Everyone’s Favourite Rock Hits performed by Ex-Professional Recording Artists from the 70s
~ Some of us appear on albums on original vinyl - we’re that old!
~ “Outstanding players with great harmony vocals” - playing 60s & 70s Rock Hits
~ Your guest will dance ‘till they drop … and cheer for more
We left the music business professionally decades ago, we don’t do this for the money now; but we’ve always gigged, playing every type of venue. From town halls to village halls; from local pubs to famous rock venues.
Your guests will have a night to remember!!
If you want to see who we used to be, we’ll come up 1st if you search for - below the border rock band
Our fees are low because, for us, the band is about getting back on the road for the joy of performing the soundtrack of our youth exactly like the original chart hits. The best pop music ever!
We’ve all had successful careers since leaving ‘the biz’. So now, in our autumn years with some of us retired, we don’t need to charge folk an arm and a leg to book an exceptional rock band to make your party a special night.
We fill the dance floor with old and young when they hear those iconic guitar intros from ‘our era’ - Born to Be Wild, You Ain’t Seen Nothin Yet, Alright Now, Honky Tonk Women, Sultans of Swing, Radar Love, Rebel Rebel, Get it On, Caroline, Mustang Sally, Twist & Shout, Get Back, etc.
We’ve just added a harmony singer. Gail is also from the 70s and from a musical family. Her cousin is Dave Stewart from the Eurythmics (but her biggest claim to fame is once making a cup of tea for Bob Dylan in Dave’s mum’s little house in Newcastle!)
Artists we cover:
Free, David Bowie, T-Rex, The Kinks, Jimi Hendrix, The Sweet, Thin Lizzy, Badfinger, Golden Earring, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart & Faces, Steppenwolf, Steve Miller, Wilson Picket, Eric Clapton, The Who, Creedence Clearwater, The Hollies and many more
Feel free to get in touch without obligation; we’re ever so friendly!
Noel
Below The Border are a fabulously talented band who played at our wedding anniversary party. Our guests were not exactly spring chickens but absolutely everyone was dancing to their favourite songs from the 70s until midnight. Friends kept asking us, “Who are they and where did you find them?” Some of the lads had record contracts back in the day and that was apparent as soon as they struck up. Brilliant guitarists and singers. Lovely harmony vocals from Gail. Everything sounded exactly like the original records. And they were such nice polite people.
They arrived bang on time, set up their equipment unobtrusively and played two sets of wonderful music. No fuss. Not a single ego in sight. Real Pro’s. Highly recommended!
Thanks so much boys. You made our party such a fantastic success and we’ve had so many messages from our friends telling us how much they enjoyed the music and how good you were. “Gobsmacked by your band” was one and loads saying “Fab band!”
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Below the Border was the absolute perfect addition to our Christmas party. They were super easy to organise everything with and very understanding. On the night they were really slick setting up and didn’t disturb the pre party dinner at all. We are all big music fans and they were absolutely amazing. Fab song choices and as both a band and musicians were incredible. Below the Border were true professionals who I will be recommending to everyone. Thank you so much for a wonderful night, hope you have a wonderful Christmas and new year.
The band came to play for my dad's 70th birthday. Really friendly guys, who played all the classics, and even welcomed my dad up to play the drums. Everyone had a fab night and would definitely book them again. Thank you Below The Border
My God these guys can play! They were all professional musicians in the 70s, apart from their young singer Charlotte who’s wonderful, and some of them even had record contracts! They played all the hits from the psychedelic years, T Rex, The Small Faces, The Kinks, David Bowie, Mott the Hoople, Santana, The Beatles, . . . They had everybody dancing. One hit after another and they SOUND EXACTLY like the original 45 singles! The hits we all know just kept coming all night, stuff you just have to get up and dance to - even at our age! Keep on Running, Gimmie Some Loving, Twist and Shout (we did! Both!), Spirit in the Sky, Hang on Sloopy, Light my Fire, Stuck in the Middle With You, Alright Now, Can’t Get Enough, Come up and See Me . . . Wonderful stuff. We’ve decided to have a Christmas Party just to book this band! Can’t wait. They set up and sound checked without any fuss, sent us a contract before hand and played their sets exactly the times we asked. Lovely people. Thanks boys. Brilliant. See you all soon!
Thank you for appearing at the Hogsback Harley Davidson start of season Dinner & Dance at The Holiday Inn last week. Review as requested (from a number of us):-
- Personally as an old fart I thought their set list was bang on the money!👍👍
David Hardcastle - Hogsback Chapter
- The band had excellent drums and bass:
Axel Thill - Hogsback Chapter
- Fantastic band certainly kicked our party off, getting everyone up on the dance floor. Highly recommend
Adrian Gowans - Hogsback Chapter Director
- Great brand to work with, from the time I first contacted Noel everything went smoothly, great songs, and very professional and have booked them already for another gig. Looking forward to working with them again at our Cirencester rally.
Garry Brown Hogsback Chapter
Below the Border delivered a fabulous set of 60s and 70s classics that saved our event from being a total washout, literally. They ended up playing in the corner of our kitchen whilst the rain poured down on the carefully prepared outside stage. They had us all transfixed and dancing within seconds despite the cramped conditions. Their good humour, enthusiasm and pure musicianship, combined with the appalling weather, made everyone watching feel like Glastonbury veterans by the end of the performance. I cannot recommend them highly enough. Marcus
So glad we booked Below the Border as part of our Coronation Celebrations. What a band! Five absolutely fantastic musicians playing music that we all know and love. Right from the very beginning people were up and dancing right up to the last encore. Have been asked to get them back so will be making another booking in 2024. Thoroughly recommended. Thanks Guys. See you soon “
Response from the band;
Di and Fred thank you so much for your lovely review and for such a wonderful booking. You have a really nice club, lovely people, such nice compliments about our playing as folk were leaving; and it was just great to see everyone on the dance floor from when we first struck up with Honkey Tonk Women at 8pm to when we finished Alright Now at 11. We’re all really looking forward to appearing for you again at Christmas.
Just wanted to thank you again, you guys were amazing! Sara
Thank you so much for being so amazing! You were great and everyone loved it. Still hanging today.
Great night from Noel and the boys. Got everybody up dancing, my ears still ringing. I've never sang God Save The Queen in harmony before, thanks Rob.
I booked the lads from Below the Border for my wife's 60th birthday party and they were exactly as described. Brilliant musicians one and all and they kept everyone dancing until well after midnight with popular rock hits from the 70s and that swingy blues stuff that you just HAVE to get up and dance to no matter how old your bones are. Lovely chaps too. Polite, eductated, down to earth, (clean!) and they have that dry sense of humour people who've been around have. I thoroughly recommend them. And we were AMAZED at how cheap they were. But as they said, they've done all this for real many years ago and they are not doing it now for the money. Just incredible guitar playing. Boys, long may you keep on truckin' as we used to say. Thanks thanks and thanks again.
John and Doreen
Booked as Tangerine Scene who had split up and four of them did the gig in their new Rock & Blues 4 piece band called Below the Border.. And God were they good . . . playing rock and blues instead of pop. Fantastic twin lead guitarists, one of them a great front man and singer. Brilliant to hear stuff like Cream’s White Room, Hendrix’s Foxy Lady and other rock fav’s like Born to be Wild and Whole Lotta love played so well. The guitar solos were like the original records. Spellbinding!
Tangerine Scene were wonderful at a Birthday party at the Coburn Resturant in the City last week. People moved their tables aside to make more room to dance. Charlotte and the band played at a nice volume and gave us those brill songs from the 60s and 70s that everybody knows and wants to get up and dance to. During their first set people were still eating but Itchycoo Park, Stuck in the Middle with You, Sprit in the Sky and Son of a Preacher Man made people stand up and cheer! Brilliant band. The harmony vocals were fantastic and loved the sound of the organ. Amazing lead guitarist too. Thanks so much for entertaining everybody so well. Wendy x
My wife and I saw Tangerine Scene at a festival and we’re able to book them for my 60th birthday and retirement party. Our friends loved their music from the hippie years and Charlotte and the lads played all the hits we love remarkably well. The lads are great players and Charlotte is a brilliant singer. They made everybody dance their socks off. They are such a friendly bunch and we were so pleased they accepted our booking. Thank you Charlotte and the boys. Hope to catch you again. K x
My wife and I saw Tangerine Scene at a festival and booked them for my retirement and 60th birthday party. Most of our friends grew up on the music they play and loved how they sound exactly like the bands they cover. They made everybody dance and they are a really nice bunch. Very friendly. Their singer Charlotte is just fab and the lads sure can play!
A five piece band of ex-pro musicians and recording artists from the 70s playing vintage Rock & Blues - songs you will know and want to dance to.
We are all mature ex-pro musicians who had promising careers 150 years ago. Individually we’ve toured, had record contracts, been on television, been played on radio (such as John Peel’s show on BBC Radio One - we’re very old!). We’ve appeared with all sorts of people during our musical careers in our younger days: Georgie Fame, Gary Brooker. The Pretenders, Cheap Trick, Frankie Miller, The Real Thing. We all did a lot of miles back then, appearing at town halls, concert halls, big festivals - even Wembley Arena! ~
Playing ability, experience, passion for something we’ve always done Our product is our USP - ex-professionals playing the sound track to our youth of the late 60s and early 70s. The music that got us started. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ We love seeing people dancing their socks off to the hits they also love, people swaying and singing . . . “There’s a star-man waiting in the sky, he’d like to come and meet us, but he’s scared he’ll blow our minds..” We love watching draws drop when Frank, our lead guitarist, plays solos exactly like Clapton on White Room or exactly like Jimi on Foxy Lady ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
We do a lot of parties these days. We try to limit ourselves to one gig a month. But you’ll still find us at London’s better music venues and of course we like to do at least one big festival each summer. (But our dirty little secret is that we absolutely love taking the roof off little rock pubs playing to working people in the suburbs - it’s the audience reaction we get off on, truth be told. Still big kids at heart!) We will do some corporate events and black-tie dinners - but we’re the ones at the back of the ballroom in Levi’s and our favourite ancient but meaningful T-shirts; if you want one of those corporate function bands in matching cheap suits that’s not us. (Some of us have to wear expensive suits 9 to 5, some of us are lucky enough to be retired early!)
Individually we’ve played at town halls, concert halls and universities all over the U.K.. In the 70s and 80s we’ve all played London’s fashionable rock venues such as the 100 club, the Rock Garden, The Golden Lion, The Half Moon Putney; big stage Festivals around Britain and Europe; at Birmingham’s famous ‘Railway’ venue in Digbeth as well as Barbarela’s; in blues clubs in Chicago (Frank was there with an 82 year old Freddie King just this summer - see one of our pics) and in night clubs around Europe (such as Spain’s prestigious Tito’s). But only one of us ever appeared at Wembley!!!
Bank transfer, PayPal, cash . . . Whatever suits you.
Minimum 45 minutes maximum 3 hours
Yes we have our own PA and lights
Yes
Not a lot - we’ve done over 2,000 gigs between us over the years - we’re not fussy . . . any old corner with a mains socket will do.
Of course - we are very easy going
We are ex pro musicians, we’ve all toured at some point in our careers . . . you tell us when you want us to have a break, you’re the customer and we are not teen flakes.
Indeed we do. Go to www.below-the-Border.com More pics and videos there
BELOW THE BORDER's SET LIST includes:-
All or Nothing – The Small Faces
Alright Now – Free
Badge - Cream
Back in the USSR - The Beatles
Black Magic Woman – Santana
Born to be Wild - Steppenwolf
Born Under a Bad Sign - Cream
Can’t Buy Me Love – The Beatles
Can't Get Enough – Bad Company
Crossroads - Cream
Do it Again – Steely Dan
Foxy Lady - Jimi Hendrix
Further on up,the Road - Eric Clapton
Get Back – The Beatles
Get it On – T Rex
Gloria - Them
Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix
Itchycoo Park – The Small Faces
Jet Airliner - Steve Miller Band
Jumpin Jack Flash - The Rolling Stones
Keep on Running – The Spencer Davis Group
Light My Fire – The Doors
Lola - The Kinks
Midnight Hour – Wilson Picket
Mustang Sally – Wilson Picket
No Matter What - Badfinger
Stay With Me - The Faces
Stuck in the Middle With You – Stealers Wheel
Superstition – Stevie Wonder
Sweet Home Chicargo - Eric Clapton
The Letter - Joe Cocker
The Stealer - Free
Want Somebody to Love – Jefferson Airplane
Whole Lotta Love - Led Zepplin
Wishing Well - Free
Ziggy Stardust – David Bowie