THE LITTLE ROOSTERS

Due to the continuous requests from old fans Gary Lammin has decided to dust off his electric guitar and his old Mohair three button hand me down and once more strut his stuff fronting one of the all time great British Maximum R&B/Rock n Roll bands:
---------------------------THE LITTLE ROOSTERS

Originally formed late 1978 and helping to pioneer the mix of Maximum R&B grooves with the energy of Punk Rock. This opened the way for a revival of interest in 60’s style garage/guitar based R&B that led to a MOD revival. Early devotees on the original MOD 79 scene championed this band. Gary’s cheeky Cockney charm very reminiscent of the Small Faces Steve Marriott (a band that very much influenced the Roosters music style). Also disciples of early gutsy Rolling Stones / Yardbirds / Pretty Things flocked to see the Roosters as they ploughed their way around the London club scene and later all over the British Isles and into Europe.

The bands first single ‘She Cat Sister Floozie’ was made record of the week by Radio1’s Mike Read, and they also featured heavily on the John Peel show at that time. Their second single a cover of the Otis Redding classic ‘That’s How Strong My Love Is’ was again made record of the week by Mike Read, but also by this time the band were being championed in a lot of the weekly music press such as the NME, Sounds and Melody Maker. The NME’s Charles Shaar Murray (now a noted writer on Blues music) also made this song the NME’s record of the week when it was released.

Just after the release of this single the band were joined by an unknown female singer that Gary had unearthed - she was non-other than the incredible Alison Moyet. Alison toured all over Britain and Europe with the Roosters, it was actually while she was with the Roosters that Vince Clarke saw her and approached her to join a project he was putting together called Yazoo - the rest as they say is history. A live album was released to commemorate Alison’s time as a Little Rooster and was a limited edition that quickly sold out.

The Roosters official debut album was recorded by non other than the late great Clash front man Joe Strummer - he also played piano for the sessions and a single was released - the classic ‘I Need A Witness.’ This saw them get a TV appearance on ‘Get It Together’ an early evening pop show at the time. The single and album also had great success in Europe for the band.

By 1983 music was starting on the road to the ‘pap’ we get fed now with synthesizers droning away over computer programmed drum beats - the Little Roosters were fighting an up hill battle.

Gary released one more critically acclaimed album in 1985 called GARRIE & THE ROOSTERS ‘Shake It Down’ and then dropped out of the music scene for many years to concentrate on a successful acting career. This has included many TV appearances, film work and theatre (his theatre roles in 2003 year leading him to gaining official notice as a Shakespearian actor).

He eased himself back into the music scene by playing and basing his new songs around an acoustic line up featuring his long time friend and Black Country based musician singer/songwriter Gary O’Dea. The band took the delicately named title of The Zen Buddah’ Boot Boys and started to infiltrate the London acoustic based music venues of Camden and Soho with their groovy mix of blues, reggae, r n’b, soul, peace and love. They went down a storm.

But there’s always been people asking Gary to “get the Roosters back together.” So after being begged, bribed, cajoled, threatened… and having received a lucrative offer of a tour next year (2004) - he’s also getting the Little Roosters back together.