Eddie & The Hot Rods
Eddie & The Hot Rods at The Continental, Preston
About the show
Celebrating 50 years of the ‘Teenage Depression’ LP
One of the most highly influential and recognisable names from the English Rock scene, Eddie and the Hot Rods have enjoyed a career that has now spanned four decades and continue to entertain audiences across the globe.
Recognised as one of the founding fathers of the Punk era, they were simply interested in playing loud, fast, in your face Rock ‘n’ Roll rather than bad mouthing the Queen or fermenting anarchy. In1976 they went head to head with a Australian band called AC/DC to see who would sell out most consecutive nights at London's famous Marquee.
Eddie and the Hot Rods won that battle but it is fair to say AC/DC won the war! In 1977 the band released a track called ‘Do Anything You Wanna Do which spent the whole Summer in the charts reaching Number 9 before Island Records withdrew the single after sales of 475,000 copies.
They had 4 UK top forty hit singles and toured the USA with The Ramones, Talking Heads, and The Police, they inspired bands such as Def Leppard and The Undertones to pick up instruments and start a band .The hard and fast style that made Eddie & The Hot Rods one of the most exciting bands of the1970’s era, crossing genres of R’n’B, Rock and Blues is still evident today.
Featuring - Eddie & The Hot Rods
Eddie and the Hot Rods began life in 1976, when four teenagers from Southend on Sea got together, and playing their own style of fast energetic rock'n'roll/r'n'b, were soon a big hit on the London pub scene.
Catching the eyes and ears of the music press and the major record companies, they were soon signed up by the legendary Island Records and went on to have three hit albums and three Top 40 UK singles including the Top 10 hit 'Do Anything You Wanna Do'. There have been numerous TV appearances worldwide and they have filled almost every major venue in the UK. A success in the USA too, they have toured alongside The Ramones, Tom Petty, The Police, Squeeze and Talking Heads.