To mark the release of their album together as The Ferguson Rogers Process, Style And Or Substance, Tim Rogers and Lance Ferguson are preparing to hit the road and bring the record to life – and have added a Brisbane show.
This new date is: Friday, June 27 at Triffid, Brisbane.
Both Rogers and Ferguson were champing at the bit to play these songs live since only getting a taste last August with two songs on ABC Melbourne’s The Friday Revue, a spontaneous show later that same night and then squeezing in a performance at a Melbourne new year’s eve event. With a band lead by Ferguson and featuring members of The Bamboos and Melbourne Boogie maestros Mondo Freaks and with one of this country’s greatest ever showmen on vocals, these shows will be like nothing else Australian audiences have witnessed before.
“For me, there’s a looseness in the Ferguson Rogers Process. Just in terms of the forms, it can get wild,” Ferguson said.
“We’ve already started mucking around with the songs, stretching out some, tightening others; just some pure, indulgent fun,” Rogers adds. “It did remind me of the two Bamboo tours that I’ve done, which were life-threatening fun.”
“Friends that I’ve had for ages who saw our first show said that it was just joy watching people dance, ‘cause it doesn’t happen often at You Am I shows, at Hard-Ons shows” he continues.
“Playing something with dancing, you can just forget about the woes of this challenging world that continues to unfurl in challenging ways, and you’re in a room with people and actually letting them just freak out for a bit. It’s one of those times where you feel you’re actually doing something completely worthwhile.”
Style And Or Substance landed a top 20 debut in both the ARIA Australian Artist and Vinyl Charts when it was released at the end of 2024.
Returning to their collaboration that started it all, Lance Ferguson recently remixed The Bamboos 2013 track “I Got Burned” (featuring Rogers on vocals).
“I Got Burned” took off to become one of the biggest Australian songs of that year, getting commercial radio airplay, cracking Triple J’s Hottest 100, garnering an ARIA Award nomination and lead to two legendary national tours plus The Rules Of Attraction album on Atlantic Records in 2015. It is still one of The Bamboos most loved tunes and is part of their live set to this day (often with Tim joining them when they are in the same city).
Ferguson has reinvigorated the track (christened “The FRP Remix”), moving the smoky, Bluesy Funk of the original to the Balearic Islands circa 1983 with a surprising beachy Disco feel, a sound which perfectly complements the slinky Rock / Disco melange of Style And Or Substance. This is the first of two FRP remixes planned leading up to this first Australian tour for The Ferguson Rogers Process.
The Ferguson Rogers Process – The Style And Or Substance Tour
Saturday, June 7 – The Corner Hotel, Melbourne
Friday, June 27 – Triffid, Brisbane
Saturday, June 28 – The Factory Theatre, Sydney
Tickets and info at www.thefergusonrogersprocess.com
