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Col Williams

About Me

The Beat Combo is a new excursion for Colin and features Juliet and Ewan from the old Lakes Blues Band who have just completed a new album of songs. Go to www.lakesounds.co.uk to hear the whole album.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 25/07/2006
Band Website: www.lakesounds.co.uk
Band Members: Juliet Hext, Ewan Blackledge, & Me
Influences: Beatles, Kinks, Bob Marley, Eagles, Crowded House, Dylan, Paul Simon, Lenord Cohen, Blues/RnB, Flanders and Swan, Kate Bush, Emmy Lou Harris, Shawn Colvin, Tom Petty, Bruce, Kate Bush, Lennon, Harrison, Prince Buster and recently Fountains of Wayne.
Sounds Like: All of the above
Record Label: Southlake records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

mobile DJ Dominican republic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTKE3LQEdrQ This 12 second video that I shot on holiday in Rep. Dominicana has attracted over 200,000 hits.
Posted by on Sun, 07 Dec 2008 09:05:00 GMT

Song Orilla del Mar

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LgXFCXE7Ka8
Posted by on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:35:00 GMT

London 71 - 72

After Lebonon, and back in London I was now thinking of myself as a pro musician, and this meant I needed to find a gig that paid. The Melody Maker didn't have that many paid gigs in the musicians wan...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 15:07:00 GMT

London 1970 and Lebonon.

I walked out through the gates of Vickers for the last time at Christmas in 1969 and in the new year of 1970 I headed for London and the big time. In Barrow I had been some kind of minor celeb, but Lo...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:19:00 GMT

Carnaby Squares & The 99 Club

The 99 Club in Dalkieth street in Barrow in the 60s was owned by Scrap metal impresario Sammy Morgan, who ran a srap metal yard in Hindpool road where now stands the Hollywood Park complex. He was Mr ...
Posted by on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:24:00 GMT

The Cynix early 60s

So I now had the Bass guitar, and now it was time to learn how to play it, so as there were no teachers about I bought The Chas McDevit and Shirley Douglas how to play bass guitar tutor. Mala got hims...
Posted by on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:34:00 GMT

How It all began

Way back in the mists of time, long before The Beatles,there was a kind of music they called skiffle, and yer man was Lonnie Donegan. The best thing about skiffle was that, a bit like punk, anyone cou...
Posted by on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:29:00 GMT

Birth of The Lakes Blues Band.

In 1989 I was in the old Northern sounds music shop in Duke street where I ran into an old friend from way back when. Reg Jordan was the dad of the younger Reg Jordan who played in guitar in The Torna...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:59:00 GMT

Lakes Blues band & Southlake studio

The Lakes Blues band played gigs throughout the 90s, we were special, it was one of those bands where everything just clicked. It all started I suppose at the Sticklebarn in the Landales. We had this ...
Posted by on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 16:49:00 GMT

Gnasher and beyond

We, that is Gnasher were a whisker away from where we would do tours and have hit albums, but it was not to be. We were often rowed in as session singers for projects that also never made it but all t...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 17:20:00 GMT