Live Music with Rue and The Rockets

Rue & The Rockets, are Cumbria’s most famous band they must be one of the longest lived bands in the country, if not the world, to have been performing regularly with the original lineup for 46 years. Their popularity is undimmed and their act is as lively as ever.How many bands formed in the 1950s are still on the go? And of those that are, how many still have their original line-up? list of just some of the many extremely varied acts Rue & The Rockets have appeared with read like a history of pop music in the UK :-

Lonnie Donegan, Tony Christie, Marty Wilde, The Animals, Black Sabbath, Bo Diddley, Dire Straits, Manfred Mann, Van Morrison, Billy Fury, Gene Vincent, Status Quo, Johnny Kidd, Spooky Tooth, Alvin Stardust, Joe Cocker, Ruby Murray, Alma Cogan, Guy Mitchell, Jeff Beck, Dave Berry, The Bay City Rollers, Kenny Ball, Herman’s Hermits and Jimmy Shand!