A selection of past work from 1969
1969-1971
DELIVERY. Lol Coxhill, Roy Babbington, Phil and Steve Miller and Pip Pyle. First album and first experience of writing original material. Recently re-released on Cuneiform.
1972
Uncle Dog. Played at the first Festival at Glastonbury. Album included musicians such as The Average White Band horns and Paul Kossoff, late of Free.
During the mid-seventies worked with The London Boogie Band. This included Henry McCullough, Neil Hubbard, Mel Collins, Komoko Singers, Paul Carrack and other musicians.
1974
Recorded Warm Blood in Nashville with Kenny Buttrey, Ron Cornelius, Mack Gayden, Bob Wilson and Tommy Cogbill among the musicians on the project.
1975
Recorded Carol Grimes in Memphis... with Duck Dunn, Willie Hall, Frederick Knight, The Memphis Horns and The Brecker Brothers, among others.
1980
Recorded Sweet FA in Sweden with Ollie Marland, Tony Hicks, Gary Twigg and Peter Kirtley.
1981
Recorded a single for Polydor with The Blockheads, formally Ian Dury's band.
1980's
Worked with several bands in London including: Carol and The Crocodiles; Guest stars; Eyes Wide Open. Musicians included: Steve Lodder, Maciek Hrybowicz, Angele Velmiejer, Mike Bradley, Paul Neiman, Josephina Cupido and Mario Castronari Sami el Sahid among others.
1986
The Drill Hall Arts Centre London.
Wrote and directed Lipstick and Lights A music theatre production, with Eyes wide Open. Guests included John Hegley & Josephina Cupido.
1986-87
Two Jazz Services tours with Eyes Wide Open.
1987
Second show at the Drill Hall Arts Centre, Daydreams and Danger. Poetry & Song. Live album from this show released in1988.
Recorded, two albums with Eyes Wide Open.
1988
Performed in Viv Stanshall's Stinkfoot with Ian Shaw. At the Bloomsbury Theatre.London.
1990
Recorded Lazy Blue Eyes with Ian Shaw, Tony Remy and Steve Lodder.
1992
Project with Laka Dasical. 6 voices and a double bass. London Jazz Festival. Cabot Hall. and other venues.
1993
Toured with Janette Mason, and Band. The Blackheath Concert Hall broadcast on Radio 3.
1993
Recorded Alive at Ronnie Scott's during a residency at the club.
1994
Autumn. Raag, Rhythm and Rhyme with Najma Akhter, Janette Mason, Sammy Sami El Saldhid, Josefina Cupido and Inderjit Kalyana. Live concert from The Guinness Spot, Queens College Belfast featured on Jools Holland Later for BBC2.
Performed regularly on various radio and television programmes throughout the seventies and eighties& nineties. Toured throughout West and Eastern Europe, Scandinavia and America. Worked on many sessions for various recording artists.
1996
Took part in a production called Hotel, written by Orlando Gough, libretto by Caryl Churchill. Directed by Ian Spink for Second Stride. Toured U.K. and Europe April/ May 1997.
Participated in 3 weeks of workshops with DV8 Physical Theatre.
Tour with Niki Isles, Mike Walker, among others in Yorkshire & the Northeast.
1998
UK Performances with Janette Mason, Louis de Almeida, Paul Jaysinga and others.
Appeared in a Music Theatre Performance The Shouting Fence written by Orlando Gough. South Bank, London.
Improvised Performances with Mashu. Mark Hewins and Shyamal Maitra.
London Jazz Festival. Lauderdale House and the Vortex. London.
1998 - 2009
The Shout (Time Out Classical Artist of the Year 2004) is a unique choir. Drawn from as many musical paths as there are singers, their individualism is the very key to their power as an ensemble, and their freedom in expressing their different personalities whilst exercising incredible musical precision makes them compelling to experience.
2000- 2005
New Coats with Steve Lodder, Annie Whitehead, Jennifer Maidman, Dylan Bates & Jose Cupido
2000
Shift with The Crouch End Festival Chorus at the Royal Festival Hall, London Sunday 11th July
Tall Stories - music and lyrics by Orlando Gough and Richard Chew, direction by Rufus Norris, design by Katriona Lindsay, lighting design by Giuseppe Di Iorio, toured UK Europe & the U.S. Concerts in Europe UK & the U.S.
2003 - 2006
The Shout Perform at The National Portrait Gallery
2004 - 2007
UK Funk All Stars - Gigs so far: The Jazz Cafe, London; Stratford Circus, London; The Dome Brighton; The Barbican London; Soul Britannia; BBC 4; T.V. appearances followed by U.K. tour.
At a time when the live UK scene cross-pollinated wildly from jazz and rock to R&B. This special Brighton Festival session brings together some of the original musicians of the day and features a reunion of founder members of the much sampled Brixton-based rasta funk renegades CYMANDE. Also featuring sets from UK legends Carol Grimes, Linda Lewis, Average White Band's Hamish Stuart, & FBI's Root Jackson. An essential celebration of an often overlooked era in British music.
2004 - 2010
Jazz performances with Dorian Ford, Max de Waldener and Winston Clifford
2004
Tour in UK to promote Mother C.D. (recorded in spring 2004)
Brothers On The Slide CD. It's a familiar scenario: an R&B scene, dominated by the commercial and creative clout of America, in which British acts struggle to find a place and a distinctive voice. Brothers On The Slide: The Story Of UK Funk (Sanctuary)*** harks back thirty years, and the parallels are unmissable. There are those who, at least briefly, match the Americans at their own game (Cymande, The Equals); those whose mimicry reveals their limitations (Jabba, Kokoma); and yet others who by accident or design come up with something identifiably their own (Carol Grimes, Linda Lewis).
Rites Of Passage - written by Richard Chew. London Greenwich & Birmingham Symphony Hall. (July 2004)
Un-EarthBosnia to Birmingham: Stories From A War, written by Richard Chew, premiered at Mac, Birmingham, Thursday 22nd-Sunday 25th July 2004
Lip - written by Orlando Gough, Richard Chew & the Shout, directed by Emma Bernard, Tour UK
2005 - 2006
The Whaletone Opera - written and directed by Makoto Nomura and Hugh Nankivell. Japan, April 2006 and Huddersfield, 2005
2005
Fallen Fruit - premiered at the Canterbury Festival
The Singing River by Orlando Gough, directed By Tom Ryser, Theater der Welt Stuttgart, Germany (May)
2006 - 2007
UK Funk All Stars - Gigs at: The Jazz Cafe, London; Stratford Circus, London; The Dome, Brighton; The Barbican, London; Soul Britannia; BBC 4; TV appearances followed by UK tour.
The Shout perform Stand on Holocaust Memorial Day at Theatre Royal Newcastle.
2006
We Turned On the Light by Orlando Gough, libretto by Caryl Churchill, performed by The Shout at The Proms at the Albert Hall. (July)
Road to Nowhere
Mayor of London Festival at London Trafalgar Square (August)
A Day In The Life Christmas Show - DeLa Warr Pavilion Bexhill. (December)
2007
Something Secret - Recording & performance work with Giles Perring
Poetry, Song, Rhythm and Improvisation. C.D. to be released October 2007
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