The next Music Night at Sunbury Cricket Club is on Friday 8th April, when the Club welcomes back BAD INFLUENCE, who played a storming gig on their first Music Night appearance early last year.
This is something of a special occasion, as the band are celebrating their 30th gigging year, so it’s great that Sunbury can be part of their anniversary tour. They have been led throughout that time by the formidable talents of Val Cowell on guitar and vocals and Robert Hayes on lead and slide guitar, with the line-up also featuring Pete Stroud on bass, well-known to many of you as a regular member of Buddy Whittington’s touring band, plus drummer Harry James, formerly with Thunder and Magnum.
Their distinctive brand of driving blues/rock has earned them a big following, as well as bringing them the accolade of their latest CD “Carousel” being featured on Paul Jones’ Radio 2 blues show. Their CD releases and ‘live’ show features top class original material alongside versions of songs by the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty and others; and Val’s vocals were described by one reviewer as having “a tidal wave of a voice that can take on the mantle of our greatest singers”.
It will be proper rocking night in the best Music Night traditions.
