70s Rock Hits Band with Gigs in the Diary seek Lead Singer Heathrow TW15
Saturday 15 Jan 2022, 9:07pm
We’re looking for a Rock Lead Vocalist, OR, a keyboard / Rock Organ player who could take lead vocal on around 50% of the songs.
Our profile ad’ below explains all.
If you have any interest please take a minute to read all of it and get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.
Videos:-
Studio - https://youtu.be/-dTpGykHXKI
Live - https://youtu.be/vLDq_wYiN0w
Website:
https://www.below-the-border.com/
Contact / e:
troubadour.noel@outlook.com
Profile & Ad’ below
Kind regards
Noel
PROFILE / AD’:
Mature 70s Rock Hit Covers Band of ex pro musicians with GIGS IN THE DIARY
SEEKING either:-
A rock LEAD SINGER (male or female)
- or -
A rock ORGAN PLAYER who could take some lead vocal.
London / Surrey / Hertfordshire
Our website has video, set list, gig list, history, who we are etc.
Search ‘Below the Border rock band’ or ‘Below-the-Border.com’ and we will be first up.
We are nice, educated, older, EX-PRO musicians, now in our sunset years! We play at functions, parties, music-pubs and festivals, performing the rock hits EVERYBODY knows from 70s.
Cream, The Faces, The Who, David Bowie, Free, Steve Miller, Bad Company, The Sweet, Badfinger, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix (yes people dance to Whole Lotta Love and Foxy Lady and our lead guitarist does both Jimi’s note for note), etc.
Recently we’ve been turning gigs down on a ratio of 3 to 1. (see the gig-list on our w/ste for the type of venues we’ve been playing).
We rehearse at Airplay Studios near Heathrow Airport. We gig once a month (sometimes twice) but almost always on Saturdays and usually within about a 60 mile radius.
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MORE DETAIL . . . if you’re still reading:-
The band is for fun. We go out for between £400 and £600 (£250 for pubs). We’re not doing this for the money.
For us it’s about the enjoyment of playing in front of audiences who appreciate a really good band playing the 70s rock hits we all know.
Not wishing to blow our own trumpet too loudly, we’re very good players, some of us had minor record deals about 150 years ago - on original vinyl!
Finding the right type of person is as important to us as your ability.
VACANCY
We seek for either:-
A ROCK LEAD SINGER
or
AN ORGAN PLAYER who could take 50% of the lead vocals
We have two outstanding lead guitarists and one of them, Rob Taylor whom you will see in our videos, is also great lead singer.
He wants to quit lead vocal (or if we find a keyboard player who sings, quit taking ALL the lead vocal) so he can play more than just rhythm guitar. On the video you will hear we’re blessed with two very different excellent lead guitars; we’re missing a trick not making more use of Rob’s guitar playing? Adding a singer in the band will also mean he can offer good harmony vocals; which would be a step forward for us because the rest of us are bloody awful singers!
ABOUT YOU
LEAD SINGER:
You could be Male or female, you should be able to sing rock and you should like the hits of the 70s.
You should be able to improvise between lines - ooo’s & ahhh’s etc., and be able to find harmony lines easily.
You should be able to listen to an original song and tell us which key you need us to move it to for for your voice; but have a good range (some signature guitar licks don’t move well).
You should not take yourself too seriously. We're down to earth and relaxed. This band is for fun.
You could be in your twenties or you could be in your sixties - like us!
- or -
ORGAN PLAYER with VOCALS:
You should have good equipment. We require three sounds only: 70s Hammond Rock Organ (think Jon Lord), Vox Continental (infrequently), piano (again infrequently).
You should like and be able to play the usual 70s rock hits.
You should be able to handle lead vocals on about half the songs.
If you can play blistering solos, great, but if you can’t it’s not a problem because we have two outstanding soloists on guitars
You should not take yourself too seriously. We're down to earth and relaxed.
CULTURE GIGS & REHEARSALS:-
We are nice people; educated, no egos, tolerant, liberal world view (if you voted for Brexit and meant it then we are probably not your sort of folk!)
We get along well and have a laugh. We are gentlemen one and all and absolutely not up our own arses about the band, about the music or about anything else.
We have one rule which we stole from the Beatles. “If anybody doesn’t want to do something, be it a song, a gig, or anything else, then without ANY further discussion we don’t do it“
Our aim is simply to play excellent music and play it well - to entertain audiences at private parties and functions; but also grow a following in two rock music-venues - one in the Richmond / Surrey area and the other in the North London / Hertfordshire area.
Gigs are frequently private parties but we equally like music-pubs because audiences enthusiastically appreciate our playing (who doesn’t love the roar of the crowd?). When we play music-pubs the venue usually want to immediately put five more gigs in the diary.
A flavour our bookings includes:
- 2nd time around weddings
- Private 60th and 70th birthday parties
- Sundown spot - Guilford Festival in a football stadium
- Sandown Park Race course - National Carvan Club
- Bluebird Room at Brooklands Motor Racing Museum
- The Sealed Knot Annual Banquet in a 17th century hall
- A Theatre in Streatham
- A lavish 70s Party inside a giant inflatable dome
- A pig roast in a Wiltshire Village
- Headlining a Bikers’ festival in Cambridgeshire
- British Legion Clubs
- Rock pubs in Hertfordshire, N. London and Surrey
We’re not adverse to the occasional well-paid corporate function. We state on our website that it would be our honour to play any NHS gigs for free.
We’ve all had grown-up professional careers since playing music professionally back in the 70s (yes we’re VERY old!) so successfully organising sales and marketing comes easily to us.
NOTE ABOUT MEDIA FILES ON HERE:-
The pro video on here is us; recorded before the pandemic. We used a pro studio but did all the production, mixing, editing and filming ourselves.
The live video on here was phone footage sent to us by audience members via our website - first two gigs after lockdown, so we’re a bit rusty!
The music file on here is a more serious function band set up in 2017 from which this band emerged (this band is more relaxed, more fun).
Replies
Monday 17 Jan 2022, 9:36pm
Hi I am a semi pro female pub, club singer and I love it and sing it all. Elvis to Abba via Stones, Beatles, Chuck Berry to Blondie, Abba etc
My guilty pleasure is country pop and rock. I am currently getting gigs as a Marilyn Monroe tribute as like MM there is a big visual appeal in my act. I am a very young 54 but I connect to the 20s somethings as much as my own age group. Please look me up on YouTube "Holt 45 band Kingston upon Thames" I put bands together if a gig warrant it but would like to work with a more established band. Over Christmas I was doing 3 - 4 hour pub gigs.
Bug favour - please message me at nickandsarahholt@hotmail.com not via joinmyband as I hardly ever look at it
Cheers Sarah Holt
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