Hayseed Dixie - Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 19.02.25
Schedule
Wed Feb 19 2025 at 08:30 pm to Thu Feb 20 2025 at 12:00 am
UTC+01:00Location
147b Albert Road, Southsea, PO4 0JW Southsea, United Kingdom | Portsmouth, EN
PVC PRESENTS*HAYSEED DIXIE - 19th FEBRUARY 2025*
/// £22.50 in advance, on sale Friday \\\
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Doors 7:30pm
Support TBA
The undisputed creators of the musical genre, "Rockgrass," Hayseed Dixie began in the summer of 2000, when Barley Scotch (aka John Wheeler) stumbled across a wrecked car on an isolated mountain road near Deer Lick Holler, East Tennessee. Examining the wreckage, he found a stack of old-school vinyl records by a group he had never before heard of called AC/DC. Taking these records back to town and playing them on the only record player he had, a 78rpm Victrola, it was forthright revealed to Barley and the boys that the Lost Highway of Hank Williams and the Highway To Hell of AC/DC were indeed the very same road.
Thus Hayseed Dixie was formed and set out to record some of these new songs in their own mountain music style, the way the Good Lord intended. The first Hayseed Dixie album, “A Hillbilly Tribute To AC/DC,” contains stark-raving hillbilly re-workings of 10 classic AC/DC songs. Released worldwide on April 17, 2001, much to the surprise of everyone involved, this debut album proceeded to sell more than 200,000 copies in its first year of release in the US alone. So the boys hit the road in the Summer of 2001 to play some live shows, chase some women, and drink some beer & whiskey. And they haven’t stopped since.
Hayseed Dixie have released a further 17 studio albums of hillbilly re-workings of rock and pop songs along with many original songs - playing acoustic bluegrass instruments with a very electric rock & roll attitude and delivery. Accept no imitations.
“The Hayseed’s berserk hedonism is indeed refreshing! ***** (5 Stars)” - The Guardian
“Hayseed Dixie highlights the worth of mountain music to all things rock: energy, dirt-punk rhythm, careening harmonies and the fundamental right of all no-good fuck-ups to raise hell come Saturday night.” - Uncut
“Superlative musicians with a deep love and understanding of the dynamics of both modern rock and ancient hillbilly music” - The Times
Where is it happening?
147b Albert Road, Southsea, PO4 0JW Southsea, United Kingdom, 147b Albert Road, Southsea, PO4 0, United Kingdom,Portsmouth
