The Bellrays + Support

Blues is the teacher. Punk is the Preacher. It’s all about emotion and energy. Experience and raw talent, spirit and intellect. Exciting things happen when these things collide.

Bob Vennum and Lisa Kekaula made The BellRays happen in 1990 in Riverside, California but they weren’t really thinking about any of this then. They wanted to play music and they wanted it to feel good. They wanted people to WANT to get up, to NEED to get up and check out what was going on. Form an opinion. React.

So they took everything they knew about; the Beatles, Stevie Wonder, the Who, the Ramones Billie Holiday, Lou Rawls, Hank Williams, the DB’s, Jimmy Reed, and Led Zeppelin (to name a very few to whom “BLUES IS THE TEACHER”) and pressed it into service.

You may also like the following events from The Hairy Dog:

• Next Thursday, 3rd July, 07:00 pm, Random Hand vs Faintest Idea + Last Edition in Derby
• Next month, 11th July, 05:00 pm, Subculture Summer Festival 2025! in Derby
• Next month, 18th July, 07:00 pm, Coldplay It Again, Oasis Here Now, and StereoCONics : Tribute Triple Bill. in Derby