Perth’s favourite seminal & legendary drummer James Baker celebrates at the Duke!

Doors 5 pm | Stellar Line-Up starts 6 pm

Duke of George presents

James Baker's Born to Rock

Commemorating his 70th year on planet Earth and launching his brand spanking new mini LP, ‘BORN TO ROCK’, Perth’s favourite seminal & legendary drummer JAMES BAKER (The Victims, The Scientists, The Beasts Of Bourbon, The Hoodoo Gurus, The Rockin Hendy, The Painkillers & many more) invites you all to come along & help him celebrate this milestone at The Duke of George Hotel in East Fremantle on Sunday March 17. 

With a killer line-up hand picked by the man himself, you can expect to see some of Perth’s finest acts sharing a stage in honour of one of Australia’s most beloved rock’n’roll icons. Big Boss Man, Abbe May, Datura4, Luke Dux and Joe Bludge will all be bringing the noise for you and for the Birthday Boy, so unless you were born to be punched, you’re not going to want to miss this one. Go get those tickets & Hip Hip Hooray! 

TICKET INCLUDES THE DUKE'S RENOWNED PASS-AROUND CANAPES!

PLEASE, NO GIFTS OR PRESENTS, JUST YOUR PRESENCE!

ANY PROCEEDS FROM THIS EVENT WILL GO TOWARDS HELPING JAMES IN HIS FIGHT WITH CANCER. 

THANK YOU.

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“…When I first met James in 1977 I knew immediately that here was a stylish person with impeccable taste. He just had an aura about him. 45 years later and my opinion hasn’t changed one whit.”
- Dave Faulkner - Hoodoo Gurus / The Victims

“Born to Rock is a tour de force of garage punk. James Baker is an undisputed master of the genre.”
- Guy Maddison - Mudhoney, Lubricated Goat

“…the embodiment of that pure garage punk spirit. James sees the world through his garage. You don’t need fancy, highly tuned stuff to play rock n roll, just loud stuff.”
- Boris Sujdovic - Scientists, Beasts of Bourbon, Dubrovniks

“True rock’n’roll is born, not made. And James Baker was born to rock. Equal parts hazy memoir and heartfelt tribute, iced with 60s pop sensibility and spiked with punk rock, Born to Rock is a six-song testament to James Baker’s wild and passionate rock’n’roll journey.”
- Patrick Emery - Rock Journalist

“…That fundamental proto-punk / rock’n’roll sensibility  has infused every band he’s been in for the ensuing half-century , from The Victims to The Scientists , from The Hoodoo Gurus to The Beasts Of Bourbon , from The Dubrovniks  to The Painkillers ... and that’s a shortlist.”
- Mark Demetrius - Rock Journalist

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New Mini LP  
‘JAMES BAKER & THE GROUNDBREAKERS - BORN TO ROCK’  OUT NOW 
on ‘In The Red Records’

  Limited copies will be on sale at the event