BEN INSALL/ Acoustic Guitar/ Electric Guitar/ Vocals.
SOPHY BLUNDELL/ Whistles/ Vocals.
CALLUM POPE/ Electric Guitar/ Acoustic Guitar/ Vocals.
JONATHAN STARKS/ Porange the Fiddle/ Melodeon/ Mandolin/ Vocals.
JON FULLER/ Bass Guitar/ Vocals
PETE WHEELER/ Drums/ Percussion/ Concertina/ Mandolin/ Vocals.
Influences
Lau, Spiers and Boden, Bellowhead, Martin Carthy,Eliza Carthy, The Watersons, Bob Fox, Rory Mcleod, The Copper Family, John Tams, The Mars Volta, Coope Boyes and Simpson, Kadril, Lonnie Donegan, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Radiohead, Nick Drake, Fairport Convention, Nic Jones, George Formby, Everyone at the Greyhound Folk Nights. All our parents, grandparents and anyone else that we have heard sing and play great music.
.."Indecently talented.....raw and immediate", Mike Harding (Radio 2)
"The new faces of folk", The Kent Messenger
Wheeler Street is the location of the Greyhound pub in Maidstone.The pub holds regular singaround nights that the band go to as many times as possible and was also the place where they did their very first gig.
Wheeler Street (the Band)manage to combine all the excitement and enthusiasm of youth with terrific musicianship, great vocals and imaginative arrangements of both original and traditional songs and tunes.
The 7 members are all still in their teens and came together to form the band in March 2007. They had all played music from an early age and had all been in various bands with Toby over the years. In fact the recording of Pete and Toby singing and playing Let It Be in Toby's dining room at the age of 9 still exists.
Although all the members of the band now live in the Maidstone area they bring to the sound influences from all around the UK and further afield. Ben comes from Newcastle and is of Irish parentage, Toby and Jon both have Scottish as well as English blood and Sophy was born in Australia and is also half Scottish. The band works so well because each and every member is fiercely passionate about the music they play and are commited to playing and singing with integrity and with utter respect to the tradition, but they also LOVE a good time and they are one of the most entertaining and fun bands that are currently on the folk scene.
The description of "folk rock" is not really accurate but it avoids the use of the word fusion which is possibly worse. There are elements of rock music but also you can hear influences of funk, jazz, pop, reggae and all types of dance music but all firmly rooted in the folk tradition. Wheeler Street are young and highly original and inventive, if you think you don't like folk music this is the band that's going to change your mind.
McGreetings Wheeler Street, Cheers for being my friend on myspace and I sincerely hope you enjoyed our music. Please Keep in touch as we value your friendship and support very much! All the very best to you and yours, from McDave and the boys of Pegasus in Bonnie Scotland. ROCK ON! and have a great weekend.
haha my pleasure :D was great to see you by chance at the Bear in Faversham, would be good to come along to another performance on day! good stuff guys :) x
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heyyyy. thanks for accepting the add. I saw you playing at dorchester festival yesterday you were awesome. I have some pics of you lot playing if you want them let me know.xx
Hey kids, missing you all a helluva lot! Hope everything's going ok gig-wise and in general, am definitely coming to the House at Home gig, I'm home on the 16th!
Cambridge shall be amazing too :D
In Oz at the mo, so far isn't as good as Africa, which I miss something terrible, but I'm off up the coast on Thurs. Been to Palm Beach (aka Summer Bay, Home and Away) which was beautiful, but Sydney is too much like home - far too civilised!
have good gig tonight, i'm checkin out lovedays guitarist...but i think i've figured the look, i think toby should wear a bikers helmet an 80's puffer jacket.. bright green and some red chaps... thats the look man... you're there..
