Tim Renton: lead guitar (and occasional bass!!), mandolin, banjo. Songwriter. Past bands: Reign, Wombles, Shambles.
Andy Renton: drums (and occasional vocals!) Past bands: Hapshash and The Coloured Coat, Reign, Wombles, Shambles.
Chris Parren: keys. Musical arranger.
Musical history: Professional musician/arranger: performed and played in Rock Follies TV series: toured/played with Maggie Bell/Midnight Flyer, James Burton, Jim Capaldi, Barbara Dickson, The Strawbs and Judie Tzuke. Musical Director for Rocky Horror Show Piccadilly.
Samantha-antoinette Smith: Vocals.
Twenty-plus years as a professional singer:
Parts in stage shows, including Lion King, Been So Long, Dancin & Singin The Blues and Mama I Want To Sing;
Studio recordings with Lionel Richie, Dave Stewart, Atomic Kitten, The London Community Gospel Choir, Blur, Jamiroquai, Gabrielle, Simply Red, Russell Watson, Jimmy Cliff, Spiritualised, Depeche Mode;
Live shows & TV recordings with Michael Ball, Mica Paris, Luther Vandross, Mariah Carey, Puff Daddy, Faith Evans, Sam Moore, CeCe Winan, Gloria Gaynor, Mel B, Beverley Knight, Jocelyn Brown
World/European tours with Depeche Mode, Erasure, Blur, Richard Ashcroft, Jamiroquai, Mika. (she can sing!!)
Fussi Andesen; bass guitar. From Denmark , where he played drums for New Falcon, Bombay Rice Attack and Keep Smiling. Also drummed in the UK with Mike Shorthouse, Crazy Jay and the Partytimers, John Walden's Blues Band, The Backbeats and The Bluebirds. Currently plays occasional bass with About Eight www.myspace.com/abouteight and plays and arranges music with Moscow Road . Busy!!
Etkilendikleri
Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, Etta James, Maggie Bell, Peter Green, Robert Palmer, Led Zeppelin, Free, Paul Rodgers, The Rolling Stones, Robert Johnson, B.B.King, The Small Faces, Thin Lizzy, David Gilmore, Slash, Gary Moore, Richie Blackmore, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, Pete Townsend, The Who, Connie Lush, Dusty Springfield, Clair Bloom, Catherine Deneuve, Monroe, Lowfinger everyone in THE NEW 3am! Miles Davies, Tony Zemaitis, Paiste Cymbals, Our kids, live music.
3am rocks the blues. They write and perform their own songs amidst a nostalgic selection of re-arranged classics. Brothers Tim and Andy Renton have been playing together, or in separate bands since the 1970’s. In 2004 the two of them started 3am – joined by Chris Parren, keys, Trev Turley on bass, Helen Turner vocals, and her husband Iain on second guitar. Worked hard, had a lot of fun and a reasonable amount of local success – including gigs at Guilfest 2007 and 2008, The Chichester Blues Festival and The 100 Club - until August 2008 when Trev, Iain and Helen split.
Since then the band has had a couple more line-up changes – happily adding Fussi Andeson on bass – and you can currently hear Rhian Sherlynne’s vocals on the two tracks on this page for the next few weeks only - sometime in October 2009 the band hopes to be able to showcase the lady they hope will be able to stay with them for the duration – the fabulous Samantha-antoinette!
Sammy’s spent the past twenty-odd years singing her way around the world – from her roots in Gospel choirs to singing with the likes of Jamiroquai, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Lionel Richie, Richard Ashcroft, Mariah Carey, Blur, Luther Vandross, Gloria Gaynor, Beverley Knight, Puff Daddy, Sam Moore and James Brown – to name just a few…
She says it’s now time for her to take front-of-stage, and let the world know what she’s got. 3am can’t wait to help make that happen!
Hi Check out our new video, viewable on our page or on Youtube http://uk. youtube. com/watch?v=7eLaG4JMpDI Please leave a comment to let us know what you think. Cheers Paul and the guys x
Excellent sets at Blues at the Farm yesterday, really enjoyed it. It had been a little while since I last saw you. I have put some pics in an album on my page. See you again soon.
