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About the BCB Band

I was on tour a few years ago with some good musician friends of mine, and after sound checks we would have a jam, playing some of our favourite songs.  We have now decided we should go out a play some gigs just for fun and see if people enjoy listening to our material as much as we enjoy playing it. 

Playing at

THE RED CROSS,    REIGATE    23rd JUNE 2011  RH2 9AP

THE NUTFIELD PRIORY HOTEL LEISURE CLUB 30th JUNE 2011  RH1 4EL

please note.

Nutfield Priory is a private members club.  Please contact me if you would like to go on the guest list.

About the musicians

Robin Scott.  Keyboards / Vocals

Robin Scott’s career in the Music Industry has spanned over 20 years. As a stage performer Robin has been a member of the international group “Bjorn Again” for the last 15 years. International tours have been extensive and he has had the pleasure of sharing the stage with some of the world’s biggest artists Kylie Minogue, Cher, Shania Twain, Black Sabbath, Cliff Richard, The Spice Girls, Rod Stewart, Sting, among many others.  

Robin is a published songwriter and composer.  His Olympic suite for choir and orchestra was performed to high acclaim at the Anvil Basingstoke in 2005 and he has written and arranged pieces for a wide variety of groups and ensembles. In 2006 Robin composed his first Musical, “Rentaghost – the Musical” written in collaboration with Joe Pasquale. The show enjoyed a very successful tour of major theatres throughout the UK.

In recent years Robin has played keyboards for Leslie Garrett on her U.K tour and recorded Accordion on her latest album. He also gets invited to play with a
number of choirs as a special guest soloist and accompanist.  As a session player, Robin has recently recorded tracks for Mcfly, Jermaine Jackson, Jocelyn Brown and Yusaf Islam(Cat Stevens). He completed a new musical, “Captain Pugwash”, based on the long running television series. Robin was also commissioned by Basingstoke Primary Schools Music to write a major work for orchestra and choir. The work, entitled “Roll Up”, was performed by 450 children over two nights at the Anvil Theatre and was received as a great success.

Robin is now writing with the critically acclaimed composer and conductor ‘Tolga Kashif’ as well as continually writing, recording and Musical Directing for theatre productions in the UK and Europe including Butlins ,Chessington, Nickelodeon and Warner Bros.  In 2010 Robin was commissioned to write the music for the New show in Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi.

Most recently Robin was Musical Director for the newly formed Women’s
Institute group ‘The Harmonies’ on their debut album which reached the top 20 in the U.K charts.  Robin is also one of the creators and performers of the new Abba show designed especially for children called ’Honey Honey’.

Barry Cook. Drums / Bandleader

Barry has toured with The Supremes, Petula Clark, Ben E King, Gloria Gaynor, Lorna Luft, Harold Melvin, Barry White, Martha Reeves, The Drifters, Marti Webb, Joe Longthorne, Bradley Walsh, Five Star, Billy Paul.

TV  includes  – Noel’s House Party, The Barrymore Show, The Brian Conley show, This Morning ITV, Pebble Mill at One BBC1,  Gloria Gaynor in Concert BBC2.  Top of the Pops BBC1.  The Tube, Tyne Tees TV. The Lawrence Olivier Awards BBC, and even Blue Peter!

West End and touring shows include – Singing in the Rain with Tommy Steele.  Summer Holiday with Darren Day.  Tribute To The Blues Brothers.  Blood Brothers with Stephanie Lawrence and Barbara Dickson.  Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat with Philip Schofield.  Five Guys Named Moe.  Smokey Joe’s Cafe.  The Magic of Broadway – Oslo.  Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Palladium.  Songs My Mother Taught Me – The Savoy Theatre.  The Genius of Ray Charles – The Haymarket, The Rat Pack – The Strand Theatre.  Guys and Dolls – The Piccadilly Theatre starring Patrick Swayze. High School Musical National Tour, Disney Corporation.

In 2000 he joined the Abba tribute band Bjorn Again. Tours with them included Canada, America, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and the UK including NEC Birmingham and also playing to a crowd of 50,000 at Belfast’s Millennium celebrations.

Recent  projects include, The Royal Command Performance for The Prince of Wales. Barry Manilow Blenheim Palace, Songs My Mother Taught Me, CD (Lorna Luft), McFly, The Bay City Rollers, The World Famous Red Sox Band and Brendan Cole, Live and Unjudged Tour 2010 and 2011. 

Dave Williamson. Bass / Vocals

 This is just a small selection of the people Dave has been fortunate enough to work with:

Midge Ure (Studio/Live/TV) Ronan Keating (Live/TV) Emma Bunton (Live/TV) Beverley Knight (Live/TV)

Maggie Reilly (Live) The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown (Studio/Live/TV)  Lisa Stansfield (Live/TV) Diamond Head (Studio/Live/TV) Heatwave (Studio/Live/TV) Errol Brown of Hot Chocolate (Live/TV) Mike Stock & Matt Aitken (Studio) Dina Carroll (Live/TV)

Tom Walker. Guitar / Vocal

CV to follow. More information at    www.thetomwalkergroup.com

April 2010

If you have been watching day time TV in the last couple of weeks you may have spotted me in the band on the Alan Titchmarsh Show and Loose Women. Promoting the second half of the Brendan Cole Live and Unjudged Tour.  Here are the tour dates:

http://www.brendancoleliveandunjudged.com

As you can see my teaching days will be restricted from 17^th May to the 17^th June.

Rockschool

The next Rockschool Exam period is between 1^st May and 31^st July.

Drum Kit for Sale

Premier Series Shell Pack in Black Pearl.

20” Bass Drum.  10”Tom Tom. 12” Tom Tom. 14 “ Tom Tom. Plus Tom Tom holder.

Offers over £675.00

Hand crafted at Premier’s factory in England.

Finish Birch Classic 6 ply Shells.

The Kit came direct from Premier for a show I was doing at the Haymarket Theatre and has been used very little since as I have 2 kits almost the same. You can see the kit being played at this link  http://www.barryrobinson.net/barry-robinson-portfolio.html The Genius of Ray Charles.

Steve Gadd  Clinic. 19^th April

The Steve Gadd Clinic in Reading has been cancelled. Not even the great Steve Gadd could walk on water from America. They are hoping to reschedule later this year.

Tuning Drums

Many of my students ask me, how do I tune my drums?  Every drummer has his own preferred method. Obviously, the best way to learn, is to watch someone else tuning but here is the basic method I use.

1)     Put the new head on the drum.  Tighten the turning rods with thumb and forefinger as tight as you can.  This should take out the slack.

2)    With one hand push down with the tips of your fingers in the middle of the drumhead.  Now tightening the tuning rods with your other hand, half a turn at a time, work across the drum, never around the drum.

3)    You should find after one to one and a half turns all the wrinkles have gone, if not work on that area only.  The drum should now resonate freely.

4)    Now tap around the drum to check that the drumhead is in tune with itself. It’s now down to personal taste how high or low you want your drums to sound.  Most drummers have the bottom head slightly higher than the top head.

5)    You now need to get the drums in tune with each other.  I like my toms to fall in pitch by a 3^rd.  It’s best not to tune a specific note. 

6)    The Bass Drum head should be just tight enough to lose the wrinkles, with the front a little tighter. I have a small hole in the front head to give access for a microphone, and sometimes a very small blanket to take out some of the ring.  I also have a patch where the beater strikes, this will make the head last longer.

Thought for the Month 

The most important area that all musicians must continually develop,

Is their ability to listen.

 Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

Seneca, philosopher.

Welcome to my updated website which is launched today.  Check out the new audio clips on the free lesson page….