Lester Noel
All we can say at the moment is that Lester has a past. Yes ladies and gentleman, a past that is full of achievments within British pop history that only at our live gigs will you find out the pedigree of this amazing frontman and vocalist.
Scattered accross time are number one singles, appearences on Top Of The Pops, Swap Shop, TisWas, Parkinson, The Simpsons, The Chart Show, Hart To Hart, Grange Hill, Cagney & Lacey and many other unique programmes that shape our culture.
Lester works throughout Western Europe, Asia and the U.S. within the the music industry. Production, composition, teaching and performance all form part of the repertoire of this talented man.
Lester is very modest and humble with regard to the indelible mark he has left on our pop history. It is left to others to sing the praises of the man who now fronts SOULED OUT BAND
Daniel Bath
Daniel started his professional career at the age of 16, playing jazz piano on solo and small group gigs in the pubs of South Manchester. He studied music at Clare College Cambridge, where he gave solo classical piano recitals.
As well as piano and singing, Daniel works as a composer and arranger of music for choir, orchestra, opera, theatre and film, as a teacher of piano and voice, as a conductor of youth and adult choirs, including Calderdale Youth Choir and Halifax Chamber Choir and as musical director for the Actors’ Workshop, Halifax.
He has collaborated with some of the North’s finest musicians, including classical guitarist Robin Hill in the crossover group Eklectica, jazz saxophone giant Munch Manship, and funkmeister general Geth Griffith of Disco Daze.
He is currently studying Indian classical music with Prof. Dharambir Singh and Pt. Ajoy Chakrabarty.
You can visit his website at www.handstogether.co.uk
Tony Simms
Tony is the bass player and vocalist with the band. A musician and music teacher of over twenty years experience.
After graduating from Bretton Hall he spent part of the 1980s working abroad as cocktail pianist and singer in bars and hotels in places as diverse as South Korea and Central America.
During the 1990s he founded and toured extensively with the folk rock band 'Blackstone Edge', sharing the stage with such notables as the 'Dubliners' and 'Lindisfarne'. They appeared at venues throughout Europe and Russia, including Yorkshire establishments such as Wakefield Opera House and Leeds City Varieties.
TV appearances at this time included 'An Audience With Bill Maynard' and 'The Bill'.
Based in Hebden Bridge, Tony is currently head of music at Ravenscliffe High School in Halifax.
Dean Robert Noble
Dean started his musical career in the early 1980s. Playing the organ on the scene and for establishments such as the 'David Hamilton Organ Society'.
Switching to guitar on his seventeenth birthday was the start on many years of study with such luminaries as Andrew Bray and Adrian Ingram. Dean graduated from The City Of Leeds College of Music in 1996 while at the same time began his teaching career here.
Around this time Dean joined rock monsters 'Tumbleweed' and toured the UK with their special brand of hard rock. The nucleus of this band eventually gave way to form 'Superfragilistic', a band that chalked up literally hundreds of dates on the corporate scene with upto four gigs a week over the next few years.
'Pink Coconut' was the next project which saw Dean work with Keith 'Washington Hot Love' Campbell on many tours supporting major soul acts which came to the uk. Party in the Park 2003 was a highlight bringing in major session and TV work.
Dean has taught at many institutions across the UK. Leeds College for over ten years as well as The Northern Institute Of Guitar, Education Leeds and throughout Calderdale.
With various projects, Dean has released several albums and EPs. 'Girls Come Running' from 1989. 'Monsoon' in 2001. 'U2me' ep in 2004 and the major chart topping Uk album 'Body & Soul' (2006) with Pink Coconut still residing somewhere on billboard!
Dean loves chilli con carne and he sometimes tries to moonwalk!
For more info check out Dean's Myspace Page MySpace.com/DeanNoble1970
Robert Jaggar
Robert is the trumpet player with the band with an illustrious brass band career behind him. Playing for top bands such as Black Dyke, Brighouse and Rastrick, Sellers International and Innovate Skelmanthorpe.
He has performed on a considerable number of CD's, and taken the stage along side such stars as the late Roy Castle, Evelyn Glennie, Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen, Aled Jones and Heyley Westenra to name but a few.
His musical career has taken him all over the world from performances in the Albert hall to the Sydney Opera House with tours of Spain, Belgium and Switzerland as well.
At present Robert is the music teacher at Castle Hill School in Newsome as well as a peripatetic brass teacher for the Calderdale Music Service
Kenny Hoyle
Kenny Hoyle’s drumming career began at the age of six and since that time he has rarely been seen without a pair of drumsticks in his hands, which has made life difficult at times!
Self taught, Kenny gives his early influences as Simon Kirke, later being followed by Idris Mohammed, Harold Fisher, and the late, great Buddy Rich.
Kenny’s drumming career spanning over thirty five years, has seen him play with a variety of bands, and with such diverse musicians, as Blues legend Victor Brox, and Wendel Richardson (Osibisa and Free).
His touring schedule has covered most towns and cities in Great Britain, including the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival, Birmingham Jazz and Blues, Bradford International Festival, Brecon Jazz Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
He has performed with a variety of Rock, Country, Soul and Blues Bands.
