Rangoon - "Heartwarming, soulful rock and blues"
Whiskey Dreams
High-energy original Americana, with a seasoned roots & blues dressing, and authentic folk-flavoured undertones.
"Smoked-filled nights & whiskey dreams, and nightmares when I'm awake"- Whiskey Dreams
Going Back to the City (2020) is Rangoon's first studio album release since 2013
LATEST album free to listen HERE
'Going Back to the City', is our eighth album, but the first to feature Richard Harrison on bass & Howard Sarna on lead guitar.
The album is free to listen on this website, but also available on all streaming platforms.
Perfect Face
Perfect Face, from our last album 'Going Back to the City' was the first of our 'Lockdown Videos'. Unable to perform or even rehearse during the Covid lockdowns we managed to put together some performance videos with each of the band playing in his/her lockdown home environment. All of this was new to all of us, but we're pretty happy with some of the results.
Later, once we were permitted to congregate outdoors, we began a series of parkland concerts during which we featured this track.
Lost & Found
Lost & Found is about turning the corner, finding a road home, knowing where you want to be.
Things can be hard, life can be a bitch and you may be a long way from home, but there can be an exhilaration that hits you when you find yourself, when you know what’s right and you take that first crucial step, under your own steam, towards a goal you know you want or indeed away from a past you know you don’t want.
“Once I was lost but now I know I’m found”
Belfast Ferry Feeling
Belfast Ferry Feeling is an autobiographical song written by Will Hudson.
"I lived and worked in Belfast in 1979/80, and my daughter, Zoe, was born there, clocking up a good number of Irish Sea crossings.
Twenty five years later, as a member of a band playing traditional Irish music, crossings were pretty regular for another five years.
The song is about the strength of family ties. As an Australian in London, a Londoner in Belfast, and a father on tour, the ferry crossings were always imbued with a sense of excitement and longing.
This for Zoe, currently expecting her first child." WH, May 2020
Filmed at the Northern Soul Bar Basement, London
'Going Back to the City'
is dedicated to
LEVON HUDSON
(1985-2018)
a talented musician & special effects artist,
who died too young and far from home
"Though I'm growing old,
gonna break the mould,
I'm going back to the city
before I die.
What if this road never ends?"
- Long Road Home
'Going Back to the City' available on
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Michele | 07502 540690
Will | 07455 016276
2025 GIGS
Sat 10 May The King James
8-10:30pm 14 Kneesworth St, Royston SG8 5AA
Sat 29 Mar The Builders Arms
9-11 pm 3 Albert Rd, London, Barnet EN4 9SH
Sat 08 Mar The King James
8-10:30pm 14 Kneesworth St, Royston SG8 5AA
Sat 22 Feb Allotmentz
7-9 pm 61 Friern Barnet Rd, London N11 3EH
2024 GIGS
Sat 23 Nov The Arkley
8:30-late 64 Barnet Rd, Barnet EN5 3EY
Sat 26 Oct The King James
8-10pm 14 Kneesworth St, Royston SG8 5AA
Sun 29 Sep Stella's Room
9-10pm 46 Fortis Green Rd, London N10 3HN
Sat 03 Aug The Arkley
8:30-late 64 Barnet Rd, Barnet EN5 3EY
Sat 27 Jul Our Yard, Clitterhouse Fields
7-10 Claremont Road, London NW2 1AP
Sat 01 Jun Maddens, East Finchley
9 - late 130 High Rd, London N2 9ED
Rangoon
Original songs, written by Will Hudson, "telling tall urban tales of worn-out hearts, broken hearts and lonesome hearts."
"Songs of love and heartache....but deeper"
RANGOON are
Howard Sarna
lead guitar vocals
Michele Haniotis
drums
vocals
Will Hudson
lead vocals
guitar harmonica
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