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Decatone

Something Going Down In Funkytown

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Instead of bigging ourselves up we thought we'd stick in a couple of reviews which sum us up quite nicely!

Once again Decatone were on top funky form, bringing to a close the Regional Finals at the Barfly with an exciting blend of sounds and styles. Creating a grand, infectious direction that got the crowd dancing and tapping along, they delivered their fresh unique sound flawlessly. Completely infectious and with a real ‘big band’ feel to their music, they dazzled the Barfly, and showed why they are such a prominent force on the Midlands funk scene. - Surface Unsigned Competition Review 2007

Decatone are a professional band. They're hard working, they sound great and they look fantastic on stage. When you see them live you know that you're guaranteed a good night with plenty of dancing! The band have wide appeal that cuts across music tastes and generations. - Anita Miah, BBC



Contact Decatone:
Email us at: [email protected]
or leave us a message on this site...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/15/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/decatone
Band Members: Click on the band member's name to go to their personal myspace:

Mike Wilson - drums and percussion
"Disco" Dave Colliver - percussion and drums
Gaz Nicklin - electric guitar
Ian "the farq" Farquhar - keyboards, bass
Howard Stokes - trombone
Andy McIntyre - trumpet, bass
Will Taggart - saxophone, bass

Influences: Anything funky you can dance to!
Sounds Like: "Decatone’s eclectic funk sound created a party atmosphere both on and offstage. Exciting and inventive beats, jazzy brass, deeply funky electronic keys and synths all came together wonderfully. Excellently composed and structured tracks show off their wealth of musical ideas" - Surface Unsigned Competition Review 2007

Something Going Down In Funky Town, recorded at The Cooler - Warwick Uni Students Union

Check out the vid of us playing one of our favourite tracks, Blammo, at the Godiva festival...

A tune we wrote especially for Godiva - Funk that Tent!

Record Label: still waiting......
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Beer Engine Gig - CANCELLED

Unfortunately, recent Decatone developments have led to us having to cancel the gig at the Beer Engine on the 28th. Massive apologies to both the Beer Engine, who have always supported us, ...
Posted by Decatone on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 07:47:00 PST

Vote for bands competition - your help is needed!

We've entered ourselves into a competition, and it would be cool if you could lend us a hand by voting for our track. It only takes a second.... honest! Go to www.myspace.com/voteforbands&nb...
Posted by Decatone on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 02:41:00 PST

Regional Finals on Sat 30th June at Barfly, B'ham

We've just booked the date/time for our regional final of the Surface Unsigned competition! We've got the headline slot at 10pm on 30th June at the Barfly in Birmingham - http://www.barflyclub.com/bir...
Posted by Decatone on Sat, 19 May 2007 08:22:00 PST

Festivals Summer 2007

The festivals are piling in now, this is our favourite time of year and we love that festival vibe. We can't wait to get out there and play our new summer grooves. Keep your eye on our Gig List for n...
Posted by Decatone on Fri, 18 May 2007 08:29:00 PST

Battling the Best of Birmingham

Wednesday night saw us head to the Medicine Bar for our Semi-Final of the Surface Unsigned Festival where we faced the cream of  the Birmingham Music Scene. 360 and 1eye were our main competition...
Posted by Decatone on Fri, 18 May 2007 07:55:00 PST

Decatone available for New Years Eve

Due to a cancellation, Decatone are now available for a gig on New Years Eve. If you're a venue looking for a band to bring some funking fun to a NYE party then get in touch! Email us on contact@decat...
Posted by Decatone on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 02:36:00 PST

Decatone appear as a myspace featured artist!!

Yep, the boys have made it onto the front page (well, one click from it) of myspace.com!! the word's getting out...... let's hope there's something big around the corner for us!! Disco...
Posted by Decatone on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 08:53:00 PST

Minichill - awesome

Well, the minichill festival was a great day, wished we had gone for the whole weekend but nevermind. Atmosphere was great and we saw some cool music, and overdosed on harp which seemed to be in every...
Posted by Decatone on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 02:08:00 PST

What are we doing??????

Decatone update - had a mad time at the Bloom fest, photo's to follow shortly, also got loadsa gig offers from it, including the minichill in a week or so's time! Headline slot - where we belong! At t...
Posted by Decatone on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 04:40:00 PST

Godiva Fest

Well, that was an funking weekend for decatone, a storming set on friday saw about 600 people get well and truly funked and sat on the main stage was fun. Just getting the crowd going when we had to s...
Posted by Decatone on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 02:34:00 PST