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New album ...
One More
Time For Peace
Over the past
twelve months there have been many re-issued Roger
Chapman records on CD and DVD plus some excellent box
sets. To order online go to www.mysticrecords.co.uk
Tickets available on
the door from 7.00pm, band on stage at 8.45pm.
Please call 07760 400
226 with any queries.
Gig In The Main Hall
Doors 7.00pm
Chappo on stage @ 8.45pm
Close 11.00pm
This is a standing gig.
Purchase tickets
online for some of the Northeast's leading music
concerts and shows
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THE SHORT LIST
After the Streetwalkers split, Chappo continued solo
with his own band, the Short List
The regular line up is Chappo,
vocals, broken tambourines and the occasional bashed in
mic; Steve Simpson, guitar and electric
violin; Gary Twigg, bass; Ian
Gibbons, keyboards; Helen Hardy,
vocals; John Lingwood, drums, Pat
Crumley tenor and alto saxes; Laurie
Wisefield, guitars.
That's a big band that packs out a big sound in true
Chappo tradition. Steve has been with Chappo since the
early 80's and always makes the crowd even more excited
when he picks up his electric violin. For a good ten
years or so, The Short List have continued with
vibe created in the 60's. Chappo's new albums such as Kiss
My Soul and Turn
Unstoned are packed with new work
and are excellent. The band work extremely hard and keep
up with Chappo as he calls the tunes during the show.
New songs, old songs, they know them all and play them
with incredible accuracy. Family may be no more, but
this band are worthy successors. Whatever you do, don't
miss an opportunity to see this first rate outfit.
Over the past
twelve months there have been many re-issued Roger
Chapman records on CD and DVD plus some excellent box
sets. To order online go to www.mysticrecords.co.uk
THE STREETWALKERS
Chappo and Charlie Whitney recorded the first Streetwalkers
album after Family's farewell tour in
1973 with help from the renowned ex-Jeff Beck guitarist Bobby
Tench, plus Linda Lewis and
another former Family member John Wetton.
The band was not fixed with different members leaving
and joining. For many Family fans, Chappo's first
Streetwalkers album was a let down.
On the Downtown Flyers album Chappo
and Charlie Whitney were able to find a more settled
band including John Plotel ex
Casablanca. With the accent strongly on R&B and
Soul, Chappo's unique vocal style became more mainstream
than what he'd been doing with Family. However,
they had more commercial successful with Red
Card, which hit #16 in the Album Charts.
As ever, the band found success in Europe especially
Germany where Chappo remains in high regard and high
demand to play live.
Band Members Included:
- ROGER CHAPMAN vocals
- BOBBY TENCH guitar
- CHARLIE WHITNEY guitar
- NICKO McBRAIN drums
- JON PLOTEL bass
- DAVE DOWLE drums
- MICHAEL FEAT bass
- BRIAN JOHNSON keyboards
ALBUMS:
- STREETWALKERS ~ Reprise K54017, 1974
- DOWNTOWN FLIER ~ Vertigo 6360 123, 1975
- RED CARD ~ Vertigo 9102 010, 1976
- VICIOUS BUT FAIR ~ Vertigo 9102 012, 1977
- STREETWALKERS LIVE (double album) ~ Vertigo
6641 703, 1977
Singles:
- Roxianna/Crack ~ Reprise K 14357, 1974
- Raingame/Miller ~ Vertigo 6059 130, 1975
- Daddy Rolling Stone/Hole In Your Pocket ~
Vertigo 6059 144, 1976
More details from www.chappo.com |
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Back in 2007 promoting his latest
album
Roger Chapman has
one of the strongest and most loyal fan bases of any
rock
singer in Europe. Chappo fans will be traveling from all
corners of the country to see the ex Family front man on
Thursday. The Northeast has always been a home
from home for one of the wild men of rock who sings with
that unique vibrato voice and packs everything into his
gigs.
If you haven't seen Chappo for some time, you are possibly
in for a shock! He hasn't mellowed, he's still strutting and
fretting, he’s retained that amazing stage presence and the
voice is still incredible. The band don't know the set list
before the gig, it's up to Chappo to select the numbers as he
feels his way through the show and reacts with his audience. He
may sing classics from one of the greatest albums of all time,
Music In A Dolls House, or some from his excellent
Streetwalkers albums or maybe a couple of songs from his
excellent new album One More Time For Peace.
There’s always a chill up the spine when the band strike up the
first chords of classic like Weavers Answer, My Friend The
Sun or Burlesque and Chappo goes into
overdrive. The fans love the old stuff, but quite unusually, the
new songs also go down well, this guy is so special he could
sing the Lord's Prayer and they would still go crazy.
Get yourself prepared, like you used to
do, take care what you eat on the day. Don't line up
anything demanding for the Saturday, because you are
going to rock, you're going to sweat, you'll down a few
pints and have one of the best nights of your life!
Now then, if you have stumbled on this page and don't
know who Chappo is, here is a tiny bit of background
information.
FAMILY
ALBUMS:
- MUSIC IN A
DOLL'S HOUSE ~ Reprise
R(S)LP 6312, 1968 (1)
- FAMILY
ENTERTAINMENT ~ Reprise
R(S)LP 6340, 1969 (2)
- A SONG FOR ME
~ Reprise RSLP 9001, 1970 (3)
- ANYWAY
~ Reprise RSX 9005, 1970 (4)
- OLD SONGS NEW
SONGS - COMPILATION ~
Reprise RSLP 9007, 1971 (5)
- FEARLESS
~ Reprise K 54003, 1971 (6)
- BANDSTAND
~ Reprise K 54006, 1972 (7)
- IT'S ONLY A
MOVIE ~ Raft RA 58501,
1973 (8)
Singles:
- Scene Through The Eyes Of A Lens/Gypsy Woman
~ Liberty LBF 15031, 1967
- Me My Friend/Hey Mr. Policeman ~ Reprise RS
23270, 1968, reissued 1974
- Second Generation Woman/Home Town ~ Reprise
RS 23315, 1968
- No Mule's Fool/Good Friend Of Mine ~ Reprise
RS 27001, 1969
- Today/Song For Lots ~ Reprise RS 27005, 1970
- Strange Band/The Weaver's Answer/Hung Up
Down ~ Reprise RS 27009, 1970
- In My Own Time/Seasons ~ Reprise K 14090,
1971
- Larf And Sing/Children ~ Reprise SAM 1, 1971
- Burlesque/The Rockin' R's ~ Reprise K 14196,
1972, reissued 1978 and 1982 with
different B sides
- My Friend The Sun/Glove ~ Reprise K 14218,
1973
- Boom Boom/Stop This Car ~ Raft RA 18501,
1973
- Sweet Desiree/Drink To You ~ Raft RA 18503,
1973
FAMILY
were formed in Leicester (UK) in 1967, from a band
called The Farinas,
formed by Charlie Whitney in 1962 when he was at
Leicester Art College. They were an R&B outfit who
had recorded for the Fontana label and also went under
the name The Roaring
Sixties. In 1967 The Farinas moved down
to London where they came into contact with Kim
Fowley, an American producer who suggested the
name change to Family. Liberty Records signed
them in the September for an excellent psychedelic
single called, Scene
Thru' The Eyes Of A Lens and the
first indication of Chappo's unique vocal style. If you
have a copy, it's worth a few bob as it didn't exactly
take the charts by storm. It was also an album track on Electric
Sugar Cube Flashbacks. (That title
must have needed a few pints or something .... )
 The most famous and their debut album was Music
In A Doll's House which was co-produced
by Dave Mason (Traffic). Doll's House
was outstanding, fresh, vibrant, exciting, original,
just the sort of music that sounded even better when the
mind is relaxed. To many it was one of the Top Ten LP's
of the decade and one that you had to be seen with under
your arm. It still remains today, thirty plus years
later, in this writers all time Top Ten. Family
became established as a vital cog in the underground
circuit. The live show was incredible with Chappo
strutting and pouting and looking as if he would lose it
at any minute, but of course he didn't. His wailing,
vibrating vocals moved the walls.
The Doll's House
was all original material and like the Beatles
great LP, Revolver, almost every track
pushed back the boundaries, was different and very much
of the times. The band pulled together their immense
musical skills, variety of instruments and Chappo's
amazing vocals and success in producing something that
has truly pasted the test of time.
The follow album, Family
Entertainment confirmed them as one of
Britain's leading rock bands. Many regarded it as
impossible to follow the Doll's House, but the album had
some very powerful tracks including The
Weaver's Answer, Hung Up Down
and Observations From A
Hill. Many fans would cite Weavers
Answer as Chappo at his best. The album hit
#6 in the UK Charts but the singles didn't do much until
November 1969 when No
Mule's Fool reached
#29. With success comes changes and 1969 was a year for
many of them. Ric Grech left
during their first US tour to join Blind Faith.
He was replaced by John Weider, from an
LA band called Stonehenge and had played with Eric
Burdon and The Animals. While on this US Tour,
the band fell out with with top American promoter, Bill
Graham, an upset that probably caused their failure to
make it big in the USA. Back in the UK, Jim King
departed from the band.
King was replaced by Poli Palmer,
from Birmingham who had played in several bands
including the Bakerloo Blues Line.
Even with these changes more success was to come. The
albums A Song For Me
and Anyway
hit #4 and #7 in the LP Charts and they also had three
singles in the charts. John Weider
departed in June 1971 to be replaced by John
Wetton from Mogul Thrash
and left just over a year later to join another great
band, King Crimson. (note that John
Wetton is also back on the road with his own excellent
band) The next two albums were also successful
with Fearless
and Bandstand,
hitting #10 and #15 in the LP charts and also giving
them some long awaited success in America by reaching
#177 and #183. At this point, Poli Palmer departed
to set up a new band with Ric Grech which never got off
the ground.
Tony Ashton joined on keyboards and Jim
Cregan came in from the band Stud. The
best times for Family were now in the past and a move of
labels from Reprise to Raft to record their last
album, It's Only A
Movie, failed to lift the fans by
October 1973 it was all over. Chappo and
Charlie Whitney formed Streetwalkers and Rob
Townsend could be found in the successful Medicine
Head.
THE STREETWALKERS
Chappo and Charlie Whitney recorded the first Streetwalkers
album after Family's farewell tour in
1973 with help from the renowned ex-Jeff Beck guitarist Bobby
Tench, plus Linda Lewis and
another former Family member John Wetton.
The band was not fixed with different members leaving
and joining. For many Family fans, Chappo's first
Streetwalkers album was a let down.
On the Downtown Flyers album Chappo
and Charlie Whitney were able to find a more settled
band including John Plotel ex
Casablanca. With the accent strongly on R&B and
Soul, Chappo's unique vocal style became more mainstream
than what he'd been doing with Family. However,
they had more commercial successful with Red
Card, which hit #16 in the Album Charts.
As ever, the band found success in Europe especially
Germany where Chappo remains in high regard and high
demand to play live.
Band Members Included:
- ROGER CHAPMAN vocals
- BOBBY TENCH guitar
- CHARLIE WHITNEY guitar
- NICKO McBRAIN drums
- JON PLOTEL bass
- DAVE DOWLE drums
- MICHAEL FEAT bass
- BRIAN JOHNSON keyboards
ALBUMS:
- STREETWALKERS ~ Reprise K54017, 1974
- DOWNTOWN FLIER ~ Vertigo 6360 123, 1975
- RED CARD ~ Vertigo 9102 010, 1976
- VICIOUS BUT FAIR ~ Vertigo 9102 012, 1977
- STREETWALKERS LIVE (double album) ~ Vertigo
6641 703, 1977
Singles:
- Roxianna/Crack ~ Reprise K 14357, 1974
- Raingame/Miller ~ Vertigo 6059 130, 1975
- Daddy Rolling Stone/Hole In Your Pocket ~
Vertigo 6059 144, 1976
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