Sade are currently doing a Europe wide tour and are running a blog on their travels: http://www.superbientotal.com/# Check out the 'bus entertainment' picture(click on the top left image)
excellent! although how much entertainment could a programme give you? usually takes me about 10 minutes to polish one off. and the big question, how did it end up on the sade tour bus?
Band members Stuart and Paul are from Hull, I know Stu hasn't been around, so I assume Paul went to the game.
It looks like a programme to me, it's thin at one end and wide at the other. I think we need to know, I'll ask him.
I stand corrected! It is a programme, issue 17 of the this season with Matty Fryatt on the front cover. http://www.hullcityprogrammes.co.uk...on=2010&competition=&u=&opponent=&home_away=1
Paul Denman was an aircraft apprentice at Hawker Siddeley Aviation, Brough (Now Bae Systems). I was in the same apprenticeship year as him. Then one day, without much notice, he quit to join a band. The next we knew, Sade was formed and there he was, playing the sax. Good to see he is still proud of his roots.
he was a regular in the old Beer Keller down Bishop Lane. I am told Roland Gift showed up there a few times as well, although I only remember Paul's face from my days there
The band were originally all from Hull, except for Sade herself. Stuart Mathewman(sax/guitar) was from Anlaby, Paul Denman(bass) was from Greatfield and Paul Cook(drums) was born in Hull but brought up in Hornsea. Stuart was in the Hull band The Odds, Denman and Cook were in The Poseurs, who used to gig quite a lot with Roland Gift's band the Akrylics. They moved to London and formed a Jazz Funk band called Pride, with a backing singer called Helen Adu(nickname Sade), at Pride gigs Sade got more attention than the rest of the band, so they decided to break the band up and form Sade. Cook left not long after they got successful, at the same time that Andrew Hale(keyboards) joined, but other than that, it's the same line up now.
To be honest, I wouldn't normally be this knowledgeable about a band, it just happens that Stuart's a mate of mine. We knocked about together in Hull and we both moved to London around the same time, so I used to see quite a bit of him when Sade were getting going. In fact, I was in the studio when they recorded this: I was also at a party at his house on the night they announced Marvin Gaye had been shot and I'm looking forward to meeting up with him later this month(he's bunged me on the guest list at the Manchester gig), I don't see much of him since he moved to New York.
The Gargoyles were slightly before my time( I'm late 30's, very late 30's).I knew Paul Warhurst who was tragically killed in 2002 when he was knocked off his bike on Beverley Road. I'm not sure if he was an original member or not but he was one of the nicest blokes you could ever hope to meet.A true gent.
It looks like many of us had a go at being pop stars, here's a list of bands from a site 'Crap bands from Hull' - Pink Noise, The Gargoyles, Matthew Hogg, Les Zeiga Fleurs, The Velvetones, Johnny & the Carbon Chain, Three Action, The Housemartins, The Germz, Red Guitars/Planet Wilson, The Penny Candles, Vicious Circle, The Sinister Family, John the Monkey, The Von Trapps, F.U.B.B., Looking for Adam, Sheep, The Company/Mighty Strike, The Penny Whistler, The Brontes, Savannah St. Stompers, Luca Brazzi etc, Secret of Life, WKDN, Guy Gibson, Kingmaker, Burn the Index, Girlfriends, US Megachicks, Tough Guys..., Bible Brothers, Teethmarks, Pressure Group, Wail Nation, Rock Ripley..., New Dooleys, Black September, States of Unrest, The Mandlebrot Set, England Under Snow, Flood of Lies, Quel Dommage, Scared to Dance, Three Mile Island, The Hitchcocks, Adam's Eaten Eve, Punctured Tough Guy, The Adelphi Club. This is just the 80's bands! (and I'm not sure how the Housemartins made the list)
