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A New Era with the New Jersey Jukebox

January 26, 2015PermalinkGigs, Live Work, New Jersey Jukeboxand, band, boys, four, frankie, gibson, henley, jersey, jukebox, kenton, les, new, on, paul, production, professional, seasons, show, thames, the, theatre, touring, tribute, valli Leave a comment

This Saturday marked the start of a new project that I’ve been asked to be involved with, namely the New Jersey Jukebox, which is a tribute to the music of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.

It goes without saying that the songs are fantastic, and it is a privilege to be involved to perform them.

The band has several guises – the four singers with either backing tracks, four piece or seven piece bands – and the outfit is incredibly professional with personal mixers and in-ear monitoring and bespoke arrangements and tracks.

Signed to a production company, we will be touring major venues throughout the UK (and possibly beyond!), so keep an eye out for us, as this promises to be a brilliant show with wonderful music at it’s core!

Live on Radio Blackfrog

November 18, 2014PermalinkLive Work, Solo Work175, acoustic, aylesbury, blackfrog, bucks, electric, gary, gibson, guitar, internet, jazz, london, martin, mullins, radio, solo, taylor, thame, theatre, work Leave a comment

On Sunday 15th November I had the privilege to be interviewed on Radio Blackfrog – Thame’s internet radio station. I also performed a few tunes and talk about a couple of my favourite songs and a few stories from my musical life so far!

If you missed it, you can catch up with the link here… http://www.radioblackfrog.co.uk/catch-up.html

Variety is the Spice of Life

June 21, 2014PermalinkGigs, Jazz, Live Work, Solo Work175, 60, acoustic, aer, band, chicheley, compact, es175, gibson, guitarist, hall, hotels, jazz, juice, quartet, severe, wedding Leave a comment

Over the last few weeks I have been doing a great deal of different types of work, each with different responsibilities. It has been a real thrill too, because I feel like I’ve succeeded in doing a good job with each of the challenges in front of me – particularly with the time I’ve had to prepare – and that gives me the sort of buzz I am looking for.

Since playing in Grease at the New Theatre in Oxford, I’ve spent quite a bit of time with the Denmark Street Big Band, playing three gigs with two of them being a bit of a trek, including ventures to Inverness (at the castle where Madonna got married), and to Great Yarmouth to play in a Big Band festival. All three gigs were fantastic fun with material ranging from Glenn Miller to Sinatra, Buble, and Basie, as well as two shows dedicated to the work of Bobby Darin.

I had the privilege to be able to play solo at my brother’s wedding, and also as a special part of his wedding speech, a solo gig for Team GB Triathlete, plus a jazz performance with my quartet to relaunch a stately home/hotel for DeVere Hotels.

Things are fairly relentless at the moment with final rehearsals on Monday for this year’s Live at the Rose event, as well as an Irish-themed recording session coming up where I need to get the mandolin out. Coupled with new ukulele and bass students it’s a very busy time!

Sweet Charity

June 23, 2012PermalinkGigs, Theate Work175, 60, aer, charity, compact, court, es, gibson, musical, sweet, theatre, tring Leave a comment

I’m currently playing on Sweet Charity for the Tring Festival Company at the Court Theatre in Tring.

The score requires me to play a Jazz semi acoustic, and a classical guitar since it’s largely made up of big band and flamenco style parts. It’s quite a challenging pad because a lot of is counted in two which makes reading it a bit tricky at times. There are some uptempo pieces in 3/4 too which are quite exciting!

I’m running my Gibson ES175 and my Manuel Raimundo classical through my AER compact sixty. I’ve got a touch of slap-back delay on the 175 for a 60’s vibe and that’s about it! It’s a nice, practical set up that sounds great and is really easy for the sound guys to work with. Lovely!