Paul Shuttleworth: lead vocals, Vic Collins: pedal steel, guitar and vocals, Steve Oliver: guitars, banjo, mandolin and vocals , Andy Farrell: bass and vocals, Bob Clouter: drums
Influences
Kursaal Flyers, Gram Parsons, Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers,Poco, Desert Rose Band, Chris Hillman, Emmylou Harris' Hotband, Pure Prairie League, Little Feat, Jackson Browne, Earl Scruggs, Jerry the Ferret, Mickey Jupp and Arthur Askey
Sounds Like
Kursaal Flyers,Poco, Flying Burrito Brothers, Pure Prairie League
The Ugly Guys are legendary Kursaal Flyers Paul Shuttleworth and Vic Collins on lead vocals and pedal steel, who first played together back in 1969 in Cow Pie, a band inspired by the country flavoured rock music coming out of California at the time from the likes of the Byrds and Gram Parsons' Flying Burrito Brothers.
They are joined by former Jerry The Ferret guitarist Steve Oliver and Bob Clouter, Mickey Jupps' original Orioles and Legend drummer. The line up is completed by Andy Farrell on bass. Andy has played with Paul in the past as well as being in band's such as the Hampsters and Eddie & the Blizzards.
The band name comes from a Kursaal Flyers song: "The pretty faces came and went....but the Ugly Guys played on and on and on....". Audience reaction to the band so far has been nothing short of ecstatic, receiving praise for their authentic singing and top notch soloing, so if you like Cosmic American Music-the Byrds, the Band , the Eagles or even Counting Crows check out the Ugly Guys - they play like veterans but they rock like 18 year olds!
"Truckers, Kickers and Cowboy Angels" the new CD of Gram related Songs is now out on Bad Dog Records and along with their earlier Mini CD "Cosmic American Music" is available from the Kursaal Flyers websight(www.kursaalflyers.co.uk) or from Smart Choice Music (www.smartchoicemusic.com).
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!
You are invited to Katie & the Questions first gig at the Junction Leeman Road, York on the 9th July. Only £4 on the door.
Katie & The Questions were formed out the prefabs of North Yorkshire in June 2008, when Katie met guitar playing keyboardist ‘E’ after he advertised for someone to play ‘shove halfpenny’ with. They clicked over their love of guitar based music and decided to form a band.
Katie and the band play a pulsating brand of powerpop, new wave punkpop check them out at their myspace site
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. Jackie Storrar will also be including a track from the album on her show ”The Country Café” on www. cmrnashville. com this weekend. tune in for some great country music! thanks for the add, McKenZie
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Good evening! I'll be starting a tour in the UK next week, and wanted to let you know.
You may have heard my guitar playing and not even realized it was me. I played with Buddy Holly, and when you listen to "It's So Easy" or "Heartbeat"...well, that is me.
We will play some of the Buddy Holly songs that i played on so many years ago, and a few more! I might even sing a couple.
I hope you can make one of the dates?
Best,
Tommy Allsup
Hey! How's the weather over there? I just want to let you know that i'm coming to the UK in late May/early June to play bass with Kevin Montgomery and Tommy Allsup. Tommy played guitar with Buddy Holly, and is THE guy that flipped the coin with Ritchie Valens. I figured that with you being a musician that you would really be able to appreciate this show. Kevin made a little video at my studio last week while we were recording....check it out http://myspacetv. com/index. cfm?fuseaction=vids. individual&videoid=34589518
There are a series of shows in England and Scotland....dates are on my myspace.
We won't be doing my material, but it is a really special show, and Tommy is a true rock'n'roll legend.
Anyway, take care and hope to see you there.
DW
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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
Howdy Ugly Guys! I wanted to drop you a note to thank you for taking the time to accept us as your friend, and listening to our music. We appreciate the gesture and are grateful that you enjoyed our tunes enough to add us to your community of friends. After all, having people connect with our music is why we do this. I hope you'll come by often to say hello and let us know what's happening with you, and when you have a spare moment, please visit our brand new webpage at www. crosstimbersbluegrass. com there you can listen to more of our music and find out more about us. Feel free to sign the guestbook! (And if you have any ideas about how we could improve the webpage, be sure to let us know)
All my best and thank you again, Matt (the bass player) Cross Timbers
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Hey guys, love a step to far, thanks for being friends...
Dave Cash played songs from our album Walking on Steel on his country music show on BBC radio Kent on April 6th, listen again at www. bbc. co. uk/kent
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! Zoe & Kenny
Will we be seeing ya at this month's Red Eyed & Blue on Tuesday March 11th? We sure hope so! It's taking place at the Hawley Arms' brand spanking new music venue The Wilmington. We've got a crackin' lineup with Adrian Crowley, Trevor Moss & Hannah Lou, The Snakes and DJ sets from the Truckin' Lauras and DJ James Steel.
....unser neues Label hat uns einfach zu einem Voting angemeldet bitte sei so lieb und click auf das Bild und click auf Elefant Broad Tree....vielen lieben Dank....
Hey friends please vote us.....click the pic...and than click Elefant Broad Tree....thank you very much...just you make us happy, stayin in touch you know. Take care, you are the best.........Bandit Rock....
couple of things ... we have put up our band bio on the myspace site hopefully we havent made too many spelling mistakes haha although knowing me that may not be totally accurate haha
we are also looking at doing another recording session at the end of February all things being equal so we should have some new stuff sorted around that time
I know I said only a couple of things but we are also looking at gigging around March time so anyone who has any dates lying around that they want support for or just wants to hear us live keep listening and we will keep you informed
Apologies for the length of this message it all seems to be happening at once lol
Hope you and yours are all well and that your Monday isnt as wet as ours is doh ! english weather dont you just love it
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