HISTORY
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 Katsquire was formed in the late 1980's as a fun project by three |
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Rock 'n' Roll
loving musicians from South Wales: Paul Bale - Drums,
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Piano, Acoustic Guitar & Vocals, Doc Evans - Bass Guitar, Acoustic |
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Guitar and Vocals, and Rob Davies -
Electric Guitar, Acoustic
Guitar and |
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Vocals. The three had played separately with
various local and international
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bands and had numerous successful recording
projects under their belts. |
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After enjoying the energetic shows with the fun style of
music, they set |
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about recording their first album 'Credit Card Blues',
a mixture of original |
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songs and some of their favourite covers. As the album sold, the schedule
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became busier and led to the start of two years of extensive European |
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Touring in Germany, Holland, Belgium,
Switzerland and Austria. The |
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most success was to be found in France, however, where a second, |
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completely original album entitled 'Comin’ to your Town' was funded |
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and released. This led to a promotional tour along with world wide |
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sales, as well as supporting such great acts as The Commitments, Bill |
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Haley's Comets, Fats Domino, Screaming Lord Sutch, Dr Feelgood |
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and Jools Holland. |
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After years of touring and song-writing, in the mid 1990's Katsquire |
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took time out to pursue other music ventures. This was the era of |
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the Tribute Show! Paul created, managed and fronted the top |
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Blues Brothers Tribute show called The Booze Brothers, Rob joined |
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one of Europe's top Beatle tributes, The Bandit Beatles, and Doc went |
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on to write and record his own album with great success. |
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During this time, Paul and Rob had met up with Jonah Jones (Bass |
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Guitar, Acoustic Guitar and Lead Vocals). Jonah had earlier spent a |
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long period in LA with his band 'Buffalo Creek' who achieved huge |
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success in America. The lads decided to reform Katsquire, adding a |
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different spectrum of music and spreading the genre from Rock 'n' Roll |
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to across the board lively, fun music. |
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They soon discovered that, with their wide vocal range (Paul the gruff |
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raunchy voice, Rob the solid rock 'n' roll voice, and Jonah the high |
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powerful voice) they could accommodate a wide audience to suit |
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different tastes. In 1995 the boys started to visit Castlegregory, County |
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Kerry in Ireland, mostly for holidays, but the occasional Katsquire |
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tour was inevitable! The love of the people, the culture and the |
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musical heritage became addictive over the next few years and |
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the fun tours became a much bigger prospect once again. Finally |
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in 2001, they took the leap and relocated to County Kerry. |
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Since relocating, Rob had to return to Wales. The |
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search for a new guitarist was under way. Top of the |
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list was a man called Ben Trigg, who had a reputation |
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for his classic powerful guitar sounds and was working |
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for Paul's old band The Booze Brothers. They were |
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performing to large audiences throughout the UK, Europe |
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and Ireland. The Booze Brothers were headlining Puck |
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Fair 2006 and Ben instantly took to The Kingdom and |
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decided to take on the challenge of a busy, full time, |
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professional three-piece band. It was soon obvious that |
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Ben was the ideal member to compliment the power |
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and energy of Katsquire. There is a great chemistry |
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between these three Welsh musicians, which is clearly |
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visible on stage. The phone has not stopped ringing since! |
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MANAGEMENT CONTACT: PAUL BALE
TEL: 066 7130944 / O87 4163873
OFFICE HOURS 2pm - 10pm. EMAIL: katsquire@yahoo.co.uk |
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