Joe Brown
Friday 26th May. Kings Hall, Ilkley, 8pm
| Joe's career has now encompassed all aspects
of entertainment, including recording, performance, songwriting,
Films/TV and West End theatre both as a principal actor and
Director. He has presented several television series, three
series of The Joe Brown Show and has established himself as a
popular DJ and presenter with BBC Radio 2. His incredible endurance as one of Britain's most accomplished musicians produced a double CD set of the Showbusiness Lifetime Show which he successfully toured for two years and which was released in 2001 to coincide with the start date of his ground breaking ' Cheekie Chappie Rides Again ' tour. From the day when Jack Good first spotted Joe Brown playing guitar and put him in the Boy Meets Girls show in 1959 probably no-one else ever thought that in 2006 Joe would still be a household name, but the fact is that from those early days of chart success Joe has consolidated and is now one of the major talents on the U.K. scene. Although not a club performer these days Joe was the winner of the 1991/2 Clubstar award in the best musical group section and the 1992 Winner of the BASCA Gold Badge of Merit for his services to British Music judged by his peers in the songwriting and music publishing communities. |
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| A multi-instrumentalist, Joe
plays Guitar, Mandolin, Fiddle, Ukulele and Melodian onstage.
His earliest moves were made with the bands such as the Spacemen
Skiffle Group, who played East End pubs and Butlins camps and
whose exploits are well documented in his first book 'Brown
Sauce '. Joe’s early professional musical career included playing guitar with Johnny Cash, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran and appearing with Bill Haley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard & Chuck Berry, whilst Brian Epstein who promoted some of Joe's shows in the North West of England in the early days gave the opening slot a few times to a young band which he was then interested in working with called The Beatles. Joe formed his own group Joe Brown & The Bruvvers in 1960 and had numerous top ten chart entries, the best known of which 'Picture Of You' reaching the magical Number One slot and staying months on the chart. In the early seventies he formed the acclaimed 'Browns Home Brew' which included his late wife Vicki and Joe Fagin, their music was a mixture of Country Rock and Gospel. The band toured the college and rock Club circuit and had two albums released by Vertigo records. Joe has starred in six major motion pictures, among which are numbered What A Crazy World, Three Hats For Lisa, Spike Milligan Meets Joe Brown and Mona Lisa with Bob Hoskins. With Television appearances over four and a half decades too numerous to list here and an entry in The Debrettes book it would be an understatement to say that Joe is well known. |
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Joe Brown
Prices: £15 rear stalls. £17.50 front stalls and balcony. Box for 4 is £80
(A small charge of £1 is added to cover online booking fees)