Colin Henderson
Colin Henderson
Colin’s
Story
When I decided that I wanted to play songs to an audience I was starting from a long way back on the grid. I had a voice that wouldn’t win any prizes, and a guitar style that was at best rudimentary. All I had going for me was a seemingly improving ability to write songs which people might like to hear.
I was starting to hang around my local folk clubs doing ‘floor spots’ either on my own or with friends and eventually gravitated to the folk club at the Black Horse pub in West Kirby. There I met Tom Topping and Brian Jones. Tom and Brian welcomed me into what became the Tom Topping Band (TTB) and we embarked on a career which saw us perform hundreds of shows in hundreds of places to thousands of people.
Colin’s
Story
When I decided that I wanted to play songs to an audience I was starting from a long way back on the grid. I had a voice that wouldn’t win any prizes, and a guitar style that was at best rudimentary. All I had going for me was a seemingly improving ability to write songs which people might like to hear.
I was starting to hang around my local folk clubs doing ‘floor spots’ either on my own or with friends and eventually gravitated to the folk club at the Black Horse pub in West Kirby. There I met Tom Topping and Brian Jones. Tom and Brian welcomed me into what became the Tom Topping Band (TTB) and we embarked on a career which saw us perform hundreds of shows in hundreds of places to thousands of people.
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My band-mates were always willing to give my song writing exploits the benefit of the doubt and with Tom’s effortless ability to truly deliver a vocal and Brian’s innate skills in song and harmony arrangement, some of those songs became staples of the band’s repertoire. To say I was lucky to be in that company would be a considerable understatement.
Performing gigs was a wonderfully rewarding way to make great music, meet new audiences and make new friends. As an aspiring songwriter I was drawn to and influenced by artists such as Allan Taylor, Harvey Andrews, Vin Garbutt, Mike Silver and Jack Hudson. Via Brian, I got to know about and appreciate the tremendous musicality and power of Silly Wizard (his brother, Gordon, being a member of that great band). Silly Wizard’s song writer was the sadly now departed Andy M. Stewart who could write a contemporary song but make it seem like it was a hundred years old.
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