NEWCASTLE’s The Lamplighters are the band with the sound that “astounds, abounds and rebounds off the ceiling with the heal’n feel’n. If you have a hole in your soul that can only be filled by rock’n’roll then we have got the ultrasonic, electro-phonic-tonic to make you feel uptight, alright and out-a-sight,” according to front man Dan Wilton.
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Formed in 2010 the band plays a mix of their own material and the work of their favourite artists from the 1950’s and 1960’s.
“Those people that made that music were wild,” Wilton said. “None of those people were sensible. They were crazy.
“Look at those old films of James Brown going crazy, he worked himself into a frenzy.
“Jerry Lee Lewis used to set the piano on fire while he was playing Great Balls of Fire. These people were mad.”
The band are about to launch their first full-length album Soda Pop Soul. And in a bit of a coup it was mixed and mastered by Jim Diamond – big-name record producer based in Detroit. He has worked with The White Stripes – producing two of their double platinum albums.
Diamond contacted the band telling them he wanted to mix and master Soda Pop Soul
“He saw a video of us laying down the songs live,” Wilton said.
The album features original material.
“We have always tried to do original songs in amongst the songs of our soul heroes,” Wilton said. “The album is a collection of songs written in the last year, it covers a lot of territory.
“There is some real hard-edged garage punk, some jangly pop, there is even some surf music.”
The band tours extensively and has travelled as far as Bourke, Jindabyne and Casino.
They have been together since 2010 and features an all-star local line-up. Stu Ward is on drums, Cameron Macey is on lead guitar, Jarrod Wilton is on bass, Melissa Keevill and Maddison Clarke are go-go dancers and singers.
Soda Pop Soul will be launched on January 27 at the Gallipoli Club, 8.30pm.
