the redlands palomino company
Hannah Elton-Wall - songs, lead and backing vocals, acoustic guitar, Alex Elton-Wall - songs, lead and backing vocals and electric and acoustic guitars, David Rothon - pedal steel and 12 string guitar, Rain - bass guitar, Tom Bowen - electric and acoustic guitars and introducing Dan Tilbury (the newest Palomino, kindly on loan from the Snakes) - drums and percussion.
The band formed in 1999, and we are based in London, Brighton, Cardiff and the Wye Valley. Below you can see what made us all tick in 2007........
Hannah's review of 2007
Best Song: We liked 'Greyhound Bus' by 'Oh Susanna'
Best Film: I really enjoyed Atonement
Best Moments: Getting our new puppy. Going away with the Redlands.
Watching Rain getting attacked by a killer bee in Leicester (well, it
crawled all over his head). Doing the Bob Harris show again. Autumn
colours in the Forest of Dean.
Worst Moment: Falling off my horse and having to use an NHS walking stick for a week.
Favourite Gig: Richmond Fontaine and Co, Darvel Music Festival,
Scotland
Best Redlands Gig: Le Pub, Newport, last February. I fractured my elbow falling down the stairs afterwards which wasn't so great, but prior to that it was fantastic, in my hometown with all my family there, you
couldn't hope for better!
Weirdest Redlands Gig: The Savoy Theatre, Monmouth. Everyone from our village attended dressed as Alex, wearing beards, baseball caps and checked shirts.
Worst Redlands Gig: Any of the gigs where I couldn't play my guitar
because my arm was in a sling. I just felt like a gimp.
Best Band: Those pesky Snakes
Food: Welsh Rarebit (really, tried it for the first time this year at
Dave's house)
Drink: Scrumpy Jack cider
Book: Marley & Me (a cheesy book about a man and his Labrador which made
me weep from start to finish)
Hannah's dream band: ryan adams - lead vocals and piano, sheryl crow - lead vocals and bass, jeff tweedy - lead vocals and acoustic guitar, gary louris - backing vocals and electric guitar, levon helm - drums and backing vocals, lloyd maines - pedal steel, david rawlings - lead acoustic guitar, Critter Fuqua - banjo, hannah elton-wall - backing vocals and tambourine
Rain's Coolest discoveries of 2007, from the back end of the stage:
Beyonce still isn’t marriedIn Tokyo, street vending machines still sell beer any timeBob Harris is an absolute gentleman – God bless himNew band members must only have 3 letters in their names and be talented, hardcore drinking comedians with a love of all things DanishThe music still comes better on a stolen guitarRedlands Palomino Company are the only band I’ve been in that continue to leave no elements of the food/drink rider unconsumed … ever Best band I saw this year were the Snakes The loudest were the Sex Pistols The funniest were Sparks The most increased were us! To anyone who came to see us – a huge thank you and have a blindin’ 2008 To anyone who thought about it and couldn’t be assed – I’m telling ya - it's better to laugh with the sinners than stay dry with the saints keep on country rockin’Rain's dream band: Russell Mael (Sparks) ,Vocal, Mick Ronson (Bowie/Hunter) ,Guitar, David Bowie , Saxophone, Ron Mael (Sparks) ,Keyboards, Jon Watson (999), Bass, Tommy Ramone (Ramones), drums
Rain's favourite books: Diary of a Rock 'n' Roll Star, 1973 - Ian Hunter, Elephant and Other Stories, 1988 - Raymond Carver, In a Marine Light: Selected Poems, 1987 - Raymond Carver, Jupiter's Travel, 1977 - Ted Simon, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, 1981 - Raymond Carver, Will you Please Be Quiet, Please?, 1976 - Raymond Carver, Wonderland Avenue, 1991 - Danny Sugarman
Rain's favourite records: Grand Prix - Teenage Fanclub, It's Alive - The Ramones, Kimono My House - Sparks, Propaganda - Sparks, Sam's Town - The Killers, Transformer - Lou Reed, Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
Things Rain hates: lists, whinging, dogs, hangovers, my stomach
Things Rain loves: my family, drunken ranting, friday nights, gigs, filling my stomach
Alex's 2007
Favourite records - deadstring brothers - silver mountain, alan tyler - so far, the loose salute - tuned to love, mark olson - salvation blues, john philips - the wolfking of LA, the one we started making
Favourite book - does a map of the british isles count?
Best TV program - those programs Stephen Fry made for the BBC about mental illness and aids
Best film - Zulu (again)
Most fun - autumn tour
Most pain - autumn tour
Favourite redlands gig: all of them except Nottingham because of a couple of nipples in the audience (you know who you are)
Favourite other gigs: mark olson, ryan adams, richmond fontaine, southern tenant folk union (doing an encore outside in the street surrounded by the audience who followed them outside when they ran out of time onstage)
Best food - 5 seperate Christmas dinners - all good in their own way
Worst food - there is no bad food
Alex's Dream Band: Gram Parsons (vocals and acoustic guitar), Clarence White (electric and acoustic guitars), Jerry Douglas (dobro), Doug Dillard (banjo), Ethan Johns (drums) Stephen Stills (hammond b3 and backing vocals), Glen D Hardin (piano), Chris Hillman (mandolin), Rick Danko (bass guitar and backing vocals) Alison Krauss (fiddle and backing vocals), Buddy Emmons (pedal steel guitar), Mavis Staples (backing vocals), Dolly Parton (backing vocals), Emmylou Harris (backing vocals), LLCoolJ (rapping)
Alex's favourite things: my Martin HD28 acoustic guitar, my 1972 Ford Capri, my wife, burgers, sausages, booze, books, pubs, arguments, country music
Things Alex hates: the M25, dogshit, bullshit, criminals, people who don't say thank you, speed cameras
David's 2007
Good
Finally releasing that difficult second album - getting on the bus -bakewell tart in Bakewell - playing to the good folk of Scotland - Bob Harris session at Maida Vale - killer drum sounds in deepest Wiltshire - Life On Mars - Flight Of The Conchords - Control - the republishing of James Curtis' The Gilt Kid - Pony Up! at the Water Rats - moving back to London - and two new boys to play with
Bad
Closure of The New Piccadilly - leaving Wales - the slow death of the great British boozer - rudeness - airbrushed magazine cover shots - continued 'resemblance' to Jonathan Creek
David's dream band: Vocals: Scott Walker/Lori Burton, Drums: Ringo Starr, Bass: Carol Kaye, Guitar: J Mascis
Keyboards: Marcos Valle, Backing vocals: The Mike Sammes Singer
David's favourite things: frankie out of corrie, chocolate chicken teddies, edwardian pornos, jonathan creek life styling, tunnels, chilli chocolate
Things David hates: getting wet all over, drying myself after a shower (it takes me ages), gratuitous pressing of lift , tube and zebra crossing buttons (haven't i pressed it good enough already for you), small round things, berries, currants
Things David is scared of: bears, wasps,
Favourite music: lets be together today by mr rogers
Favourite game: doom
Worst form of footwear: clogs
Best TV program: the naked city
Favourite sports personality: steve ovett
Baddest thing David's ever done: untied someones boat when on a canal boat hoilday
Favourite book: the slaves of solitude by patrick hamilton
Favourite eaterie: the new piccadily cafe - London
Tom's 2007
Gig (ours) - Darvel Town Hall
Gig (someone else's) - Ryan Adams And The Cardinals at Cardiff
New Albums -
Deadstring Brothers - Silver Mountain
Oh Susanna - Short Stories
Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
Southern Tenant Folk Union - STFU
New Album Booby Prize -
Eagles - Long Road Out Of Eden
Old Albums -
Steven Stills - Manassas
Gram Parsons with The Flying Burrito Brothers - Live At The Avalon Ballroom 1969
Richard And Linda Thompson - I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
Neil Young - Live At Massey Hall
Old Album Booby Prize - The Travelling Wilburys
Book - To Live's To Fly, Biog of Townes Van Zandt
Musical Highlight - figuring out how to play four strings(as opposed to
TEN) on David's pedal steel
Other highlights;
Mrs Fiona Bowen, squeezing thirty (VERY) odd people into our hotel room on our wedding night (and four into the bath), going on tour and laughing till my throat was raw, getting away with smoking on stage, observing Alex's hotel room destruction (MOVING a TV set from one corner of a hotel room to another after he failed to open a window - of a room on the ground floor), Dan's post alcoholic kitchen floor foetal position, David's Jimmy Stewart impersonation, Rain's Cranial Bee Keeping, Hannah's canine impersonation, Andy's expert reversing in The Forest Of Dean.
ROLL ON 2008
Dan's 2007
Best gig (mine): without doubt The Snakes and the Redlands Palomino Company at the Luminaire in London. Played two rip-roaring sets with the UK's two best country-rock bands. Buckets of sweat, replaced by cases of danish lager.
Best gig (other): Richmond Fontaine at Darvel festival, Scotland. A
long overdue introduction to their truely great songs.
Party: My birthday, camping with RPC and other friends at Tapestry
festival in August.
New records: Mark Olson- Salvation Blues.
Wilco- Sky blue sky.
Chuck Prophet-Soap and Water.
Surreal moment of the year: Being joined onstage at the Savoy, Monmouth by around thirty Alex Elton-Walls. One is surely enough for any stage.
Best new instrument: Vibe(ra)slap. So much fun from a woodblock and a bent peice of steel rod.
Low point: End of tour journey from Darvel, Scotland to the Forest of Dean.
High point: Recording my drums with my new best friends in the house i grew up in.
2008 has a tough act to follow, but i have a good feeling about the new year.
