THE

SHAKERS

This  SHAKERS is a good time Rock'n'Roll band and where ever we play we intend to Rock the Joint..
If you want to contact me or the band E-mail me on blues.shaker1@btinternet.com

Paul.................

The SHAKERS really started back in the 70s as SHUCKS.  As a western swing band we got quite big on the country circuit playing western swing and rockabilly. At one point we got billed on one of country music's magazine as country music's scruffiest band.



Well we must have done something right because our gigs were packed all over the country and we always got return bookings. The first recordings we did was a demo at the Trevor Morais of The Peddlers fame studio the farmhouse near Amersham Bucks. With Dereck Timms at the Helm we came away with a demo good enough to win us a recording contract with the Sweet Folk and Country label owned by Joe Stedd. We went down to the Mid Wales Sound Studio's and cut our first album Two Days Two Tracks,
One highlite for me was the night we played the 100 CLUB in Oxford Street, LONDON thanks to promotor Ron  Watts we supported DUANE EDDY  the place was packed with Teddy  boy's and Girlsfrom all over the country.
What a night that was.
The BLUES SHAKERS started out in the early 80s as a five piece band BOB SPIKE and I had SCREW SAWNEY and MIKE DOYLE on guitars, we played the NAGS HEAD High Wycombe which at that time also thanks to Ron Watts was on the Pub Rock circuit, in one form or another we played the Nags Head Every Friday for three In the early nineties I got together with drummer Mick Scatley, we wanted a boogie woogie rhythm & blues style band, we needed a good piano player and the obvious choice at that time was Steve Darrington, we waited a while for Steve to make up his mind, when he did we then found a young brilliant guitarist Darren Spicer from Amersham and the BOOGIE BAND was formed.

We traveled everywhere with that band, we did the Cork Jazz festival three times in Ireland and the World Music festival in Jersey twice. By this time Spike was in the band, Steve left to persue his solo career and we found a wild Australian keyboard player by the name of Charlie Lankester who was based in Balham London.                 We continued to have a great time all over the country, until ill health forced me to take a break for a while.

 But now I'm back to Rock'n'Roll             PAUL.............