The Brian Breeze Rhythm and Blues Band

Monday 5th May, 9.45–11.15pm, in the Marquee Pavilion

Brian Breeze received his first guitar for his 13th birthday and started playing gigs in South Wales in 1962. A seminal moment was when, at 14 years of age, his band supported Johnny Kidd and The Pirates at the Ritz Ballroom in Llanelli; this was when he first heard the great rhythm & blues guitarist Mick Green, who inspired the young Brian to start playing blues as well as rock.

Since then he has played in many bands in many European countries. He achieved minor chart success with The Untamed in the mid-1960s, then replaced Jim Mullen when he joined Cream lyricist Pete Brown. He has toured with Maggie Bell, Deke Leonard, Lyndsey Muir and many others. He began to write for television in the early 1980s and has since gone on to write the music for films, documentaries and many other TV programmes, while also working as a musical director and session player over recent decades.

Brian still performs live as a guitarist and vocalist, working with various different combinations of musicians, playing a mixture of jazz, blues and R & B. He will be performing at the 2008 Admiral Mumbles Mostly Jazz and Blues Festival with a powerful ensemble, which will include Mumbles-born Richard Cottle on keyboards and sax.

Richard is a record producer, arranger and writer. He has performed and toured the world with the likes of David Bowie, Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger, Peter Frampton, Maxi Priest and Mike Oldfield. As a session musician his credits are many and diverse including The Alan Parsons Project, George Michael, Russell Watson, Celine Dione and Tina Turner. He has composed and recorded for numerous film and television scores.