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Genre: Blues / Fusion / Rock
Location London, London and South East, Un
Profile Views: 40231
Last Login: 1/26/2011
Member Since 11/12/2006
Website johnolearyb.com
Record Label ACROBAT TRAPEZE
Type of Label Indie
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The JOHN O'LEARY BAND has recently changed it's name to JOHN O'LEARY'S SUGARKANE and remains a potent mix of blues, funk and rock. Blues Matters magazine described it as "blues harp meets The Mahravishnu Orchestra". With the change of name there has been no shift in the strong improvisional qualities of the band. .... John has thrown away the book on what harp led blues bands are about. It is a complete departure from the familiar blues scenario with the spotlight equally on all the members of the band. This is not a band that turns out over rehearsed neat 3 minute songs but rather it is a band that digs in deep to produce emotive, dynamic and extended improvisations unique on the UK blues related circut. ...."I wanted every member of the band to show what they can do both collectively and as a soloist. There is a jazz ethos in the way we play. The band is therefore NOT about me, it's about ALL of us"..... From constant live performances in the blues clubs and festivals up and down the country the band has earned a reputation as "a box of fireworks" and has become one of Britain's premier blues based bands. -
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The JOHN O'LEARY BAND has recently changed it's name to JOHN O'LEARY'S SUGARKANE and remains a potent mix of blues, funk and rock. Blues Matters magazine described it as "blues harp meets The Mahravishnu Orchestra". With the change of name there has been no shift in the strong improvisional qualities of the band.John has thrown away the book on what harp led blues bands are about. It is a complete departure from the familiar blues scenario with the spotlight equally on all the members of the band. This is not a band that turns out over rehearsed neat 3 minute songs but rather it is a band that digs in deep to produce emotive, dynamic and extended improvisations unique on the UK blues related circut.
"I wanted every member of the band to show what they can do both collectively and as a soloist. There is a jazz ethos in the way we play. The band is therefore NOT about me, it's about ALL of us".
From constant live performances in the blues clubs and festivals up and down the country the band has earned a reputation as "a box of fireworks" and has become one of Britain's premier blues based bands.
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BOOKINGS
UK:- Sugarkane Music
Tel:- +44 (0) 7982047529
or
+44 (0) 208 769 6557
Email:- info@johnolearyband.com
johnolearyband@hotmail.co.uk
sugarkanemusic@hotmail.co.uk
HERE ARE SOME EXCERPS FROM RECENT REVIEWS
THE TIMES NEWSPAPER
>Weds. 9th JANUARY 2008
"O'Leary was simply superb. Bearing down on the reeds with such powerful, precise tone on numbers such as 'Snatch It Back & Hold It' and 'Checking On My Baby', he lifted the performance to a higher level every time he took to the stage"
GET READY TO ROCK(web)
"the most successful fusion of traditional and contemporary blues grooves for as long as I can remember".
GET READY TO ROCK (web)
The Great British R&B Festival, Colne 2006
"The classy John O’Leary Band opened the festival on the International Stage on Friday with a superb harp / guitar led funky blues set.....Particularly impressive was the hard hitting funk of Black Cat Bone, and the reflective Who’s Been Talking……………."
BLUES IN BRITAIN 2002
"masterful and bears an easy authority and ernestness that is instantly persuasive"
BLUES MATTERS MAGAZINE
"the timeless spirit of the great Delmark artists lives on in these grooves"
....and if you really want to know what it sounds like buy our CD....
Personnel
John O'Leary (vocals/harp), Jules Fothergill (guitar), Malcolm Bruce (keys), Dominique Vantomme (keys), David Hadley (bass), Joachim Greve (drums). Guest musicians: - Dave Walker (vocal), Tim O'Sullivan (guitar) and Lorna Reilly, Rietta Austin and Lucy London (vocals)
Titles include "Early In The Morning"/"Snatch It Back"/"I'm Tired"/"Who's Been Talking"/"Blue Water"/"Waiting For You"/"Everything"/"House Of Ice"/"Black cat Bone"/"Move Away"/"Chiswick Roundabout"/"Save My Soul"/"Butter Fingers"
TO ORDER CD'S OR FOR MORE REVIEWS, BIOGRAPHIES and PHOTOS, PLEASE GO TO OUR WEBSITE at www.johnolearyb.com
UK:- Sugarkane Music
Tel:- +44 (0) 7982047529
or
+44 (0) 208 769 6557
Email:- info@johnolearyband.com
johnolearyband@hotmail.co.uk
sugarkanemusic@hotmail.co.uk
HERE ARE SOME EXCERPS FROM RECENT REVIEWS
THE TIMES NEWSPAPER
>Weds. 9th JANUARY 2008
"O'Leary was simply superb. Bearing down on the reeds with such powerful, precise tone on numbers such as 'Snatch It Back & Hold It' and 'Checking On My Baby', he lifted the performance to a higher level every time he took to the stage"
GET READY TO ROCK(web)
"the most successful fusion of traditional and contemporary blues grooves for as long as I can remember".
GET READY TO ROCK (web)
The Great British R&B Festival, Colne 2006
"The classy John O’Leary Band opened the festival on the International Stage on Friday with a superb harp / guitar led funky blues set.....Particularly impressive was the hard hitting funk of Black Cat Bone, and the reflective Who’s Been Talking……………."
BLUES IN BRITAIN 2002
"masterful and bears an easy authority and ernestness that is instantly persuasive"
BLUES MATTERS MAGAZINE
"the timeless spirit of the great Delmark artists lives on in these grooves"
....and if you really want to know what it sounds like buy our CD....
Personnel
John O'Leary (vocals/harp), Jules Fothergill (guitar), Malcolm Bruce (keys), Dominique Vantomme (keys), David Hadley (bass), Joachim Greve (drums). Guest musicians: - Dave Walker (vocal), Tim O'Sullivan (guitar) and Lorna Reilly, Rietta Austin and Lucy London (vocals)
Titles include "Early In The Morning"/"Snatch It Back"/"I'm Tired"/"Who's Been Talking"/"Blue Water"/"Waiting For You"/"Everything"/"House Of Ice"/"Black cat Bone"/"Move Away"/"Chiswick Roundabout"/"Save My Soul"/"Butter Fingers"
TO ORDER CD'S OR FOR MORE REVIEWS, BIOGRAPHIES and PHOTOS, PLEASE GO TO OUR WEBSITE at www.johnolearyb.com
Members:
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JOHN O'LEARY
(vocals/harmonica)
Blues harp player and singer, John O'Leary has long been part of the British Blues Scene.
John's career began in 1965 with the formation of SAVOY BROWN'S BLUES BAND. He has gone on to play with some prominent musicians and bands. These include SAVOY BROWN, THE JOHN DUMMER BLUES BAND, BRUNNING/HALL SUNFLOWER, JEROME ARNOLD (ex Paul Butterfield)), MAINSQUEEZE, New Orleans pianist CHAMPION JACK DUPREE, ALEXIS KORNER, AYNSLEY DUNBAR, RORY GALLAGHER, Chicago's EDDIE 'GUITAR' BURNS, NOEL REDDING (Jimi Hendrix Experience), ERIC BELL(Thin Lizzy), folk singer DONOVAN, DAVE KELLY, TONY MCPHEE, VICTOR BROX and the late great saxophonist DICK HECKSTALL-SMITH.
John was one of the pioneering blues harp players in the UK. Originally from Ireland, John's family emigrated and settled in London in 1955. It was here in London's thriving jazz clubs of the 1960's that he first heard harp player Cyril Davies with Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated. John bought his first harmonica in 1962 and learned by listening and watching Davies. John Mayall's came down from Manchester and provided more inspiration. Inevitably, he discovered the great masters of the blues harmonica; John Lee Williamson, Sonny Terry, Little Walter, Noah Lewis, James Cotton, Shakey Horton and Junior Wells. As a harp player, the great landmarks which shaped John's style of playing were the recordings of Muddy Waters at Newport, Junior Wells's "Hoodoo Man Blues" and in seeing Paul Butterfield on his first trip to the UK the. Although these great players still retain their influences over him today, John has carved out a style of his own. "John's first blast on the harmonica confirms his identity". (Blues Matters Magazine).
DAVID DAY (guitar/vocals)
ROGER INNISS (bass/vocals)
"MR JOOLS" GRUDGINGS (keyboards/vocals)
WAYNE PROCTOR (drums)
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JOHN O'LEARY
(vocals/harmonica)
Blues harp player and singer, John O'Leary has long been part of the British Blues Scene.
John's career began in 1965 with the formation of SAVOY BROWN'S BLUES BAND. He has gone on to play with some prominent musicians and bands. These include SAVOY BROWN, THE JOHN DUMMER BLUES BAND, BRUNNING/HALL SUNFLOWER, JEROME ARNOLD (ex Paul Butterfield)), MAINSQUEEZE, New Orleans pianist CHAMPION JACK DUPREE, ALEXIS KORNER, AYNSLEY DUNBAR, RORY GALLAGHER, Chicago's EDDIE 'GUITAR' BURNS, NOEL REDDING (Jimi Hendrix Experience), ERIC BELL(Thin Lizzy), folk singer DONOVAN, DAVE KELLY, TONY MCPHEE, VICTOR BROX and the late great saxophonist DICK HECKSTALL-SMITH.
John was one of the pioneering blues harp players in the UK. Originally from Ireland, John's family emigrated and settled in London in 1955. It was here in London's thriving jazz clubs of the 1960's that he first heard harp player Cyril Davies with Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated. John bought his first harmonica in 1962 and learned by listening and watching Davies. John Mayall's came down from Manchester and provided more inspiration. Inevitably, he discovered the great masters of the blues harmonica; John Lee Williamson, Sonny Terry, Little Walter, Noah Lewis, James Cotton, Shakey Horton and Junior Wells. As a harp player, the great landmarks which shaped John's style of playing were the recordings of Muddy Waters at Newport, Junior Wells's "Hoodoo Man Blues" and in seeing Paul Butterfield on his first trip to the UK the. Although these great players still retain their influences over him today, John has carved out a style of his own. "John's first blast on the harmonica confirms his identity". (Blues Matters Magazine).
DAVID DAY (guitar/vocals)
ROGER INNISS (bass/vocals)
"MR JOOLS" GRUDGINGS (keyboards/vocals)
WAYNE PROCTOR (drums)