Name: Holiday Disaster Records Rock 'n' Roll Revue featuring Tommy Hale and the Magnificent Bastards
Start: 2026-02-28T19:30:00+00:00
Location: What's Cookin'

Holiday Disaster Records Rock 'n' Roll Revue featuring Tommy Hale and the Magnificent Bastards
and guests 20th Century Kids / Richard Davies / The Snakes
Eight years on from his critically acclaimed Magnificent Bastard album, Dallas songwriter Tommy Hale returns with the ten-track All At Sea. Once again, the album was recorded in England, at Wiltshire’s Mooncalf Studio with sometime members of London roots-rock band The Snakes (Simon George Moor, Johnny O'Sullivan and Dan Tilbury) along with guitarist Nick Beere, and was produced by Moor.
The band started the recording in November 2019 and were set to begin on a Monday morning. Tommy received a call on the Sunday evening informing him that his father had had a heart attack and was not expected to live. The recording sessions were abandoned. The following spring the pandemic began. Consequently, the album carries an unavoidable sense of loss, escape and finding solace in the quiet moments that came about because of the unprecedented circumstances.
It would be easy to lazily bracket Hale’s oeuvre as ‘Americana’, but there’s quite a bit more going on here, with forays into power-pop, alt-rock and classic left-of-centre songwriting in the manner of, say, Randy Newman, Warren Zevon and Kevin Ayres, although Tommy would never be so bigheaded as to compare himself to any of those masters. What is certain, though, is that the clash of Texan and English cultures give them album an unique and vital energy.
"Merging Lynott-era Thin Lizzy with Texas-baked rootsy rock’n’roll" CLASSIC ROCK MAGAZINE