Rough Red is a five piece originals band variously described as folk/rock, folk/roots, world music, Irish and once by the committee of the Roscrea Music Festival in Ireland where we headlined with Arlo Guthrie, as a rock band with a bit of f@#**&^% diddly doo!' The mandolin and accordion are prevalent in the music and probably accounts for that earthy, Irishy 'feel'. The songs reflect our Australian heritage with bushrangers, seafaring, haunted trains, bank robbery and the Outback featuring, plus stories from our travels and forays into the festival scene throughout Ireland, England, Europe and Scandinavia.

The songs are strong, the musicianship masterful and the four part harmonies biting. We have received (and still enjoy) airplay in Ireland, Germany, France and Denmark, our first album, 'Better Red Than Dead', was album of the week two weeks running on Ireland's national rock station and we played live to air right across the country on 'Maloney after Midnight'. We were the first Aussie band to play at Skagen in the north of Denmark and Paide' in Estonia, we have played the Montreux Jazz Festival, headlined the Bardentreffen in Neuremberg Square in front of 20,000, The Galway Bay Festival of Arts and many more plus The National, Woodford and Tamworth in Australia. The music is interlaced with stories about our travels and the origins of the songs; this always seems to go over well.

Rough Red puts on a show; we were recently castigated by a club owner who said that while we played no one went to the bar! The music offers drama, pathos, colour and out and out, get off your arse and dance type fun, no one goes home disappointed. We hope you enjoy it! Download the Rough Red Band Bio.pdf 3.2mb WHO's WHO in ROUGH RED JOHN FEGAN | lead vocals, harmonica, acoustic guitar STEVE TYSON | acoustic & electric guitars, mandolin, vocals PETER HARVEY | accordion, piano, mandolin, vocals JOHN BARR | bass guitar, vocals DAVE PARNELL | drums, percussion, vocals