LOCAL BANDS
BACKBEAT
We are a 4 piece
band and as the name suggests cover the 60's music period mainly but we also
delve into the 50's. The line up is drums, guitar, double bass/electric bass,
piano and vocalist/guitar. We play any social and corporate event ranging from
parties to foyers, cabaret spots to social clubs having included dates at
BackBeat's lads are all from
their local area (
Since then BackBeat has risen from strength to strength and have never looked
back.
The band can offer clients peace of mind and flexibility when booking and playing. We are, of course, very flexible in order that we fit in with the client’s needs and the evening’s entertainment. We provide music for the intervals and breaks and are self contained equipment wise.
Listen to us on the webpage:
http://www.backbeat-music.co.uk/mp3.htm
See us on our sound
check at the Cavern,
Contact Details
Contact: Clayton Stocker
Email: clayton@backbeat-music.co.uk
Mob: 078465 94489
Home: 01268 684251
My Space: http://myspace.com/backbeat63 (just started)
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STEVE CURTIS
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Steve's highly acclaimed first solo album "Small Mercies" came out in June 2004. For further information about Steve and his new album, click on the following link: www.stevejcurtis.com |
BRADSHAW
BRADSHAW is a brand new girly trio at the core of some of the finest musicians around who are playing their first gig together on Thursday 22nd May at the highly respected venue 'Riga Music Bar' 228 London Road, Westcliff On Sea (doors open 9pm).| The three diva's will share all the lead and backing vocals during what promises to be interesting and unusual set , consisting of upbeat, funky covers and original tracks from Jane's album which has been number one for three consecutive weeks in the UK indie charts. |
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Joining the girls for this first gig is Tim
Huskisson on piano, guitarist Terry Lewis ,bassist Ian Henry and drummer Miche
Revivo. The RIGA MUSIC BAR gig also features guest brass players Gerry Marshall
and Graham Hunter and introduces trombonist Josh Winiberg and saxophonist James
Cox.
Tickets Are Available From The Outlets Detailed Below:
Fives Records - 22 Broadway, Leigh On Sea, Essex
Honkey Tonk Music - Southchurch Road, Southend On Sea, Essex
The Cricketers Inn - 228 London Road, Westcliff On Sea, Essex
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Website:
www.janemusic.info
E-mail:
Jane@JaneMusic.info
Genre: New country pop/rock
Jane's debut album CLOSE UP AND REAL is now available. See website for details.
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COLUMBO
For further information about this local 'All Action Urban Soul' band check out their web site: www.geocities.com/stevebulley/columbo.html
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INQUEST
Local band INQUEST contains Oliver Curnick: the singer, rhythm guitarist and keyboard player, Tom Johnson: the lead guitarist and singer, Dan Stockdale: the bass player, and Joe Brown: the drummer.
We play covers and some of our own material, but are willing to play what people want us to play. We mainly play Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stereophonics, Greenday, Goo Goo Dolls, and such like. If any one would like to contact us for arrangements of a demo, or a gig then email Tom Johnson at inquest@thefool.fsnet.co.uk or phone 01702 558890 or mobile 07811 572448 .
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TYME WARP
Leigh-on-Sea Pop
Group/Harmony Band.
Much in demand for Parties, Functions, Weddings and Dinner Dances.
WHO ARE TYME WARP?
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TYME WARP is a well established five-piece semi-professional local MOR harmony band whose performances are polished and versatile. |
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All members have gained previous experience from playing with other local bands and all have at some time played at major venues around the County and /or in London. |
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The band specialises in playing covers of popular music of all types from the 50’s through to the 90’s.and is very much in demand for Charities, Private Parties, Social/Sports Clubs, Masonic/Rotary/Round Table Functions/Dinner Dances, Parent Teacher Associations and Weddings etc |
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The traditional line up features a talented ex professional female lead vocalist backed by lead, rhythm and bass guitars and drums. |
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To provide greater versatility the lead guitar can be synthesised and the lead singing is shared between the lead vocalist and two of the guitarists. |
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All band members are focused on enjoying themselves by delivering entertainment to others at a price that provides value for money! |
Matt Bishop - Guitars / Vocals
Jon Tarbard - Bass / Vocals
Richard Coakley - Guitars / Vocals
Richard Maskell - Keyboards
Andy Beevers - Drums
This talented young local
band, have recently enjoyed success in the first stage of
the Club Riga battle of the bands, despite being up against much more
experienced acts. Visit their excellent web site at:
http://www.btinternet.com/~rmaskell/fwl for more details, news, pictures and
downloadable music clips from their CD.
THE MUSTANGS
If you were a teenager living in or around Leigh in the early to mid 1960s there’s a good chance that you went to dances where the Mustangs were playing - Essex Yacht Club, The Elms, The Grand Hotel, Leigh Youth Centre, Leigh Sailing Club and St. Clements Hall, to name just a few of the popular venues from this time. If you’re better at remembering faces than places, the line-up of the band, pictured in 1964, was (from left to right) Roger Dupuy, who’d recently taken over from Bob Church (rhythm guitar), Keith Chesher (drums), Phil Thomas (lead vocals), Adrian Philpott (lead guitar) and Mick Read (bass).
Anyone bold enough to venture as far as Southend (remember, this was before most young people had access to cars) may also have danced to the Mustangs at Thorpe Bay Yacht Club, The Cliffs Pavilion, The Castle, The Halfway House, The Kursaal and, on one memorable occasion at a "Battle of the Bands" held at the Cliffs Bandstage on 5th June 1964 during Southend‘s Golden Jubilee celebrations - attended by over 1,000 teenagers and heard as far away as Cuckoo Corner!
2002 saw the 40th Anniversary of the Mustangs’ formation and plans are in hand to try to stage a one-off playing reunion - something that will require a lot of organisation, as three of the original band live abroad (in Australia and the USA), and even more practice. After all, the founder members of the Mustangs haven’t played together for nearly forty years and holding off the advancing years, creaking backs and stiffening fingers is becoming more and more of a challenge to them!
For a start, the Mustangs have set up their own strictly tongue-in-cheek
Mustangs Memorabilia Web Site (if you want to be entertained, click on www.magus-inter.net/mustangs). This site will also be used, in due course, to give you updates on our progress with the reunion. Anyone with memories or, better still, photos or other memorabilia of the Mustangs from the 1960s please either phone or email Phil Thomas (01268-775096 or phillthom@aol.com) or email Keith Chesher (Keith@micromagus.co.uk). They look forward to hearing from you and, as they say, keep watching this space!
If you still enjoy the Sounds of the Sixties, watch out for
FULL CIRCLE, a popular Rayleigh-based 60s tribute band formed in 1995, who play solely to raise money for charity. The band includes Matt Baker (lead), Anthony Morris (drums), Bill Roberts (rhythm) and both Mick Read (bass) and Phil Thomas (vocals) from the Mustangs - still rocking after all these years!
In 2000, Full Circle, who give away 90% of their gig fees, donated over £3,100 to charity, including such local causes as the Bar ‘n’ Bus, Bosom Pals, Castle Point Friends of Crossroads, Castle Point & District Phoenix Club and Rayleigh’s youth and community charity, The Warehouse Centre.
Work and family commitments permit Full Circle to play only 8 or 9 gigs a year so, if you’re interested in booking us for a fundraising event, family or retirement party, wedding or some other special occasion or if you just want to find out more about our fundraising activities and how we may be able to help your charity or worthy cause raise funds,
phone Phil Thomas on 01268-775096 or email him on phillthom@aol.com as soon as possible. For anyone who lived through this exciting and momentous era, nothing will replace the Music of the Sixties so, to experience an instant trip of authentic 1960s nostalgia played with enthusiasm and flair, give us a call!
For the past four decades music has been one of the UK's major revenue earners for the British economy and continues to be so mainly as a result of major international success achieved by British bands and performers.
So who are these people who obtain such mega worldwide success? And where do they come from? Well in reality they are just mere mortals who maybe once worked in factory or shop or drove a delivery van and lived in either an inner city area or in a small town like Leigh-on-Sea or Southend.
Bands are usually initially formed between likeminded individuals either at school, college, university or in the workplace and this can herald the beginning of potentially long-term careers in addition to huge financial rewards.
Success is achievable within the music and entertainment industry through hard work, determination, ability, resilience, persistence, ambition and patience. Treating the business as a business and not a game, a little talent thrown in for good measure will also be an asset and the final ingredient is a lot of luck.
There are some really fantastic bands in our location and this part of the Leigh-on-Sea.com web site is dedicated to offer our local bands the opportunity to make themselves known not only to our local community but also much further afield by way of your own profile in this section. Your information could be accessed by agents, promoters or even record companies and the Leigh-on-Sea.com web address can be featured in any mailshots you may send out from time to time.
Should you wish to include in this section a profile on your band, or a band you know or follow, then either e-mail or post a photograph and biography plus any other information you wish to highlight and we will set up your profile as soon as we can.
Please note, this is your community web site so please contact us with any suggestions. We will be continually developing this site for the benefit of our local bands and you can help us with that process.
E-mail: music@leigh-on-sea.com
