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PORTER AN EVENING OF BLUES,ROCK AND JAZZ NOT TO BE MISSED !
“Porter are an established five piece band fronted by talented singer songwriter Gary Porter. Their varied set comprises well-crafted, memorable songs played by a group of consummate and greatly experienced musicians. If you love music, you can’t help but love Porter. Don’t miss them”. Guitar Player Aug 08
CK Magazine "He has been able to create breathtaking music that is not only amazing but also moving"
PROMOTERS/PRESS please go to www.porterlive.net
BAND HISTORY
Gary Porter played at the packed 20,000 strong crowed at the Oswestry Music Festival in Shropshire which was broadcast live on the BBC. Gary has been writing his own material for 10 years and his music has grown from strength to strength incorporating a wide and diverse range of musical influences. Gary formally fronted the band Crisis Days and wrote and produced the material for the album Common Denominator.(mastered by Deborah Bonham's studio in London).. Over recent years Gary and the band moved beyond the UK shores to play and record throughout Europe. This has included sessions in Ireland, Malta, Spain, Greece and Canada
Gary decided to take a year off to write some new material ,making a point of watching some of the worlds top artists and bands..(something that you don't always have time for when your playing),with a view to putting a band together capable of playing any venue or stadium in the world, crossing the boundaries of playing in one particular genre...
Gary asked session guy's AL Vosper (Joe Cocker,Paul Young, Beverly Knight,Chris de Burgh) on lead guitar and the prolific jazz drummer Mark Cecil to help him try out some of the new material upon his return whilst searching for members to form the new band "Porter"..
The search was completed at the begining of 2007 featuring Andrew Keil (drums and percussion), Geoff Conway (bass guitar),Dave Melling (keyboards,sax and trumpet), Dave Sage (lead guitar) and Gary Porter (vocals,guitar)...
The new 10 track album "Straight Line" is now available on the KDM label and on I-tunes www.itunes.com/porter/straightline
I’ve been a music journalist for more than 10 years. Over the years, many artists and managers have asked me what the best way to break into the European music market is.
Here are some things you can do:
Publish artist press releases, news, and tour dates to the CountryHome Forum on MySpace, http://groups.myspace.com/CountryHomeMagazine , CountryHome Forum is part of CountryHome, http://www.CountryHome.de , Germany's Premier Country Music Online Magazine. Everything you publish to the CountryHome Forum will be published in my weekly Newsletter which has over 80,000 readers.
Send me CDs and DVDs for review and set up an artist interview with me. All reviews and interviews will be submitted to the magazines I'm writing for. More information for which magazines I'm writing can be found at http://www.MySpace.com/ChristianLamitschka
Upload artist videos to http://www.MyVideo.de and http://www.ClipFish.de . Both websites are like http://www.YouTube.com and uploading videos is free. The websites are completely in German. If you don’t speak German and need assistance, I will help you open an account and upload a video for 25 Euro. Each additional video upload for the same artist name and at the same video website is 10 Euro.
If you have more questions about the European music market or about any of the information I send to you today, please contact me at Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de too.
Editor & Journalist for Country Music Christian Lamitschka An der Pfingstweide 28 61118 Bad Vilbel Germany
Today I would like to let you know about two print magazines in Germany I'm writing for.
"Living Line Dance", reporting about line dance and country music, and "Folk Magazine", reporting about folk and country music. The magazines are high respected in Europe. They offer you a good chance to publicize yourself in Europe and Germany.
For more information, please contact me at MySpace or send email to Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de with the headline "Advertise at Living Line Dance and Folk Magazine".
We are proud to announce that BLACK ARROWS, Southend's TRUEST metal night, will gloriously return to Southend on Saturday 24th October at the Railway Hotel - our finest venue yet!
Sorry Guys! Couldnt do last Friday and only just read this one. I have joined The Blarneys and The Yardarm Folk Orchestra so a bit hectic. Takes my mind off my pending Divorce. See you soon I hope and all the best from Uggy Brown. Have a look on www.myspace.com/theblarneyslive for us! Cheers!
Hi Gary, your gig is now on our myspace. It will also be up on our main website too. Tickets are available now. Looking forward to seeing you guys here at High Barn again!
Hi Guys, I will feature you in the broadcast of 'New Talent' on April 21 Mon eve / Tue am - midnight -2am (UK time) and on 1602am. Repeated on Sat 25th April between 2-4pm
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