Me and Juje singing with The Lakes Blues Band whilst playing The Blues Cruise of 1999.



Live at the Nags Head High Wycombe late 70's with Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts

A potted  history of me and music

Way back in the mists of time, long before The Beatles, there was a kind of music they called skiffle, and yer man was Lonnie Donegan. The best thing about skiffle was that, a bit like punk, anyone could do it. Not only that, you didn't have to go to a music shop to buy an instrument, you could make your own. I made my first bass from an old tea chest, a broom handle and a length of thick string, A 'T' chest bass was a must for a skiffle group. along with a washboard. Back then in the late fifties these were easy to come by, although today you'ld be hard pressed to find either. I was never in a skiffle group but I used to have fun just thumping away on it in our dads garage pretending I was on that old rock island line. I remember being dead chuffed when I learned how to play the opening bass part to Roy Orbisons' Sweet dream baby, not skiffle,but pop music of the time, and a number 1, so my appitite was wetted. By the age of 12 or 13me and my friend Mala used to go to St Perrins, a church hall near us in Roose, where every Friday they would put on local groups. I used to stand at the front by the stage just aching to take part in this amazing music the groups made. Read more
 

Gnasher in 1973 signed to Purple records
One and only single Medina road

 

 


                         Radio Col
Looking back at the lakesounds catalogue I found this archive bunch of my songs that we strung together and called it radio but there's no DJ.
The Link simply played through a list of hand
picked songs for your delight.

Here's the link                                 

Radio Lakes Blues Band
Here's the link
includes live at the Kosovo refugee centre in Ulverston, doing Stir it up and Mombassa

 The Creatures of Legend
Colin Williams, Grant Aspinal, Mark Heavyside and Anthony Hext

I have never laughed so much as with this band that rehearsed and recorded together, but only ever did one gig. All the tunes are mine but the band lend their special vibe. Recorded around 1995.
Heres the link               

 

The Beat Combo,
Colin Williams,  Ewan Blackledge,  Juje Hext.

We've made an album of songs and called it
 "Que Calor"  which features original songs played in a reggae and latin style.

Here's the link to stream the whole album

 I started painting water colours
when Jackie bought me a set for my 50th birthday. I really took to it and to this day I have painted hundreds since then but these are from my early period, which you can see more of here. I quite like these but lots of them were painted from photos.
 I now prefer to paint from real life, mostly sea and landscapes, but odd times still life. It's interesting how in later years I've lost the detail of the earlier stuff. For the link to the more recent pictures go here
Webcam Clips

We made a few silly films with our "new" webcam back in 1999
Heres one of me telling you why I decided to play Bass. As you will hear we got the input from the bass a little too loud but decided it worked,enjoy!!!

Here's the Link

Cols 45s from the 70's Link introducing some records that weren't hits but fab tunes

 

 

Lakes blues band
Do Dear Prudence,
live at Southlake studio

Here

Tutankhamun
by Frank 'n' Stein is available as an MP3 download
Here classic British reggae from the early 70's (Col on bass)

 Here's a video from one of our Southlake Awards nights we used to hold at Christmas at The Coro. This is an all star line up, a one off for one night only

 

 

 

 

contact: colin@lakesounds.co.uk

 


 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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