In twenty words Get Rough with It! is an acoustic blues rock tribute to an eclectic mix of contemporary jazz and blues standards in the key of rockabilly. These giddy high-energy cover tunes are the kind of thing you whip out on a camping trip, but only if the camp fire is a raging bonfire and you remembered to pack your drum kit and bass.

The high quality of the recording is amazing for a self-recorded and produced album, for any album for that matter. With the right headphones (which generally aren’t the $2 shop variety) you could be sitting at Annie and Martin’s place with Brent, the Mr S himself, and the Thames blues band The Machine Guns. Put this on loud pre-gig and you’ve already got yourself an opening band.

The stand out track is a cover of ‘Do It!’ by Brent’s own band, Hangman. Musically it’s a fusion of Primus’ ‘Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver,’ moments of Agent’s ‘Hiatus’ (and by extension the band Tool) and bit of pre-‘Bucket’ era Kings of Leon’s new country feel.

The album on whole is a jocund affair; a by-product of the general frivolity present in the contemporary neo-blues of the free world. After a celebratory nod to Johnny Cash’s ‘Big River’ you’ll find the happiest rendition of Gershwin’s classic ‘Summertime’ ever played by human kind. The laughter at the end of ‘Swing Low, Sweet Chariot’ and clear uplifting tone of the fast paced guitar strum celebrates the present life instead of pining away in the memory of the old one; a stark contrast to the melancholic Delta blues of old, where the voices dripped and the guitars growled, still heavy with the memory of a hundred years of American slavery and apartheid.  

To conclude the album we have the rocky ‘Greatest Lover’ a song you can sing along to without knowing the words. You’ll be humming the chorus “I want to be your Greatest Lover” for hours afterwards, sometimes even belting it out when no one is around, but never getting a strange look when you’re caught because your flat mate will be humming it too.

• 1
  Six60
• 2
  Katchafire
• 3
  Tomorrow People
• 4
  The Black Seeds
• 5
  John Rowles
• 6
  Scribe
• 7
  Herbs
• 8
  Nesian Mystik
• 9
  1814
• 10
  Blindspott

• Boomtown Rats - CANCELLED
  VECTOR ARENA
• Knights Of The Dub Table
  CABANA
• Optimus Gryme
  DUX LIVE
• Tempist Fujit
  MANGAWHAI TAVERN
• Decortica and New Way Home
  THE ROYAL
• Battle of the Bands - Semi 1
  BREWERS
• Beastwars
  BARKODE WINE BAR
• 1814
  SAINTS AND SINNERS
• Soul Shack
  LEIGH SAWMILL CAFE
• ChartFest 2013: The Big Event
  THE BEDFORD @ CPSA BUIDLING

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  Classic Hits Winery Tour 2013
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  Jim Beam Homegrown 2013
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  Parachute 2013
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  Vodafone NZ Music Awards 2012

• 1
  BLURRED LINES
  Robin Thicke feat. TI And Pharrell
• 2
  GET LUCKY
  Daft Punk feat. Pharrell
• 3
  SKINNY LOVE
  Birdy
• 4
  LET HER GO
  Passenger
• 5
  RADIOACTIVE
  Imagine Dragons
• 6
  ROYALS
  Lorde
• 7
  FEEL THIS MOMENT
  Pitbull feat. Christina Aguilera
• 8
  CAN'T HOLD US
  Macklemore And Ryan Lewis feat. Ray Dalton
• 9
  WAITING ALL NIGHT
  Rudimental feat. Ella Eyre
• 10
  POMPEII
  Bastille

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