Welcome to The Life of Brian Band
LoB News:
Many thanks to all of you who came to support us at the recent Petts Woodstock Summer Rock Festival. We received a warm welcome and enjoyed ourselves immensely! It was a great day and £4000 was raised for charity.
Bookings for 2010/11:
We are still taking bookings for the latter part of this year and 2011. If you would like to enquire about booking the band, please visit our contacts page where you will find all our details. Feel free to get in touch and see you at the next gig!
August
Saturday 7th - Petts Woodstock. Details to follow. Free Adm.
Saturday 14th - Private Function. New Beach Holiday Park Dymchurch.
Saturday 21st - The British Oak, 109 Old Dover Road SE3 8SU. Free Adm.
Friday 27th - The Orange Tree 9 Hawley Road, Dartford, Kent DA1 1NP. Free Adm.
Saturday 28th - The Bear & Ragged Staff, 2 London Road, Crayford, Dartford, Kent, DA1 4BH. Free Adm.
September
Saturday 4th - Kirkham Street CIU, 71 Kirkham Street, London SE18 8SU. Free Adm.
Saturday 11th - The Pelton Arms, 23-25 Pelton Road Greenwich SE10 9PG. Free Adm.
Saturday 18th - Private Function
Friday 24th - Black Horse Cottage, High Street, Bean, Dartford.Kent. DA2 8AS. Free Adm.
Saturday 25th - George IV 185 Chiswick High Road, Chiswick, London, W4 2DR. Free Adm
October
Friday 1st - The Glenmore 41 Edison Grove, SE18 2DW. Free Adm.
Saturday 23rd - The Pelton Arms, 23-25 Pelton Road Greenwich SE10 9PG. Free Adm.
Saturday 30th - Halloween at The British Oak, 109 Old Dover Road SE3 8SU. Free Adm.
November
Saturday 6th - Private Function tbc.
Friday 12th - Cyphers Music Club, Rubens Street Catford SE6 4DH - Gig TBC.
Saturday 13th - Kirkham Street CIU, 71 Kirkham Street, London SE18 8SU.
December
Saturday 4th - The Pelton Arms, 23 - 25 Pelton Road, Greenwich SE10 9PG. Free Adm.
Saturday 11th - The Bear & Ragged Staff, 2 London Road, Crayford, Dartford, Kent, DA1 4BH. Free Adm.
Friday 17th - The Hob Forest Hill 7 Devonshire Road Forest Hill SE23 3HE. Free Adm.
Saturday 18th - The Orange Tree 9 Hawley Road, Dartford, Kent DA1 1NP. Free Adm.
Friday 24th - Christmas Eve at Kirkham Street CIU, 71 Kirkham Street, London SE18 8SU.
Friday 31st - New Years Eve at the British Oak 109 Old Dover Road SE3 8SU. Themed night, theme tbc. Free entry
We have an adaptable and varied set, performing well known covers from the 60's the present day. As well as performing your usual well known & well loved rock and pop covers, we have a unique repertoire and a professional sound, full of energy and dynamics that distinguishes our band from others.
We can cater for private functions as well as pub gigs and we are regularly working to update our repertoire and have a top of the range PA system that will be suitable for various different venues.
We are an experienced south-east London based covers band playing in pubs, clubs and at private functions, performing numbers from a wide range of musical styles and genres by artists such as Bryan Adams to ZZ Top including The Beatles, The Kinks, The Police, The Pretenders, Anastasia, KT Tunstall, Kings of Leon, Sheryl Crow & lots lots more.
If you would like to find out more, visit our Biography page to discover more about the members of the band.
We look forward to seeing you at the next gig!
Slogans like BRIAN EATS MARMITE and BING CROSBY WAS HERE, were common place in Brian's home town of Greenwich during the 70s. There was a plethora of like minded juggernauts carving a niche around town in them heady days. With at least one electric band to every street in the UK. Music was and always will be top of the agenda for creative go-ins on. Brian plugged in with the best of them, and never looked back until un-beknown to him, a strange moment of curiosity loomed in front of him;- it was a call to submit a biog for THE LIFE OF BRIAN web-site (.com). Well, what could he say in as few words as possible, without boring the Y-fonts off even his closest pals? Lets say he got into a band almost days after learning his first few licks,and steadily built up a repertoire that pundits could relate immediately to, across every dance floor you could put in front of him. Armed with but a simple electric guitar and an amplifier already behind payments on the never never, he single-handedly took to the club scene along with his mates , who did exactly the same thing! Meanwhile around 4000 years later he (alone of course) along with his great friends- Paul on drums, and Dave the rave on bass later to be joined by Miranda on vocals, carried on that tradition of performing music- extremely live stuff of course, on a demand come serve basis.Years of technical demands from famous names such as; Kate Bush, Roy Harper, Pete Gabriel, Albert Lee, 1960s through to 1990s pop acts, did not dampen this mans enthusiasm,so, here we go- lets get on with the gig, and goodnight to one and all. Dear friends, he loves you all.
Miranda, the latest addition to the band, joined the guys in 2007 to ensure right and proper behavior was demonstrated throughout the band - in hindsight a challenge probably too large to have taken on! Armed with a mic and a tambourine she entertains the audience with her powerful rocky bluesy vocals and great vocal harmonies. Singing songs by the Pretenders, Anastasia, K T Tunstall and many more, her being in an ever so slightly younger age group has brought a modern and different slant to the ever popular material the Life of Brian Band perform.
Because of his aristocratic upbringing and subsequent inheritance of the herbertage, Lord Geering found it difficult to join a band, probably because he was no good. None the less, he persevered with the aid of copious amounts of mainly legal substances and years of confusing his Lochrians with his Phrygians. He eventually joined the band after losing a guiness drinking bet with Brian.
That's Rock and Roll!!
I was not inspired to play drums by Pete Thomas (Elvis Costello's Drummer), who didnt live up the road from me. He did not show me the basics. I was not a founder member of Squeeze, nor did I play on any recordings, or any early college tours. I did not record and gig with Pete Perrett (The Only Ones) and I did not record with Bernie Torme and John McCoy (ex Gillan, Black Sabbath). I also did not have to leave Samson after a tragic motor cycle accident.
I refuse to believe the allegation that I played on the Dolls top 20 hit Desire Me. I did not work with various producers, particularly not Muff Winwood and Mick Glossop.
To say I was a founder member of Haunted Staircase who recorded the highly collectable single 'Flutters' is absolutely ridiculous.
I did not do various sessions in most of the top London studios. I do not know Brian, Dave or Miranda. I've never heard of the Life of Brian Band. This is not my photograph... in fact.... I dont know who I am!!!
If you would like to enquire about booking the band,
Call either-
Paul 07961394387
Miranda 07931247467
Brian 07788847275
Feel free to leave a message and we'll get back to as soon as we can.
alternatively, email us _ thelifeofbrianband_gmail.com
Thanks and see you at the next gig.
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