Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra - Tea Pad Recordings (CD & Digital) and Sleazy Records (LP).

Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra, which is scheduled for release on October 4 2024 on Tea Pad Recordings (CD & Digital) and Sleazy Records (LP).

Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra have been gleefully trampling over genre boundaries for over a decade now, chucking Rockabilly, Blues, Country, Swing, 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, and toured widely across the British Isles and Europe, playing everywhere from Glastonbury and Cambridge Folk Festival to village halls and barns, and all points in between.

Well-known for their energetic live shows, and dry humour, they’ve toured with some of the big-name Americana outfits such as Pokey LaFarge, The Dead South, and Sierra Ferrell. They have released music on Sleazy Records (Spain) and Migraine Records (Germany), appeared multiple times on Radio 4’s Loose Ends, and had their music played by everyone from Marc Riley to Huey Morgan.

Their upcoming sixth album Feet First was recorded in just two days at Lightning Recorders in Berlin, Germany. The studio is well known for producing authentic analogue recordings, live in the room, and straight- to-tape. This ‘capturing of a musical moment’ can really be heard in the new Tea Pad Orchestra record. The addition of Ben Powling on saxophone has also elevated the band’s sound into a new and exciting era! After a decade of honing their craft, they have never sounded so good!

The first three singles from the album, ‘Good Lovin’’, Six Month Sleeper’ and ‘Broken Down and Broken Hearted’ are all available now, with the title track and its accompanying video scheduled to follow on September 12.

The band will be touring the UK in support of the album with a 16-date run from October 13-December 10 - see full itinerary further below.

Praise for Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra 

“…behind the façade of what can seem flighty or foolish on the surface, there is a real depth of feeling, experience, wisdom and truth.” Americana-UK

 “…the lyrics, the humour, the sheer mastery of differing rhythmic styles put you in mind of some of the old Mississippi jug band sounds.” Blues Matters!

 “Rob Heron and company have a healthy amount of respect for the classic music styles that influence them, but they’re not afraid to put their own twist on it. Most importantly, for all their infectious joy, this is a band that does not shy away from making poignant statements about the world we live in.” Folk Radio UK

 “Rob Heron And The Tea Pad Orchestra just have a way of writing feel good tunes about things that aren’t actually that feelgood at all.” Maximum Volume

 “Heron's machine-gun lyrics shoot witty one-liners faster than you can swallow them...endlessly inventive lyric-writing” Songlines

 “Rob Heron evokes the spirit of Bob Wills and Django Reinhardt with a quintet that shuffles and boogies with panache. Infectiously good-humoured” Uncut