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Thread #141077   Message #3245010
Posted By: Vic Smith
26-Oct-11 - 08:40 AM
Thread Name: The Ship Band ; Fraud Ceilidh band
Subject: RE: The Ship Band ; Fraud Ceilidh band
Yes, certainly Geckoes. They performed at our Lewes Folk Festival earlier this month and were pretty damn good.

And whilst I am writing, could I put in a word for Chris Mulvey and his Jigs'n'Reels agency, as he has posted in this thread. Our band, The Sussex Pistols, generally get plenty of work, thank you very much - and we have encountered some not-entirely-honest sharp operators amongst agents so that generally, when agents approach us, we say, "We don't work through agents, thank you very much." However, Chris approaches us several times a year and we always take the gigs that he offers us if we are free. He is friendly, easy to work with and efficient and I would recommend him to anyone. I don't think that he has bands that are "on his books"; I think he has - over the years - built up a network of bands that he knows that he can work with in different parts of the country.