Saturday 12th September

Doors 7.45pm

£11 Advance / £13 Door

Dave Saunders and Harry Skinner formed The Producers in 1990. They went on to be one the most popular blues outfits in the country at that time winning the Blues Band of the Year award 4 times, releasing 7 CD albums one of which Ain’t no Love in the World was nominated for the Best Blues Album award. They regularly sold out venues around the country and were among the first to feature an acoustic set in their show which led to Theatre and Art Centre bookings nationwide, the whole acoustic set became almost de riguer and every band, blues or otherwise, followed The Producers lead. Many festival headliners including Colne, Burnley, Stanley Blues, Templebar Dublin, Cork, Farnham, North Wales Blues Festival and many others were played. Belgium, Ireland, Holland and France played host to Producers tours and a month long tour of New Zealand was also undertaken to great acclaim.

    At the Cognac Blues Festival in France they were joined onstage by headliner Ray Charles' brass section and, memorably, his 'Raelets' shimmying and dancing in front of them!

  They were featured in session on the Paul Jones Blues Show on BBC Radio 2 and were praised by both Johnnie Walker and Bob Harris. At the Alexis Korner Memorial Concert at Buxton they were spotted by Peter Greens management during Peters first major gig with his new band the Splinter Group and asked to open for the Fleetwood Mac guitar legend on his first national tour for

25 years, The Producers also featured on the BBC documentary of the Buxton concert.

  The Producers gave their last concert on New Years Eve 2001/2 after undertaking a 6 month farewell tour of the UK, needless to say it was a complete sell out.

  And now in 2009 they are back!  Harry and Dave still front the band ably assisted by Ray Drury on Hammond and Piano and Biff Smith on the sticks and percussion. New songs have been written and loyal fans will recognise some reworked stage favourites as they move on from, but definitely not forget, the past musical history of the band.