Ruby Boots

“Best Country Music Act” winner from the 2011 WAMi Awards

"Great songs, great singer, really strong band. My discovery of the Bridgetown Blues festival. Look out for them", Marty Jones - Rhythms Magazine Managing Editor

“Local country/folk rock outfit Ruby Boots more than earned a big ovation…they have a sound that should play well in the US”, Simon Collins (Music Editor) - The Wire Mag (The West Australian Newspaper)

“This EP sounds like nothing else in Perth” Aarom Wilson, The Drum Media

“Tonights performance showed that this is the band that should be setting the city abuzz, and right now gosh darn it.” Matt Hogan, Xpress Magazine

Bex Chilcott	Acoustic Guitar & Vocals
Tim Stacey	Bass & Sample Pad
Clay Smith	Electric Guitar, Keys & Backing Vocals
Jesse Woodward	Banjo, Mandolin, Washboard & Backing Vocals
Eliza Rogers	Violin & Backing Vocals
Ashwin Subramaniam	Drums

Fresh from supporting the Wagons WA tour leg, Ruby Boots are taking a little break from the whirlwind that has seen this band go from Who? To WOW! in just 9 months. May was an amazing month that saw the band juggle recording, support shows, tours, a WAMi award and a jaw dropping, knee slapping, roof raising performance in front of 300+ punters and industry at 4.30pm during the WAMi Festival.

What’s next? Single launches, the EP launch, a regional tour and (fingers crossed) more tour supports and a few festival dates this summer.

But wait. Rewind. Who is Ruby Boots? Well, they are an exciting sextet playing the Perth music scene right now. The instrumentally rich line-up is fronted by a voice with the emotion and strength of five decades all bottled up in two. Main bootstress Bex Chilcott recorded her first EP with a couple of the current members in Feb 2010, but the final killer lineup was formed for the launch last October, which sold out the venue in one hour.

Very quickly Ruby Boots gained a reputation for head turning performances and compelling songwriting. Richly arranged music swirling and swelling around stories of life and times on a melody that's sometimes melancholic and other times heartening. Ruby Boots hitchhikes on the roads of alt-country, blue grass and folk rock all with a fresh new spin and the meshing of these roots based styles is continually proving their appeal to audiences both young and old.

THE SHORT ONE
When you think of Ruby Boots, think of the powerful vocal magnetism of Janis Joplin projecting a spectrum of moods with the melancholy of Marianne Faithful at one end and the toe tapping good times of Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash at the other. The journey between the two is cemented by a steam-train rhythm section, 50’s styled guitar, honky-tonk keys, bluegrass infused violin and banjo and folky acoustic. Performances at Wave Rock Weekender, Bridgetown Blues, Northbridge Festival, Big Day Out, Laneway, Nukara , support slots for Tim Rogers, Rev. Horton Heat, The Audrey’s, Abbe May, The Waifs, TinPan Orange, Adalita, Oh Mercy and Wagons, a four-date Wheatbelt regional tour and a WAMi award have all contributed to make the ‘Boots experience one that leaves the audience singing all about.

“Backstage at The Astor” – The Waifs Support, March 2011