Cutting Crew - Fear Of Falling (live)

The Cutting Crew (Fear Of Falling )
3 Days/ 30 Bands - 18 - 20th of June, Bay Festival, Isle of Man. Info & Tickets - http://www.bayfestival.im.

Although the band has only been together a few years, it took years of individual experience to make them collectively, what they are today. Lead vocalist Nick Van Eede's musical background stretches back to the late seventies, when he was managed by ex-Animal Chas Chandler, who sent him on a tour of Poland as support for Slade. Nick recalls "I went with a kazoo and an acoustic guitar and opened for Slade in amphitheatres in front of 18,000 people. I went down as a storm and had the loudest kazoo in Europe, because Slade took their own PA on the road!" His career continued with tours supporting headliners like David Essex, Hot Chocolate and Alan Price... but there was always the desire for his own band. The Drivers seemed for a while to be that band, and in the early eighties, they took off for Canada, to a new life and a promising deal. Things were looking good, The Drivers had a couple of hits and went on the road, this time with a support of their own... and it was around this time that Fate came up trumps, with the introduction of Kevin MacMichael.
Canadian Kevin was at that time in a band called Fast Forward... the band that was to support the Drivers on the tour. He had gained invaluable experience in Halifax, Nova Scotia, working the cabarets that go on seven nights a week, until three in the morning! Kevin remembers the tour; "By the end of it, I knew The Drivers' songs really well and Nick used to say, 'why don't you come up and sit in?' They were a three piece band and had always wanted to work with another guitarist."

The rest of The Cutting Crew's biography here:
http://blogthebloggers.net/2010/06/13/the-cutting-crew-biography/

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