Since June of 2001 Lynn has been the bassist, back-up vocalist for Paul Rodgers solo band. From the Barrowlands in Scotland, to the Royal Albert Hall in London, to the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, to BB Kings in New York, to the Ryman in Nashville, to the Sidney Superdome, Lynn has toured Europe, Japan, Australia and North America with Paul. As Lynn puts it, "You have the worlds premier rock vocalist touching the hearts of millions, and I'm a part of it! He just gets better with age. He has inspired me to realize that no matter how long you do this or how accomplished you are at your craft you should always challenge yourself. It makes no difference how many gigs and sessions I do with Paul it is always a deep musical pleasure to hear that man sing!" After spending much of 2005 touring the world as frontman for Queen Paul is back with his solo band. Lynn will be touring with Paul in the US in the spring and summer of 2006 and the UK in October of 2006.
Jeff Kathan has become what most drummers only fantasize about; being a true touring professional rock drummer. Jeff's solid locomotive style has earned him the honor of playing with some of the top rock musicians of our time; the legendary Paul Rodgers (Free, Bad Company, The Firm), Mark Farner (Grand Funk Railroad), Howard Leese (Heart), Ronnie Montrose (Edgar Winter Group, Montrose, Gamma), Randy Hansen, and many more.
At age 50, Kathan is living his dream playing stages all over the world and etching his place as one of the top touring drummers. This new-found status has earned Jeff many endorsements with companies like; D.W. Drums, Sabian Cymbals, Remo Heads, VATER Drumsticks, Buttkicker, CAD Mics, Puresound, Randall May, Levy's Cases, Westone, Red Bear Cleaner, Holz, and Starflight cases.
Crawford picked up the guitar at 11 years old, and by the time he was 13 was playing weekend bar shows with help from friend and teacher Cory Wilds. In March of 2005 Crawford got hooked up with Lynn Sorensen and Jeff Kathan through a contest with 102.5 KZOK's Bob Rivers show. Sorensen and Kathan were part of the house band for an all-star classic rock tribute. After auditioning and getting a guitar spot at just 16 years old, the three played (and still continue to play) with KZOK's 'SPIKE AND THE IMPALERS', getting openings for LYNYRD SKYNYRD and other great rock acts, and playing sold-out shows all over the Northwest.
Now at just age 18, Ian has done music for the Seattle Seahawks, live Television performances, recorded on rap/hip-hop beats for local artists, and writen and recorded music for Las Vegas film company REALM Films. For the last 3 years Ian has also been a hard-working guitar instructor, and is now teaching lessons at A Sharp Music in Renton (www.asharpmusicco.com).
Sex and Violins are currently finishing up writing and recording material for their first cd, scheduled to be out early 2007. The band will also be shooting a new music video for the track 'Sex and Violins' that will be out soon.
Simon Kirke on drums
HEAVY LOAD
FREE & BAD COMPANY
Trubute Band from the North East
2007
February
Saturday 3rd The Black Horse, Tudhoe
Friday 9th The Lord Clyde, South Shields
Saturday 24th The Beacon, South Shields
Harrods
My last employer in the UK
is to stage Europe's largest guitar exhibition 2nd February to 3rd March 2007
'Born to Rock' Europe's largest Guitar Exhibition is coming to the UK. Fresh from it's launch at Galeries Lafayette, in Paris, it moved to playing to record breaking crowds at the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin. From 2nd February to 3rd March 2007, London's Harrods store will host the collection, featuring the world's first electric guitar, plus guitars customised by the likes of Bono, Philippe Stark, Karl Largerfeld and Bryan Adams.
Born To Rock's vast collection of 150 exhibits includes many rare and extremely valuable guitars, both vintage and modern, and offers visitors a chance to get up close to guitars normally only seen in the hands of rock stars.
On display will be a Gibson les Paul guitar signed by Free.
RODGERS RULES JAPAN. Paul Rodgers was voted the best vocalist by Japanese rock fans. In the 2006 Player magazine Readers’ Poll, Rodgers came out on top of Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler, Eric Clapton, Whitesnake’s David Coverdale, The Rolling Stone’s Mick Jagger, The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Anthony Kiedis, Bon Jovi’s Jon Bon Jovi and a few Japanese artists to grab the number one position.
…AND RECORDS WITH QUEEN. While he is number one in Japan, Paul Rodgers will also be recording with Queen. As we reported yesterday Roger Taylor, Brian May and Rodgers have been working on some new tracks. And May confirmed the guys will indeed be recording around February and March. But contrary to reports that Queen would be hitting the road, May said they wouldn’t be touring this year.
Taking shape in metropolitan Atlanta is what promises to be one of the most spectacular performance facilities in the country. Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre will open in September 2007 as a world-class facility distinctive in design and in its capacity to support an array of artistic performances and special events. Located in the prestigious Cumberland Galleria area of northwest Atlanta, the Centre will complement this flourishing convention, business, and hospitality community while serving as a regional performance arts landmark and showplace.
Featuring the amenities and technological enhancements found in the finest performance theatres in the world including excellent sightlines from all vantage points and state-of-the-art rigging, sound and lighting the 2,750-seat theatre will feature meticulously designed walls and balconies, and interior finishes that blend rich wood and harmonious metals. The contemporary design is driven by the desire to offer patrons optimum warmth, intimacy and acoustical ambience.
Check out the Virtual tour in the press room
FREE POSTERS ARE NOW IN !!!!!!!!!!!
'Limited Edition'
Only 250 of each will be made
All will be numbered and signed by myself
Original photos from 1970 from Lucy's archives
EXCLUSIVE to ARN Readers
Choose the poster you want or take both for a special introductory offer.
With Valentines coming up, it will make a great gift for your partner or parents
These posters will be shipped world wide and with only 250 being printed .
Posters are mailed out in a tube and will take approx - 2-3 weeks Delivery
Be one of the 250 fans to own a piece of Rock History
Posters were approved by the management of Paul Rodgers
Read about the Graphic Artist here and see some of his other work
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February 17th Ross On Wye Forest of Dean Theatre 01594 833 416
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April 13th Langholm (Scotland) The Buccleuch Centre 01387 381196 14th Langholm (Scotland) The Buccleuch Centre 01387 381196 19th Stevenage Gordon Craig 08700 131030 20th Croydon Ashcroft Theatre 02086 889291 27th Leeds City Varieties 08455 441881 28th Corporate Private Booking
May 2nd Salford The Lowry 08707 875783 4th Preston The Charter 01772 258858 12th Holme Lacey Warner Country Manor 08702 640263 18th Salisbury City Hall 01722 434434 25th Whitley Bay Playhouse 01912 523505
June 2nd Camberley Camberley Theatre 01276 707600 9th Bedford Corn Exchange 01234 269519 15th Pocklington The Arts Centre 01759 301547 16th Pocklington The Arts Centre 01759 301547 22nd Colchester Mercury Theatre 01206 573948 27th Swansea The Grand 29th Maidstone Hazlett Theatre
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Simon Kirke
supported by Freeway, featuring Terry Wilson-Slesser on vocals
Simon Kirke (founder member of Free / Bad Co.) is to perform a very special gig at the Park Hotel in Tynemouth on Saturday 24 February 2007.Opening up the show for Simon will be Freeway, the UK’s ultimate Free tribute band.And their special guest vocalist will be none other than Terry Wilson-Slesser (former front-man of Paul Kossoff’s Back StreetCrawler band).
Simon Kirke will be performing a set which will include all the Free / Bad Co. classics you’ll be dying to hear, and also some of his newer solo material.Freeway will be doing what they do best!
Tickets for this unmissable evening will be available soon, watch this space for info on how to get hold of them.Please book in advance – don’t wait until thenight – at only £14 each, these tickets are going to sell out fast to the regular crowd who attend the rock nights at the Park Hotel, and we want the Free fans to get in there first!Tickets are available now, get yours as soon as possible.
We want to give Simon Kirke a great big “welcome back” to the North East.He’s really looking forward to coming back here and playing for all his fans.Make sure you’re part of it.If you all come along and cheer loud enough, rumour has it that Simon might actually get up on the drum-kit alongside Freeway and Terry Slesser at the end of the night to perform songs such as….well, I’ll leave that to your imagination.This is an essential night of music for any Free / Bad Co. / Freeway fan.You know youwant to be there!
A legendary rock drummer, Simon Kirke co-founded Free, whose records included the classic, ‘All Right Now’. Later he co-founded Bad Company, one of the biggest and best live acts, selling over 60 million singles and albums. This performance, when he appears with Larry Oakes (formerly of Foreigner) will enable you to hear Simon playing guitar and piano, telling stories, singing the hits of Free and Bad Company, and introducing his own songs. ‘Simon is an icon to me.’ Arthur Smith
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Other show dates
VH1 Appearance - January 11th at 10:00 am. Simon is the co-host alongside Lynn Hoffman on the show "Rock Fest"
Rock n' Roll Fantasy Camp - February 15th - 19th in Hollywood, California. Along with Simon Kirke will be Paul Stanley (Kiss), Brian Wilson (Beach Boys), Mickey Hart (Grateful Dead), Bret Michaels (Poison), Steve Vai, Jane Wiedlin (Go-Go’s), an many more. Click Here for More Info
March 23rd : Simon Kirke & John Totaro appearing at Right Turn in Arlington, Ma. Show starts at 8pm.
over 750.000 downloads of thier show every week so this will potentially be a massive audience for us.
Brady Cole will feature on the Asylum website from Thursday 11th Jan
where we will have a artical on thier main website about the band. If you are not around to catch the airing please do head over there when you can
and download the show from Sunday 14th and if you have itunes installed you can head
over there and download the show in mp3 format for FREE, feel free to drop our new friends in the USA Dr Bob and Rev Ray a line and say hello from the UK,
all details for downloading and contacting the show are on the Asylum website.
The Sudbury-bred, Southern-fed sound of SUPERSTACK verges on a force of nature - powerful, organic, captivating, relentless. Lead singer and guitarist Scott Donnelly, drummer Brian Lahaie, and bassist Greg Mihajic have grabbed the essence of 70's soul rock by the throat and breathed new life into it with 12 tracks of potent new juice that'll shoot straight up your spine and wiggle its way down again. Conjure up a musical love child of James Brown, Humble Pie, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jet and The James Gang, and you’ll be on the right track.
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ROCKSTARZ INC.
Rockstarz is featured on VH1 Classic during the month of January
as Simon Kirke is the guest host of Rockfest. Check your local listing.
Rockstarz is featured on AETV Breakfast with the Arts on January 28th.
Rockstarz is producing the half-time show at University of Penn v Harvard basketball game on February 9th.
Simon Kirke will be center court as the marching band plays Bad Company songs ending with "All Right Now!"
More drum clinics are being scheduled please check
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Friends of mine from the late 60s in London - Did anyone
Peter Cowling - Bass, Cello Colin Goldring - Guitar, Vocals, Sax Steward Goldring – Guitar Nigel Pegrum - Drums, Flute, Oboe John Earle - Vocals, Wind Charlotte French – Piano
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