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Tickets
£12.50
Doors
8.00pm
Tickets available tonight
on the door.
Jim
Diamond
+ Snake Davis
8.45pm
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Jim Diamond has
enjoyed top chart success with these big selling singles:
Snake Davis has
played on countless hit records with some of the biggest names in the
music business. Check out the brief list in the right hand column. |
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We are absolutely delighted to welcome Jim
Diamond and Snake Davis back to
Newcastle. This is a
very special gig for CannyGigs as we make no apology for
rating Jim as one best singers around and
Snake is undoubtedly one of the best sax players in
Europe if not the world. Together they are one potent
duo! Jim will perform some of his new
songs from his acclaimed album, Souled &
Healed plus some real Soul Classics and of
course Jim's own superb hit singles. Snake Davis
also has a strong following here in the Northeast and
returns from an extensive tour of Japan
 About
Jim Diamond ...
- Born in Glasgow’s East End, Jim, heavily
influenced by the voices of Ray Charles
and Otis Redding ,joined his first band
at the age of 14. Moving to London, he
formed the band Bandit and went
on to sign to Clive Davis’ Arista
Records. This brought his voice to the
attention of the Godfather of British
Blues, Alexis Korner, who invited
him to work with him on his "Just
Easy" album.
- Jim was then approached to go to Los Angeles
to form a band with Earl Slick
(guitarist on Bowie's "Young
Americans") and Carmine Appice
from Rod Stewart’s band. All three
went on to write and record with Eddie
Kramer, the legendary producer of
Jimmi Hendrix. While in LA, Jim was
asked to return to London to hook up
with Tony Hymas and Simon
Phillips from the Jeff Beck band
and so Ph.D were formed. The
first single taken from "Ph.D
The Album", "I
Won’t Let You Down" went
on to sell millions and become the
classic song that it is today. The
second album "Is
it Safe?" also included a
European hit, "I
Didn’t Know", which
included Jeff Beck on guitar.
- When Ph.D went their separate ways, Jim
signed to A&M Records. Taken from
his 1984 solo album "Double
Crossed" the single "I
Should Have Known Better"
went straight to No.1 and went on to be
nominated for an Ivor Novello award. The
song’s success became synonymous with
the Band Aid single released at the same
time when Jim urged the public to buy
the charity single and not his own.
- His next single "Hi
Ho Silver" taken from his
second solo album "Desire
for Freedom" scored Jim
another top ten hit.
- In 1993 Jim was approached by Polygram
records to write and record an album,
and teaming up with Graham Lyle
they released his top twenty eponymous
album that year. After which, Jim went
on the road to perform his songs
acoustically in art centres across the
country ending up at the Edinburgh
Festival where The Scotsman described
him, in their 5 star review, as
Scotland’s answer to Ray Charles and a
writer of hidden depth.
- In the late nineties Jim met up with
saxophonist Snake Davis (MD of M
People) and discovering a shared love
of blues and soul they joined forces and
performed together to critical acclaim.
- Through Snake, Jim then met
Hammond player
extraordinaire Paul Birchall and
together they set about writing and
recording Jim’s recent and highly
accliamedalbum "SOULED
AND HEALED",.
About Snake Davis
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He
is one of the most popular musicians to ever appear in the Northeast. During the past
few years he has been part of the superb Blues
Shoes duo with the excellent Jim Diamond, but has had his own
funky band for many a year and we first saw him as the house band on the
hit TV drama series, The Paradise Club.
- Snake
Davis turns up the funk and cruises into soul with that
midnight bluesy, jazzy ingredient. Musically it's
cracking stuff.
- Snake Davis is
well established as one of the UK's leading saxophonists. He is in demand
from the biggest names on the British popular music scene, as well as
visiting artists from overseas. In recent years he has been extremely busy
and in the public eye. As resident saxophonist on "Tonight With
Jonathon Ross" he plays with the likes of, James Brown,
Smokey Robinson, Chaka Khan and many more. He has been seen regularly
on TV performing with leading bands such as the Eurythmics, M-People
and B*Witched and presented a saxophone "Masterclass"
programme for ITV. He played all featured saxophone and flute parts - on
record and tour - for Lisa Stansfield and M-People.
- Snake
Davis regularly plays live with ....
M-People, Eurythmics, Lisa Stansfield, Swing Out Sister, Ray Charles, Boy
George, B*Witched, Edwin Starr, The Snake Davis Band,
Rose Royce, Sister Sledge, Tavares, Odyssey, The Three Degrees, The Real
Thing, Mary Wells, Ruby Turner, Martha Reeves, Eddie Holman, Popcorn
Wylie, Chuck Jackson, Syreeta.
- Snake has recorded
with .....
M-People, Lisa Stansfield, Ray
Charles, Jamiroquai, Tom Jones, Culture Club, Hamish Stuart, George
Michael, Tina Turner, Paul Hardcastle, Take That, Cher, N-Trance, Kylie
Minogue, Paul McCartney, Swing Out Sister, Dave Stewart, Paul Young, Mark
Morrison, Pet-Shop Boys, Soul11Soul, Robert Palmer, Tanita Tikaram,
Motorhead, Primal Scream, Spice Girls, Boy George.
- Snake's
TV shows include ....
Personal appearances playing own music on "The Tube" and ITV
"Masterclass". "Later With Jools Holland",
"National Lottery Show", "BBC Children In Need",
"Eurythmics On Tour", "Good Morning Show" and
"The Paradise Club" - where Snake played himself in the series.
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Snake
has written or been involved with these theme tunes and TV bands
"Watching", "Jimmy's",
"Pressgang", "Tonight With Jonathon Ross",
"Pebble Mill" and "The Paradise Club". Numerous TV and
Radio Adverts.
What the critics say
about Snake ....
"Snake Davis has one
of the most passionate Sax styles and simple bluesy approaches a-la
Sanborn heard in these Isles for a while." TIME OUT
"A virtuoso
saxophonist" DAILY TELEGRAPH
"The saxophone cannot
have been this prominent on a Wembley stage in years" THE TIMES
"Snake is a joy to
work alongside. His musical skills have no limit - in fact he's as free as
a bird" DAVE STEWART
"From raw power to a
joss-stick carrying ambience then back through reggae, soul and funk,
Snake set the world alight elevating the mind" CARLISLE EVENING
PRESS
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