Bondi Cigars at The Zeppelin Room

Overview

Canberra Blues Society presents Bondi Cigars with special guest support Divine Devilles.
This award-winning quartet has well and truly established themselves into Australia’s musical heart since forming in 1989
When the Bondi Cigars were first gigging around Sydney, late 1989, they moved in a blues/R&B circuit which, while robust enough since the 60s, had then been sparked into new life by the ‘blues revival’ of the mid-80’s, spearheaded by Robert Cray, Joe Louis Walker, Stevie Ray Vaughan and similar crusaders.

While many of the Sydney bands from that era have vanished, become historical footnotes or undergone major changes, the Cigars – true survivors, have battled on, without ever compromising their distinctive no-nonsense style, to become a leading force in Australian R&B. That original Cigars line-up brought together four like-minded experienced players, all veterans of Sydney inner-west blues venues, and from the word go, the Cigars have been the very model of the ‘no passengers’ band, a well-oiled machine plus soul.

The Bondi Cigars have built a solid reputation as one of the best live acts in the country.
Always one of the country’s hardest working outfits, the Cigars have kept their music tight, hard-driving and down-to-earth: the Australian bar band par excellence. Supporting them is Divine Devilles, a powerhouse act with award-winning songs, vocals, keys and blues-harp, plus bags of cheek, charm and pizazz!