HENRY SMITH - LEAD SINGER
HENRY HAS REGULARLY APPEARED ON TELEVISION PERFORMING LIVE IN THE STUDIO AS WELL AS SHOWING VIDEOS OF HIS PERFORMANCES ON STAGE. SEVEN OUT OF ELEVEN CD’S SO FAR HAVE HIT THE RADIO CHARTS WITH TRACKS ‘MUM AND DAD’, ‘HELLO DJ’, ‘WELCOME TO MY WORLD’ ‘THERE GOES’, ‘I HOPE SHE FALLS’, AND ‘ENOUGH TEQUILA’. THESE TRACKS HAVE BEEN HITS IN THE UK, AND VARIOUS OTHER COUNTRIES INCLUDING HOLLAND, FRANCE, DENMARK, GERMANY AND AUSTRALIA. THE TRACKS ‘MUM AND DAD’ , ‘HELLO DJ’ AND ‘WELCOME TO MY WORLD’ REACHED NUMBER ONE IN THE BRITISH HOTDISC CHART AND ‘ENOUGH TEQUILA’ AND ‘I HOPE SHE FALLS’ REACHED NUMBER TWO.
‘FOOLING MYSELF’ IS A DUET WITH NASHVILLE’S OWN BILLY YATES AND HAS REACHED NUMBER THREE IN THE INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT CHART. ORIGINALLY FROM READING, ENGLAND, HENRY HAS SPENT MOST OF HIS LIFE IN THE PORTSMOUTH AREA. HIS LOVE OF COUNTRY MUSIC STARTED AT A YOUNG AGE WITH STAGE PERFORMANCES FROM 5 YEARS OLD. A WELL TOURED COUNTRY ARTIST, HE HAS HAD NUMEROUS APPEARANCES AND SHARED THE STAGE WITH ARTISTS SUCH AS MARK CHESNUTT, BILLY YATES, BILLY JO SPEARS, HEATHER MILES, JONI HARMS, EVE SELLIS, JON RANDELL AND DANNI LEE. HIS INFLUENCES INCLUDE ALAN JACKSON, RANDY TRAVIS, GEORGE JONES AND GARTH BROOKS. HENRY IS RENOWNED FOR HIS DEDICATION AND LIVELY STAGE PERFORMANCES. DESCRIBED BY MANY MUSIC CRITICS AS THE UK’S NUMBER ONE COUNTRY ARTIST HENRY HAS FILMED AND PRESENTED HIS OWN TV SHOW THAT WAS FILMED WITH A LIVE AUDIENCE AND WAS AIRED ON SKY TV. HENRY WORKED HARD ALONGSIDE CREW MEMBERS DURING EACH FILMING, HE CONTROLLED THE SOUND AND LIGHTING FOR THE ARTISTS AND BANDS, HE HELPED WITH THE CAMERAS AND ALSO MIXED THE TV SHOW TO BE AIRED ON SKY.
GREG PADMORE -DRUMS
GREG STARTED PERFORMING WHEN HE WAS JUST 6 YEARS OLD, HE WAS FOLLOWING IN HIS FATHERS FOOTSTEPS, MUSIC HAS BEEN A BIG INSPIRATION AND PASSION TO HIS FAMILY. GREG’S BEEN AROUND MUSIC HIS WHOLE LIFE AND IT’S IN HIS BLOOD. WHEN GREG WAS 16 HE JOINED THE CHALKE VALLEY BAND, HE WAS THE YOUNGEST IN THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND TO DO THIS. HE LATER WENT ON IN CAREER TO JOIN HANK DALTON & COUNTRY GOLD. WHO LATER CHANGED TO HANK DALTON & THE DALTON BOYS. THIS IS WHERE GREG WAS INTRODUCED TO HENRY SMITH. WHEN HANK RETIRED HENRY TOOK OVER THE BAND AND THEY BECAME HENRY SMITH & THE DALTON BOYS. HE STAYED WITH THE BAND FOR 12 AMAZING YEARS , WHERE HE TOURED WITH HENRY ALL OVER THE UK, EUROPE AND USA CREATING A MASSIVE FOLLOWING.
AFTER 12 YEARS WITH THE BAND GREG DECIDED TO COME OFF THE ROAD AND BE A PART TIME DRUMMER FOR HENRY WHEN NEIL WAS UNABLE TO MAKE A GIG.
GREG HAS A HUGE PASSION FOR MUSIC AND HE COULDN’T KEEP THE MUSIC FROM BEATING INSIDE OF HIM. WHEN HENRY FELL SICK AND WAS UNABLE TO TALK OR SING GREG WATCHED HIM OVER COME THE ILLNESS THAT TOOK NEARLY 6 YEARS FROM HENRY. HE WATCHED HENRY’S CONFIDENCE GROW AS HE DEFINED ALL THE DOCTORS DIAGNOSIS. HE WAS TOLD HE WOULD NEVER TALK AGAIN. BUT HENRY WAS HAVING NONE OF THIS, AND WAS DETERMINED TO PROVE THEM WRONG.
THIS SPARKED A FLAME INSIDE OF GREG AND HE MADE THE DECISION TO COME BACK TO THE BAND FULL TIME. MUSIC IS INSIDE OF GREG’S BONES JUST AS MUCH AS HENRY’S WATCHING THEM PERFORM TOGETHER IS CERTAINLY A GIG YOU WANT TO MAKE IT ALONG TOO.
TONY HORNSBY -BASS GUITAR
TONY GREW UP LISTENING TO COUNTRY MUSIC AS MY ELDEST BROTHER PLAYED GUITAR.
INFLUENCES FROM DUANE EDDY TO CHET ATKINSON AND JOHNNY CASH TO GLEN CAMPBELL.
AFTER MOVING TO THE YORKSHIRE AREA FROM THE NORTH EAST AROUND 1990 WITH WORK I EVENTUALLY JOINED THE JON J PAUL BAND PLAYING THE UK COUNTRY CIRCUIT. THIS BAND EVENTUALLY MORPHED INTO C’EST LA VIE GOING ON TO BACK MANY VISITING AMERICAN ARTISTS INCLUDING GENE WATSON, MO BANDY, JOHNNY RODRIGUEZ, JERRY KILGORE AND BILLY YATES, BECOMING A MAINSTAY OF THE UK COUNTRY SCENE. DRUMMER LEE GUYLER AND MYSELF LATER WENT ON TO PLAY WITH PHIL VASSAR ON HIS VISITS TO THIS COUNTRY FROM NASHVILLE.
DARREN BINNS -KEYBOARDS
DARREN BINNS STARTED PLAYING COUNTRY MUSIC AT THE YOUNG AGE OF 10, ALONGSIDE HIS FATHER, DONALD BINNS, AND SISTER, DONNA BINNS. TOGETHER, THEY FORMED A TRIO OR BAND NAMED DABAND. THEIR EARLY FAMILY COLLABORATION LAID THE FOUNDATION FOR DARREN'S LIFELONG PASSION FOR MUSIC.
BY THE AGE OF 16, DARREN HAD LEFT SCHOOL TO PURSUE A BUSINESS EDUCATION AT COLLEGE. HOWEVER, HIS MUSICAL JOURNEY CONTINUED AS HE JOINED THE SUCCESSFUL TOURING BAND, SUNDOWN. SUNDOWN TOURED THE UK FOR FOUR YEARS, BACKING AMERICAN ARTISTS AND PERFORMING IN FRONT OF ROYALTY, WHICH PROVIDED DARREN WITH INVALUABLE EXPERIENCE AND EXPOSURE.
IN 1998, DARREN AND HIS FATHER DON FORMED THE COUNTRY MUSIC DUO CLEAR CUT. THE DUO PERFORMED ACROSS VARIOUS VENUES IN THE UK, CAPTIVATING AUDIENCES WITH THEIR HARMONIOUS TUNES AND HEARTFELT PERFORMANCES.
IN 2012, DARREN WAS INVITED TO JOIN THE SINGER-SONGWRITER JOHN TAYLOR'S BAND. THIS OPPORTUNITY ALLOWED HIM TO WORK ALONGSIDE SOME OF THE TOP UK MUSICIANS, FURTHER HONING HIS SKILLS AND EXPANDING HIS MUSICAL REPERTOIRE.
THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER, DARREN HAS PERFORMED WITH NUMEROUS BANDS AND ARTISTS, INCLUDING:
• THE JOHN PERMENTER BAND • SALTCREEK • THE DOLBY GANG • UK TOUR WITH SAND KELLY & GEORGE HAMILTON • THE GARTH BROOKS EXPERIENCE • TIM MCGRAW EXPERIENCE • DARREN BUSBY DUO
IN 2020, DARREN'S FATHER DON DECIDED TO RETIRE. DARREN WAS THEN ASKED TO PERFORM ALONGSIDE THE MULTI-AWARD-WINNING ARTIST DARREN BUSBY. THE DARREN BUSBY DUO HAS BEEN GOING FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH ON THE COUNTRY MUSIC SCENE, GAINING ACCLAIM AND RECOGNITION FOR THEIR STELLAR PERFORMANCES.
IN HIS SPARE TIME, DARREN ENJOYS EXERCISING AND RAISING MONEY FOR CHARITY, SHOWCASING HIS DEDICATION TO BOTH PERSONAL WELL-BEING AND GIVING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY.
DARREN BINNS' JOURNEY THROUGH THE WORLD OF COUNTRY MUSIC IS A TESTAMENT TO HIS TALENT, DEDICATION, AND PASSION. FROM PLAYING WITH HIS FAMILY TO PERFORMING ALONGSIDE RENOWNED ARTISTS, DARREN HAS MADE A SIGNIFICANT MARK ON THE COUNTRY MUSIC SCENE AND CONTINUES TO INSPIRE AUDIENCES WITH HIS MUSIC.
ALEX MCALLISTER -LEAD GUITAR
ORIGINALLY FROM BEDFORDSHIRE , ALEX COMES FROM A VERY MUSICAL FAMILY . HE WAS TAUGHT TO PLAY GUITAR BY HIS GRANDAD IVAN WHO ALSO PLAYED GUITAR IN A COUNTRY BAND CALLED COUNTRY RHYTHM .
IN 2008 HE RELOCATED TO THE WEST MIDLANDS AND BECAME MUSICAL DIRECTOR FOR SEVERAL WEST END SHOWS AND AFTER A LONG JOURNEY PLAYING VARIOUS DIFFERENT STYLES OF MUSIC ALEX HAS COME “BACK HOME “ TO COUNTRY MUSIC . ALEX HAS BEEN WITH THE HENRY SMITH BAND OCCASIONALLY BUT NOW IS LOOKING FORWARD TO MORE SHOWS IN THE FUTURE .
