LACHY Doley is taking time out from a nation-wide tour with Jimmy Barnes and the Rolling Stones to play a set at the Bendigo Blues and Roots Music Festival.
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Last week Doley had just touched down in Adelaide for the first show of the Rolling Stones tour.
“I’ll be in Cairns the night before (Bendigo), so I’ll fly into Melbourne and drive up,” Doley said.
“It wasn’t all that long ago that the Lachy Doley Band was in town for Rock in the Vines.
“I’ve also visited there with Powderfinger and Jimmy Barnes.”
Doley’s band will play on the boardwalk at The Exchange on Friday night as part of the Bendigo Blues and Roots Music Festival.
It is a far different vibe to that of a Rolling Stones tour.
“It does make you play different as well but as long as we’re up there doing our thing, playing to appreciative people it won’t feel any different (to any other show),” Doley said.
Since Doley’s first solo album in 2011, the Lachy Doley Group has played more than 100 shows and festival around Australia.
All the while, Doley has carted around his 1950s Hammond Organ to make sure each show has an authentic sound.
“We rely heavily on the organ and I have to drive it everywhere or have someone do it for me. The bass player is doing it for the Bendigo show,” Doley said.
“People introduced me to organ based music when I was younger.
“I had an upright piano at home, it's how I got started on honky tonk and rock roll (music).
“I forever wanted to get that (organ) sound, which is hard to do. For many years I was playing with a fake organ.
“It wasn’t until I was in my 20s that managed to get a real one.
“There is an experession and a whole world of things you can’t get out of a keyboards, which makes (the Hammond Organ) so special.”
Doley said audiences could expect a “super dynamic show” on Friday.
“I guess it will be intense and intimate,” he said.
“On certain stages it is hard to do but as much as we can we want to bring the crowd in on the journey.
“It can be very dynamic and powerful with the screaming Hammond organ and the bluesy vocals.
“We’re very different to most bands.”
Read more on the Bendigo Blues and Roots Festival in the entertainment section of the Bendigo Advertiser website.
The BB&RMF begins on Thursday, November 6, and runs until Sunday, November 9.
For a full program and more information, visit www.bendigobluesandroots.com.au