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Midnight Shift consists
two brothers: George (gorgeous George)
plays slap bass and
does the vocals; and can the boy sing!!! He played slap bass for
many years with various bands, cut records etc.. (Apparently
one of his records with the Oakville Tune Wranglers turned up
on a rare record site in Holland at a very good price)
Colin does the business with the axe, playing a Gibson Chet Atkins
Country Gent ....Think Sun Records and that is their sound.
They keep things very raw and basic.... Think early Elvis, Carl Perkins.
They play rockabilly but are adapting and adding some rock and roll
classics to play for the jive bunnies amongst us, (in which
they include themselves). And now Brandon has
joined as
the regular drummer.. not yet in his twenties an asset to the band. |
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Colin 07788183891 or 01424431053 |
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colinokines@frances8824.fsnet.co.uk |
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Based in Hastings |
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Midnite Shift was originally a four piece family
rock and roll band but it was disbanded after the skins and strings
decided to either have more children or go to America and get
married !! Midnite Shift originally started with George
playing with his son who was learning guitar in his shed ( sorry
office !!). Colin was into classical guitar and played mostly
to himself and anyone else that was curious enough to listen.
The one day George asked if he would go along and add a bit of
lead. This was quite a change for Colin who was not used to
playing with with a bit of plastic on steel strings. At first they
couldn't even do one song together, but after many hours of
listening to early Elvis and reading about Scotty Moore's style
Colin bought a thumb pick and was able to play Mystery Train.
Wayne, (George's son) was by then able to string along three chords
and between them they made a reasonable sound. George's
daughter was then asked to play drums, and despite never having
played before, she approached it with her usual enthusiasm,
learned to play..........and Midnite Shift was born!
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Gig list:- |
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jan ..21st .. woodgrange
.Cancelled |
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jan 27th
clifton arms caterham |
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jan.28th .. ex servicemans club .carshalton.. |
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18th feb at the
woodgrange in southend |
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