State 51 let good times roll (From Stroud News and Journal)

State 51 let good times roll

LET THE Good Times Roll arrives at the Subscription Rooms, Stroud next weekend as part of a new national tour featuring classic rock 'n' roll songs from 1955 to 1960.

Featuring acclaimed Cheltenham-based boogie-woogie pianist and singer Peter Gill with his band, the sensational State 51, the show is taking 2005 by storm with its breathtaking and unrelenting energy.

"This is a stage show that will have audiences stomping, clapping and dancing in the aisles," said the Subscription Rooms' Baibre McAteer.

"This is a show not to be missed by anyone with a rhythmic bone in their body."

Peter Gill has appeared all over the world and has been heralded as the UK's hottest new boogie-woogie talent.

In 1999 he was hand picked from a national search to co-open Jools Holland's Jam House in Birmingham, as one of the two duelling pianists.

Since then he has been in constant demand on the cabaret and corporate circuit, but it is on the theatre stage that he is most at home.

Pounding the keys to such classics as Great Balls of Fire, Johnny B Goode, Blue Suede Shoes, Rock Around The Clock and Chantilly Lace is what he undoubtedly does best.

Let the Good Times Roll comes to Stroud's Subscription Rooms on Saturday, July 23 at 7.30pm. Tickets, priced £12 or £10 concessions, are available from the box office.