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SOLD OUT

Doors open 7.00pm,

Brian Houston 7.15pm,

Glenn on

stage at 8.00pm.

Gig closes

at 10.00pm

  + Brian Houston

After the gig ...

Posting the 'sold-out' signs is always a good starter to the evening. The room was packed, support act Brian Houston had popped out for a bite to eat and lost track of time. Walking back in at 7.15pm - you're on Brian - eh? It was coat off, guitar plugged in and off we go. Brian delivered a cracking set and considering he was an 'unknown', he certainly grabbed the crowd who sang and clapped the whole way through.

A quick change-over, switch off the cold AC system, Glenn is in the wings doing his warm-up exercises, the packed crowd squeeze (get it?) forward, the bar is busy, so what now? Glenn Tilbrook jumped onto the stage, the crowd go nuts and we are underway.

From the start, Glenn was obviously into this one. With a crowd as enthusiastic as this, he couldn't fail to get turned on. As the show continued, the atmosphere continued to grow. Glenn sang his way through his solo songs, Squeeze hits and other classics. The crowd sang, the beer flowed, Glenn sang, the crowd clapped ..... it was brilliant!

Before the gig blurb .....

As you will know, Glenn Tilbrook is an exceptional song writer and musician who shot to world fame with one of the best bands to come out of Britain, Squeeze. For some time now, Glenn has been combining solo tours alongside outings with his band.  

Enjoy a terrific atmosphere, great crowd and lots of good humour. He is  highly entertaining and crams loads of songs into the set including Squeeze classics.

Glenn has been singing, playing and writing songs for many years.  Squeeze has recorded 13 albums to date and many, many singles - most of which have been hits of some kind - some very big, some very small. More than this, however, Glenn Tilbrook and Squeeze have become synonymous with a particularly style of high quality pop song that bears comparison with the classic songs of Ray Davies and The Kinks - not to mention more recent contenders such as Blur and Supergrass. 

Everything Glenn Tilbrook does has class, style and a distinctively unpretentious quality of good humour coupled with strong melody.

Born in Woolwich, South East London, Glenn Tilbrook has been smitten with music ever since his Mum took him to see Cliff Richard in the film "Summer Holiday". As he describes it: "Any ideas I may have had of pursuing the more traditional career options of a 5 year old, such as a policeman or fireman, went out of the window. Being in a band, travelling around in a double-decker bus, stopping at a beach somewhere and being surrounded by adoring fans as you played a tune or two looked too good to me to consider anything else. Fortunately, I never changed my mind."

Growing up in the 60s with an older brother who was a keen fan of the Rolling Stones, The Who and the Small Faces, the young Glenn had to take a different position and so favoured the Monkees and the Beatles. Later there was some common ground with Motown and Stax. Undoubtedly, the music that Glenn absorbed throughout this most fertile period in pop history has served as his biggest influence as a songwriter.  Growing up in a musical culture where writing original songs was what pop musicians did, Glenn formed Squeeze with writing partner Chris Difford in 1973. 

The first hit single, "Take Me I'm Yours", came in 1978 and was followed by a steady stream of hits, many of which have passed into the canon of pop folklore and will surely be sung in pub singalongs as long as pub singalongs exist.

Outside of Squeeze, Glenn has played and sung on records by Elvis Costello and Aimee Mann and on Mark Knopfler's solo album.  Songs he has co-written with Chris Difford have been covered by the likes of Sting, Joe Cocker and Grandmaster Flash. He produced the "Smithereens" album for Nick Harper in 1997, which was released on Glenn's Quixotic Records label and in 2000 executively produced the widely acclaimed "Harperspace" for Nick, also on Quixotic.

Two years ago saw the release of Glenn’s long awaited first solo release “The
Incomplete Glenn Tilbrook”, which was received with great acclaim world wide. 

www.glenntilbrook.co.uk

Brian Houston

We first came across Brian when he supported the Storys earlier this year and he really is a class act. An excellent singer song writer, Brian's lyrics are fabulous and that Northern Ireland wit always pulls a smile.  If he is playing near you, get out and see him. Or buy his new CD "Sugar Queen" full details from www.brianhouston.com