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MANDY NUTTALL:             Vocals  &  Additional Instrumentation

DAVID CHARLES:         Guitar and Backing Vocals

KEVAN BARRETT:               Sax & Keys

Gear

Saxes:       Selmer Super 80 Alto,  Yanagisawa Elimona Tenor

Keys:         Yamaha Motif ES6; Nord Electro 3

Amp:          Carlsboro Colt 120 Combo

I always wanted to take up the saxophone but I never got around to it until I was 20.
Fortunately I made rapid progress and soon started to play sax and clarinet in a local swing band at the start of the 1980’s.
I soon got the urge to play rock and played in a couple of original and covers bands, none of which achieved any significance.

In the mid 80’s, I took a short break to start a family but didn’t count on that lasting for 16 years!

During that time I kept my hand in by playing clarinet in a wind band and teaching myself the rudiments of keyboards.

In 2002 I was tempted back to live rock music again when I could not resist the opportunity to become my sax idol Andy Mackay in a proposed Roxy Music tribute band.

Despite many months of rehearsal the Roxy thing never quite made it to gig, however an offshoot of that, a covers band (Under The Covers) specialising in the ‘Interesting side of the sixties’ played several gigs including three gigs at the Robin 1 and 2. Despite some favourable reviews, this outfit never reached it’s full potential and slowly folded.

That brings me up to 2004, when I became the final founder member of The Bootlegs and from the beginning of 2008 my new venture The Contra Band.

NIGEL MINETT:                     Bass

DEP                 Drums & Vocals