Live and direct from Beanblossom, Indiana, Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band return to Auckland to deliver a super fun night of punk-fuelled, ragtime, folk, rural blues at The Tuning Fork next February on the eve of Auckland’s Splore Music Festival.
Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band’s debut NZ tour in 2016 won over audiences with the exceptional slide guitar skills of the Rev himself along with his wife, “Washboard” Breezy Peyton’s rhythmic washboard strumming accompanied by some boot stompin’ drums. Music reviewer Marty Duda reported, “It was clear from the way Peyton spoke about his custom-made instruments and his own songs that the man has a deep love for what he is doing. By the end of the 15-song show, so did his audience”.
The Rev. Peyton is very much looking forward to returning to Aotearoa, saying “Last time we were in New Zealand, we were welcomed with a Māori haka, we fished, we swam in the clear blue water, and we made amazing friends. It’s going to be tough to beat that first tour, but we are so excited and we are going to try”.
The Big Damn Band has won a large and loyal fan base the world over, thanks to their great sense of humour, high-energy showmanship along with nine acclaimed albums and tireless touring efforts including all of the big festivals; SXSW, Glastonbury, Austin City Limits, Bonnaroo, High Sierra, and Warped Tour. With nearly 6 million combined views of the Rev playing his Shotgun Guitar (true story), there is much to learn about this band!
Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band
Presented by 95bFM’s Border Radio & The Tuning Fork
Friday 23rd February | The Tuning Fork | Auckland
Pre sales from Friday 8th December – 11am
General On Sale from Monday 11th December – 9am
Tickets available from Ticketmaster.
Press Release:
This upcoming Tuning Fork show will be part of the band’s world tour in support of their 2017 album, Front Porch Sessions, that has garnered critical acclaim including praise from American Blues Scene magazine calling it, “a revelation…an amazingly well crafted, controlled explosion of talent”.
For the uninitiated, some listeners have a hard time believing all of the Rev.’s extraordinary guitar performances are recorded live with no overdubs — until they see the Big Damn Band in concert. The Rev explains, “Because I play finger style, I play the bass and the lead guitar at the same time. The washboard almost fills the space, almost like rhythm guitar, so between that and the drums and me, you don’t feel like you are missing anything from a band that has five or six people”.
“I’ve been obsessed with the idea of taking fingerstyle guitar to a place it’s never been before”, the Rev. says. And he’s gotten there by blending the foundational playing of great country bluesmen like Charley Patton, Furry Lewis and John Hurt with the early-rock vigour of Chuck Berry. Like The White Stripes and The Black Keys, this turbocharged band is able to translate the spirit of those seminal masters into the 21st century.
Tickets for the fun-ist show on earth from one of the world’s great live bands go on-sale from 9am Monday 11 December with a Ticketmaster pre-sale from 11am Friday 8 December.
Don’t miss your chance to spend a magnificent summer evening a hootin’ and a hollerin’ with the fantastic Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band.
“The tent revival, almost punk energy of the Big Damn Band is a refreshing splash of coldwater to the face.” — Living Blues
“With his wife, Breezy, serving as a one-woman amen corner, and Max laying down the floppy-boot-stomp drums behind Peyton’s spiky, waspish National steel slide guitar on tracks like “Something for Nothing”, the result is a peculiarly infectious blues crusade, touching on themes of money, morality and social responsibility.” – The Independent (UK)
“The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band is a twenty-year-old bourbon in a room of vodka Red Bulls and PBRs; vintage yet timeless, exciting and still welcoming…” –MXDWN.COM
