Toody Cole (Dead Moon) & Her Band Touring Aotearoa New Zealand in November

Co-founder of absolute legends of Portland, Oregon's garage punk underground Dead Moon, with husband Fred Cole (RIP) and drummer Andrew Loomis (RIP), Toody Cole is returning to Aotearoa New Zealand with Her Band to rock the foundations of Tāmaki Makaurau's Whammy Bar, Pōneke's Valhalla, Ōtautahi's Space Academy, and Whāingaroa / Raglan's Harbour View Hotel.

If this wasn't already a major announcement in itself, they'll be joined for all dates by fellow guitar-slinging Portlanders Jenny Don’t & The Spurs, plus Aussie raw rockers C.O.F.F.I.N at the aforementioned Harbour View Hotel. The tour kicks off in St Kevin's Arcade with support from local champions of deranged amp-blasting fuzz Bloodbags. Grip the details and get the official lowdown below from Clean Dirt and Andrew Tolley...

UnderTheRadar proudly presents...

TOODY COLE & HER BAND
with special guests Jenny Don't & The Spurs

Tuesday 25th November - Whammy Bar, Tāmaki Makaurau w/ Bloodbags (under 18s admitted with parent or legal guardian)
Wednesday 26th November - Valhalla, Pōneke
Thursday 27th November - Space Academy, Ōtautahi
Friday 28th November - Harbour View Hotel, Whāingaroa w/ C.O.F.F.I.N

Tickets on sale HERE via UTR

"Last chance to catch the last of the DEAD MOON original bloodline, Tombstone Records head honcho, Clackamas, Oregon marinated, the kickass raw rock & roll godmother, Toody Cole. Dead Moon fanatics know that it is not possible to ever see Dead Moon again. Two thirds of the band have passed. One of a kind leader of the combo, Fred Cole bowed out after 50 years non-stop gut pouring, soul searing riding the riffs & emoting the songs. Drummer Andrew Loomis ducked out after twenty five plus years of excess took its toll. The remaining member, bassist / vocalist Toody Cole, Fred’s wife & life long partner on all roads, alone still holds the Dead Moon flame.

Post-Dead Moon, Fred & Toody helmed Pierced Arrows, with long time family friend Kelly Haliburton on drums. In recent times Toody has recruited Kelly to put together a band to keep that Dead Moon songbook alive. Otherworldly reader of the guitar runes, Christopher March, string slinger in Kelly’s cow punk combo Jenny Don’t & the Spurs was the only choice to replicate Fred Cole’s singular guitar style. TOODY COLE & HER BAND was born.

It’s hard to fully appreciate the impact Toody has had in a life long journey w/ her dearly loved husband, carving a unique approach with their roughshod, immediate, passion-drenched raucous garage punk rock. She is always the inseparable ying to Fred’s yang in every band he birthed since the mid-1970s. Her bassing style riffed on Suzi Quatro but took it to heftier & punchier places, working those classic power trio dynamics sharper & harder. She matched Fred’s cracked bruised heart vocals with her own incensed & intense heartfelt wail, backing her husband, chiming in on the gang vocals, helming a good chunk of Dead Moon lead vocals. She is a garage grit Patti Smith, a jagged edge Joan Jett, Janis Joplin’s older biker sister. Door bustin’, ceiling cracking strong femme rok fatale. Holding more than her own in the endless male rok landscape.

Dead Moon was the all points mix of earthy, gritty spiritual rock & roll. It was the sixties garage rawness Fred & Toody started out in, the lyrical expanse set by Dylan, the guitar sonics of Neil Young, the swagger & roll of the Stones, the three chord slugfest punk of the Ramones, the dirt of Mudhoney, the alien guitar tones of the Wipers, the soul gut hook & stomp of the Sonics.

TOODY & HER BAND bring that singular gravel roadhouse rock fire to the Antipodes for possibly the last time. See the original mistress of this dirt soul rock or maybe never see anything the like of it ever again…" - Andrew Tolley, Bloodbags

"Dead Moon drummer Andrew Loomis once described the four string belter Toody Cole as "kicking ass and taking names": Lemmy cited her as one of his favourite bass players. It's now 33 years since she first visited Aotearoa with Dead Moon, the Portland band who famously turned down a Nirvana tour to honour a prior commitment to tour the motu. See it here, when national TV use to cover rock and roll..." - Clean Dirt

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