Dutch Tilders & The Nitehawks
Today DUTCH TILDERS mostly performs SOLO; although he often combines with Martin Cooper doing amazing duo chops. Dutch Tilders newest blues band is complete with Australia's best drummer, Barry 'Lil Goose' Harvey joining Dutch Tilders, Martin Cooper & Peter Beulke. All can be assured ‘The Nitehawks' are the Best Blues Band coming out of Melbourne today. Barry Harvey says 'Dutch Tilders & The Nitehawks' are a groovy new blues band which rocked the crowd at Nighthawk Blues in Mentone recently and may well be recognised Australian wide as an awesome foursome blues band rocking.
Dutch Tilders became a third time winner of the Australian Blues ‘Chain’ Award for Best Album 2006 – “Mine & Some I Adopted” plus Best Male Vocalist 2006. Dutch’s new band will perform with him at the Bridgetown Festival WA November 14th & 15th and a finale with Legends' including Matt Taylor, Bob Patient & Roy Daniels. This is a huge lineup and tickets are available for 2009.
'THE NITEHAWKS'
BARRY 'Lil Goose' Harvey - DRUMMER
2009 I am happy to have found such a great band with DUTCH TILDERS and know this group ‘DUTCH TILDERS & the NITEHAWKS’ will groove along and be a hit in itself.
I am celebrating my 51st year of Reading, writing, performing drums, double bass and piano arranging.
When I Started to learn piano and drums my Dad said that I could as long as I learnt how to read music, he was right as back in the late 1950's there were hardly any drummers who could read charts and because at around age 11 I was admitted to the Professional Musicians Union of Australia as that was the only way I could do reading gigs in licensed premises and my Dad was smart as I got most of the big name acts to back when growing up in Brisbane. When the stars of Bandstand and artists from the Southern states had hit records and they did the Brisbane circuit I got to back them because I could read their charts and only a handful of players could. This continued for up to where I joined my first rock band in 1964 and then met Barry ( big goose ) Sullivan in 1965, he was a lead guitarist then and I was so glad when he changed to bass guitar in 1969, 3 months before CHAIN started and he and I spent 3 months playing bass and drums together every night and day to get what a rhythm section was all about. Well it certainly paid off, because the first CHAIN in 1969 that recorded 'CHAIN LIVE" which was released in 1970 and stayed in the top twenty albums for more than ten weeks even though the band had already spilt up. This got us to ask Matt Taylor to join Phil Manning, Barry Sullivan and myself and we wrote 'Black and Blue' in Brisbane in late 1970 drove to Sydney and recorded it at Festival Records and by the time we got to Melbourne it was number one on the Melbourne radio charts. Chain split in 1973 and I was in the first Kevin Borich Express with Harry Brus.
I was living in Sydney after 1974 to 1979 when I went to Berklee College of Music in Boston Massachusetts to study arranging, jazz harmony and double bass. Upon returning after being in Boston I got married and CHAIN reformed in 1983 and went back on the road full time from 1983 to 1988 for myself anyway. I went into to finishing my text book 'The Text oF Music Phrase" and teaching in the private school system in Q'LD, my book is at www.barryharvey.com Then in 1994 CHAIN asked me to come back and tour with them again which I did and have been ever since.
I have 11 text books to my name in music. I am a Berklee Alumni Advisor now for young students studying in Boston who need advice, I have 2 GOLD Albums and I Silver single to my credit and have advanced diplomas in all forms of musical education and Performance. Everything that I have done in my music career has been told to me by higher beings of who I have always had faith in as they have led me to success after success because I believe in the Spiritual side of my art of music as much as the physical ability to be able to play anything I want.
Artists that I have performed, recorded or toured with in my career are:
Overseas bands and artists: The Muddy Waters Blues Band, album “Two Of A Kind”; Albert Collins and the Icebreakers (USA); John Mayall and the Blues Breakers (UK); The Kinks (UK); The Yardbirds (UK); Led Zeppelin (UK); Manfred Mann (UK); Free (UK); Deep Purple (UK); The Rolling Stones (UK); Canned Heat (USA); Stephen Stills (USA); Uriah Heap (UK)
Australian bands and artists: Chain, Kevin Borich Express, The Wild Cherries, Johnny O’Keefe, Dinah Lee, Russell Morris, Lonnie Lee, Normie Rowe, John Farnham, Colleen Hewitt, Renee Geyer, Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, Lobby Lloyd & Coloured Balls, Dig Richards, Max Merritt & Meteors, Marcia Hines, Doug Parkinson, Judy Stone, Little Pattie, Lucky Starr, King Harvest, Ray Columbus & Invaders, Dutch Tilders, The Atlantics, Twilights, Col Joye, Taman Shud, Ross Wilson, John Paul Young, Athol Guy (The Seekers), Jeff St John, Wendy Saddington, Peter Doyle, Axiom with Brian Cadd, John Sangster, The Master’s Apprentices, Melbourne Symphony, Spectrum and Stevie Wright.
MARTIN Cooper - Electric GUITAR
Martin Cooper’s love affair with the Blues started 40 years ago, after hearing the heavily Blues-inflected bands, Cream & the Rolling Stones. Having recently taken up guitar, Cooper fell under the spell of the Delta Blues giant, Robert Johnson and from there he soon discovered the profound works of Skip James, Big Bill Broonzy, Muddy Waters, B.B. King and Son House. Drawn to the electric guitar almost immediately, Cooper states that his life changed after he heard Freddie King and his famous vibrato-laden guitar sound, which emulated King’s voice. Cooper worked with various bands through his teens and twenties, including The Faith Healers, The Harmonic Destroyers and Mountain Ash and was the resident guitarist at the Café Jammin’ for several years.
In the mid-eighties, while working with Bob Sedergreen’s Blues on the Boil, Cooper met Australian Blues legend, Dutch Tilders. The pair formed a musical bond and personal friendship that ensues today. Cooper cites the privilege of playing with Tilders’ and his close friend, the great Brownie McGhee, as one of the highlights of his musical career.
Cooper was one of the founding members of Dutch Tilders’ band, The Blues Club, which included Tilders, Barry Hills and Winston Galea. The Blues Club has been considered to be the first Blues Band in Australia to temper a hard-driven, electric Blues sound with dynamics; feel-based light and shade. For 4 years, Cooper played and toured with Tilders and the Blues Club extensively, before he moved on to new musical challenges.
Cooper and Tilders reunited 2008 and have been working together in a band ensemble and also as a duo.
PETER Beulke - BASSIST
Peter taught himself to play guitar and bass and has been playing bass since he was 12 years old. He played in bands through his school days and started playing double bass in the 1970's, influenced by Willie Dixon. Peter likes venturing into different styles of music including jazz, folk, rockabilly, blues and even classical, having spent 4 years at the Melba Conservatorium (1974-1978) studying classical guitar and double bass. He's played with international icons such as Jimmy Witherspoon, Taj Mahal, John Mayall, Dr. John and Buddy Guy. He has also played with the Melbourne Honeydrippers with Andy Baylor, rockabilly with the Crackerjacks, ska reggae with the Allniters (5 years living in Sydney), Redgum and has recorded with Russell Crowe. Pete has played with many of Australia's top guitarists including Andy Baylor and The Dancehall Racketeers, Gwyn Ashton (2 years living in and touring England and Europe), Ron Tabuteau's Chickenhead, Ben Peter's Benny and the Fly by niters, Geoff Achison's Soul diggers trio, Dutch Tilders, Co Tipping in The Lowriders and Louis King and the Liars Club, Matt Dwyer and Nick Charles. Pete's even played New Orleans trad jazz touring Europe with The Louisiana Shakers
Influences
Big Bill Broonzy, Brownie McGhee, Foreday Riders, Ray Charles, Higginbotham, Leadbelly, Muddy Waters, Sonny Terry & J Turner
Born in the Netherlands in 1941, Dutch emigrated to Australia with his parents, four brothers and a sister in 1955.
At the age of ten, he was a member of a church choir, but by the time he was twelve, his alto voice broke. No more singing for the boy with the baritone voice. When he was thirteen, he joined a boys choir at a secondary school fooling the choir master into believing he was an alto by singing falsetto. He can still produce those high-pitched notes to this day.
His first year in Australia was spent in the Brooklyn Migrant Hostel where his first experience as a performer was in an amateur Black and White Minstrel Show. His very first paid gig, when just fifteen, was at the Collingwood Town Hall where he played the harmonica. On the same bill were Joff Allen and Johnny O'Keefe. Dutch was paid two pounds seven and sixpence, which at the time he was getting for half a weeks wages at Broons timberyard in Brooklyn. It only cost two pounds and sixpence for the taxi home.
He bought his first guitar in 1959 and by 1960 he was playing in the trendy coffee lounges of that time. Making up most of the songs as he went along, he found the blues was exactly the music in which to express his feelings. With no one to teach him, he developed his own style that remains unique to himself.
Dutch made his first record in 1972 and it was released one year later. His collaborators were Brian Cadd, Phil Manning, Barry Sullivan, Barry Harvey, Laurie Prior and Broderick Smith. In 1975 he started recording for an independent label, Eureka and consequently recorded two direct to disc records with greats Jimmy Conway and Kevin Borich.
During the seventies, Dutch fronted such Blues and Boogie bands as the Elks, the Cyril 'B' Bunter Band and Mickey Finn. In 1980 he formed the 'R&B Six', a band that included Charley Elul (drums), Peter Frazer (sax), Suzanne Petersen (flute and vocals), Mick Eliot (guitar) and Dave Murray (bass and vocals). This band toured Australia extensively.
In the meantime, Dutch also worked solo and toured with John Mayall, Taj Mahal, Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry. In 1976, having only heard Dutch, B B King assumed that he was black. Brownie and Dutch became best mates simply because Browney believed that the Dutchman was a genuine bluesman, regardless of his racial origins.
Since then, Dutch has been honoured with many awards, most notedly for his performances with his band, 'The Blues Club'.
Nowadays he mainly performs as a solo artist, though he does enjoy getting together with Geoff Achison doing amazing duo chops. Dutch also likes to get together with Greg Dodd, Rob O'Toole and Peter Beulke forming a group called 'His Blusicians'.
Dutch ranks among his favourite guitarists; Geoff Achison, Kevin Borich and the Emmanuel brothers. He excuses himself by saying he only plays the guitar as he doesn't know what to do with his hands while he sings. He says that the blues is the song and the guitar is just the accompainment, like the banjo used to be and the lyre long ago.
Dutch, I saw so many of your great shows way back in the 80s when I lived in Melbourne. You've always been an inspiration, so very glad to see you're still touring and playing. Liz from the Cathouse xx
Friday October 23rd – Lee Rosser + TH3, live @ The Pub, Bendigo VIC
This will be one of THE VERY LAST SHOWS to be staged in the famed Band Room of The Pub (173 Hargreaves Street Bendigo), as it will be closing it's doors on Oct 31st.
Sadly, the well-sized band room, which has seen some fantastic nights for live music in Bendigo, will be closed due to lack of punter support over recent times.
Show Gav and the rest of the gang at The Pub that the live music scene in Bendigo is alive and kicking... come along and check out a brilliant night of blues & roots music besides, as the mighty Lee Rosser makes a long-awaited return to Bendigo!
Don't miss this opportunity to see some of the finest blues/roots/rock music Victoria has to offer!
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