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Male: Hat Fitz, 6ft 2”, green eyes, and beard. Seen mostly playing a National Beeton guitar, Tiesco electric 1966 model, and has also been known to play old-time on a 12’ Vega Tubaphone Banjo and Hollers, and can gently sway the trees with a soft, sad ballad.
Female: Cara Robinson, 5ft 2, blonde hair and blue eyes. Mostly seen playing behind a 1920s animal skin vintage three-piece drum kit, while playing various wooden and tin fifes from the 1800s. Also has been known to belt out a tune on her vocal pipes and seduce the birds with a soft, lilting ballad.
On keeping busy.
We’ve been back from our European tour since mid-August – which was the Do Tell album launch – clearing the cobwebs in our shed and starting to throw a few more ideas of new tunes around, so drums and amp are set up in the living room. We’ve also had the pleasure of being chosen to enter the heats in Memphis for the International Blues Challenge, so we’re really looking forward to going over and checking out Beale Street. Before we shake a little booty over there though, we’re sharing our new album with the wonderful Australian east coast down to Sydney and Melbourne.
On their best gig ever.
It has to be a recent one when we played before the great Taj Mahal this year in July at the Cognac Blues De Passion in France. It was dusk and the crowd was homing in on us – they were curious as to who we were and what we did. There was an electricity in the air that evening of that gig as the stage faced an old 15th century mansion, and as the sun’s red rays drifted down the building’s face we built the show up and up. The crowd was with us all the way and it more or less ended in a French frenzy.
On their ultimate rider.
Byron Bay Bluesfest is the ultimate rider as there is a top class masseuse there, sweeties, booze, hot meals on tap, honey and herb teas, great staff, a room with the most exquisite flower decorations, and it’s all run so professionally. We generally get hot drinks when we arrive – it’s a nice way to greet and make oneself feel welcome.Fitzy likes honey in tea. I like honey in water.
HAT FITZ AND CARA are playing the Caravan Music Club on Saturday November 22 and The Thornbury Theatre on Sunday November 23.
