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Roy Phillips performances... past, present and future. Album releases and other news.

Dunedin Gig  October 2012
Roy performed in an intimate venue at The Church in Dunedin.

Harbour Light - Lyttleton  December 2010
An Evening with Roy Phillips

Christchurch Town Hall - November 2010
Roy opened the George Benson concert and the Press published a rather nice review.

"The voice of The Peddlers, Roy Phillips, opened with an impressive jazzy keyboard and smoky vocals.

Phillips was an unexpected but welcome treat with versions of Misty, Last Train to Clarksville and his own compositions.

George Benson & Roy Phillips
Christchurch - 16 November 2010

Harbour Light - Lyttleton  28th November 2009
Always a great little venue.

SkyCity Casino - Auckland  25th May 2009
The Peddlers Revisted (poster below)

Roy in concert May 2008
Roy performed four live shows during May. Opua was a solo gig while the Auckland, Wellington and Manawatu shows featured the Roger Fox Big Band.

Roy with the Roger Fox Big Band - Wellington, 30th May 2008

The Auckland performance included a very special guest - the legendary trombonist Jim Pugh who has played with many world class musos including Woody Herman, Chick Corea's Return to Forever and recently, Steely Dan.

Poster for the Auckland gig

"Shadows" released September 2007
The latest Roy Phillips CD "Dancing with Shadows" was released in September 2007. Recorded at Muscle Music studios in the far North of New Zealand, this CD contains a mix of classics and new material including a stunning new version of "Girlie".

Suite London re-released 31 July 2006
This is one of Roy's favourite albums. The combination of The Peddlers with The London Philharmonic Orchestra is outstanding. Martin Aston writing in The Times gave the album five stars.

"The real find is the Peddlers’ Suite London. It’s rare that a band whose fans included Princess Margaret and Eric Sykes is a cause for rediscovery, but then the Peddlers weren’t just another band. In the pop-rock world of the 1960s they were MOR squares, but in truth they were singularly suave pop-jazz minimalists who haven’t dated a jot, unlike many of their peers."

"The album (plus six like- minded singles tagged on) is an absolute beauty. Gliding between funk, soul and orchestral pop, it showcases a Fender Rhodes piano and Hammond organ as they were meant to be played, all iced by the simultaneously silken and gritty vocal of keyboardist Roy Phillips."