Richard plays guitar, bass and other stringed things. He sings too. Sometimes he fumbles with a keyboard, but he doesn't like to talk about it. Occasionally he hits at a loose-skinned Arabian bongo (don't ask me where he picked that up!)
Influences
The Beatles, The Monkees, The Who, The Byrds, Roger McGuinn, The Jam, The Style Council, Paul Weller, Madness, Elvis Costello, Jellyfish, Blondie, Ben Folds, The New Pornographers, Mick Jones, Dennis Jacobs, Buzzcocks, Blur, Graham Coxon, Paul Bevoir, Jason Falkner, The La's, You Am I, 60s pop, Joey Messenger, Roy Wood, Denzil, David Crozier, The Undertones, Tom Roughan, Brendan Benson, Andrew Lindsay, Supergrass, C J Turner, Slade, Tim Whyley, Teenage Fanclub, Simon White, A C Newman, Jason Baldock, Green Day, Eddie Kerr, Billy Childish, to name but a few.
It must have been the early exposure to Beatles LPs, Shadows singles, and The Monkees’ TV shows that did it. After that, and studying guitar under the tutelage of Ulf Goran and Yorkshire Television, Richard started to make a racket in bands from the age of 14.
He learned a lot (probably what not to do) from first band experiences playing with such non-household names (in Cambridge or anywhere!) as Indiscretion and The Picasso Brothers.
In the 1990s Richard played guitar, keyboards and sang along with Cambs Weller acolytes The Buzz, who released some songs on Detour Records and managed to split just in time to miss out on Britpop by a matter of months! He also enhanced the song stylings of gifted wit and raconteur Tom Roughan in punksters Celebrity Squares (a.k.a. Shed, a.k.a. Keith’s Shed).
Richard enjoyed a guitar and harmonising white-knuckle ride with ‘East Anglian thrillseekers’ Freeboy (marvellous indie pop written by Mr Jason Baldock) before eventually falling off.
He was chuffed to add guitar, keyboards and vocals to a reformed and expanded line-up of late 70s mod pop band Squire, playing with the group at several gigs including their headlining slot at Mods Mayday ’99 at The Forum in London and another headline show at the Purple Weekend festival in Leon, Spain.
He served ten glorious years in local garage band The Mayfields, who played ‘thrash Tamla’ with considerable energy, as well as recording and playing live with songwriter Phil Ward’s acoustic outfit Starlings in 2005/6.
Richard added bass guitar and vocals to a modern line-up of cult 80s faves The Jetset which played the International Pop Overthrow at the Cavern in Liverpool in 2003. He continues to play and record with Paul Bevoir. Richard plays guitar and sings with the band Rigby as well as doing his own thing.
richard!!! it was great to meet you at derby. the place was so nice, and it was great that lucille and dylan could come too. the both looked great... hope we can meet again soon....
Hello Richard, many many thanks for your nice comment. I was so great meeting you again, and OF COURSE Tecnicolor was for you because we don't play that one very often, so I'm glad you liked it. Your baby is so cute, and you were all very friendly to us, thanks again. I hope to see you again very soon. Good luck with your musical projects and your happy family!!! All the best.
Hi Richard! It was a pleasure to share the stage with you at the Flor the pasion party the other day. The only sad thing was that your Jetset set was tooooo short. See you!
On fire! you must say that because of the red Tshirt and the temperature of the venue! It was awesome listening to your songs live, they are such spirit lifters(am I making this up? my english is so improvable). Lots of love Aline
Hola Richard!
Nice to meet you in Siroco! Your show with Jet Set was so nice! I enjoyed the three songs a lot!!
All the best and hope to see you soon again
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hello!!! It..s fine hear about you! thank you very much for your words :)now we..re working in our new record now,and we..ll put some new songs in our myspace soon.How are you? I hope everthing is ok
