The Band

Rockett 88 are:

Stuart Arfield, Guitar

Richard Grayson, Guitar

John Houghton, Bass

Nick 'Prof' Parsons. Drums

The band is now in its 30th year and its third incarnation.

We're named (almost!) after the 1951 Jackie Brenston hit, “Rocket 88”, celebrating an Oldsmobile car of that era. The song was said To have been written by Ike Turner, but credited to Brenston for 'financial reasons'.

The reason why we added the extra ‘t’ is lost in the mists of time - it certainly wasn't financial. Maybe we just forgot how to spell it. Anyway, it’s too late now!

The present line-up has been together around 25 years now. Our roots are in good old-fashioned R&B/Blues, though we stray into some Rock Music, especially if that’s what people want.

We're well known around our hometown, Sheffield, but we like to take our music on the road and meet new people, when the mood takes us - in 2006 it took us as far as Belgium!

Our limited edition CD – “Live…. at The Harlequin” was well received in the local press.We play in and around Sheffield, the rest of Yorkshire and Derbyshire, but we do play further afield

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