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The Breed

Three gigs and a funeral

About Me

This site is a tribute to Lorenzo Spolverato frontman, bassist, singer and songwriter with The Breed for 25 years or more.

He was delighted to be back gigging after a break to ease in a new keyboard player, but after only three gigs he died suddenly on October 29th October 2006. Thankfully a friend captured the gig on camera (Thanks to Ian Palmer) and we recorded most of our material before Loz died, so we have a record of the man and his talent.

We are also hoping to put on a benefit/tribute gig in 2007 where CDs will be available, but first we've got to replace a big man.

Contact us for further recordings

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/12/2006
Band Website: pied-piper-pianos.co.uk
Band Members: Loz - Bass & Lead Vocals;
Nige - Guitars;
Doug - Vocals, Percussion & Harmonica;
Ian - Drums;
Carol - Vocals;
Wern - Keyboards, Vocals;

On Lucky Girl Steve Johnston - Keyboards
Influences: Abba to Zappa but not Abba
Record Label: those round sticky ones
Type of Label: None

My Blog

It's over

Well it's over - the charity gig night went well - there were tears and there were beers and there was music - and there was a lot of respect - for Loz and his amazing family - It seemed to me li...
Posted by The Breed on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 07:09:00 PST

Breed History continued

It's all coming out now - it's taken a while to jog some memories but more names and faces are emerging - Here are the musings of Steve Johnston, who played keyboard with The Breed for almost 10 years...
Posted by The Breed on Tue, 08 May 2007 09:00:00 PST

The History of The Breed

AAAARGH - I am supposed to be putting together a history of The breed and I'm the last in... "Ian - when did you join?"  "Er I can't remember" - "Nige can you remember when Ian joined?"...
Posted by The Breed on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:43:00 PST

Recordings

The Breed rehearsed in a recording studio - built by Loz eons ago.  So there are many recordings of the band. We will try to get some CDs burnt for the Charity Concert to sell for a rea...
Posted by The Breed on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 02:29:00 PST

Memories of Loz

It seems strange, as The Breed's latest member, that I knew Loz so long ago.  We met in 1969, when we were 11 and had just gone to Buttershaw Comp (yes that's Rita Sue and Bob Too country!). ...
Posted by The Breed on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 05:32:00 PST

Loz articles in the Halifax Courier

You should be able to read articles HERE There are other articles to the right hand side of today's See you at the gig Wern...
Posted by The Breed on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 04:39:00 PST

Charity Concert

Details of the Charity Concert are in today's Halifax Courier 5th April 2007...
Posted by The Breed on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 01:41:00 PST

Lorenzo Spolverato - Memorial Concert

A tribute / memorial concert will be held on 9th June 2007 at Brighouse Civic to raise money for the British Heart Foundation.  Musicians will be playing who span Loz's 30 year musical career, fr...
Posted by The Breed on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 03:04:00 PST