YOU CAN BUY OUR ALBUM FROM www.amazon.co.uk also from www.mjmusicshop.co.uk OR IT CAN BE DOWNLOADED FROM ITUNES
Chart Entry Alert - Sunday 20 January 2008 HIRE WIRE REACHES NUMBER 11 IN THE WEEKLY UNSIGNED UK CHARTS!
Hi The Big River Bandits,
Tourdates.co.uk have been running the UK's original weekly unsigned chart since 2006 and we thought you might like to know that in the chart released on Jan 20 2008 6:59PM your song, 'High Wire', reached 11!
A permanent page showing this chart can be found at http://www.tourdates.co.uk/unsigned-chart/20-Jan-2008 , which of course you're more than welcome add a link to from your own site, blog or myspace.
Congratulations!
the tourdates team
'YOU TOOK MY WORLD WITH YOU' REACHES NUMBER 4 IN TOP 40! In the week 1st to 7th February 2008, 'You Took My World With You' reached number 4 in Joyce Ramgatie's International Country Music Mainstream Chart. The number 1 country music radio playlist board.
Single Life (live)
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RENEE SEARS - LEAD, BACKING & HARMONY VOCALS.
GERRY POWER - LEAD GUITAR & LEAD, BACKING & HARMONY VOCALS. JOHN JOCE - BASS GUITAR, BACKING & HARMONY VOCALS.
PAUL EDGE- DRUMS
KEN SMITH - PEDAL STEEL, HARMONICA, BANJO & HARMONY VOCALS.
Influences
AS WELL AS PERFORMING OUR ORIGINAL MATERIAL, WE ALSO PLAY GREAT COVERS BY SOME OF THE MOST POPULAR COUNTRY ARTISTES INCLUDING PATSY CLINE, BONNIE RAITT, MARTINA MCBRIDE, THE MAVERICKS. THE EAGLES, GARTH BROOKS, GARY ALLEN, ALAN JACKSON AND DWIGHT YOAKAM.
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US!
Check our review on the David Allan page in 'Country Music People', February 2007.
Read the album review in the March 2008 edition of 'Maverick' and the December 2007 edition of The BCMA bulletin.
OUR DEBUT ALBUM, ’THE SINGLE LIFE’ IS NOW AVAILABLE TO BUY FROM
www.amazon.co.uk
Also www.mjmusicshop.co.uk/acatalog/Big_River_Bandits.html
It can be downloaded from ITUNES
THE SINGLE LIFE HAS BEEN GIVEN A GREAT REVIEW IN THE BCMA DECEMBER 2007 BULLETIN.
READ DAVID ALLAN’S REVIEW OF THE BIG RIVER BANDITS IN THE FEBRUARY 2008 EDITION OF NUMBER 1 COUNTRY MAGAZINE, ’COUNTRY MUSIC PEOPLE’.
JAMES PEARSON OF BBC RADIO SHETLAND SAYS, "DEAR RENEE, THANKS FOR THE ABOVE CD, 12 REALLY EXCELLENT TRACKS"..
MIKE PENARD FROM RADIO ISA, FRANCE SAYS, "Bonjour Renee
your Cd reached my mailbox and
I have been positively impressed with the sound.;really
perfect...nothing to say except congratulation for this definitive
version...you made a real work. hope it will bring you the recognition you really deserve...
thanks again for the good music...musically and instrumentally it is a
real pleasure...
please give a bonjour to all the band from the Frenchie..hope to meet
you all ,one of these days
take care
mike
PENARD Mike
NOMINATED FOR THE 2007 UK COUNTRY RADIO AWARDS
The Big River Bandits, formerly The Big River Band are featured artist on djkhbwradio for the month of June.
Thank you DJ Linda! - check her out on: http://hometown.aol.co.uk/djkhbwradio.
The Big River Band started out as a function band in 2003 and the original members still continue to work for their private and corporate clients as such. Now known as TheBig River Function Band.
Founder members, Renee & Gerry prefer to concentrate on their country band, which is becoming more and more popular.
We play country rock, country swing, bluegrass, rockabilly and traditional country music.
We’re a pretty versatile band and try to appeal to young and old, line dancers, freestyle dancers and listeners, and build our repertoire accordingly.
We love to play our own material, but we know that there is a wide audience out there who love to listen to more traditional country music as well as the new country styles. So when we’re booked at country clubs we play our own style of music along with plenty of covers, new and old, so that we can play something for everyone. We also write and perform some lovely traditional style country songs and ballads as well as our more rocky material and they seem to be very popular.
Our original songs are receiving radio airplay in The UK, throughout Europe & Australia, and internet radio play, worldwide. The band is featured on a Monday night country show on a local radio station.
We’re all very experienced singers and musicians and have played in many different bands over the years covering almost every genre. Jazz, pop, rock, blues, soul and country. But it’s the country music that appeals to us the most.
Ken and Renee were in a country rock band together for 3 years some time ago and she feels that her performance and writing has been influenced by some of the great female artists she covered then and still covers now.
Our first album will be released later this year and we’re hoping to do a tour soon after, visiting the towns and countries where songs from the album have already been played.
We’d love to hear from anyone who can help us to secure work in The UK, Ireland, the rest of Europe and The USA.
Thanks for being our friend! We are doing all we can to promote country music on the internet and your support is very welcome! Visit our site www. countrystartpage. com to see how we support artists by promoting their albums on our site for free. Feel free to contact us if you want us to add your news or video.
This month we have Regina Spektor with the theme to the film Prince Caspian (but don’t let that put you off, it is really rather wonderful), Mermaid Skeletons with a great song that’s worth it for the chorus alone, the Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir, who are as good as their name if not more so and finally the legendary Chip Taylor with the thought-provoking Former American Soldier. Great listening, and if you like the tracks, buy the albums!
Hi Folks, McKenZie will be playing at the Lincoln Country Music Festival at 11am on Friday July 4th at the Lincoln Showground, and will be featured on Rick O’Shay’s country show on Cheshire FM at 8pm, July 15th. Tune in on the net on www. cheshirefm. com Thanks for the add!
hey thanks 4 the add check out our new video and also you can subscribe to our youtube channel if you like http://www. youtube. com/Spynation10 have a nice day
Alan Jones of Radio Ceredigion will be featuring tracks from McKenZie’s album Walking on Steel on his Driving Country radio show at 9pm on Sunday June 15th. Tune in on the net at www. radioceredigion. net. thanks for the add! Zoe & Kenny
McKenZie are playing at the Hemnall Club at 7.30pm in Hemnall Street, Epping, Essex this Sunday April 27th, it would be great to see you there. They are also talking to Ken McLeod at Tay AM Radio (www. tayam. co. uk) on Wednesday April 30th at 8pm on his country music show. Tune in on the net or at 1161/1584 AM. thanks for the add! Zoe & Kenny
Hi Guys Thanks for joining my friends Why not take a look at MySpace Dedicated to promoting country music in the UK and leave a comment on my map. Regards Leighton
On Wednesday April 9th at 8pm McKenZie will be talking to Peter Fairhead of KCFM about their music on his Country Show, please tune in on www. kcfm. co. uk (99.8) to hear all the latest songs
On Sunday April 13th at 8 PM McKenZie will do a live interview with Paul West who presents The New Country Show on Hope FM Radio about their album, Walking on Steel. Please tune in to www. hopefm. com (90.1 FM) to hear a great country music show. Thanks for the ad!
