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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.