BellRays DVD

Does everyone know that The BellRays have a full show DVD?

Well they do, it is of a great live set at The BarFly in London - four camera shoot with great sound.



Baby Sue review:
The Bellrays - @ The Barfly (DVD, Punkervision / Music Video Distributors)
We have been big fans of The Bellrays for years...but in all those years we had never managed to see the band perform until now. Wow. Wow. Wowwwww... The Bellrays once again prove that they are one of the best goddamn bands in the world. Captured live in a sizzling hot show at The Barfly in London, these four individuals are absolutely on fire...putting on a mesmerizing and intense show at this small club. Lisa Kekaula, Tony Fate, Robert Vennum, and Craig Waters put out so much energy in this performance that you'll have to see it to believe it.

For those unfamiliar with the band, The Bellrays play a unique blend of punk, rock, and soul...all spun together and spewed out with such intensity that you can't help but be affected by it. There's not another band on earth like 'em...and this concert is pure proof of this fact. Fate, Vennum, and Waters play their instruments like the earth is about to end (bringing to mind The MC5 and The Ramones)...while vocalist Lisa Kekaula provides the jarring and intense soul that propels the group up, up, up into the sky and beyond. Kekaula is quite possibly the best soul/rock vocalist of the twenty-first century. She screams, she whispers, she howls, she preaches...all of the while shaking her thing in a tight black dress that accentuates her every move. The lady is pure dynamite. She's big and she's sexy...and she's purely magnetic in every way imaginable.

There are so many highlights in this concert that it would be difficult to list 'em all, but we were particularly impressed by "Voodoo Train," "Pay the Cobra," "Street Corner," "Some Confusion City," "Revolution Get Down," and "Startime." These folks should already be incredibly famous.

But things being as they are (the public at large has shitty taste)...The Bellrays are still a cult band. But the cult continues to grow each and every year as new converts convert others...who convert others...who convert others... In our world, these folks are already big stars. They've got the goods and they DELIVER. Highly recommended. (Rating: 6++ out of 6)

Pop Matters gave the DVD 8 of 10 Stars

Have A Little Faith Top 25 Album of 2006

 
According to Jim DeRogatis from Sound Opinions & the Chicago Sun-Times   placed "Have A Little Faith" at Number 23 on his year end list.  You can hear The BellRays
interview and live performance on Sound Opinions HERE.

BONUS TRACKS:

TIME

THIRD TIMES THE CHARM

BellRays In The Studio

 
The BellRays are in the studio Jan/Feb with a few producers to choose who will make the next BellRays record.  They have over 40 songs written with more to come - this record will be groundbreaking.

More Aussie TV for Lisa

Lisa will appear on  Rockwiz - air date TBD - Lisa will be performing a BellRays track and a classic soul track - do yourself a favor and don't miss this!!!

What they say about ROCKWIZ - “Part concert, part pub trivia, part stand up routine, part cabaret- RocKwiz is simply brilliant television” - Who Weekly

Julia Zemiro and Brian Nankervis host Australia’s most original music trivia quiz show, in an unadulterated display of rock nerdery!

Recorded live in the Gershwin Room at the legendary music venue, St Kilda’s Esplanade Hotel, the show features 2 mystery music guests and 4 punters selected from the pub audience, pitted against one another, in five fast and furious rounds of fearsome music trivia all for the ultimate prize… the honour of winning!

Lisa of The BellRays will appear on Spick & Specks

Set your DVR/Video tape machines to tape Spick & Specks on Feb 27th - for those of you outside Australia Spick & Specks shows on Wednesday evenings and is ABC's hottest show just over 1.2 million viewers in the mainland capitals.

The BellRays in Australia

Tickets for all shows on sale January 22nd.


FEBRUARY

Wednesday 28th: Auckland, AUT University, Vesbar Marruee St, City Campus
Public Tickets: $30.00 from Real Groovy and Fast & Loose. AUT students: Free Entry with AUT University ID. Other Tertiary Students / bcard Holders: $15 doorsales only

MARCH

Friday 2nd: Melbourne, Spanish Club
Tickets $30.00 + bf available from www.webtickets.com.au, the Corner Hotel box office, phone: 03-94279198, www.cornerhotel,com, Polyester Record Store and Missing Link Record Store.
Co-presented by Beat Magazine.


Saturday 3rd: Perth International Arts Festival, Becks Verandah Bar
Tickets $30.00 + bf on sale now from BOCS: Online: www.bocsticketing.com or phone: (08) 9484 1133
Country callers (Australia only): 1800 193 300


Sunday 4th: Sydney, Laneway Festival
Tickets $82.50 + bf from Moshtix: Online www.moshtix.com.au or phone: (02) 9209 4614 and all Moshtix outlets.


Wednesday 7th: Adelaide, Fowlers Live
Tickets $22.40 + bf available online from www.fowlerslive.com.au or venuetix Also Venuetix phone charge: (08) 8225 8888 and and all CIB outlets - phone charge: (08) 8231 0824


Thursday 8th: Brisbane, The Zoo
Tickets $30.00 + bf available online from: www.thezoo.com.au. Also Rocking Horse and Skinny's Record stores
Co-presented by Rave Magazine.


Friday 9th: Sydney, Gaelic Club
Tickets $30.00 + bf available from www.moshtix.com and all moshtix outlets.
Co-presented by Drum Media


Saturday 10th: Meredith, Golden Plains Festival
Tickets $169.90 + bf from www.goldenplains.com.au.