We,The Boatmen, were originally formed by Steve Dennis and Darren Mitchell with the goal of writing some country rock songs. After half an hour of writting, the country aspect had gone out of the window and guitar bassed rock became our natural flavour of the day.
Song followed song and it quickly became apparent that we were producing enough for an album, so that then became the goal. Next we were offered a gig at the Hastings Beer Festival, so finding the right musicians to form the line up became our focus. This was achived by enlisting the drum skills of Phil Flack (The Tabs) along with Dead Calms guitarist and frontman Alan McCleave and ex Vicious Minds bassist and guitarist Vince Evans and Shaun Cramp. With that goal achived another was needed and that came when tv show producer Paul asked us to write a sound track for a truck racing series on Sky Motorsport. "AINT NO MISTAKE" was the resulting song and it proved to be a favourite on Hastings Rock Radio, being placed on their A playlist for the broadcast duration.
Meanwhile the album is nearing completion and will hopefully be launched at our debute gig at the Hastings Beer festival where it will be on sale along with oher Boatmen merchandise.
Cheers for the album guys! Love the artwork and obviously the music, some of the best guitar playing around. It's gonna be a regular on the Sunday Rocks playlist.
Hey Bro, Darren & the rest of u guys, have a great night tomoz night at the Beer Festival, sorry we wont be there to see u, but i'm sure it will be fab :) Let Hastings Rock!!!! L&Jx
Cheers for being on the show last night guys, was great to meet you. Had some good feedback about the interview and the guitar playing on "Ain't No Mistake".
There's a photo up on the Sunday Rocks pages at the Arrow FM website here. I'll get the audio of the interview later this week.
Hi Daz
Your off to a good start.
If you want me to help with the site design i will gladly.
Been looking for some boat themes but cant see any as yet.
Some good themes to be had though.
My site is a bit slow hit-wise for the time i've been up.
Haven't done much inviting .
Rock on.
