Damien Knight
(Teignmouth)
Saturday 28 Feb 2026, 2:15am
our singer/guitarist cannot make these 3 gigs, so looking for a dep. - Any age, matters not.
The first gig (in May) is a blues gig -- payment is £600 between the 4 of us (including you).
The next two are for our 70s/80s cover band -- I think £550 per gig.
Both bands are the same 4 people. (drums / bass / keys / and you).
here are a few links of us playing (below), so you can see if it's your thing.
So the first one is in May, so no need to cram all the learning overnight. Certainly with the 70s/80s band anyway, you'll at least be familiar with 99percent of the set anyway. Tears for Fears, ELO, The Police, Buggles, Specials, 10CC, Doobie Bros, Genesis, Supertramp, Elvis Costello, Tubeway Army, Paul Simon, Talking Heads, etc.
With the blues band, we do Dr John, Bobby Bland, Stealers Wheel, Ray Charles, BB King, Peter Green, James Booker, to name a few -- not too standard a set, interesting stuff, BUT we are into playing around with them on the spot and having fun with it, which pads the whole set out - it's blues after all. The only thing there to learn per se is the lyrics and basic chord structure, but we're fine with you bringing some lyric sheets etc and going through them. just need to familiarise yourself with the songs by ear I reckon. There's bags of time anyway.
Incidentally, the singer being unavailable may well be a regular thing in the future, so being our regular dep is also something that we're looking for if you're into it.
We have our own PA and gear etc, but as the singer is unavailable, so is the transport to get this stuff to the gig. So it is preferable (only preferable) that whoever is interested in these gigs has a big enough car or small van to be able to transport this stuff. (petrol expenses come off first before we split the takings of course). so you won't be out of pocket.
Please still do get in touch if you don't have such transport - the most important thing is we have a band! we can always hire a van if we have to.
Anyway -- get in touch. have a look at the vids - they're just filmed casually on a phone, nothing much, but you can see what we're into and standard etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoOZodHycPY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7H1LXtoUyU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrC9DfehbiM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slonFWvdRXw