I recently received news of The Prowse Brothers - the Wellington fusion band (jazz,/bluegrass/country/pop/ukulele) - which has, over the last decade, performed to sell-out concerts at the Petone Blues Club. It seems that the 'boys' have no plans for future gigs and may in fact disband.
Contrary to popular knowledge, Chris Prowse, the 'leader' of the band is NOT the band's founder.
The founder, in fact (according to him) is younger brother Richard Prowse who came up with the idea , organised the band's formation and hassled his four brothers to practise and perform.
Well done that man!*
I had the pleasure to see the band perform on two occasions at Petone and thoroughly enjoyed it. The eclectic repertoire of original compositions from at least three of the members and a sprinkling of good old classics kept the audience entertained for what seemed like hours on end.
They will be missed unless they reform, perhaps under a new name.
I discovered an interesting 'parallel' band that Richard (and Chris) could investigate and borrow some ideas from:
Remember- everything can be reinvented.
* Father McCann - General Science teacher.
Wow! Good stuff, what a coincidence! And all their songs sound the same - just like the PBs and their plinkety plonk intros! A parallel universe!
ReplyDeleteI hated those plinkety plonk intros! The violins should have just started on the 4th beat!
ReplyDeleteWell, don't take this wrong but, the negative things you said, like how we should be playing string quintet parts, and saying the band wasn't very good didn't please Chris, who assumed he was in charge. Remember that recording when you were a bit out of tune (no big problem) but you looked to blame other things? I guess the biggest problem was that Chris seemed to think that it was his band. Anyway, all water under the bridge now.
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