Slim Chance play Ronnie Lane

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SLIM CHANCE
Plays RONNIE LANE - Reformed but Unrepentant!
(I’d rather take the storm than be becalmed’ – Ronnie Lane, 32ND Street)



When Ronnie Lane walked out of the Faces in 1973, he said he was doing so to reconnect with the good-time spirit which first inspired him to pick up the guitar, as a mod in east London ten years earlier.

Slim Chance was the group he founded to play music in line with this inspiration. Initially part of Ronnie's Passing Show, the group travelled from gig to gig like a circus family, performing in Ronnie's own Big Top. The group and the show enabled Ronnie to develop a unique approach to stagecraft and songwriting - open, humourous, direct. This was a new good-time music that weathered the storm and influenced a generation of young musicians.

Slim Chance is now reforming, to revive this spirit once again, and to share Ronnie's inspiration. The band will feature Steve Simpson on vocals, guitar, mandolin and fiddle and Charlie Hart on accordion, fiddle, keys and vocals. They are joined by original Slim Chancers, Colin Davey and Alun Davies, and the line-up will be completed by a bass player and a keyboard player t.b.a..

The new set will include classic Ronnie songs such as How Come, The Poacher, Annie, Don’t Try and Change my Mind, Kuschty Rye, Debris, and Ooh La La. There will be occasional appearances by special guests, twin-fiddle features - the ‘Fishpool Filharmonic’ - and an emphasis at all times on
good-time entertainment as an integral part of the music.