Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra start their European summer next week

Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra have been gleefully trampling over genre boundaries for over a decade now, chucking Western Swing, Blues, Country, Rock & Roll, Soul and more into their musical gumbo, but always sounding mostly just like themselves.

Based in Newcastle but hailing from across the UK, the Tea Pad have released five albums. With their latest "The Party’s Over" the Geordies are touring all summer on mainland Europe playing everything in between dive bars and festivals. 

The Party’s Over was written between January and May this year, rehearsed in one afternoon and recorded over three days. Guests include Ben Powling (Viper Time, Howlin’ Ric & The Rocketeers), Ruth Lyon (Holy Moly & The Crackers) and the House Of The Black Gardenia brass section on "The Doctor Told Me".

After more than a decade drinking and carrying on across Newcastle and beyond, this new record sees the band facing up to getting older, feeling the world – and their lives – change, for better or worse, and trying not to be the last one out of the door as the Sunday morning sun hurts their eyes. And loads of heavy Sunday are in the planning with their extensive touring schedule:

17/05: Krefeld, DE - Kultrurrampe
18/05: Ospel, NL - Mijl Op Zeven
19/05: Hamburg, DE - Nochtspeicher
20/05: Leeuwarden, NL - Fries Straatfestival
21/05: Utrecht, NL - Café de Stad
19/07: Veszprém, HU - Street Music Festival
20/07: Veszprém, HU - Street Music Festival
21/07: Veszprém, HU - Street Music Festival
22/07: Veszprém, HU - Street Music Festival
30/07: Senigallia, IT - Summer Jamboree
31/07: Senigallia, IT - Summer Jamboree
04/08: Gent, BE - Missy Sippy
05/08: Dranouter, BE - Festival Dranouter
11/08: Warder, DE - Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
12/08: Wotersen, DE - Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
13/08: Wöhrden, DE - Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
14/08: Ahrensburg, DE - Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
22/09: Dortmund, DE - Subrosa
23/09: Mannheim, DE - TBA
24/09: Apeldoorn, NL - Gigant
25/09: Eindhoven, NL - Americana Mondays