El Rollo is a five-piece Bass Coast based band performing contemporary surf music whose influences are drawn from artists 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. El Rollo’s music is fresh, vibrant, punchy and amazingly danceable. Members of the band have long history in music and the arts:

Sara Beale – saxophones – a background in contemporary and classical music including stints with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Mark Finsterer – guitar – composer, teacher jazz performer who has written for film, theatre, art installations and studied composition with Maestro Franco Donatoni in Sienna, Italy

Gazza Charles – drums – a strong background in blues including with the Blues Sheiks and Oozin’ Blues and more recently with the Van Morrison Tribute band.

Ross Farnell – bass – member of Beargarden, a much-loved 80s indie pop band that had meteoric success and an equally spectacular implosion. Ross has since played in bands fronted by Brian Mannix, Mick Pealing and Tottie Goldsmith.

Doc White – guitar, vocals – an award-winning songwriter, composer and actor was a solo blues artist plying his trade around the country for nearly 40 years until the call of surf sounds could no longer be ignored.