Personal

Own transport
Good sight reader and improvise


Employment

Shows

Anything Goes
Barnum
Cabaret
Calamity Jane
Chess
Company
Copacabana
Dracula Spectacular
Grease
Guys and Dolls
Gypsy
Hello Dolly
Kiss Me Kate
Me and My Girl
Oklahoma
Pirates of Penzance
Singing in the Rain
Sleeping Beauty
Sweet Charity
Westside Story
The Boyfriend
The Wiz
The Wizard of Oz
Thoroughly Modern Millie


Function Bands

Co-Stars – 1920’s to 2000’s music includes dance routines – Top venues in the UK and abroad mostly corporate functions. Recent functions 2008 have been playing at The Liberal Democratic’s, The New Labour and the Conservative Conference parties.
The Roy Sutherland Band – Popular music 1950’s to 2000’s.
ABBA 2000 - Popular music 1950’s to 2000’s.
Laurie Taylor – venues include Wembley Stadium, Coca Cola Cup Final and Thames River Boat.
Melody Fakers – Popular music from 1950’s to 2000’s
Nick Jackson - Popular music from1950’s to 2000’s.
Too Darn Hot - Popular music from 1950’s to 2000’s and a lot of latin music.
Earth, Wind for Hire – Music from the 70’s
Sister Chic – All female band playing music from the 70’s
Andy Leek and The Blue Angels – Popular music 1960’s to 2000’s (ex-Dexy’s Midnight Runner member).

Soul Bands

Venues include: Circus Tavern, Ministry of Sound and Caesars Palace. Most gigs were private functions and clubs.

Souled Out
Soul Fingers
Soul Traders
JCB and the Blue Diggers

Latin Bands

Mustard-Latino – Latin Jazz music

Tribute Bands

No Jacket Required – Tribute to Phil Collins
Wingspan – Paul McCartney’s Wings

Big Bands

Opus One Big Band – 1940’s like Glenn Miller style music. Numerous gigs including The Albert Hall and hanger dances working with The Beverley Sisters, Dennis Lotis, Joan Regan, Max Bygraves, Gary Williams and Tony Hadley.

The Jon Bennett Big Band }
The Ken Turner Big Band }
The Steve Howard Big Band }
Havering Youth Big Band }
The Denny Holland Big Band }
501 Big Band } Music from the 1930’s onwards
The Hertford Big Band }
NYJO }
Blue Velvet }
The Moonlight Serenaders }
The Chrissie Lee Big Band – All female big band, Chrissie Lee was originally with Ivy Benson Big Band.

Season

Average Wine Bar Band – 3 piece touring Northern Ireland playing covers.
Smax – Season in Camber Sands – popular dance music.
Hot Spice – Season in Torquay – popular dance music.

Cruise Liners

49th State – MV Achille Lauro (CTC-Lauro Lines) 6 months – dance music and backing cabaret.
Hot Spice – MV Atlas (Epirotiki Line) 6 months – dance music and backing cabaret.

Orchestras

Havering Philamonic Orchestra – classical music.
Palm Court Orchestra – popular and classical music.

Military Bands

Essex Yeomanary Concert Band – marching, popular, marches and show music.

Concert Wind Bands

Played with many bands playing a wide variety of music.

Folk Bands

Irish Folk Group – playing Irish jigs and reels.

Solo

Solo sax and flute with backing tracks at City Airport – Christmas Party.
Solo sax with DJ in bar.

Duo

Cocktail music working with keyboard player, during Wimbledon Tennis Championships 1998 (Lawn Tennis Association Hospitality).

Trio

Playing popular music in bars.
Function band trio.

Quartet

Jazzabelles – All female saxophone quartet playing jazz, popular and classical music.
Function band quartet.

Launch Party

Played solo sax for the launch of a F1 Car for British American Racing sponsored by Lucky Strike, big event on television and the internet.

Playback Gig

A Neverending Christmas Carol
I played sax and flute and sang with Limahl (Kajagoogoo).
It was an 80’s eve in Blackpool at the Winter Gardens – Empire Ballroom.

Cabaret

The Ratpack - Small band – rhythm section and 2/3 brass backing The Ratpack singers in cabaret shows.

Recordings

Many bands and NYJO on flute for the album Remembrance.
All girl pop band The Kitty Katz


Television

The Ant and Dec Saturday Takeaway – Opus One Big Band backing Ant and Dec.
The Paul O’Grady Show – Opus One small big band backing Paul as Elvis.