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Doors 7.30pm
No Support
Snake
Davis Band
8.45pm
Venue
Details
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The
band ...
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Snake Davis
- saxes, flutes
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Winston Blisset
- bass guitar (this is Winston's return gig with
Snake after playing for eight months with Massive Attack)
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Paul Birchall
- Hammond organ (seriously good)
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Bryan Hargreaves
- drums
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Snake Davis
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.
With the band, Snake Davis turns up the funk and
cruises into soul with that midnight bluesy, jazzy ingredient. Musically
it's cracking stuff. This
gig will include some of the old favourites and material from the latest album "Hysteria".
The band includes Hammond organ and keyboard player Paul Birchall and drummer Bryan
Hargreaves.
If you do not know the rest of the
background, here are some snake bites .....
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.
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
"Snake Davis is quite
a player. He has slithered into town, a tenor playing secret that
Manchester has been trying to keep to itself" EVENING STANDARD
"A brilliant Sax
player who could wail like the best American players, but was at his best
weaving around slow ballads - won deserved acclaim" BLUES AND SOUL
"He doesn't mess
about" THE GUARDIAN
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