Legendary (and non-myth­ic­al) NZ gui­tar­ist brings his East­ern influ­enced Blue Cheer-Hendrix-Atom­ic Roost­er meets Son­ic Youth skwall to Wellignton at Happy on Sat­urday 8th May.

[video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OOG-As652k]

We can­’t pin­point when Doug was last in Wel­ling­ton, but he was there in August 1965 when The Pretty Things swung through town, play­ing in Mike Per­janik’s group*.  Doug left for the UK in 1968 search­ing for more open minds. The next year he recor­ded an albums worth of Hendrix influ­enced mater­i­al under the name Jesse Harp­er. Acet­ates and tapes filtered back to NZ and the Human Instinct appro­pri­ated the best songs for their first two albums. Giv­ing away music in 1971, Doug moved to India where he stayed for 35+ years.

Cur­rently based in NZ – Doug Jerebine will be bring­ing his sear­ing music­al mes­sage to Duned­in, and tak­ing no pris­on­ers. This will be a unique per­form­ance. Accom­pa­ny­ing Doug will be Miles Gil­lett (drums), son of Bob Gil­lett – Doug’s music­al inspir­a­tion and fel­low mem­ber of Dougs late 60s group The Brew, and Chris Orange on bass. Open­ing the show will be the EXCELLENT MANTARAYS!

For more info on Doug, check out Keith New­mans excel­lent Doug Jerebine story.

Doors at 8pm – DOUG ON STAGE AT 10pm

ADMISSION $15

* Google him – fas­cin­at­ing career – and you prob­ably know one of his most fam­ous com­pos­tions if you watch Aus­trali­an soaps!