Andy Wilkinson - Guitar, Vox.
Tim "Mr Soul" Holt - Guitar, Vox.
Richard "The Funk" Furter - Bass.
Mel Carter - Drums.
Nick "Bink" Buckle - Drums, Percussion & Vox.
Graham Millman - Trumpet & Vox.
Simon Holt - Trombone.
Martin "Ace" Bradford - Saxophone.
Dave Burgess - Saxaphone.
Alan "Jinksy" Jenkins - Trumpet.
Dave Hartley - Soundman.
Rick Wallington - Lights.
Influences
James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Sam Cooke, Van Morrison, Rolling Stones, Al Green, Jimi Hendrix, Clarence Carter etc...
A soul covers band consisting of seasoned local musicians ... it doesn't sound particularly unusual, does it?
But the Agency are different, completely different. Anyone who has experienced this band in full magisterial flight will never forget the raw excitement and thrilling
atmosphere as the Agency hit their stride and feed off a responsive audience. They are, quite simply, awesome. The secret lies in the
brass. These are no part-time backup musicians, but each
a supreme player in his own right, with bags of experience
in a range of musical areas but also plenty of boyish
enthusiasm. Put simply, they live the music, love to improvise but, above all, excel at a naturally-occurring power and precision. They punch hard, they are funky, and
they have fun. Or maybe the secret lies in the rhythm section? Certainly,
Richard's jazz-influenced bass-playing is of a standard
which can only come from instinctive genius. People regularly opine that Richard is one of the best bassists they have ever heard, and you don't find that in many pub bands. When he locks into a groove with the amiably inventive
percussion / drums partnership of Nick and Melvin
(both looking and acting like something out of a silent
movie), you have the bedrock which means that even the
most atrophied audience will break into a dancing frenzy. Or could it be that the secret lies in the crazy slaphead
partnership of not one, but two lead singer / lead guitarists?
Few bands have the luxury of alternating between two
equally superb vocalists who ooze character and also vie
with each other to provide the choppy rhythms and funky
lead guitar lines. Step forward, Andy Wilkinson and, of
course, the redoubtable Mr Soul. The truth is, the secret lies with none of them and all of them, because, like any soul stew, the whole is much
greater than the sum of its parts. It's a recipe whose secret
ingredients combine to make something indefinably tasty
and irresistibly more-ish. Try it, you'll be amazed.
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hello there!! you played a gig at milldown middle school in blandford forum couple years back! must've been a while ago coz i was a little kid! but i remember it well! i was the little boy you were taking the micky out of for dancing all night!! anyways been searching around for you guys on google for ages but finally found you on myspace! heard you play at mr kyps a few times too! great music thanks lads!! look foward to seeing you again at the wimborne festival! Steve M (still listening to your volume album to this day!!) !
