Prog / Space / Psychedelic / Electro
Sadly Bryan Beasley their drummer from REDDITCH !..... left the band in 2020 ..... but as this is a brilliant band I have decided to leave it on this website.
Looking forward to Bryan's fantastic drumming again in the near future !
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We have links in Redditch ( Max lives in Redditch ).... and Kidderminster / Bewdley where the other members live…Losa are a young four piece band with influences ranging from Pink Floyd, David Bowie to Black Sabbath. Our keyboard player, Luke, has just completed his ATCL piano diploma.
Check out Autumn's Son EP on Spotify, iTunes or YouTube
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These two guys live in Batchley , REDDITCH !
An Art - Pop duo
Greg Clarke vocals and guitar
Ben Gibbs vocals and keys
plus backing musicians.
" We are lucky enough in the real world to play our music for lovely faces in lovely places. If the lovely places were no longer there, it would be incredibly sad. These places are ran by people who want people to have a place to party, and they need more help than they are getting. The show must go on."
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"Born and bred in REDDITCH I am a musician / composer / producer available for hire for live performance, writing and producing.
My main skills are electric guitar, acoustic guitar, classical guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, FL Studio, Cubase, producing and composing."
Clem has been playing guitar since 1989 and started just to get out of French lesson's!
Since then he has played in many Midlands based bands and played with many musicians ranging from folk, rock, progressive rock to blues, flamenco and jazz, gigging all over the country.
He has become well known around the Redditch area for his 'guitar acrobatics', speed playing and other fancy techniques on all types of guitars! He has been teaching since 1997 and has been a member of RGT (The Registry of Guitar Tutors) since 2001 with a 100% pass rating with all students entering into exams from Preliminary/Initial to Grade 8 and diploma's.
Many of his past and present pupils play in local and well known bands on the gigging circuit.
He has recorded and produced many local artists, and has played guitar and bass for many artists across the UK live and in studio.
He has also appeared on BBC Radio and BBC TV!
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RR Dallaway – guitar, vocals, keyboards (The Cravats, The Very Things and Silverlake), born and lived in Redditch until mid 1980s.
The Shend – bass, vocals (The Very Things), lived in Redditch until mid 1980s
Svor Naan saxophone, clarinet (The Cravats, The Very Things guest), lived in Redditch until early 2000s.
Disney Time – drums (The Very Things) lived in Redditch and Studley.
Steven Burrows – bass, guitar (The Very Things, also a former member of ‘And Also The Trees’) lived in Redditch until 1990s.
Tony Sherrard – bass (The Very Things and Silverlake) lives in Redditch
Origins and Brief Biography
The Very Things (TVT) were originally formed in 1983 by RR Dallaway and The Shend (who had in 1977 been founder members of punk/post-punk Crass Records legends and John Peel favourites, The Cravats).
Their mission was to create a ‘flexible container’ for a variety of personnel, music and ideas. Their art-pop projects were infused with the band’s distinct brand of surreal, black humour.
In 1984, TVT’s debut album The Bushes Scream While My Daddy Prunes scored an indie hit with the well-loved and still frequently played (especially at Hallowe’en) title track, with its themes of neurosis and control, based on a newspaper report of a man who had accidentally set fire to his house trying to remove moles from his garden. The cult black and white video for ‘The Bushes Scream…’ made for Channel 4’s ‘The Tube’, a much-loved homage to vintage sci-fi films, was reputedly the most expensive film ever made by Tyne Tees TV for the revered music programme and still clocks up thousands of views online.
Motortown, the band’s second album, released in 1987, included the BBC Radio 1 play-listed indie hits ‘This Is Motortown’ and ‘Let’s Go Out’. ‘In a blaze of supercharged funk rhythms and twanging guitars arrives the sound of Motortown, UK... The Very Things have forged an essential slice of indie funk’. Music Week.
Having initially parted ways in 1988, The Very Things have now returned, with added GXL, to release their first new recordings in 35 years.
This coming January 10th, 2025, sees the welcome general release of Mr. Arc-Eye (under a cellophane sky), bringing TVT firmly back into the contemporary music scene. The album was first released as a limited edition vinyl album in summer 2024 to wide critical acclaim. With principle songwriter, vocalist and instrumentalist RR Dallaway leading the project, the line-up includes original members Steven Burrows (bass), Disney Time (drums), new recruit Tony Sherrard (bass) and special guest, The Cravats’ Svor Naan (saxophones and clarinet).
It contains ‘ghosts, radiation, an electrician, rivers of sand, a toga, Samantha Stephens, an antique suit, space walks and a scrap iron man’. Album themes include: illusion and truth, belief and reality.