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05/15 Red Rum Club with Loon Booster at Turf Club
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Liverpool’s Red Rum Club is currently touring in support of their new album Western Approaches, stopping by the Turf Club, in St Paul, on May 15, 2024.
This is the second time the band had ever been to the area, and according to fans who attended the band’s first appearance at First Avenue, opening for The Wombats in Sept 2023, they said that the band worked so hard to win over the audience and that they had to see the band again as headliner at the Turf Club.
The first thing that hits you is that Red Rum Club is a very large band, featuring lead vocalist Francis Doran, guitarist Tom Williams, second guitarist Michael McDermott, bassist Simon Hepworth, drummer Neil Lawson, and trumpeter Joe Corby. They struggled to fit everyone on the small Turf Club stage, and might occasionally bump into each other while dancing. I think they just need to be on a bigger stage.
Based on antics and observation, you can tell that these guys have grown up together or spent a lot of time together. According to their biography, they most of them met from school and then when they were 14 years old and inspired to start a band after a Battle of the Bands competition.
If you didn’t know the band’s name Red Rum Club, came from Stephen King’s The Shining (popularized by the Stanley Kubrick film adaption).
After releasing “Alone Together”, “Friend Of A Friend”, and “Calexico” singles, the band signed a record deal with Modern Sky for their debut album Matador. The album landed at #1 on the iTunes Alternative Charts, knocking off Mumford and Sons, and the rest is history.
As you can see from the setlist, most of the set is from their new album Western Approaches (“Black Cat,” “Undertaker,” “Godless,” and “Hole In My Home”), with some exception, such as “Would You Rather Be Lonely?”, which was their set finale.
A bare-footed Minneapolis-based Loon Booster (aka Benjamin Peterson) opened the show. He’s joined on stage with drummer Sami and guitarist Eddie. This was the band’s first time playing at the Turf Club.
Highlight of his set was a song called “Sourdough”, which we wrote a couple of weeks ago with his sister-in-law Emma, in Oregon. I think he was up there to celebrate a birthday. It was the first time they perform live for an audience, and they didn’t mess it up (at least to my knowledge).
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The first thing that hits you is that Red Rum Club is a very large band, featuring lead vocalist Francis Doran, guitarist Tom Williams, second guitarist Michael McDermott, bassist Simon Hepworth, drummer Neil Lawson, and trumpeter Joe Corby. They struggled to fit everyone on the small Turf Club stage, and might occasionally bump into each other while dancing. I think they just need to be on a bigger stage.
Based on antics and observation, you can tell that these guys have grown up together or spent a lot of time together. According to their biography, they most of them met from school and then when they were 14 years old and inspired to start a band after a Battle of the Bands competition.
If you didn’t know the band’s name Red Rum Club, came from Stephen King’s The Shining (popularized by the Stanley Kubrick film adaption).
After releasing “Alone Together”, “Friend Of A Friend”, and “Calexico” singles, the band signed a record deal with Modern Sky for their debut album Matador. The album landed at #1 on the iTunes Alternative Charts, knocking off Mumford and Sons, and the rest is history.
As you can see from the setlist, most of the set is from their new album Western Approaches (“Black Cat,” “Undertaker,” “Godless,” and “Hole In My Home”), with some exception, such as “Would You Rather Be Lonely?”, which was their set finale.
A bare-footed Minneapolis-based Loon Booster (aka Benjamin Peterson) opened the show. He’s joined on stage with drummer Sami and guitarist Eddie. This was the band’s first time playing at the Turf Club.
Highlight of his set was a song called “Sourdough”, which we wrote a couple of weeks ago with his sister-in-law Emma, in Oregon. I think he was up there to celebrate a birthday. It was the first time they perform live for an audience, and they didn’t mess it up (at least to my knowledge).
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