Artist Biogs: Thursday 26 July

Sgt. Pepper's Only Dart Board Band

Sgt. Pepper's Only Dart Board Band began their career playing pubs and Clubs in the Trowbridge area. Now performing throughout the UK and Abroad, the band has developed a reputation as one of the best in the business.  2007 has been a spectacularly successful year for this comical yet musically accomplished Beatles tribute, when they became the only British tribute to tour a full concert version of the "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album, to celebrate 40th Anniversary of its release.

Following a special "birthday" performance to a capacity audience in The Bath Festival, the "Sgt. Pepper Show" recently completed a fab
weekend with a performance at the Cavern Club, Liverpool. Later in June, the band was featured at the Glastonbury Festival.
Featuring Sgt. Pepper himself on keyboards, John Legend; Paul McCoatoff; Ringo Stalin and George Hare Singh-Song will shortly be heading out to Krakow, Poland, where they have developed a cult following.

Queen B

"Queen B" is a sensational tribute band that solely concentrates on looking and sounding like the original "QUEEN".

Paul even wears the jewelled crown and cape, leotard and an exact copy of the Freddie Mercury's white and red jacket as worn on the 1986 Queen tour.

"Queen B" really does try and make things as realistic as possible. Freddie Mercury must be, for everyone, one of the most difficult and challenging roles any singer could attempt to portray. Paul however does this magnificently!

With his powerful almost operatic voice, he sings all the hits and struts around the stage in the same outrageous way Freddie did. Paul also plays the piano to exactly the same songs. Queen B perform all the popular Queen hits and encourage the audience to join in.

Artist Biogs: Friday 27 July

Jon Amor

In the early nineties, from a tiny village in deepest darkest Wiltshire, UK, there came a band with fire in its belly and blues in its heart, and that band was called The Hoax. One of its four key members was Jon Amor, a long, lean guitar player who, along with his cohorts, toured the UK, Europe and the USA for eight years until the group disbanded in 1999, with four successful albums and a string of awards to its name.

Since then, Jon has taken on the role of front man with his band AMOR and established himself as a singer and songwriter in his own right, releasing two highly acclaimed and influential albums and giving the British blues rock scene a much-needed kick up the backside.

Jon disbanded AMOR in 2005 and made the final leap into solo performance with a string of unique acoustic gigs, showcasing a new batch of original material. This year he has teamed up with fellow Devizes musicians Dave Doherty (guitar), Chris Doherty (bass) and Si Small (drums) to produce a dynamic new live show.

Midge Ure

An artist who has received Ivor Novello, Grammy, BASCAP awards along with a flotilla of gold and platinum records, really needs very little introduction.
By the time Midge’s single “If I Was” went to No1 in 1985, he had already crammed several musical lifetimes into a 10 year professional career - Slik, The Rich Kids, Thin Lizzy, Visage, Ultravox and of course the most famous one off group in musical history Band Aid, had by then all had the guiding hand of his musical navigation.

Then you have to take account of Midge’s musical directorship of a series of rock concerts for The Prince’s Trust, Wicked Women for Breakthrough and in honour of Nelson Mandela; a Lord Provost award for services to Scottish music; record production for Phil Lynott, Steve Harley and countless others; his video direction of memorable hits by the Fun Boy Three, Bananarama and others, or a whole swathe of landmark singles by Ultravox; TV, theatre and film music credits ranging from ‘Max Headroom’ to stage and big screen.

Artist Biogs: Saturday 28 July

The Police Chiefs

With the reformation of The Police, their tribute counterparts The Police Chiefs, are riding high at the moment with a number of high profile engagements.
This three piece band accurately recreate the distinctive style of the “White Reggae” super group of the late seventies and early eighties, weaving the intricate rhythms of Stewart Copeland’s drums, with Andy Summer’s delicate guitar riffs, and the solid bass and unforgettable vocals of Sting.
The Police Chiefs play all the great hits including: “Message in a Bottle”, “Roxanne”, “I Can’t Stand Losing You” and “Every Breath You Take”.

The bon jovi experience

The bon jovi experience are the worlds first and finest tribute to the great bon jovi and features jon bon jovi clone front man Tony, (Jon by jovi), accompanying him are 3 other ex by jovi members, namely Jon (tico) drums, rob (Hugh) bass and Chris (Dave) keyboards, having left the now defunked by jovi. With eddy, (top Richie sambora guitarist,) in place, together they produce the looks and sounds of the real thing so closely that, I quote: “you could almost be fooled into thinking that this band was the real thing” and “quite simply a mirror image of the man himself”.

Tony has been performing the music of bon jovi for over ten years now and the band were the first to be asked to perform on the us new jersey tribute album, “garden state of mind”. He is the only UK bon jovi tribute band front man to actually be asked to appear on channel 4’s big breakfast show with the real Jon bon jovi and Richie sambora but was unable to do so due to commitment to shows already booked in the Middle East.
They were told recently by radio 1 dj and TV personality Chris Evans that “they were the best tribute band he had ever seen” and have also been asked to appear live on Chris’s show in the future.

The band has a significant fan base not to mention tonys various TV and film appearance’s, (itv’s international stars & their doubles hosted by dale winton, BBC’s doctors series and British film kinky boots.).

So if you enjoy stadium rock at its best this is definitely a band not to be missed.