It’ll be strange performing in front of a camera in a studio without an audience present. Our management have said there’ll be some great people asking us questions and there’s also going to be quite a few young bands who have huge followings who want to ask us questions which will be great. We’ll also be doing a live interview with David Fricke from Rolling Stone magazine, who have been a big supporter of us over the years and there’ll also be a question-and-answer session with some celebrities asking us questions. Will you be doing anything else besides performing music? It’s exciting for us and I hope it excites other people too.
There’ll be a lot of extra elements to what we do in our usual shows. Jessica Cox who plays with ELO has put together a beautiful quartet and we’ll be playing those three new songs with a string section. On the new album I’ve written three songs with string scores. It’ll be a bit scary as we haven’t played for 2 years but we’re really looking forward to it as well. We’re very lucky that we generally get a great reaction from audiences. We’ll also be doing some brand-new songs which is very exciting for us. We’ll also do “Hold Your Head Up” from my Argent days. We’ll obviously be doing stuff that people expect from us like “Time Of The Season” and “She’s Not There” and some deeper cuts too. We will be playing about five songs that we’ve never played live before on stage so that’s pretty scary but exciting. What sort of show do you have planned for your live stream? It’s been too long and we are all really looking forward to it. On 18th September you will be doing a live stream called Live From Abbey Road – World Tour In One Night. That was really frustrating but we have now just got to the point where we can start to record again. That immediate interplay between members of the band is so important sometimes. We have had to work remotely and some things suit that approach but I usually write the songs often when we’re on tour and sometimes you need that interaction with each other to see what’s really working. We were getting excited and felt like we were on a creative roll then it all petered out because of Covid. We’d finished three tracks and we got some instant fantastic reactions. We really felt that we were starting to Rock. It has certainly impacted on us in terms of making our latest record. We’ve been going through some unusual times recently. Mick Burgess called him up to talk about the upcoming Livestream featuring The Zombies from the iconic Abbey Road Studios on 18th September the forthcoming new album and touring plans for 2022. Argent enjoyed success and toured extensively.Rod Argent has written and performed on some of the most iconic songs in music with “She’s Not There” and “Time Of The Season” by The Zombies and “God Gave Rock and Roll To You” and “Hold Your Head” up being staples of Rock radio for over half century.
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Russ also auditioned for Joe Meek before revealing that he didn’t actually want to join the band on offer! Russ went pro with Adam Faith’s band The Roulettes at the peak of their Pop fame, before once again teaming up with Bob in Argent. Scouted by Helen Shapiro’s producer Norrie Paramor, he got his first taste of the recording studio at Abbey Road where the band were invited to audition. It began with him running in his local rock ‘n’ roll scene in Buster Meikle and the Daybreakers (with his brother Roy and drummer Bob Hendrit). Russ has lived an extraordinary life and charted a course that has seen him rub shoulders with many of the key figures in the music world.
However, with ‘It’s Good To Be Here’, released on 21 February 2020 via BMG, Russ has saved some absolutely stunning material for himself, He has also reworked those incredible era-defining classics ‘Since You’ve Been Gone’, ‘You Can Do Magic’ and ‘New York Groove’. His own first hit record was ‘God Gave Rock and Roll to You’ with his band Argent in 1974, but his songs have been recorded by everyone from Rainbow to Hot Chocolate to America to Elkie Brooks to Three Dog Night and many, many more. Russ Ballard’s songs are on permanent heavy rotation the world over. ‘Since You’ve Been Gone’, ‘You Can Do Magic’, ‘New York Groove’, ‘So You Win Again’, ‘No More The Fool’, ‘Liar’. Russ Ballard and his Band play Backstage at the Green Hotel on Sunday 18th October 2020 at 8.00pm for Mundell Music.
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