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INNERVSION... to party in the park!
Salisbury District Scouts have recently
booked INNERVISION to help them celebrate St George's Day
2010. The 500 - 700 Cubs Scout, Explorer Scouts, and their
leaders from around the Salisbury district will be converging
on Bishopdown Farm recreation area and pavilion on Sunday
25th April in the afternoon to enjoy a "Party in the
park"
This will be a fun outdoor event with live music and various
other stalls and attractions for everyone. The band have been
booked to play live on the outdoor stage as the main band
for the afternoon and are looking forward to rocking the afternoon
away with everyone who's there... we might even have to resurrect
that great classic " We will rock you " by Queen
to get the party off to a classic hand above your heads start!
We would all like to congratulate Stacey
one of our singers on the good news of becoming pregnant with
her second child. The new baby is due some time at the beginning
of June 2010 so we would like to wish her and her husband
Andy all the best luck in the world with the new baby when
it arrives. Stephanie will soon be taking over all the singing
duties in the band whilst Stacey takes a well earned break
from the band to have the baby. We look forward to her rejoining
us some time later in the year when she will not be quite
so busy juggling with the constant round of nappy changes,
feeding and all the care and attention the new addition to
her family is going to need... all with the usual lack of
sleep a newborn baby brings!
Vocalist Stephanie Murray from Salisbury
is the latest addition to the band. So a big welcome to Innervision
from us all. Stephanie is already a successful solo singer
in her own right and has agreed to join the band as our second
vocalist to share the singing duties with Stacey. This will
ensure that we will always have one or other vocalist available
for our busy schedule of gigs. Stephanie will be spending
the next couple of months rehearsing with the band to learn
the two hour long live sets that the band play and we hope
to have some new demos up on the website in the near future
showcasing Stephanie's voice with some of the material she
has been rehearsing with us.
INNERVISION at Wiltshire Wedding Show, Sunday 4th Oct '09, Salisbury
City Hall.
Innervision has recently been invited to perform on the
main stage at the forthcoming Wiltshire
Wedding Show which is taking place on Sunday 4th October
in the City Hall, Salisbury. This is a great opportunity for
the band to show couples and their parents from across the
South exactly what we can offer their evening reception as
a professional wedding band with over 10 years experience.
Innervision will probably be playing just before the main
bridal shows hopefully keeping the audience entertained and
tapping their feet as they take their seats to wait for the
fashion shows to start.
If you are looking for a wedding band this will be a great
chance to come along and see and hear us performing live with
our full set up and also have an opportunity to talk to the
band members afterwards about the details and requirements
of your particular wedding reception.
Of course the main hall and foyer area will be packed with
all sorts of other vendors showing off their particular wedding
services so it's also a great opportunity to look at all the
things you will need to help make you wedding a day that everyone
will remember.
Live-R ... Live music raising funds for liver research.
INNERVISION recently played at a charity fundraising event
being held at Salisbury's main advertising and design agency
- Trevor Peters Design. We donated our services for free to
help raise money for the liver research department at Kings
College Hospital in London. Pete Smith one of the partners
at Trevor Peters Design has a young son Louis who attends
the hospital for a liver complaint so this was a very worthwhile
cause close to his family's heart.
The event was really well attended and with the band in full
swing it was a great success, raising over £1500 on
the night from a mixture of ticket sales, a grand raffle with
superb prizes being donated by local businesses, and many
kind donations on the night. There is still further money
to receive so the final total raised could be well over £2000!
We were very pleased to use our live performance to help
liver research.
We
would like to welcome Stacey Mogg, Innervision's new vocalist.
Things have to move on and as we all know...
time also moves on pretty quickly too. As we are already busy
with weddings and functions booked up to play from early 2009
right into 2010, the band urgently needed to set about looking
for a new vocalist to sing in and front the band.
As luck would have it, it wasn't long before
we came across Stacey. Her audition surprised us all... after
learning a few songs to show us what she could do, Stacey
really blew us away at the audition with her enthusiasm and
very natural talent for singing. A different sound to Teresa,
but none the less a brilliant voice which will easily cope
with the wide range of songs the band have always played.
We fairly much offered Stacey the job on
the spot... so problem solved? - well almost! We then had
two full hours of live music to practice up with Stacey to
get the band ready for all the up and coming gigs.
With several weeks of a grueling practice
schedule completed we are now ready and looking forward to
getting out there to entertain once again. We hope to start
introducing some new material into the live sets in the near
future and will also be updating the demo songs and pictures
on the bands website, as soon as we have time, to help compliment
the new look band.
It is with great regret that in early January
this year Teresa our vocalist decided to leave the band. With
a very hectic work schedule running her own business, Teresa
decided that it was time to give up the very tiring extra
workload of late nights, practicing and playing gigs that
singing in the band requires.
Teresa has always been very committed to
the band and has never let us down on any gig in all that
time, which is quite a record! On occasions she has sung with
colds, flu, a sprained ankle and even a broken leg. At times
she has even called others in the band very upset, not because
of her own injury or illness... but afraid that she might
let a bride or groom down on their big day... so she has always
shown true dedication to the band
Teresa has been playing in this and various
other bands with some of the Innervision musicians for over
25 years so it has also been a sad time for both Teresa and
the band. We will all remember all the great times and sometimes
hilarious incidents we have had playing gigs together over
all these years (remember the squawking parrot gig Teresa
?!? )
It only remains for us to thank Teresa for
all her input and effort into Innervision over the years and
more importantly for being such a close good friend to us
all. We wish her all the peace, happiness and rest that she
really does deserve.
Well It might be a while before he can, that's if he takes
after his dad... as Sam or Samuel Brockway is only a matter
of a few days old!
We would all like to congratulate Andy our keyboard player
and his wife Sue on the arrival of their first baby - little
Samuel Brockway, who was born on Friday morning on the 5th
December at Oddstock Hospital Salisbury.
As with everything in the band, planning was everything!
Once we knew the due date we set about booking out a number
of weeks either side of this so that Andy could be at the
right place at the right time to do his bit at the birth???
Mind you, nearly two weeks past the due date we were all beginning
to slightly panic! But sure enough, in his own time, Samuel
made his debut onto the world stage and a few days later his
dad was out playing again... earning some nappy funds!
Good reason to smile... as once again
the band recently offered to play at Alderbury Scout Group
fundraiser which this year was an Autumn Ball, and a great
success it was too!
After weeks of advertising and selling
tickets, and a full afternoon spent decorating the village
hall, it finally came to the evening of the Ball! All worries
of being able make up numbers at such a difficult financial
time evaporated as mums and dads turned up in dinner jackets
and ball gowns, with their children from the local Beavers,
Cubs and Scouts to support the event. With the Wiltshire Scouts
County Commissioner also attending it was all eyes on the
band to produce a couple of entertaining live sets throughout
the evening .
It wasn't long before the band had
people up dancing and with a delicious buffet supper in the
interval along with disco music and a raffle the whole evening
proved a great success, finally ending on the colossal Robbie
Williams hit "Angels".
An early estimate of over £500 has been raised so
a brilliant effort by all involved. This will now be put forward
as the 10% deposit the Scouts need to secure a £5000
grant they have applied for from the local council to be able
to kit out the whole Scout group with new camping gear .."
Gin gang goolly goolly goolly goolly what's it.... "
If you have any doubt about the musicianship in Innervision
then take a look at Dave's latest guitar solo offering on
Youtube. Not that Dave is going to blast you away with this
masterpiece at your wedding or function but it does show the
level of playing ability within the band. The whole band strive
to practice on a regular basis always aiming to give you the
best live performance we can produce at your function..."rock
on matey!"
The band had a great day at the Bath
Chronicle Wedding Fayre in the Pavilion Theatre, Bath on Sunday
12th October.
Despite requiring an early 7.30am set off to get to the venue
in time to complete both our stage set up and to arrange our
display stand, we arrived at the venue with plenty of enthusiasm.
Within a couple of hours we were ready for the 11 o'clock
opening. After both our morning and afternoon live sets our
stand was very busy with couples grabbing any information
they could on the band to take away with them, as well as
taking a few bookings on the spot.
This
was a good oportunity to hear and see the band live and take
away useful information packs, leaflets, demo CDs, and have
a chance for prospective clients to have a good chat with the
band about what we could offer their particular evening reception.
If you missed us at the wedding fayre don't forget you are welcome
to come to see and hear us at one of our regular practice sessions
in Salisbury on a Tuesday evening.
Innervision have been invited to play on
the main stage at the Bath Chronicle newspapers wedding fayre
which is being held in The Bath Pavilion on 12th October 2008.
We have been asked to play a half hour live set of music before
both of the main bridal fashion shows which will take place
in the morning and during the afternoon of the wedding fayre.
This is a great opportunity for anyone interested in booking
the band to come along and see and hear exactly what we do
live, as we will be using our full lightshow and P.A.
The band will also have an exhibition area
at the wedding show where you will be able to meet and talk
to band members and pick up information leaflets and demo
CDs. We will also have booking forms at the ready should anyone
wish to book up on the day. It should be a very interesting
and useful event for anyone getting married, with all types
of other wedding services on show throughout the day.
A few months ago Trevor answered the phone
at home to receive a call enquiring about booking the band.
Nothing unusual with this, apart from it was an English guy
with a slight American twang in his accent! On further enquiry
Trevor realised the client was calling from California USA!
His first reaction was to politely mention that although the
band are always prepared to travel to most venues, flying
the band halfway around the world to do one gig wasn't really
going to be an option... well at least not without a huge
fee to cover traveling!!
However, a few minutes into the conversation
all became clear, we would be playing at a party in Cirencester,
Gloucestershire at the brand new Four Pillars Hotel at the
beautiful Cotswold Water Park. The client was returning to
his home
town with his family to celebrate his 60th
birthday party with relatives and old time friends he hadn't
seen for quite a while having spent the past 20 years in the
USA! Most of the communications from then on were through
e-mail due to the time difference between here and the US
and eventually with a contract signed and deposit paid by
bank transfer we were all booked up.
The band had a great time at the party playing
to a really great bunch of people. We had been invited to
join in the party and really appreciated the very friendly
atmosphere and hospitality we were shown from the start. We
would like to say a big thank you to Pat and Kathy for booking
us... who knows, one day we might even make it over to California!
Innervision recently played at Connells Estate
agents Charity Auction & Ball with all proceeds going to the
Naomi House Children's Hospice which helps children suffering
with cancer. We were only too glad to help out and offered
our services for free for the evening with just some petrol
money to cover our traveling costs. It was a great night for
all the acts involved including local girl group "Aphrodisiac"
who previously appeared in X Factor. Despite freezing weather
and gales there was a full turnout from all who were invited
and a substantial sum raised for a very worthwhile charity.
No comedians... but you had to be there to see the funny side!
Always willing to help out we recently saved
the day during a function at Hoburne's Bashley Park Holiday
Centre at New Milton, Hampshire. We had been booked to play two one hour
slots at The Caravan Club of Great Britain's 2007 AGM evening
party. A cabaret act in the form of a comedian had also been
booked through a local agency for a short set after the evening
dinner. We had previously offered the comedian use of our
sound system for his act but as the start time of the function
approached, there was no sign of a comedian to sound check...
which was no joke!
By the end of our first set there was still
no sign of the comedian and joking aside this had become no
laughing matter!
After being asked by the organisers if we could possibly do
an extra set to cover for the comedian, we quickly put together
an extra set of songs and took full responsibility for the
rest of the evening's entertainment. So with a few humorous
moments along the way we set about saving the evening and
keeping the party going. We followed the live set with a great
mix of disco sounds played through our P.A. system whilst
we took a well earned break!
With a very popular ABBA medley starting our final set we
instantly had everyone up on the dance floor and being a great
audience they stayed there right to the very end. We finished
a very long night with a powerful Byan Adams number followed
by a couple of well deserved encores.
However, the last laugh was on us... as we tried playing a
very unique version of Take That's "A Million Love Songs".
We are no comedians... but you had to be there to see the
funny side.
With months of planning and effort
behind it, the open-air Burgate School reunion 50th Jubilee
Party on Friday 6th July was all ready to go. The only thing
that needed organising was the very bad weather! INNERVISION
had been booked months earlier but with the recent spate of
very wet weather continuing to ruin all things outdoors the
title to our favourite slow song "Aint no sunshine anymore"
was starting to sound all too true.
But as the big day came the sunshine finally broke through
and as luck would have it stayed out all day and right through
the evening and in fact for most of the weekend. Just as well,
with over 1200 people who turned up with picnics for the reunion
party to enjoyed a surprising but lovely summer evening.
It didn't take long for the children at the front to start
the dancing and not long after and a few glasses of wine later
the adults surrendered to the beat of Innervision's music
with everyone up dancing having great fun.
In time honored fashion the evening concluded with fireworks
exploding in the sky above the school to bring the evening
to a very successful end.... A perfect reunion with friends
and sunshine!
After hearing a version of Canon Rock, Dave
was challenged by his son Tom to learn it and post it on Youtube.
Like a true professional (and someone who rises to a challenge!)
here is the result....
After weeks of planning and a morning of setting up, the
curtains were finally raised at 2.30pm on Saturday 17th February
at the Salisbury City Hall for the District Scouts' Centenary
Party. With the band playing Happy Birthday, accompanied by
an 800 strong chorus of Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and their leaders
it was a great start to the event.
After a quick intro by Spire FM 's breakfast DJ Chris Ewington
we started our "set proper" with the drums hitting
out the massive BOOM BOOM Crack! ... BOOM BOOM Crack! of Queen's
"We will Rock You". Teresa immediately had everyone
doing the textbook hand clapping actions and singing along
to the chorus whilst Dave blasted the audience with the final
blistering guitar solo in true Brian May "We will rock
you" fashion! What a start to the party!
The band finished the first set on a Brian Adams Classic "Summer
of '69 " before Chris was back on to introduce Jonathan
the Jester. A half hour of amazing stunts followed dotted
with his usual cheeky patter and finishing on a death-defying
act juggling with knives whilst walking astride a selection
of Cubs, Scouts and Leaders. Ouch!
After a short break Jonathan with a magician were back to
complete their act leaving the band to finish the party with
an energetic second set, finishing on the huge Robbie Williams
hit "Angels" accompanied by the whole audience waving
side to side whilst singing along right to the massive ending
..... " We Will Rock You" ... and we certainly
did!
Following on from the recent success of the Alderbury
Scouts Christmas bash the band has been booked to help celebrate
Salisbury Districts Scouts Centenary of Scouting party at
the City Hall Salisbury on 17th February.
INNERVISION have been asked to open and close the event with
two live sets in front of a 900 capacity audience of Beavers,
Cubs, Scouts, Explorers and Scout Leaders from past and present.
The event will also include Spire FM's breakfast show
DJ Chris Ewington, local children's entertainer Jonathan the
Jester and a well known magician/illusionist from Bournemouth,
as well as a huge 100th birthday cake.... wonder who will
be blowing the candles out on that!
INNERVISION recently played at Alderbury
Scouts main fund raising event of the year, the December “BIG
BASH“. The Band were helping the Scouts raise money for activities
planned for 2007 to celebrate a centenary of Scouting. We
offered to play two hours of our usual dance oriented chart
music and gave our services to the Scouts for free. With the
years of experience playing at functions behind us we were
also able to offer some good advice to help make their event
go really well.
So with over a 150 tickets sold, a
delicious buffet prepared by some of the mums, a cheap bar
provided by the local club, raffle prizes donated by the two
local pubs & Post Office and plenty of great live music
to dance to, the evening set off at a
pace with Teresa keeping the atmosphere
in full swing. We had one hairy moment when the hall lights
were affected by a faulty electrical supply, but being plugged
into the stage electrics the band managed to carry on without
any problems.
The night ended with everyone having
a great time with a final result of over £500 being raised
for the Alderbury Scout Group. So well done to all who were
there, we were more than happy to help and had a great time
raising.... Big Bucks for the BIG BASH.
It's that time of year again ...Summer, and this year
at least we do seem to be having one! The band generally try
to take a break from live work and normally book out most
of August to allow us to take our summer holidays in bulk
or at least roughly all at the same time. This means we have
less disruption to the bookings the band can take in the popular
summer wedding periods of June, July and September. No matter
where and how far we all end up going it's great to have a
break away from the band and to rejuvenate our enthusiasm
for playing together again come September ...which is already
looking very busy!
Don't forget if we don't answer your call straight away
please leave a message on the answer phone or email us with
any dates you are interested in and we will always endeavor
to get back to you as soon as possible.
Can we take this opportunity to wish you all the best
with your summer holidays.
As mentioned in our earlier
article the band were invited to play at this year's Downton
Cuckoo Fair, the village's biggest annual event. Once again,
a record number of people attended with over 20,000 turning
up this year. The band were situated outside the local Hopback
Brewery pub "The Bull Inn". With an ideal sunny
day and vast amounts of real ale on offer with plenty of seating
and tables, it proved to be the best place to be situated.
The band set up the equipment on a makeshift scaffold stage
and played five sets of songs throughout the day keeping the
longest for the very busy lunchtime period. With the sun shining
and the beer flowing, the crowd that had gathered soon got
into the spirit of the event and we had a great time playing
to a pretty large crowd. With the sun slowly sinking we finished
our final encore to cheers of "more".... now was
that for music or beer or both? We have already had the pleasure
of being invited back for next year so make it a date for
your diary.
INNERVISION were recently asked to play at
Blandford Stours Rotary Club Inaugural Spring Charity Ball
at The Corn Exchange in Blandford Town centre. On the evening
it wasn't long before the band had the floor packed with everyone
having a great time dancing.
The objective behind the Rotary Club's Ball,
as always, was to raise money for charity in an enjoyable
fun evening. On this occasion the event raised in excess of
£1500. All the more fun for us having an audience that knew
how to enjoy themselves getting up to the music ...having
a ball of a time!
As always, being so busy with Christmas functions
and parties throughout December, the band rarely get a chance
to get out together for a Christmas bash. So on Monday 27th
March (not a popular night for functions or Xmas parties!)
the band managed to have their Christmas meal followed by
a trip to The Brook in Southampton to see Andrew Roachford
from Roachford fame - does anyone remember Cuddly Toy from
1989?
We started the evening in a Thai restaurant
just up the road from The Brook and had a delicious, but not
very traditional Christmas meal comprising of various Thai
starters followed by a superb maincourse.
Then it was off to The Brook to see the band.
The place was fairly packed for what ended up being a great
set by Roachford. They had a very uncluttered sound and played
through an interesting set comprising some of the band's greatest
hits including some new material from their latest release.
Watching other bands is something we do as
often as possible. We get some great ideas from watching them
playing live, some of which we incorporate into our own gigs.
We're now looking forward to this year's Xmas do ...probably
sometime in March 2007 - Better late than never!
Although serving us well for the past few years
the band decided it was time to replace our reliable but old
Cerwin Vega P.A. system and build on our already extensive
use of the professional Mackie powered speaker series.
Mackie
SRM450 Powered Full Range Unit
Mackie
SWA1801 Powered Bass Bins
We have now invested in some amazing sounding Mackie
SWA1801 powered bass bins. They sound really great with
the two Mackie SRM 450's on top and give us the ability
to play some of the larger venues and outdoor events more
comfortably without having to push the PA system to it's
limits.
Although very compact we soon discovered that the new
bins are extremely heavy! We suppose that's why they are
supplied with caster wheels attached ready to.... rock and
roll!
We are pleased to announce
that we have been asked to play at the famous annual Cuckoo
Fair in Downton, Nr Salisbury on Saturday 29th April 2006.
This is Downton's biggest
annual event and is a craft/village fair suitable for all
the family. We will be one of the bands playing several sets
throughout the day and hope to bring a more modern edge to
the music at the fair which has previously favoured more traditional
jazz, blues and country bands. Why not pop along for a day
out and see us while you're there.
We will be playing outside
the Bull Inn which is on the corner where The Borough joins
the main road (A338).
Click here for map
INNERVISION
raise over £500 for the Children In Need appeal.
INNERVISION
helped raise money for Children In Need when they played a
charity gig at the Escobar in Salisbury. The night was well
supported and a great time was had by all who attended. Thanks
to the generosity of everyone, the total raised for this good
cause was a massive £510.
In an effort to give you
the very best live sound at your particular function Innervision
are always striving to keep up to date with the latest Technological
advances in both sound equipment and instruments. To this
end and in line with the bands policy we have just invested
over £4000 in Roland's TD20 Pro V kit. This is the very
latest pro studio quality drum kit, released by Roland in
the UK in 2005. The TD20 is the replacement of the first revolutionary
mesh head kit, the TD10, as used by the band previously. Trevor
has spent many weeks getting the kit "gig ready"
and is now using it live.
Trevor said "Although
the TD20 is full of brilliant new kits and real drum samples
which sound stunning through a set of stereo headphones, there
is actually quite a bit of programming to be done with the
various sounds to set up the particular drum kit combinations
and EQ's needed to play the kit live. It's a bit of a laborious
process but once complete the kits are then saved and are
ready to use at the touch of a button."
Trevor also said "Roland have
vastly improved the feel of the new kit and there are some
nice touches like adding a little snare rattle to your tom
and bass drum sounds to create that extra bit of realism when
it's needed. It also has the usual onboard arsenal of reverb,
echo, delay, compressors and ambiance effects that all help
to create that great Innervision drum sound"
If you have any further questions or would
like to discuss what INNERVISION
has to offer your particular event please contact
Trevor using the details on the Contact
page
