I am a life long resident of the Eastern Sea board, having lived most of life in New London County, Connecticut but also in New York and New Jersey. I am an enthuastic person who likes Kick boxing, Motorcycles, Fishing, Kayaking, Music, and Playing Guitar. I offer sound and DJ services through my business, called Sound Enforcement which provides quality sound for local and area bands and events.

The Rivergods, Hookah Kats in a double bill at the Gee
by Rick Koster, music critic for the Day.

The Rivergods and the Hookah Kats are starting at 10 p.m. Saturday in New London's El'n'Gee Club. This is a curious bill, rather like ordering prawns in butterscotch, but it oughtta work out nonetheless.

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Opening are the Hookah Kats, whose music might accurately be described in virtually any way the doesn't include the word country. A genial young trio comprising guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Roy Gorman, sax man John "Stitch" Kovach, and percussionist Rob Bernardo. The H-Kats seem thoroughly entertained by the idea of crashing original folk-rock structures into free-form jazz and R & B--all underpinned by Latin-leaning world rhythms.

A relaxed trio onstage whose shows seem to invite the Hippie Aesthetics crowd, their songs come off with a sort of strange, hypnotic joy--like moonlit Cub Scouts who end some odd pagan ritual by deliberately flying their model airplanes into bricks walls.

The results are generally pleasurable and buoyantly mesmerizing.