Success!! You are hereby cordially welcomed to the home of irreverent, blistering classic rock. By virtue of your arrival here, you are putting your very musical soul in the care of the Gordon Bennett Band.

GBB is an Ipswich-based classic rock covers band that is stone-cold guaranteed to blow your mind, rock your socks off and steal your shirt... so you'd better put on a helmet and wear a few pairs of everything unless you want to go dizzy shoe-less skinny dipping in a pool of Gordon Bennett holy water by the end of the night. It has been said in quiet corners of local rock gossip columns that the Gordon Bennett Band are blazing forth on a newly revitalised mission from the Gods of Rock. Armed to the backs of their wisdom teeth with power and fury, this freakishly hot line-up are fronted by an authentic barefoot American soul man, super-charged with scintillating guitar riffs, tightly bound by a bad-ass bass and tommy-gun back beat. They will settle for nothing less than saving your rock and roll soul. It's too late for them, they already sold theirs for some Jack Daniels, a couple of old used magazines and some rusty guitar strings a few years back. Now they've come to save you. They will preach the gospel of un-apologetic, unpretentious, reckless abandon rock-and-roll to you. Say goodbye forever to boring pub-rock bands. You need worry no more about the future of local live music. Step into the Church of The Gordon Bennett Band and prepare to be blessed clean by a tsunami of purified, unwavering, authentic classic rock-blues. 

Bite down...hard. It's going to be a bumpy ride.

supreme fans:

Check out the gig list below, get your backside off the settee and get it out to see the Gordon Bennett Band's next show. You won't be disappointed. They personally guarantee it, or they will get theirs out too.   In fact, it's a routine part of the show.  Now, go forth, be fruitful and Rock On, Brothers and Sisters.

Friday 03 July     The Ipswich Council Staff Club, Civic Drive
Sunday 05 July   National Music Day - The Cock & Pie, Ipswich - 9pm onward - Celebrate Matt's 40th with a big bad funkin' head bangin' good time!!
Friday 17 July    The Grinning Rat, Ipswich

Saturday 08 August    Kesgrave Music Festival - Headlining
Friday 28 August        The Ipswich Council Staff Club, Civic Drive
Saturday 29 August   The Cork Bar, Felixstowe

Thursday 29 October   The Cork Bar, Felixstowe
Friday 30 October    The Ipswich Council Staff Club, Civic Drive

Saturday 28 November   The British Legion, Hadleigh

Friday 18 December        The Ipswich Council Staff Cub, Civic Drive
Saturday 19 December    The Red Lion, Chelmondiston



 

NEWS  September 2008  THE GORDON BENNETT BAND GETS A NEW FRONT-MAN!

As The Gordon Bennett Band bid a fond farewell to their long time front man Bud, they begin a new mission to awe the teaming masses joined by a new, yet strangely familiar voice....

Die-hard fans will be familiar with the well-oiled line-up of rip-it-up-riff-master Hippy Smith on lead guitar, the effervescent Uncle Ben on bass and slinky smooth skin-shaker Paul Percussion on drums, and will sorely be missing Bud after seeing him perform many great gigs over the years with veteran members of The Gordon Bennett Band.

The goods news is that the gaping hole left by the departure of Bud has now been sutured up by the appearance of none other than a dusty old favorite, seasoned local rock blues soul vocalist Matt White, who has emerged from his semi-retirement with a vengeance. Holy Shit!! Previously seen in the guise of a poncho-wearing, maraca-toting hippy, fronting local blues engine Swagger some 8 years ago, Matt has been more recently fronting his rock covers band WhiteOut, with whom he continues a long-standing brotherhood. Matt says he is chuffed as hell to be joining ranks with GBB, having enjoyed working on some Jimi Hendrix and Muddy Waters-themed gigs with the gents a few years back.

The coming months will see this brazen outfit continuing on in their traditional wicked ways by taking a full-steam, irreverent assault on a mountain of classic and contemporary rock, blues and just about whatever takes their fancy on the night.  They are sharpening their smartest dressed chords, adding a mother load of new material to their already diverse rock and blues repertoire.  Influences and material range through The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kaiser Chiefs, The Kings Of Leon, U2, Radiohead, Jimi Hendrix, Muddy Waters, The Stray Cats, Cream, Led Zeppelin, ZZ Top, T-Rex, Stealer's Wheel, The Clash, The Cult and many more.  Come and ride the rock and roll tsunami with them at their next show.