The Arundel Street Mafia.

60's/70's Blues/Rock band.

The current line up is:
Vocals: Gareth Sandham.
Guitar: Trevor Pape.
Guitar: Mick Bradley. (and some backing vocals)
Bass: Steve Fennimore. (and some backing vocals)
Drums: Kenny Morgan.

Welcome to the temporary web site which is still under construction and will be updated with pics & more appealing backgrounds to this and other pages which will be added soon. Meanwhile the basic information has been posted. Please be patient while it's being completed. Many thanks. This site is subject to Copyright.©M Bradley (G6ASJ) May 2009.

Available for Parties & Functions from August 2009.

5 Piece Portsmouth based 60's/70's Blues/Rock covers outfit

available for Parties & Functions from August 1st 2009.

For further information and booking information please contact: 023 9282 3332 

Or Email: mick@g6asj.net

If you are already registered on facebook then do check us out on: 
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/pages/The-Arundel-Street-Mafia/85907722326

Forthcoming events: - Watch this space, or ask us to send you monthly updates.

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The band had it's first session in this line up in early May 2009 and was a very successful session indeed. We are now waiting for a drummer to complete the line up and to enable the band to start the ball rolling to practice for the rest of 2009 season. We will be available for Functions, and Pub/Club gigs also starting Late Summer 2009. Hopefully.

Update.

The line up is now completed, I am happy to say Kenny has now joined us on Drums.

For more information and to get regular updates or to book the band send The Webmaster an email to: mick@g6asj.net

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With material like:

Born to be wild.
Whiskey in the jar.
Great Balls of Fire.
Mustang Sally.
Everybody needs someone to love.
Route 66.
Brown Sugar.
All along the watchtower.
Hey Joe.
Johnnie B Goode.
Brown Eyed Girl.
Sweet Home Alabama.

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How did we come by the name? A friend (Neil) came up with it, but quite simple really. We practice in a venue close to "Arundel Street" in Portsmouth, so it just fell into place really. Makes some sense I suppose.

The Arundel Street Mafia logo was designed by Jay Lancaster and is protected under copyright ©2009 J.Lancaster. The band does not have any connection with any other band in the UK with a similar name nor any other organisation in the world with any similar name. Phew, I'm glad that's out of the way.

Band equipment. Here's a summary of equipment used by the band.

Mick on Rhythm guitar. Has a few different rigs for different occasions.

For smaller venues he would prefer to use a Marshall MG250DFX Combo or his H&H 100W 212 Combo, either used on their own. Along with a Strat of some description, he's built a few Strat style guitars for his own use in the last year or so and has a few favourites with different combinations of pick ups. Another choice of amplifier would be a Carlsbro 300W Powerline amp rated at 150W each side, plus a compressor on the input side of the powerline amp.

For a slightly larger venues his choice would be the H&H 100W 212 combo plus the H&H 100W slave amp, giving a total of 300Watts of power, combined with an H&H 100W monitor amp to monitor his sound.

Mick could also use a wireless system to enable him to move a bit further from the performance area if he needs to.

Mick Born 12/07/56, started playing guitar around 1971/2 ish, with a Columbus Strat copy and a 5 watt practice amp. he was then inspired by 50's Rock'n'Roll artists. Sold the outfit after a financial crisis but picked up a FAL/CMI 100W amp & Cabinet and a borrowed Hofner Verthin ES 335 styled guitar and jammed With a few friends, Harry Hinds on Bass, Terry Bridger on Guitar and sometimes John Blencoe on Acoustic, lasted about a year or so. A few years late jammed with Andy Elford on Guitar and Steve Newton on Vocals & harmonica doing some Blues based stuff. Then a few years later picked another guitar up again, an acoustic which belonged to a dear departed friend at the time, he still has this E-Ros Jumbo 6 string. He bought a Squier Strat and started taking it up a bit more seriously again. He bought some amps bit by bit, first was a Carlsbro 100W Stingray Lead combo for a tenner in a second hand shop. Replaced the pots on the front panel and it worked a treat. Around 2007/8 bought some favoured H&H amps and also built several Strat style guitars for his own use and so far they work very well. He started jamming with a few others at a local venue and "Faded Lines" was formed but sadly didn't get far. The search was on for a better line up, after a few sessions with various people over the coming months the right line up eventually came to light in May 2009, it's current line up of the band. It just seemed to fall into place.


Trevor's Rig.

Trevor on Lead/Rhythm guitar. Uses either a Gibson Les Paul or a cherished Fender Strat, he's more at home with the Strat though. He also uses a Mesa Boogie 100W amplifier with built in effects and has a smaller and lighter in weight Mesa Boogie amp for smaller venues and practice sessions.


Steve's Rig.

Steve on Bass. Uses either a Fender Jazz Bass or a Fender Squier copy of his Jazz bass, with a Behringer 150Watt BX1200 Bass amp.

Thanks for looking at this site. It still needs some work doing to it. It is by far a long way from being finished. I hope to include some pictures of band members along with a profile of each shortly, some people wouldn't want this but as usual the webmaster knows best. If you have any questions please contact the webmaster Mick at the above email address and we'll get back to you a soon as we possibly can.