TOODY COLE & HER BAND
TOODY COLE & her band
Dead Moon drummer Andrew Loomis once described the four string belter Toody Cole as "kicking ass and taking names" : Lemmy cited her as one of his favourite bass players. It's now 33 years since she first visited Aotearoa with Dead Moon , the Portland band who famously turned down a Nirvana tour to honour a prior commitment to tour the motu.
Post-Dead Moon, Fred & Toody helmed Pierced Arrows, with long time family friend Kelly Haliburton on drums. In recent times Toody has recruited Kelly to put together a band to keep that Dead Moon songbook alive. Otherworldly reader of the guitar runes, Christopher March, string slinger in Kelly’s cow punk combo Jenny Don’t & the Spurs was the only choice to replicate Fred Cole’s singular guitar style. TOODY COLE & HER BAND was born.
Dead Moon was the all points mix of earthy, gritty spiritual rock & roll. It was the sixties garage rawness Fred & Toody started out in, the lyrical expanse set by Dylan, the guitar sonics of Neil Young, the swagger & roll of the Stones, the three chord slugfest punk of the Ramones, the dirt of Mudhoney, the alien guitar tones of the Wipers, the soul gut hook & stomp of the Sonics.
TOODY & HER BAND bring that singular gravel roadhouse rock fire to the Antipodes for possibly the last time. See the original mistress of this dirt soul rock or maybe never see anything the like of it ever again…
