Music:
Member Since: 16/08/2007
Band Members: ZAL CLEMINSON... LEAD GUITAR
Zal Cleminson, The Legendary Lead Guitarist from The Sensational Alex Harvey Band is for many people the guitarist's guitarist. Utterly self-taught and driven purely by emotion, you'll remember his harlequin makeup from the 70s, and his thundering solos from every decade since. But at heart he's a remarkably quiet and thoughtful man. In SAHB Story he talks about his own feelings for every song SAHB worked on, and about why he does what he does. His opinions may surprise you.
MATT BLACK... LEAD VOCALS
Matt is the youngest member of the band, born in march 86 he has been playing piano since the age of 8, guitar since 12 and singing since 15. He has performed in many covers and original acts since the age of 16. Matt teaches guitar midweek whilst singing for a rock covers act named Stagefright on weekends. He met Jamie and Danny whilst singing for one of their previous bands named Bailey’s Comet at Dez Bailey’s 50th Birthday Bash in February 2007 (MTV's The Bailey Brothers), Saxon's Graham Oliver also played on the night. Matt’s main influences vocally include Steve Perry, Paul Rodgers, Danny Bowes and Jeff Scott Soto.
JAMIE MALLENDER... BASS
From a young age Jamie has played bass, guitar, keyboards and has been the singer for many bands. Although the bass will always be his passion, Jamie is a passionate song writer and has written many songs over the years which he now intends to record.
Jamie currently works alone on his solo act, playing several gigs a week in various parts of the country. He is also working alone on recording his own songs but continues to play for 'The Tony Martin Band'
DANNY NEEDHAM... DRUMS
By the time Danny was 19, He was playing for yorkshire's top Rock cover band 'Guns & Oatcakes' they played extensivley throughout the U.K. It was with Guns & Oatcakes where he had his first taste of playing abroad, including 25 shows in Israel.
Danny’s next move was to the North east of England to join 'Alexanders Palace' in which he was with this band for 8 years, in that time he constantly toured throughout the U.K, Europe and middle east.
In 2002 Danny was asked to perform with Baileys Comet, a band put together by Dez and Mick Bailey (The Bailey Brothers) who had international success as D.J's, Music journalists and Presenters of the biggest show on MTV at the time. The vocalist with Baileys Comet was Tony Martin (ex Black Sabbath) who sang for Sabbath for 10 years. The shows they played included "The Gods of Rock" in 2002. It was around this time Tony Martin asked Danny to join his band that he was putting together in the near future.... That phone call came nearly 3 years later when 'The Tony Martin Band' was born. The first show was headlining an Italian Rock festival where they took to the stage immediately after the Legendary 'Carl Palmer'. Danny has worked alongside Geoff Nicholls who was the keyboard player for Black Sabbath for over 20 years. In the 2 years that he has been playing with The Tony Martin Band, Danny has done many tours and festivals throughout europe and some fantastic sold out arena shows in Russia.
In April 2007 Danny did a successful European tour playing in 6 countries with a German based band called 'Razorback'. He was asked to do this tour as 'Mike Terrana' (The Rhythm Beast!) was busy on tour with 'Masterplan'.
Artists / Bands Danny has toured with include:
Whitesnake, Glenn Hughes, Tony Iommi, Uriah Heep, Bonnie Tyler, In Flames, Helloween, Foreigner, Y&T, Stratovarius, UDO, Rick & Adam Wakeman, Nazareth, Tim 'Ripper' Owens, Carl Palmer, Gotthard, Kingdom Come, Destiny, Cornerstone, Ken Hensley, Jeff Scott Soto, Hardline, Eric Martin Band.
BUZZ BARDOT... GUITAR
Buzz, a good friend of Zal's, began as a vocalist in the early 80’s fronting his first band Class Enemy, playing punk covers but then started to write his own material. Buzz has been writing songs ever since which resulted in recently getting one of his songs published as a poem in a poetry book called Still Life. Buzz is a self-taught guitarist and has made two promotional videos and appeared on local television station channel seven, john peel travelled to grimsby and filmed a programme on his band at the barge. Most recently Buzz was in a band with Zal, They were working on a project in Glasgow called Ze Suicide. Sadly it never got of the ground due to the singers Alcohol problems. He now fronts his own band The Buzz Bardot Band, and has supported many great acts which include, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Hugh Cornwell, UK Subs, The Vibrators, The Damned, Zodiac Mindwarp just to name a few.
Record Label: Unsigned
