Introducing Richard & Paul

Hello there friends and followers of Buzzard.  Let me introduce myself, my name is Rich and it’s just a name not status, so if you see me at a Buzzard show, I won’t turn down a pint of real ale or a shot of Jack Daniels.

Seriously though, the band have kindly asked Paul Bednall, (resident photographer, videographer and general computer technical all-rounder) and myself to ‘brighten’ up the website for them as it has spent the best part of it’s 4 year life looking much the same.

Paul and I, over the next few months, will endeavour to keep the Buzzard site updated and gradually introduce some new features.   We hope to have some brand new photos up on here very soon and some live video footage of the guys in ‘action’ to follow shortly after.

This page, I’m saving as a ‘blog’ to the Midlands favourite Rock & Blues band, so I’m counting this as my first official blog.  On this page I hope to give a run-down of the gigs that I attend and also invite you the fans to review any Buzzard shows that you witness by simply sending in your write-up to the e-mail address on the this site.

I met Andy and Keith around 1981 when they were both playing in ‘Dawn Trader’ and followed the band around the East Midlands for a couple of years.  I attended a fair number of the Sunday night shows at the ‘Hearty Goodfellow’ in Nottingham and fondly recall the ‘glory days’.

I went on to work for ‘Way Ahead’, which for a young 17 year old at the time was a dream come true and became the envy of all my ‘rocker’ mates in Derby and Nottingham.  It was whilst working there that my boss Dave Brett and the late Radio Trent DJ, Graham Neale were managing ‘Dawn Trader’ so I got to see the guys play at bigger, further afield venues and supporting some big names of the time, ‘Krokus’, ‘Magnum’ and even a young ‘Def Leppard’.  Sadly though, after the death of Graham Neale, ‘Trader’ fell apart.  Andy and Keith had already left the band to form the highly acclaimed ‘ABK’, Andy, Boris & Keith, whom I saw once or twice at JC’s bar on Lower Parliament Street, Nottingham.

In 2007, my best friend from school, Paul kirkley formed ‘A Life of Living’ Band Management & Promotion and asked me to join him in the venture shortly after.  We manage a band from Derby named ‘The Telephones’ and I soon discovered their drummer to be one Glen Price.  Glen is the son of Buzzard‘s very own Jim Price.  Jim kindly obliged to play sound man for quite a few of our events in 2009 and of course, when I eventually got to see Buzzard play last Summer, old friends became re-acquainted …the rest as they say, is history…….

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