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New Single ‘Rock Island Line (as featured in the movie Midas Man)’

THE DODGE BROTHERS ‘Rock Island Line’
(as featured in the movie Midas Man)
Available on all streaming platforms from 07 October 2024
Midas Man available on Prime Video UK from 30 October 2024

As far as influential records go, Lonnie Donegan’s ‘Rock Island Line’ is hard to beat. The anthem of the British skiffle movement caught the popular imagination of an entire generation of teenagers. It also inspired many of the household names we know today including Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page and of course, The Beatles.

‘Rock Island Line’ was a firm favourite amongst The Quarrymen. On 6th July 1957 it was included in the group’s set for their performance at St Peter’s Church garden fete. It was at this show that John Lennon met Paul McCartney for the first time, who within just a few short months would join the band.

In their version, The Dodge Brothers show the early influences of The Beatles by recording ‘Rock Island Line’ as it would have been recorded in 1953 (live, in one take with no overdubs and no headphones). This was produced by Grammy Award-winning producer Steve Levine in Liverpool.

The Dodge Brothers & the Brian Epstein movie MIDAS MAN

“The Dodge Brothers are unique. And incorporating the buzz of their live performance into our film was vital, musically and historically. Their authentic early American rock/skiffle sound was what inspired the young Beatles. Lonnie Donegan was a big hero to John and Paul. To have The Dodge Brothers play Rock Island Line Live at The Cavern prior to our Beatles arriving on stage is massively significant. It literally represents the moment when rock ‘n’ roll stole the stage and the spotlight away from skiffle.

It’s an important moment in the history of rock ’n’ roll music. And watching The Dodge Brothers recreate it was a thrill. And better still, we’ve captured the moment as a single. Listening to it will time-travel you back to 1961. And The Cavern.

Who knows? Maybe skiffle is about to reclaim its crown!”

– TREVOR BEATTIE (Producer of Midas Man)

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Finland here we come

The Midnight Sun Film Festival will be held for the 39th time on June 12-16. The traditional silent film concerts will be held on three festival nights this time around.

The Dodge Brothers and Neil Brand accompany FW Murnau's 1930 'City Girl'
The Dodge Brothers and Neil Brand accompany FW Murnau’s 1930 ‘City Girl’

On Sodankylä’s Friday night (14 June 2024), the audience will be dazzled by masterful F.W. Murnau’s City Girl (1930), which completed the director’s Hollywood career, which began with the classic Sunrise (1927). The film will be accompanied by the music of pianist Neil Brand, whose career in music for silent films has lasted for nearly 40 years, and the band The Dodge Brothers from the United Kingdom. In Murnau’s work, the romance between a Chicago waitress and a young farmer takes us to the wheat fields of Oregon, where the Americana-tinged bluegrass music of The Dodge Brothers with their banjos and washboards fits perfectly. One of the members of the band is Mark Kermode, one of the most famous film critics in his country, who will also host a Masterclass in Sodankylä.

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Four new Christmas Singles for 2023

The Dodge Brothers will release four new Christmas singles for 2023.

The singles will be released on the following dates:

I Can’t Wait For Christmas     01 Nov 2023
(iTunes pre-order/Spotify pre-save 23 Oct)

Christmas in Heaven     13 Nov 2023
(iTunes pre-order/Spotify pre-save 01 Nov)

It’s Christmas! Don’t Shoot Santa     24 Nov 2023
(iTunes pre-order/Spotify pre-save 13 Nov)

Trim Your (Christmas) Tree     06 Dec 2023
(iTunes pre-order/Spotify pre-save 24 Nov)

The tracks were recorded by Will Davies at River Recording Studio Southampton.
The covers have been designed by Sarah Sumeray.

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New Gig… London March 2023

New Gig Pizza Express Live Holborn London

Wednesday 1st March 2023
at Bridgwater Arts Centre, Somerset.

GET YOUR TICKETS HERE

7:00pm   Doors Open
8:00pm   The Dodge Brothers Set One
8:45pm    Intermission
9:00pm   The Dodge Brothers Set Two
10:00pm  End

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Look out Scotland The Dodge Brothers are coming!

SPIRAL EARTH

Mar 5, 2022

dodge brothers interview

Like an unstoppable Rock and Roll locomomotive, The Dodge Brothers are on their way to Scotland to play a few exclusive gigs. Now a Dodge Brothers gig is never run-of-the-mill; on 19th March, in collaboration Neil Brand, they will perform the Scottish premiere of their new live musical accompaniment for F.W. Murnau’s ‘lyrical and ravishingly beautiful’ silent movie City Girl.

The band are renowned for doing these silent movie accompaniments, having witnessed them we can vouch for their brilliance. It truly is a unique experience. Now if you are yearning for some good old blues and rock ‘n roll the boys will be dishing that up on the 20th March in Edinburgh at the Teviot Underground – Ticket links below.

Check out this Afternoon Show podcast in which Mark Kermode and Mike Hammond chat about the band.

The Dodge Brothers in Scotland March 2022

Online interview Wed 9th March 19:00

ONLINE EVENT Mark Kermode in Conversation with Neil Brand and Mike Hammond | Hippodrome (hippodromecinema.co.uk)

Sat 19th March 2022 Hippodrome Silent Film Festival
18:00 Bo’ness

City Girl | Hippodrome (hippodromecinema.co.uk)

Sun 20th March 2022 Teviot Underground
19:00 Edinburgh

The Dodge Brothers Tickets, Sun 20 Mar 2022 at 19:00 | Eventbrite

https://dodgebrothers.co.uk/

We interviewed the band about their most recent album ‘Drive Train‘ back in 2020.