About our Players

Dave, Vocals and Harmonica. I have been singing for about 20 years, first in Folk, then Rock and then Blues. I have been in a community rock choir for 12 years and took some singing lessons at a local music academy. As a result of this I started a band doing classic rock, blues and rock'n'roll, we did a few gigs but broke up due to lockdown and illnesses. While in the band I developed my harmonica playing, something I had been toying with for some time. I am also currently MC and sing in the house band at a monthly jam session.

I joined Wensum Blues Band at its inception in 2024 as lead singer and harmonica player.

Dave ( yes another one ), Guitar. Dave has many years of playing in bands, not only that he fixes and builds Guitars and Banjos.

Tony, Bass Guitar, Started playing in a band at 17, called ridiculously “Rabbi Johnson’s Underwater Melody Farm”, rehearsing at Chislehurst Church Hall.  We played very badly, and broke up due to “lack of talent.”

Many years later I played with “Where’s The Money” – a covers band playing blues/rock, in pubs and events around south London.  I played rhythm guitar.  It was good fun.

I didn’t really play much at all for several years, and eventually took up playing classical guitar, which I really enjoyed, and learning to read music and looking at some music theory.  Unfortunately, I got a dose of ‘frozen shoulder’ – mightily painful, which took a good two years to recover from, but now back to about 90% of movement in the left shoulder.

I’d always been really interested in playing the bass, and on moving to Norwich, one day passing Cooke’s Music Shop, walked in and bought a Squire bass, then later on a Fender Precision, and a Fender Jazz bass, which is the one I like the most.

I much prefer to play with others (playing bass alone can be a little lonely!) so I made some contacts via the Bandmix website – and that is how I met with Mark, and Dave B and Dave W.    Hopefully you will hear us play a live gig!

Mark, Drums. I have played drums in various genres, on and off for about 40 years, starting in marching bands, and then moving to Rock and Blues. I stopped playing for about 10 years, but when my wife found a few photos of me playing the drums she made the fatal error of buying me a kit, and that was it, I was back playing again.

The last 15 years I have been doing mostly concert work with Stowmarket Concert band and other brass bands, also i spent a happy couple of years with Outathablues, but that folded during Covid sadly. In the last 2 years I have taken up Jazz with a passion, being in 2 Jazz groups.

Tony contacted me in 2024 to see if I would be interested in forming a Blues band, and the rest is history, and I have discovered a new love for the Blues again, and these guys are great to play beside.

Between us all we have over 160 years of musical experience