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The Tour - "Fire and Magic" - The Tour web page. Moody Blues tribute band, “Blue Onyx” (also the UK’s excellent and ONLY one) are teaming up with the Kindred Spirit band to perform a series of very special concerts.   The concerts, apart from the Marlow festival appearance, will be in theatres or arts centre with excellent lighting and sound and you will need to buy tickets in advance. All special events coming up are listed below:-     All Special Events coming up so far in 2010 and 2011:- Marlow Festival Saturday, September 11th The Kindred Spirit duo of Elaine and Annie had a visit, in June 2009, at a High Wycombe duo gig, from Paul Mansell and Andy Fowler, presenters of Marlowfm radio. They recorded the gig on a hard drive recorder, which they broadcast on their station and they have also been enthusiastically playing tracks from Kindred Spirit's latest album, "Metamorphosis". They are organising the weekend Marlow Festival in Marlow's lovely "Riley Park" and planning to launch the Marlowfm station in permanent premises in September but until then, find out more and listen online at http://www.marlowfm.co.uk/. The full band have been invited to perform at Marlow FM's Festival in Riley Park, Marlow on Saturday September 11th. The excellent Moody Blues tribute band, "Blue Onyx" (pictured below) will also be performing.   On stage in Riley Park  Leatherhead Theatre Concert Saturday, December 4th, 8pm The excellent, and only UK Moody Blues tribute band, "Blue Onyx" (pictured below) and the Kindred Spirit Band will be performing a special joint concert at Leatherhead theatre. Leatherhead theatre is a smart, comfortable venue with spacious foyer and bar areas and tiered seating for an audience of up to 500. There will be expert lighting and sound engineers dedicated to providing an experience of the highest quality. The stage area is also large enough for band members to enjoy interacting with each other and produce a thrilling and engaging performance. Find out more from the theatre web site. Tickets - £14 concessions £12.50 BOX OFFICE: 01372 365141   -    BOOK ONLINE  WWW.THE-THEATRE.ORG Kenton Theatre Concert, Henley Saturday, February 26th, 8pm The Kindred Spirit Band will be performing a special joint concert with Moody Blues tribute band, Blue Onyx, at the Kenton Theatre. The Kenton Theatre is the fourth-oldest working theatre in the country. It is a Regency gem, set in the heart of Henley-on-Thames, with a warm, friendly and cosy intimacy that makes you want to come back. The 234-seat auditorium is professionally equipped. A coffee bar and licensed bar are open for performances.  BOX OFFICE: 01491 575698  www.kentontheatre.co.uk   Tickets - £TBA   Farnham Maltings Concert Sunday, May 22nd, 7pm The Kindred Spirit Band will be performing a special joint concert with Moody Blues tribute band, Blue Onyx, at Farnham Maltings. The Maltings benefits from original architectural features, creating an interesting space. The venue is conveniently situated at the heart of Farnham. We have ample parking and are situated just off the A31 from London and Winchester and within easy reach of Guildford. The Maltings is also less than ten minutes, walk from Farnham's main line station. BOX OFFICE: 01252 745444 www.farnhammaltings.com Tickets - £TBA     Open Mic Nights - O'Brien's, Next one - Sunday, 27th June, 2010 See special open mic feature page for more information. Brentford      All Saints Church - Band Concert Dedworth Rd, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 4JW Saturday, July 10th This was an evening Kindred Spirit band concert in a truly lovely setting. Food was included in the ticket price and there was a bar to provide refreshment throughout the evening. We sang a special song, called "Sandra's Song", to the friends of the church including Sandra's family, as a memorial to Sandra. Sandra died of cancer about a year ago and she wrote the song lyrics, while Sue, the church organist, wrote the tune. We followed the song, which talked of life being full of colour and God's rainbow with our new "Children of the Stars" song - also about life being full of colour.     Live Lounge Concert - Monday, May 31st - 6pm The evening concert was a special joint one with Kindred Spirit and the excellent, and only, UK Moody Blues tribute band, "Blue Onyx" in the Radio Brookland's FM Live Lounge concert hall (1st floor, Weybridge library, Church St.). Richard Taylor was depping for us on bass at this - his first - Kindred Spirit gig and he did a superb job!                       Photo taken by Tom - of "Tomodo Photography" - tomodo.net   The whole thing was broadcast live over the internet and live video streaming via U Stream and you can watch a replay of the day and concert at:- http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bfm-live-lounge. Pegasaurus Saturday, May 22nd - from 2pm This was a live music, day long festival in aid of the Air Ambulance being held at the Nag's Head, London Rd., High Wycombe. There were several bands including the Kindred Spirit trio of Elaine, Gavin and Mike. We performed from 8pm but there were also jamming sessions starting from 2pm. The audience were really into our music - dancing and singing along - and we had a great time! During the evening we were sketched by artist Peter Classey - see the cartoon below.                                                             The sketch                                            The trio on the night Richmond May Fair Saturday, May 8th, 12.45pm This day long fair (around 10am - 5.30pm) held on Richmond Green, Surrey suffered from cold weather for the time of year with patchy drizzle! The Kindred Spirit band performed a 40min spot just after the juggler (12.45pm) and we seemed to go down well to those who were prepared to brave the chill! Radio Brooklands FM - Monday 25th January Kindred Spirit appeared on the Brooklands FM's "Surrey Unsigned" Show on Monday 25th January with friendly host, David Durant and studio engineer, Lance. Annie, Gavin, Mike and Elaine chatted, played quite a few numbers live, discussed the reasons they chose various pieces of music for David to play and generally messed about like naughty school children! Annie was really chuffed to get to read out the weather forecast (with sound effects from Gavin - mainly)! Here are a few pictures of them (below) in the new Brooklands FM studio (we were - in fact - test subjects for the new studio - which seemed to work OK)! You Tube - Best Days:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhdOlxFkGkc&feature=related You Tube - I'll Always Love You:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTelkoZtudg&feature=related We've had some lovely comments from David and Lance on Facebook and via email:- "Hi Elaine, It was a pleasure meeting you and your band this evening! You were great fun and fantastic musicians! I hope you had fun and enjoyed the experience too! Thank you on behalf of Brooklands FM and please convey our appreciation to Annie, Gavin and Mike, they were awesome! DD x" "Dear Elaine, Once again, thank you so much for your fantastic company and musicianship last night, it was without a doubt a memorable 'Surrey Unsigned' and one of those 'special' shows I will always remember! The email below says it all! I understand our esteemed colleague John Cull is going to air the attached track on his show tomorrow morning around 10:15! Best wishes, David x" "Dear All, Please find attached a slightly mastered MP3 of the final track played by Kindred Spirits of David's Surrey Unsigned show last night. They were a great bunch and David did a brilliant job getting it all together and keeping them under control! Anyhow I thought that you might like to hear the "sound" of St1 on its first real programme last night. If David agrees then I think that we should give this track a good airing once or twice (or more) this week. It's called "Best Days Of Our Lives" and I believe that the Kindred Spirits can be seen and heard at the Crown in Chertsey this Friday evening. All best wishes, Lance." "Best Days" live from Brooklands FM Above - Elaine has control of the studio mic (shared for speaking on air).                            Right - Annie tries even harder to prevent Gavin from speaking!! New Gig Reviews on Lemonrock We list all our gigs on Lemonrock - a great live music listings site - because this site sends all members weekly listings of all gigs coming up in their area and this really helps to bring music lovers to our gigs. Annie and I have had a number of gig reviews on Lemonrock and the most recent one entitles "A Dose of the Vapours" (November 29th, by Jim Wilsher) is really funny - and worth a read. I can also recommend joining Lemonrock; free for music lovers and a small yearly amount for bands; it is really working for live music! Read the Kindred Spirit Lemonrock reviews:- http://www.lemonrock.com/kindredspirit?page=reviews

Susie Fison depping for Annie We are getting more band gigs than ever before now as well as building up enough of a following for the band that we can   attract a paying audience. Add to that the good reviews we are getting for the new album and I am confident that we can increase the number and the quality of the gigs we get in 2010. It is always tricky to juggle dates so that everyone can be available for a particular gig, when the band members have other commitments like young families, a “proper” day job, studies for exams etc.. In order to increase the availability of the full, five-piece band for gigs we have asked the superb Susie Fison, who currently plays flute for the UK’s only Moody Blues Tribute band, our friends, “Blue Onyx” to dep. for Annie, to ease the band availability over some dates where Annie won’t be around.nyx” to dep. for Annie, to ease the band availability over some dates where Susie Fison Susie is a charismatic and accomplished flautist. She is classically trained and currently plays in the Henley Symphony Orchestra as well as the wonderful Moody Blues tribute band, “Blue Onyx” and occasionally in the Tanglefoot Ceilidh band. In her current groups, Susie has not had much opportunity to improvise but we know that she can from times she has come up and joined in with us at Kindred Spirit gigs. She can’t wait to have the chance to do more.Susie was “unleashed” at her debut duo gig with Elaine on Saturday, August 22nd, at the Bull in Riseley. She did a great job and we have been re-booked for December 12th!   You can see Susie in action with Blue Onyx from the You Tube clip below:- Legend of a Mind video clip

"Deviant Art" web site
I have created a "Deviant Art" web site for my artwork, where it can be viewed and prints purchased online - see:-
http://kindred-spirituk.deviantart.com/

Cavern Club - You Tube
Our November 2006 performance of "Run Red" at Liverpool's famous Cavern Club can be viewed on You Tube

 

Gavin’s Gourmet Gannet Guide As an editor / publisher by day (with experience in the hospitality and catering side of publishing) and electrifying violin player plus food appreciator in between, Gavin has earned the revered nickname of "Gannet” amongst his colleagues and friends. An aspiring food critic (with a gradually expanding waistline), Gavin has steadily been tasting his way around gigs and has discovered some outstanding food / music venues. At these particular venues, Gavin has described the meals on offer as being “so wonderful” that we thought he should be able to mark them as "Gannet Approved Venues" (or GAVs), with the "Gannet" logo. A new feature of the Kindred Spirit “Pub Guide” then, will be the much sought after “Gannet” mark (see right). Those venues achieving this high accolade will have the mark placed beside the picture of their establishment on the “Pub Guide” as an indication, to anyone looking for a superb meal (as well as some excellent live music), that here is the place to visit. Any venues thinking that they truly deserve a “Gannet” mark should encourage Gavin to sample some of their culinary delights, a prospect which we are sure he won’t be too unhappy about. Look at the Guide so far

 

Pub Guide Page Our "Pub Guide" page is evolving all the time to make it even more useful. Have a look.  You can also access this page from:- "Gigs" page navigation bar "Links" page "Pub Guide" gig links We have started issuing a special stamp of approval to pubs serving outstanding gourmet food. Have a look at "Gavin's Gourmet Gannet Guide"