Red Guitars at Leeds Old Woollen 2022

A massive thank you to everyone who has commented with lovely messages of support on our Red Guitars blog and social media posts following our recent news. We are truly heart warmed by your response. And thanks for loads of great, and funny ideas, all welcome!

When the relationship with our former singer started to break down again after the last tour we continued to record our album and we tried to hold the band together. But it turns out that during this time he registered the trademark ‘Red Guitars’ in his own name – so the four of us have to deal with that now.

We’re sorry that we have to go underground for the time being while we deal with the issues and try to protect our legacy. But we are not going to let anyone or anything spoil the music. We’re writing, recording and having a great time together. And we look forward to coming back, maybe with a new name depending on the outcome, but definitely with new songs, as soon as we can.

In the meantime you can download the first of our brand new recordings ‘Ho Ho Hum’ here: https://tempband.bandcamp.com/track/ho-ho-hum

Very best wishes,

Hal, John, Matt and Lou

Thanks to everyone who came to the first show of our first Red Guitars tour in 38 years – we had an absolute blast! It couldn’t have been a better way to kick off the tour. The Old Woollen, Farsley is a superb venue with a terrific vibe, stage, sound and lights. We had such a fantastic time. Special thanks to our guests Terra Fin and our friend Choque & the team for making our opening show a night to remember.

Lovely to meet Steve Homer CEO of AEG Presents at the show. Steve started this whole thing by asking if we might reform for a tour with AEG. We were lucky to open the tour at such a great venue.

Here we are, all the original band back together, Hallam Lewis, Jeremy Kidd, John Rowley, Matt Higgins and Lou Duffy-Howard, joined in 2022 by Jos Allen and Doug Swallow.

Fab set of photographs by Richard Duffy-Howard show the fun and energy of the gig. Spot the one where I’m levitating during Hal’s solo.

Doug was behind a curtain all night hence the lack of appearance on the photos but here he is with John at the dress rehearsal. And here’s our old Red Guitars buddy Choque who hosts a superb venue and team at The Old Woollen, with Hal and Lou after the gig.

Big thanks to our special guests Terra Fin, who played a storming set to open the tour for us.

Richard also took some out take photographs documenting the tour:

Thank you to everyone who sent us lovely messages on social media, here’s a few:

“Wow! @RedGuitars were absolutely brilliant tonight. 38 years since their last live show? Still got some amazing energy and a great bunch of songs. And what a great venue @OldWoollen is. Definitely be paying it another visit.” @jonnygarcon

“A triumphant return for @RedGuitars with a wonderful gig at @OldWoollen on the first date of their ‘Slow To Fade’ reunion tour. Stand out songs were ‘Slow To Fade’, ‘Fact’, ‘Steeltown’ and ‘Good Technology’. @TerraFinMusic opened proceedings with a very enjoyable set … excellent evening of uplifting music.” Across the Universal Soundscape

“A great night at Old Woollen last night watching @RedGuitars, a cracking venue. Roll on Manchester on Thursday” @Thebubblegunman

“Great venue, great beer, great band, great tunes, great gig. To sum up, it wer’great!” @StephenBatley2

“Last night was brilliant. See you at the 100 Club!”

“Fantastic opening gig last night! Looking forward to doing it all again tomorrow at Night & Day Cafe Manchester “

“I waited the best part of 40 years for last night’s Red Guitars gig. I wasn’t disappointed and I’m still smiling. Same again next week!”rogytds

“Great gig, great venue. We enjoyed every minute, and it looked like you all did too ! Wish we could come to one of the others, another tour please ?”

“Fantastic gig, it’s like you’ve never been away!”

“A wonderful gig, a real privilege to be there and just so much warmth, energy and fun from the band.”

“Tremendous night! Couldn’t stop smiling. You were freakin’ awesome”

Next up this week Manchester, Glasgow and Hull before we head south to Brighton, London and Birmingham. Come and join the party