Harmonica, Hollering and stomping based blues and rock & roll music.

contactable at tjhatwell@gmail.com

Hi I'm a member of the Blues Hat blues band (see our separate Blues Hat profile at https://soundcloud.com/blues-hat).

I also write my own stuff that you can find here.

Actor, writer, director, musician and general Muppet...


Charly T. & The Band
‘The worst kept secret in England’s most prolific music producing region.’
Manchester arguably the champagne region of the British Music scene, old world in it’s approach to music production in stark contrast to the Californian-esq mass music production of the South East of England. The scenery in this weather worn part of England is a combination of Blake’s “Satanic Mills” and Lowry’s ‘Matchstick Factory Workers’. It is a hard place to live, a hard place to work, a hard place to survive and, offers the hardest music audiences to please in the world. Yet in the middle of all this there is one act that has so captured the imagination of Manchester’s ‘Music Glitterati’ that they eagerly await an album release that in truth should have happened 18 months ago, this as you can imagine is unheard of.
Ask the man in the street and he will most probably never have heard of Charly T. & The Band. Ask someone connected with the upper echelons of the music industry and they will interrogate you desperate for any information about this most anticipated release. The complete information black out that has surrounded the project has created massive interest as an antidote to the wall to wall coverage most bands/artists engineer.
Of course there have been live performances but these have mostly been restricted to odd festival or Industry events.
-	Official Shaun Rider (The Happy Mondays, Black Grape) Book launch party by Karin Albinsson, (photographer for: James, The Happy Mondays, Black Grape, The Stone Roses, etc.) Manchester 2011.
-	Future Perfect Festival, beach stage, Manchester 2011. -	Future Perfect Festival, main stage, Manchester „2012. -	Ian Tilton (photographer for: Nirvana, The stone Roses, Guns n Roses, etc. Book author
of The Stone Roses, set in stone.) Official exhibition Contact Theatre Manchester. -	Various events for VIVA Magazine Manchester 2011- ongoing. -	4Q – Antwerp Mansion, Manchester.
Though not a prolific touring schedule it has been enough to create a frenzied atmosphere amongst those who have had the privilege of catching a glimpse of what is to come.
And what is to come? Well we can confirm here that a September release of the album means that the wait is almost over. What should be expected from the album? A perfect blend of song craft and musical technique, a marriage of Blues and Soul, a selection of three and a half minute illusions that transport you to an alternative world and make you question reality. Built on the foundations of the best ‘rhythm section’ in town and embellished with Charly’s long established reputation as a wonderful guitar technician it creates the perfect delivery method for what are heartfelt observations and not just songs!
E: Info@fatbobrecords.com

Bluesy Steve, stompy, firey, disheartened, disaffected, often inebriated, never imitated, acoustic troubadouring little reprobate.

BUY tunes over @ https://bluesysteve.bandcamp.com/releases 

Jangly-guitar rock and a biting sense of humour meet in the storytelling songs of Chris Tavener. A theatrical musician with an acerbic wit, Tavener writes his lyrics from the perspective of flawed characters that he draws from 21st century life.

His cynical social commentary, dressed in punchy, guitar-driven rock and acoustic ballads has won him acclaim from BBC 6 Music and multiple BBC Introducing stations. He’s popular for his unique and theatrical live performance that has seen him sharing the stage with Super Hans, Emily Capell, Tony Hadley and Peter Hook of Joy Division while also writing songs for the likes of Sir Ian McKellen.

In 2022, Tavener released a rock-inspired EP called ‘Easy Ways To Be Happy’. The success of the EP saw him touring with viral-hit sensation Thomas Benjamin Wild Esquire. The subsequent year, he performed his own headline tour of all five countries in the British Isles (dubbed ‘The Easy Ways To Be Happy Tour’). These shows featured a glimpse of new songs coming in 2024.

“”An interesting lad with an elastic turn of phrase” – Steve Lamacq, BBC 6 Music

“Nice set. Kinks-y vibes” – Carl Barat, The Libertines

“The idiosyncratic but ever so loveable Chris Tavener. Try and see him live, he really creates an amazing atmosphere” – Mark Radcliffe (BBC Radio 2)

www.christavener.co.uk
www.facebook.com/christavener
www.youtube.com/christavener
https://www.patreon.com/christavener

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