About
AlphaStomp is a blues band for hire in Gold Coast, QLD.
Cigar box guitar, slide, open tunings and a hard hitting drum kit. AlphaStomp are a two piece from Burleigh Heads who take blues the Muddy Waters way and rough it up with Hendrix, Rolling Stones and AC/DC influences, played on instruments most punters have never seen up close. They've done Blues on Broadbeach, Cooly Rocks, Buskers by the Creek and a headline show at the Gold Coast Arts Centre, and a European run took in Vienna, Prague and Poland's Suwalki Blues Festival. Loud, raw and built for pubs, festivals and parties that want grit rather than polish. Public liability insurance held.
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The show
Two players, no filler. AlphaStomp are loud from the first bar: cigar box guitar run through slide and open tunings over a drummer who hits hard. Blues is the foundation, Muddy Waters style, but it gets shoved around by Hendrix, the Stones and AC/DC until it is closer to rock. Part of the fun is watching people work out what the instruments actually are, because most crowds have never seen a cigar box guitar up close. Festivals, pubs and parties after grit rather than polish are where this sits best.
