El Rollo puts surf music through the blender and turns up the heat to serve up a scorching guitar-soaked take (with a slight twist of swamp and psychedelia) on one of rock’s most loveable genres. El Rollo take their cue from surf bands around the world. These include Langhorns from Sweden, Los Javelin from Venezuela, Messer Chupps from Russia, Surfer Joe from Italy and Los Straightjackets from the US. Their original tunes are an intoxicating rocked up, reverb-drenched brew of Balkan, Middle Eastern, Latin and Californian sounds and rhythms the head and feet find hard to ignore.

 

Lou Lou Kearney – bass, vocals 

Lou Lou has been tap dancing since she was a whipper-snapper, founding Miss Lou Lou’s Tap Dancing Academy in the late ’80s. Alongside running her school, she fronted the kooky country band The Trickstars and the 60s/70s lounge–cocktail outfit Miss Lou Lou & The Superbs, where she sang lead vocals and performed quirky tap routines.

Lou Lou later met her hubby-to-be, Steve Kearney—an Aussie actor and comedian living in LA. She packed up, moved to California, landed a few acting roles, taught tap across the city, and performed with Steve in their comedy show Miss Lou Lou’s Tap Dancing Extravaganza with Mr. Steve at Luna Park, a groovy LA club.

NBC and Warner Bros. spotted the duo and helped develop their sitcom The Power of Love. Hollywood being Hollywood, the show didn’t make it to air, but by then Lou Lou and Steve were ready to start a family and swap studio lots for prams.

After moving back to Melbourne, Lou Lou and Steve established Glittery Tapping Wonderland, a fun and relaxed dance school for all ages in Mordialloc. Twenty-two years later, they passed the school on to their favourite teacher and retired.

Lou Lou instantly took up the bass guitar and started the 70s pop-country band The Darling Sweeties, where she sings, plays electric and double bass, and tap dances—with Steve on drums.

 

Gazza Charles - drums 

Gazz started his drumming life in his teens, obsessed by the blues legends that influenced the early Rolling Stones. He played countless gigs around Melbourne with bands such as the Blue Sheiks and Oozin Blues amoung others before being enticed by large denomination carrots to play vintage Rock and Roll and Rockabilly.
Since relocating to the Bass Coast he has played with a Van Morrison tribute band before joining El Rollo to further indulge his developing passion for music from other parts of the globe.

 

Adam Goodrem - guitar, vocals

Adam is a multi-instrumentalist who lives in Cowes, He uses the term in the loosest possible sense. The bit about being a multi-instrumentalist, that is, not the living in Cowes part, though maybe that's a bit loose too. Anyway, he is a veteran of countless bands that you probably never heard of, and some were even quite good. He enjoys most styles of music and is equally happy down back banging the drums as he is wailing up front. Recent highlights include playing percussion/voice in Alice Springs pirate band The Fly Swats and playing guitar/voice in the desert surf band That Sandy cracks. He was member of the illustrious Alice Springs men's choir, The Shavings for 7 years, He also sings and plays drums with local trio The Pinnacles. He was thrilled to be invited to join El Rollo and looks forward to more rewarding musical fun.

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Doc White – guitar, vocals 

Doc grew up in Adelaide at the time when some of the most bizarre murders in the country were being committed. As a result of an unfortunate series of seemingly random events a copy of Lightning Hopkins first Arhoolie record landed on his old HMV record player and the gloom was lifted. A lifelong and, some would say unhealthy, interest in blues and true crime evolved that has remained to this day.

Doc plays country blues like the devil (who was an early fan) and is one of the few modern blues artists to adopt the mandolin, despite it being an instrument that is nearly impossible to tune. 

Doc still holds the record for the Glenelg to Somerton ocean swim he set in 1971 - due to the race being abandoned in 1972.

Doc has appeared at major music festivals and toured Australia and New Zealand solo and with his band Gentleman’s Ruin. Doc's music has been played on ABC Radio and he has been featured on The Planet and in Rhythms Magazine.

Doc’s tune Cropduster Blues was voted Song of the Year at the 2004 VicTas Blues Awards.

Doc attended the National Theatre Drama School and has written, produced and performed the lead in That’s Showbiz a musical theatre piece which debuted at the Wonderland Spiegeltent in August 2014 and returned to the same venue in Feb 2015. The show had seasons in 2015 at Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne Fringe Festivals.

Doc is also the writer of the play Deluxe Old Time Radio which has been picked up as web series.

Doc has also acted in film and television – including Emily, Spirit of the Game, House Husbands, Wentworth, Neighbours, Judy and Punch, La Brea and My Life Is Murder - and written and performed music for the 2017 National Theatre production of The Golden Age.

Doc's theatre credits as an actor include Tin Woman, No Time On, Australians All and 2:20AM

 In 2023 Doc was awarded Most Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama or Comedy and Most Outstanding Sound Design at the Gippsland Associated Theatre Awards for Offshore Theatre Company's production of 2:20AM

Doc is the founder, guitarist and principal songwriter for El Rollo, a Bass Coast based world surf rock band.