Guitar - Geoff Peel,
Paul Davis - Double Bass,
Drums - Ed Hopwood.
Some great players that dep with the band are Orlando Shearer, Paul Cuff, Jeff Cater - Double Bass, Drums - Mike Thorne, Rob Pokorny , Guitar - Chris Corcoran, Ritchie Lane, Malcolm Barclay, Lewis Fielding, Sam Hare.
Influences
Little Walter,
Walter Horton,
Sonny Boy Williamson I & II,
Junior Wells,
George Smith,
James Cotton,
William Clarke,
Rod Piazza,
Sugar Ray Norcia,
Gary Primich,
Muddy Waters,
Benny Goodman
Louie Jordan,
Smiley Lewis,
Lucky Millinder
Sounds Like
High energy harmonica - driven, dynamic, jumpin' & swingin', lowdown and dirty Chicago & West Coast Blues.
My name is Tim Corbett and I hail originally from Ireland. I currently front my band "Gentleman Tim & The Contenders" with harp and vocal duties. Our gigs are mainly in the Greater London area and we also travel to Ireland up to three times a year for various Blues Festivals. I was introduced to the big band sounds of Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman at an early age and graduated toward the Blues later. My introduction to the Harmonica was at Pete Welland's regular Blues Jam in Twickenham, West London in the late 90's. This is were I met some great harp players like Mark Burness, Cameron Gray, Pete Welland, Lee Sankey, Laurie Garman. I then got hooked on the whole Chicago West Coast Blues thing and started my quest to learn to play the harmonica. I bought all the records suggested and I spent most of my weekends checking out and learning from the local blues bands and visiting American Blues Artists. This also led to the purchase of lots of valve amps, mics, harps also.
I have had the pleasure in seeing live some great blues men like Charlie Musslewhite, Junior Wells, Rod Piazza, Kim Wilson & The Fab-T-Birds, Sam Myers, John Nemeth, R.J. Mischo, Junior Watson, Anson Funderburg. I started my first band called The Borroway Blues Band and formed another band called Fatnin Frogs Blues Band that played regularly in 'Aint Nothin But The Blues Bar' in Kingly St, London. The current band is called 'Gentleman Tim & The Contenders' and we recorded our first CD called "Left Hook On The Blues" in 2006 which has had some great reviews and airplay. It can be purchased on-line from CDBaby at http://cdbaby.com/cd/gttc.
I have collected many microphones over the years and play mainly Astatic bullets mics with 151 or Shure CM / CR elements. I have also over the years collected many valve amps that I have now started to scale down. My favorite gigging amps I currently use regulary are the Fender Bassman, Fender Concert, Meteor & Mini Meteor. Finding the right Delay pedal that I liked took some time and I have now downsized my collection to two Boss Pedals which are a DD-2 and DD-3. I play Hohner Marine Bands and Hohner Chromatics.
Opening night: Tuesday 9th june 2009 - 9pm / 11.30pm
Forget about the gym workout: come dancing!!
(and save on the gym subscription and the dating site subscription too...)
Thank goodness we will be opened on the 9th for the first edition of Swing Mon Amour so you'll have something nice to do on a tuesday night. It's very cheap (in terms of money not quality obviously), and you'll get great acts every week that will make you sweat and get plenty of excercice. I'm talking resident Dj El Nino from Black Cotton Club & Lady Luck, and Gentleman Tim & the Contenders a great 1950's swing R&B Chicago blues band. You'll dance all night, guaranted!
Styles : Blues - Chicago Blues - West coast Blues - 20's 30's - Gypsy swing - Big Band - Swing - R&B - Jump Jive - Rockabilly - Rock&Roll - Western Hillbilly - and many more...
Hi Tim, Just wanted to drop by to say thanks for adding me. Great band, great playing...please let me know if you ever get over into Wales to play. Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year, Mark.
Grazie Gentleman Tim per la tua amicizia.Complimenti per lo splendido sound.Con un soffio armonico ti auguro tanta soddisfazione artistica. Ciao AldoBlues.......
I did my own hacking/mod on 2 of my Victoria Bassmans to get my tone. I often us both of them together on stage. Can see em in my video Have you seen it?
HarpKing is a fine amp but I think my mods to the vics have given my my "Holy Grail" of tone.
Hello from Zeeland Michigan USA! Thank you for finding my page and choosing me as a virtual friend!
Man you got the sound! Really diggin it!
Do I see a HarpKing with a digital delay??? I have a HarpKing but rarely use it anymore. I have 5 Victoria amps now. I see picture was from Blues At The Farm... I had to do a double take when I saw that. Go to jamesreeser. com and look at my pix. You will see pix from Blues On The Farm.
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Lieber Tim, welocme at my MySpace world ,and many thanhs for friendship 
