Honest tunes filled with catchy hooks and shallow lyrics is what these boys trade in...
Personnel:
Jody Botting - Bass
Stu Gillan - Drums
Gary Palmer - Guitar / Ukelele
Tom Parry - Guitar

Having formed the seminal and now legendary Cambridge band The Amyl Dukes in the ‘70’s, Bobbi and Dave pursued careers in different areas of the music industry before joining forces again in 2010 to deliver their unique brand of power driven and well-crafted songs.
With Rod on drums and Edd on bass and concentrating largely on original material there are influences from The Beatles, Small Faces, XTC, Jimi Hendrix all delivered with passion and style.

Opaque have released 4 E.P.'s and 3 albums through Drip-Dry Productions (available on Apple Music, Spotify etc.)

With one foot always planted firmly in the festival fields and have played at Secret Garden, Bestival, GrassRoots, Strawberry Fair, Small World, Landed, Fire Gathering, Blissfields, City Roots,  along with many extensive tours of the UK and Europe.

Opaque have headlined many showed and played  support for The Kooks, Bifffy Clro, The Future Heads, Hamfatter, The Bluetones, Jamie Woon and many other up and coming artists.

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Jody Logan has always wanted to be a rock n’ roll star, and hasn’t really grown out of it yet. After playing in a number of bands and supporting acts such as Ian Dury and The Blockheads, Eddie Tudor-Pole, Chaz and Dave and The Undertones, he decided to re-group, and de-group.

Jody’s influences are quite simply pieces of music which have a generous amount of passion. This, he hopes, comes across in his own work, which itself is a healthy mixture of blues, rock n’ roll, jazz and quirky country.
After 16 years of playing, recording, gigging and pleading with record labels and promoters, Jody is very much a realist and knows full well that at the moment,  playing for the love of it is the best reason to keep doing it.


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NZ Alt-rockers Rival State set to release new Single `Impulses` 

After a very successful, No.1 release in their homeland followed by a break, and some travelling, they decided to make the life changing decision of all relocating to London in January 2014. 
The band hit the ground running as soon as they arrived in the UK. Live shows were quickly filling the diary, including Sonisphere, Download Festival, BST in Hyde Park and Camden Rocks.

As the single shows perfectly the upcoming record is another full throttle, rush of rock excellence. Filtering all their influences and attitude into well-honed songs that take a stadium pleasing approach and a gift for writing hook heavy choruses, anthems with plenty of attitude.

Their last EP ‘Gutter Mouth’ was recorded with Matt Hyde (Ash, Slipknot, Funeral For A Friend) and released in November 2014 and quickly gained support from the likes of Daniel P Carter on the BBC Radio1 Rock Show, Classic Rock Magazine where they were featured in their ‘Sound Of 2015’ list of artists to watch out for in the year ahead and Kerrang! Magazine whose KKKK review celebrated their; “gleaming, stripped back rock unsullied by bulls**t, and fast-tracks straight to the important stuff – ripping it up”.

Ian Camfield at XFM also invited the band in for a storming live session and Planet Rock Radio playlisted them on their New Music show. Scuzz TV also playlisted the video for Sleep Talker.


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