Lazy Snake lurk in the West of Scotland, and they are that part of the world's foremost 60s & 70s Rock & Soul Cover Band.
Lazy Snake are three experienced & accomplished musicians with top rock credentials.
Visually and aurally stunning, a Lazy Snake show is not to be missed!
Loud & Happy in Fife!
The band's first gig in Rosyth at the Gothenburg went down a storm on 19 November! An audience which knew its music very well inumdated the Snake with requests - including CCR's Up Around the Bend. Another Creedence favourite, Proud Mary was very well received. Pick of the evening was Big Country's Chance, the afforementioned Proud Mary, and rousing renditions of Bowie's Rebel Rebel and Ziggy Stardust. The old favourites like Comfortably Numb, Message in a Bottle and Don't Believe a Word were again delivered with the usual thunder, and the newer songs like REM fave The One I Love went down very well with a loud and happy rocking audience. Tub thumping versions of The Foo Fighters' Everlong were well received as was No One Knows, the Queens of the Stone Age stomper, which is now becoming a set highlight. Perhaps the top point of the night was the debut of Lennie Kravitz's Are You Gonna Go My Way.
The band were well looked after by staff at the Gothenburg, and appreciated by a great crowd! The band will be looking forward to an early return to this top venue!
Lazy Snake's was formed in 2008 when Gerry Rattigan, Sean McCartan and John Cole, who had all played with one another in some shape or form over a period of years, decided to indulge their love of classic rock and soul music by forming Lazy Snake. Gerry left in July 2010 amidst increasing concerns for his health, and was replaced by Steven Leonard in August 2010.
All three had been playing in covers bands playing a mixture of chart & oldies covers, but with pedigrees very much steeped in the rock and blues traditions of the 60s and 70s, all three were anxious to dedicate themselves to those traditions. "Covers bands tend to be in two distinct types", says Lenny, "Either you are a tribute band or you play chart stuff".
"We wanted to have a bit more flexibilty than the tribute bands, and avoid doing crappy 'New Pop' altogether".
Lead guitarist John Cole, expands further; "Although the main driving force of what we offer is in the great traditions of the sixties and seventies, we didn't want to be so narrow as to exclude great music from older artists and bands like Buddy Holly, Eddy Cochran and Roy Orbison; or newer acts like the Foo Fighters, REM, Radiohead and the Kings of Leon".
The result is Lazy Snake, a band dedicated to, but not exclusively the servant of classic rock and soul.
A look at the setlist HERE will demonstrate also that Lazy Snake have decided to become adventurous in their choice of material. "Songs like 'Message in a Bottle' and 'Comfortably Numb' for example are not usually to be found in setlists of three-piece bands," says bassist and lead vocalist Sean McCartan; "but we found it to be a challenge musically - and even more interesting to see the reaction of knowledgable audiences when we managed to pull it all off."
Setlists are planned to have maximum impact on the audience, event and venue types.
The band have a huge sound which belies thier three-piece status, and use state of the art music technology allied to prodigous musical talents to deliver a studio-quality sound whwrever they are asked to play. The current band setlist is around sixty songs and the band's road crew carry with them a mobile DJ rig which can be used to play out lists of songs whilst the band is offstage, thus maximising the musical activity throughout the gig.
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Lenny has a couple of decades behind him working as a musician all over the world, playing in bands in the UK and Europe during his career. An IT consultant, Steven's pre-Snake credits include The New Corinthians.
Now the main driving force of the Snake's legendary mesmerising momentum, Lenny's musical homeland is in alternative rock and soul music; The Unwinding Hours, Wilson Picket and Isaac Hayes being among his musical heroes.
The engine-room, and lead vocalist of Lazy Snake, Big Sean has been playing in bands in Scotland and Ireland for over twenty years. His unique bass-playing style (Sean plays a lefthanded Rickenbacker UPSIDE DOWN!) is uncompromising and brings a relentless and hyptnotic impulse to Lazy Snake.
By day a social worker, Sean's former credits include, Ellectric Soup, and Private Land. He also co- wrote and produced Private Land's No Tressspassing album.
Sean's musical preferences are varied. "I'm a great fan of 70s bands and artists like Thin Lizzy and Frank Zappa, but I also love Badfinger: Great pop band they were!".
PRS SE Soapbar Maple IIJohn has been playing in bands in and around Glasgow for over twenty-five years, alongside a career as a producer, session musician and teacher of Mathematics. Notable former billets include, Haarlem, The Assassins, Tons of Sobs, and Private Land. He also co-wrote all of the songs and produced Private Land's No Tressspassing album.
John's influences as a musician are firmly in the blues/Rock school, being Free, Led Zeppelin and Rory Gallagher. "Paul Kossof, Jimmy Page and Rory are for me the best and most innovative of that great generation of musical genius", says John. "Although I'm also a big fan of pop music!"
"The 60s and 70s were full of groups who produced well crafted songs, and we try to recapture that faithfully in the set".
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