NEW VIDEO: Big Boy Bloater and The LiMiTs voodoo video ‘I Love You (But I Can’t Stand Your Friends)’ + UK Tour

Big Boy Bloater & The LiMiTs announce UK ‘Luxury Hobo’ tour.

New album: Luxury Hobo, Out Now on Provogue/Mascot Label Group

 

 

 

 

“Raucous, Rollicking good-time blues” Classic Rock

“Raw and refreshing… brilliant” The Blues

 

 

Luxury Hobo UK Tour

 

SUNDAY 8TH MAY – THE GLEE CLUB, BIRMINGHAM – Tickets £12 Adv
THURSDAY 12TH MAY – SOUTHEND CLIFFS PAVILION – Tickets £14 Adv
FRIDAY 13TH MAY – THE HUNTER CLUB, BURY ST EDMUNDS – Tickets £12 Adv
SATURDAY 14TH MAY  – THE FORUM, TUNBRIDGE WELLS – Tickets £10 Adv
SUNDAY 15TH MAY – 100 CLUB, LONDON – Tickets £15 Adv
FRIDAY 20TH MAY – THE OLD FIRE STATION, OXFORD – Tickets £12 Adv
SATURDAY 21ST MAY – THE RAILWAY, WINCHESTER – Tickets £12 Adv
THURSDAY 26TH MAY – THE MUSICIAN, LEICESTER – Tickets £12 Adv
SATURDAY MAY 28TH – MR KYPS, POOLE – Tickets £10 Adv

WEDNESDAY 15TH JUNE – GREYSTONES, SHEFFIELD – Tickets £11 Adv

THURSDAY 16TH JUNE – CLUNY 2, NEWCASTLE – Tickets £11 Adv

FRIDAY 17TH JUNE – CONTINENTAL, PRESTON – Tickets £11 Adv

SATURDAY 18TH JUNE – NICE N SLEAZY, GLASGOW – Tickets £11 Adv

SUNDAY 19TH JUNE – VOODOO ROOMS, EDINBURGH – Tickets £11 Adv

FRIDAY 22ND JULY – BEER & BLUES FESTIVAL, BAND ON THE WALL, MANCHESTER – Tickets £11 Adv

 

More videos:

 

The Lego Swamp Monster b-movie of  It Came Outta The Swamp

Lyric video for Robot Girlfriend

In the Studio video for I Love You (But I Can’t Stand Your Friends)

 

We are thrilled to announce that Big Boy Bloater and The LiMiTs will be heading out on the UK ‘Luxury Hobo’ tour following the release of their new album Luxury Hobo which was released on Provogue/ Mascot Label Group (Joe Bonamassa, Black Stone Cherry, The Rides, Beth Hart, Walter Trout, Robert Cray) on 26th February 2016.

 

Ahead of this they have released a fantastic animated voodoo video for I Love You (But I Can’t Stand Your Friends). With a fascination for textures and subtle narratives Luxury Hobosees Bloater in a tougher, deeper and more expressive mode following a bout of depression in 2013 which has led it to take a lot darker and personal tone.

 

He confesses, “I never felt I was prone to that kind of thing”. Opening up, he continues, “I had a breakdown, the album centres around that we’ve got all these great things but are still pissed off and medicate ourselves to be normal.” For a while life was put on hold whilst he tried to focus in on looking after himself and getting back on track and this fed into the albums’ mild dystopian outlook which is littered with moments of dark humour, wit and twists.

 

“The basic idea of the title” Bloater explains, “is we are all luxury hobos these days, we get to go here, there and everywhere but no one has it the hard way now do they? We all have our luxuries, it’s that juxtaposition, I think the whole album is about the modern day life and society.”

 

His Tom Waits-esque gravelly vocal delivery, coupled with the distinctive and dynamic guitar style has seen him build on the blues foundation offering insights into rockier territories, aided and abetted with his ability to weave story-telling around barbed observations.

 

This approach has led to praise from Imelda May who has confessed to being a “massive fan”, Jools Holland declared him “one of the greatest bluesmen of our time” and Mark Lamarrpersonally funded a vinyl single run just so he could have a copy and radio has been a regular guest on BBC Radio for Jools, Mark, Paul Jones, Craig Charles as well as Imelda’s RTE show.

 

His career has taken him around the world and has seen him perform at the top of the World Trade Centre, was voted the ‘Best Band of the Weekend’ at the Viva Las Vegas Festival, Nevada – has supported Carl Perkins, played with Wanda Jackson, Paloma Faith and appeared at festivals such as; Latitude, Secret Garden Party, Hop Farm, Jersey Live, ABC Roskilde, BluesFest, Barcelona’s Hayride, Sweden’s A-Bombers. He has lead the Rhythm Riots Kings of Rhythm band at the Rhythm Riot Festival since its inception and was personally invited to record at Abbey Road for Paul McCartney.

 

“I get this blues tag all the time and I don’t think of myself as a blues artist” he confesses. “I’ve got so many more influences than that, there is so much I want to bring in, for me when I made this album I was thinking more rock ‘n roll, the edge of that 70s pub R&B type thing, I was listening to loads of stuff like Mott the Hoople and T-Rex, there’s a lot of that on this album too.”

 

He has toured regularly with friend Imelda May, who featured on Sweet & Brown and Every Path Has Its Puddle from 2011s Big Boy Bloater and The LiMiTs alongside jazz-funk legendSnowboy (Jamiroquai, Amy Winehouse).

 

Immortalised in book form, he has been featured as an ‘R&B Guitar Icon’ in; Rock & Pop: The Complete History, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music and Blues: The Complete History. Currently the presenter in the hugely popular The Blues Magazine Show for Team Rock Radio where his charismatic and down to earth personality perfectly suits the shows format and has given him the chance to interview some of the greatest artists both past and present including; Robert Cray, Walter Trout, Mud Morganfield and Dan Patlansky amongst others.

 

Luxury Hobo is out via the Mascot Label Group (Joe Bonamassa, Black Stone Cherry, Walter Trout, Monster Truck, The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band).

Big Boy Bloater and The LiMiTs are:

Big Boy Bloater – Vocals/Guitar

Matt Cowley – Drums

Dan Edwards – Keyboards

Steven Oats – Bass

About David Farrell

General Manager and 'THE' competition guy at planetmosh.com. Manager of The Goddanm Electric www.thegde.co.uk, Tour manager for Serpentine, and ex-general Dogsbody at Hammerfest.co.uk. Media partner to numerous bands. Also takes photos, writes reviews and likes classic rock, with a touch of thrash to get the blood flowing.