January 2010
New Year – New Onyx!
Happy New Year from everyone in Blue Onyx!
2010 promises to be even more exciting for us than 2009. Though we were sorry to lose our drummer Mark (personal commitments), we are delighted to welcome onboard Charlie Wade. Charlie is a stalwart of the swinging sixties and enjoyed chart success with his band ‘The Symbols’ as well as also working with ‘Tinkerbell’s Fairydust’ - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinkerbells_Fairydust – where he teamed up with brother and bass player Ged. And now Blue Onyx are fortunate enough to have them both! We’re already rehearsing and looking forward to the new season and some great concerts!
Breaking News – Blue Onyx and Kindred Spirit to play joint gigs! Following our very successful joint venture at Central Studio Basingstoke, we’re planning a number of concerts throughout Southern England during 2010 with folk-rockers Kindred Spirit.
For those of you who’ve not heard them, Kindred Spirit are an electrifying folk/rock band who deliver amazing instrumental virtuosity and some great original songs. Catch their latest Album ‘Metamorphosis’ on the website www.elainesamuels.co.uk.
So watch this space – more details to come shortly.
September 2009
Blue Onyx to open Marlow Festival!
Can’t get to Weyfest next Saturday (5th September) to see us? No problem – come along to Marlow Festival where Blue Onyx will be performing the mid-day opening set, including all time Moodies classics such as “Ride My SeeSaw”, “Legend of a Mind” and, of course, “Nights in White Satin”!
Our 40 minute set will also include, not one, but two Mike Pinder compositions – “Melancholy Man” and “So Deep Within You”. So, if you like the Moody Blues, you’ll love the set we’re unleashing upon the public!
See you there
Blue Onyx Bassist in Fairydust up!!
Ged Wade, bass player for Blue Onyx, is currently enjoying a resurgence of interest in his 60s group “Tinderbells Fairydust”, with a three-page spread in the forthcoming Record Collector and the re-release of their 1969 self-titled album. Their song “2010” reached No.2 in the Japanese charts and the band are intricately woven into the history of pop in the 1960s.
May 2009
Well, the secret’s out – Blue Onyx are booked to play at WeyFest on Saturday 5th September 2009 (http://www.weyfest.co.uk/). It sounds like a great festival to be involved with, what with Jethro Tull headlining the same evening!
We’re very excited to be playing there – we’ll be on the Old Kiln stage along with our good friends Kindred Spirit (www.elainesamuels.co.uk) with whom we shared a memorable night last year at Central Studio Basingstoke. Not sure of all the details yet but we’ll let you know as soon as we have them.
We’re also very pleased with our new DVD which our friend Alex Skidmore has produced for us – should be a good one to show prospective agents. We’ll be posting it up asap so watch this space!