikini girls on Harley's, swallowing swords and spitting out fire.
The breath of fresh air we needed, smoking out the room to an intangible haze. Walking the water and swimming the land.
If ever there was a diagonal slide into sweet oblivion that needed magnifying with guitar, bass, drum and electrified amp, Rogerthat are the one to deliver it. They're a spaghetti western act of desperado with both guns blazing moments before the saloon goes down in flames.
Recent touring highlights :: - selling out venues at Australian tour Feb-Apr 09
- 25 date tour of Europe & UK
- Big Day Out '08
- Wonderland Festival (headlining 2 years)
- The Quiksilver pro show festival (twice, Gold Coast).
- Pyramid Festival
- tours with: The Beautiful Girls and State Radio (US)
- The Black Seeds
- as well with Ash Grunwald, Alabama 3 (UK) and the Custom kings.
Tracks from their CD’s have featured on:
- Guerilla Gardeners Channel 7 national TV show
- 2007 Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast July ‘Tracks’
surf magazine DVD
- Fuel TV (pay TV)
- Californian compilation SOUTHCALI VOL 1.
- Recent AIR play compilation
- Tracks Does Bells – a cover mount surf film
- ASP online coverage of Mexico Rip curl Pro, Billabong Pro, and Pipe Masters
NEWS
Rogerthat single 'Green Room' added to FBI Radio Sydney!
(September 09)
touring...
We've got some reviews for the Desert's Call ... and more on the blogs - if you get a chance .
on Faster Louder and from the Espy, this one:
The rock n roll baton is passed on to Rogerthat who twist it in to a highly entertaining hybrid of psychedelic garage, surf rock, reggae and rocksteady. Front man Jesse Bailey is a perfect prototype for the late 70’s rock star. Open velour shirt: check. Giant gem stone necklace nestled amongst a suitable tuft of chest hair: check. Shoulder length mane coupled with ironically huge moustache: check. Golden God stance with arms thrown out, head thrown back and steely gaze into the rafters: check. But these boys aren’t all rock star bark and no bite. Deep reggae vibes, rollicking riffs and thumping bass lines throw the room in to a frenzy. Their single Green Room is a set highlight.
Beat (Aug 09)
The Desert's Call Rogerthat
The Desert's Call is a monumental disc that has been catapulting the young four piece to a new level of recognition and the outfit are only getting better and exponentially more awesome live.
RAVE MAGAZINE
ROGERTHAT – The Desert’s Call
The long-awaited debut album from these hard-to-categorise rockers
Over the years, we at Rave had Rogerthat pegged as a soul/funk surfer outfit and psychedelic reggae-rockers. By the time they released Green Room, the single preceding this album, we were using words like fuzzy and bluesy, with both Bob Dylan and Cream references. Whatever is the right tag, it’s clear this Gold Coast outfit have learnt a few valuable lessons by looking backwards. And they put them to good use here. In one sense, they’re like more recent acts Kings Of Leon (in Somewhere Between) and Gomez (in You’re Not Alone), cherry-picking their influences and somehow jamming them together organically. But (good thing too), they’ve found their own method of cobbling these different sources together, from the counter-cultural blues-rock of White Lines homing in on the late ‘60s and early ‘70s and the lazy-afternoon, semi-reggae lope of Crazy Times to the marimba shimmer of The Velvet Sons. They reach for the outer limits with the stoned-hippie acoustic strum of Grow Your Gardens, until a big guitar chug zooms in on the pastoral patch. Then there’s the strange static that permeates Tangerine Bird. Hmmm! But there’s no denying these guys have developed a style that definitely engages, regardless of what we call it.
.:RELEASES:.
INTERVIEWS AND REVIEWS....
'Green Room' Single of the Week in Rave Magazine:
"Green Room just has so many layers, all of which sound like they’re taken from an old, slightly dog-eared and decomposing-round-the edges twelve-inch cardboard sleeve ... Green Room’s so engaging to listen to on repeat" MORE
Spoz Blog in Adelaide after seeing Rogerthat live:
"Rogerthat. They're just the breath of fresh air we needed, smoking out the room to an intangible haze. Here walking the water and swimming the land, the second coming of the mad 70's blunt groove." More? Copy this link into your browser: http://spoz.blogspot.com/2008/11/roger-that-kytes-of-omar-live-ed-castle.html
Check the German review of Rogerthat The Vanilla Gorillas at ::
... Rog review
Fasterlouder.com.au have done a feature article on the band talking about the Big Day Out '08 and life on the road....
the link is:
Rogerthat loud and clear review
helleeuu! How are you guys? I listened to your album a lot, and I have to say it's really good shit!!! I hope you come back to the flying pig one day;)
We are thinking about putting on an under 18's Pool Party Gig up this way and thought you guys would be awesome music for some poolside fun. Anyway, it is all just a concept at the moment, one of many.... but let us know if you think it is something you would be interested in.
aus dem studio, mit neuen songs im gepäck. ab ende dezember wird es dann eine split mit alia, jan.tenner und planke geben. das ganze erscheint dann über lala-schallplatten
als kleinen vorgeschmack haben wir euch den song "drachen steigen gehen" bei myspace hochgeladen.
Hi, check out our new Demo's Flying Machine and Charlie, We're putting on our own night at the Grove opposite the Tube in South Wimbledon this Friday (16th Oct). hope you can make it.
hey fellers, hope things have not calmed down in the slightest since your WA visit.. glad you liked Fremantle so much, was nice to have you here with our good friends The Witness.. come party again some time soon, our doors are always open to scruffy travellers :)
things are going great here and very hectic at the moment! So happy to have finished recording the album now. Just in the stage of getting everything aligned and ready for the launch on October 9th.......Well excited!
Hope you guys are having fun and living the dream......we look forward to touring the east coast with you boys soon! ha ha
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