TOODY COLE & HER BAND
Last chance to catch the last of the DEAD MOON original bloodline, Tombstone Records head honcho, Clackamas, Oregon marinated, the kickass raw rock & roll godmother, Toody Cole.
With special guests Jenny Don’t & The Spurs from Portland, Oregon USA
AOTEAROA November 2025
Tuesday 25th Tamaki Makaurau – Whammy with Bloodbags
under 18s admitted with parent or legal guardian on a $20 ticket (this is called education)
Whammy tix limited to 140 capacity to ensure as much connection as possible
Wednesday 26th Poneke – Valhalla
Thursday 27th Otautahi – Space Academy
Friday 28th Whaingaroa – Harbour View Hotel with C.O.F.F.I.N
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ANDREW TOLLEY from Bloodbags.
Drummer Andrew Loomis ducked out after twenty-five plus years of excess took its toll. The remaining member, bassist/vocalist Toody Cole, Fred’s wife & lifelong partner on all roads, alone still holds the Dead Moon flame.
Dead Moon drummer Andrew Loomis once described the four-string belter Toody Cole as kicking ass and taking names. Lemmy cited her as one of his favourite bass players. It’s now 33 years since she first visited Aotearoa with Dead Moon, the Portland band who famously turned down a Nirvana tour to honour a prior commitment to tour the motu.
See it here, when national tv use to cover rock and roll …. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgVPEZWH0Do
Post-Dead Moon, Fred & Toody helmed Pierced Arrows, with long-time family friend Kelly Haliburton on drums.
In recent times Toody has recruited Kelly to put together a band to keep that Dead Moon songbook alive.
Otherworldly reader of the guitar runes, Christopher March, string slinger in Kelly’s cow punk combo Jenny Don’t & the Spurs was the only choice to replicate Fred Cole’s singular guitar style. T
TOODY COLE & HER BAND was born.
It’s hard to fully appreciate the impact Toody has had in a life long journey w/her dearly loved husband, carving a unique approach with their roughshod, immediate, passion-drenched raucous garage punk rock.
She is always the inseparable ying to Fred’s yang in every band he birthed since the mid-1970s. Her bass style riffed on Suzi Quatro but took it to heftier & punchier places, working those classic power trio dynamics sharper & harder.
She matched Fred’s cracked bruised heart vocals with her own incensed & intense heartfelt wail, backing her husband, chiming in on the gang vocals, helming a good chunk of Dead Moon lead vocals.
She is a garage grit Patti Smith, a jagged edge Joan Jett, Janis Joplin’s older biker sister. Door bustin’, ceiling cracking strong femme Rock fatale. Holding more than her own in the endless male Rock landscape.
Dead Moon was the all points mix of earthy, gritty spiritual Rock & Roll. It was the sixties garage rawness Fred & Toody started out in, the lyrical expanse set by Dylan, the guitar sonics of Neil Young, the swagger & roll of the Stones, the three chord slugfest punk of the Ramones, the dirt of Mudhoney, the alien guitar tones of the Wipers, the soul gut hook & stomp of the Sonics.
TOODY & HER BAND bring that singular gravel roadhouse rock fire to the Antipodes for possibly the last time. See the original mistress of this dirt soul rock or maybe never see anything the like of it ever again…
Jenny Don’t & The Spurs are a band from Portland, Oregon making their third trip to NZ …. Longtime friends of Toody Cole and a rollicking raw Rock and Roll Country cum Rockabilly tornado with elements of Hank meets Jeffrey Lee Pierce.
NZ shows will be an overdose of PDX Rock and Roll in the hood, all over the motu ….
Jenny Don’t guitar & vox, Kelly Halliburton bass, Christopher March guitar, Willie Weeks drums. More New Zealand dates to come