RyanChan
(Banbury/Oxford)
Tuesday 29 Sep 2020, 5:23pm
(Originals, Covers, Videos, Function Band, Session Work etc.)
I’m a 20 year old guitarist who is available and looking for a range of different projects to be a part of. I have plenty of playing and gigging experience: having played for 14 years, studied music for 2 years and most recently spent a year teaching music at an Oxford college.
I have been gigging regularly in the past 4 years with a range of different artists and bands (solo artists, covers and originals bands). This includes having performed at the O2 Academy Oxford on five occasions, Truck Festival twice (2019 and this years virtual fest), Big Feastival, BBC Countryfile, numerous London venues (incl. The Bedford) and most Oxford venues with original acts/artists.
I have also performed at numerous private functions and events including weddings, parties and pub gigs with different artists or covers bands both on guitar and bass.
As mentioned in the title, I’m hoping to find new projects to be a part of and am very open to what the projects are, whether it’s starting up an originals band, forming or joining a covers band, working on collaborative videos or doing some guitar session work for your recordings.
Unsurprisingly, COVID has put a bit of halt on gigging and a lot of musical plans, so I am very keen and open to finding new things to work on.
In terms of styles I am again very open to anything really. I’ve performed many different styles with different acts - rock, soul, RnB, blues, indie, pop, jazz-hip hop, singer-songwriter, funk amongst many others. I have a very eclectic taste in music and enjoy playing lots of different styles. Although I’m probably not that interested in anything too far down the punk or metal scene.
Recently, I have been into a lot of Americana and roots rock style music (e.g. The Bros Landreth, Ariel Posen, Theo Katzman, Phoebe Bridgers, Madison Cunningham) which is certainly a style I’d be particularly interested in playing.
I currently play bass in a covers band around Oxford and have played with a number of different covers acts before on guitar and bass (incl. depping) so I have good experience of playing 2+ hour sets and learning large bulks of material and quite likely already know a lot of the popular songs. So I would definitely be interested in joining or starting a function band.
Or as mentioned, I’d be interested in doing session work if anyone needed some guitar recording for a song etc. And also doing some collaborative videos which many people are doing with the current situation - I have been involved in a couple of them during lockdown.
I have all of my own gear and am able to drive so I can travel to places and gigs.
I’m based in Oxfordshire - specifically the Banbury side of Oxfordshire but I am often in Oxford. So I’m mainly looking for projects in Oxford and Oxfordshire. Ideally projects in Banbury would be perfect but location may not be an issue depending on the project.
Like I say I am very interested in to see what’s out there and hopefully find some new projects to get working on. If any of this sounds of interest to you or you know anyone who would be interested, feel free to drop me a message.