Category Archives: Music

Journey back in time to those carefree days of the 70’s when Scotland’s original boy band ruled the charts. Selling over 300 million albums worldwide, the Bay City Rollers attracted fans of all ages and a phenomenon known as Rollermania swept across the globe.Tartan clad fans in the UK and other parts of Europe were […]

A firm friend and former member of The Snake Davis Band, John is one of Snakes’ very favourite collaborators.  A highly gifted and creative keyboard player and singer from Manchester, John has played and recorded with quite a few well-known artists such as Corinne Bailey Rae, Tom Jones, Lily Allen, James Yorkston, John Squire (Stone […]

Joining Snake tonight for a Ropery first is the immensely talented Frank Birkbeck, a professional guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. Frank’s musical prowess is immense and has led him to perform at renowned venues such as Ronnie Scott’s, Matt and Phreds, and the Theatre Royal. As the leader of the highly sought-after jazz group, The Frank Birkbeck […]

BIG, brassy, saxy and soulful. Music that grabs your heart and moves your feet. The original, first and never forgotten 9 piece 60s soul band formed by Snake, with Dave Bowie Jr. and Mark Creswell back in 1979 in Leeds, back on the road after a 30 year lie down. Motown, Stax, Atlantic, Junior Walker, […]

Rogues Gospel was recorded in the summer of 2020 in Bungalow Magic studios with longtime collaborator Paul May taking care of percussion and drums., Garwood on vocals, keys, guitar, bass and guitar. The framework for the songs was created with percussion and organ as the bed, with extra instruments being added as the compositions took […]

BCO play a blistering barrage of traditional folk and gypsy-flavoured music from across the Balkans and Russia, Klezmer laments, Romanian Doinas, Hungarian Czadas and their own unique re-imaginings of some of the biggest tunes ever written by the classical greats.  The Budapest Café Orchestra was established in 2009 by British composer and violinist, Christian Garrick, […]

Martyn Joseph is a completely unique and mind-blowing artist. Take everything you think you know about singer songwriters and rip it up. For one man and a guitar he creates a performance with a huge far-reaching sound that is energetic, compelling, and passionate.  Be it to two hundred people or twenty thousand, he blows the […]

Caribbean-born Michele Stodart is an award-winning solo artist, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist now based in London. Best renowned as bassist, vocalist and co-songwriter of Mercury-nominated, double-platinum selling band, The Magic Numbers, with whom she continues to play and tour world-wide. Michele has always pursued her own writing alongside her band and nurtured a love for folk/Americana artists as Joni Mitchell, […]

“A musical mosaic of futurist ideas and indie jazz harmonies” (Windout Magazine), the Sam Newbould Quintet is an award winning five piece international line-up hailing from the UK, Spain, Israel and the Netherlands. Based in Amsterdam, the quintet won the prestigious Keep an Eye Records in 2019 and were selected artists at the InJazz Showcase […]