Tickets: £8 adv / £10 otd. ♦ Doors 7.30pm
There’s something disorienting about a Roebucks show.
The four people on stage are in their twenties. They are young, but the sound they make is not. Their music is elemental – the low, churning weight of Henry Brown’s bass, Tom Cotter’s wild and untamed guitar, Sophie Moloney’s primal back beat – they’re following a tradition that is earnt not learnt. And up front, Lola Gordon, her raw, aching voice making the room feel bigger and darker than it was a moment before.
This is explosive, full-throttle blues-rooted rock music played with the kind of instinctive authority that it usually takes musicians decades to develop. The Roebucks appear to have been born with it.
What makes them more than just an exceptional live band is the songwriting. Beneath the squall and the groove, there are achingly memorable pop songs – structured, melodic, and lyrically wise in ways that sit oddly and compellingly against the youth of the people playing them while still being rooted in the modern world around them. All four compose with an emotional precision that doesn’t announce itself. The observations land quietly, then stay.
Onstage, this is a band in the purest sense of the word – a gang, operating with the loose-limbed confidence of people that have long since stopped thinking about what they’re doing and started simply doing it.
Gordon’s guitar playing is expressive and deep-rooted, locking into grooves that feel excavated rather than invented, while Cotter’s guitar ranges from tight, churning riffing to solos that unspool slowly before erupting in a maelstrom of emotion. Brown’s bass is the kind you feel rather than hear. And behind the kit, the powerhouse that is Moloney – drumming and singing simultaneously, rarer than it sounds and harder than it looks – hitting with a weight that makes the floor move. Moloney’s vocal harmonies with Gordon give The Roebucks a richness that only two female voices could stir up.
Fresh from turning heads supporting Howling Bells across the UK, The Roebucks are a band whose live reputation is growing faster than their years should allow. This is a reminder that rock music, when played with this much fire and conviction, can still feel thrilling, sexy, and alive.
The Roebucks have been backed by national radio support from the likes of Craig Charles at BBC 6 Music and John Kennedy at Radio X (who made ‘He’s My Man’ an Xposure Daily Hot One).
In 2025, they completed two short UK tours and recent festival slots have included Black Deer Festival, Mutations Festival, Wanderlust, The (official) Great Escape, Down Stokes and Left Of The Dial in Rotterdam.
2026 has seen them on the road again, invited on the Howling Bells UK tour as special guests, and playing They’re Gonna Be Big at Supersonic in Paris and stealing the show at legendary blues festival Ramblin’ Roots Revue. They will continue to tour the UK throughout the rest of the year and are working towards an album, slated for release in April 2027.
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7.30pm – Doors
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