Route 49
Since September, my Birmingham band ‘Route 49′ have had a new line-up and style. We’re still a pop covers band, but have been trying to edge towards the more modern end of things, rather than ending up with an identical set list to all the other ‘soul/motown’ covers bands. We’ve been gigging for a while now, and came out of the studio a few weeks ago with a rather impressive sounding demo (if I do say so myself):
Credit goes to Nobby Clarke at the Oxygen Rooms, Hockley, for letting us use his studio and making it sound great. I also got the chance to play a real Höhner Clavinet D6, which was cool.
Me with Nobby's Höhner D6
Hopefully we’ll have a lot of gigs coming up over the summer – I took the band (with some notable personnel changes) to Club Med Val Thorens at Christmas, where we had a great time, and with any luck we’ll be back at another resort later on in the year…
