The Echo – CV of who we are and what we have done…

The Echo are:
Andrew Barton- age 26 (Guitar, Vocals)
Samuel Woodings- age 26 (Piano, Guitar, Harmonica)
Chris Challenger- age 25 (Bass)
John Wright- age 26 (Drums, Percussion)

The Echo played at the following venues in Leeds:
The Cockpit
Josephs Well
The Vine
The Mixing Tin
Royal Park Cellars
Brudenell Social Club
Faversham
HiFi

…to name but a few plus great gigs in various cities including Sheffield, Manchester, Bradford, Harrogate and erm…Lincoln! The Manchester gig was in connection with the Triangle Centre’s mini festival and was covered by the Ragtime.com website. We have also supported Leeds giants The Xenith Sound and Vib Gyor at their CD launches at The Cockpit and the Brudenell Social respectively. Further to this we have supported folk legends John Renbourne and Rory McLeod.

Our career highlights have included competing at the annual Futuresound Competition in Leeds and putting on a cracking performance to wide acclaim during our heat at The Cockpit. Man we should have won this!!!!

The Echo made their very first music video in collaboration with the 20202 Vision competition held in Leeds. This garnered exposure throughout the City and the competition was also covered by Channel 4s ‘Little Wonder’ series. This was by far the most intensive two weeks of our lives, but my god it was great.

In short, we have gigged and gigged at all the venues in Leeds and many surrounding ones too. However, it’s The Cockpit and the frantic competitions that have really improved us as a band and shown we can command the bigger stages too.

We have plans to release a third EP, ‘Tin Foil Dreams’ soon and hold a CD launch in the city for our loyal fanbase, followed by our own night at The Cockpit. 2006 has so far been very good to us so 2016 should be beautiful.

Discography

Cast Those Stones EP - 2016

The Rice Jar Sessions – 2005

Tinfoil Dreams EP (To be released in August 2006) 

The video for our song – Trouble on the Horizon – will be available in limited capacity for fans attending our next launch, but we can make it available with our presspack/promo CD if you wish. It’s a gas!

29 December 2006