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Slim Chance
After leaving the Faces, Ronnie Lane formed his own band, Slim Chance. The band members are Steve Simpson, guitar, mandolin, fiddle; Charlie Hart, accordion, fiddle, piano; Steve Bingham, bass; Geraint Watkins, piano, organ, accordion; John Lingwood, drums. The whole band sings!
Ronnie always jokingly claimed that he found the musicians for Slim Chance in the pages of Exchange and Mart. In 2010 Charlie Hart and Steve Simpson trawled the streets of South London and miraculously found three more ex-Slim Chancers who were all keen to sign up again to the quest for Ronnie’s musical holy grail. By gigging round the country the line-up has gelled into a fine band and become a powerful entity in its own right.
The aim is to create a show which celebrates the range of Ronnie’s later music: to take this show to people in village halls and clubs, festivals and theatres at home and abroad; and eventually, joined by numerous friends, to resurrect the Passing Show itself.
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Slim Chance with our good friend Robert Elms today at BBC Radio London!
I think Robert Elms once named the genre of Rock and Roll that Ronnie Lane And Slim Chance developed as “Cravat Rock”. A very affectionate appellation 😎 (I’ve still got my Paisley cravat at the back of the wardrobe somewhere).
Ok, just watching Ronnie and Slim Chance doing “you never can tell” on Old Grey Whistle Test and I think everyone is sporting a cravat, neckerchief or scarf 🤓 nice sax solo btw 👏🏽
A huge thank you to our good friend Robert Elms who was kind enough to invite us onto his show on BBC Radio London today! We all really enjoyed being on his legendary show and hope to put up a link to the interview soon. Cheers Robert!! The lads!
I was listening in, and when they said that Billy was in the band, I thought, hang on, is that the same Billy Nicholls who did 'London Social Degree'? - I'm guessing it is? I love that song. It turned up on a CD I bought called 'The London Look'.
Look forward to it..😊
Our thanks to Alan Magpie for the great review of our new album "New Cross Road" on his Rocking Magpie blog!
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Slim ChanceNew Cross RoadFishpool Records A Twinkle in the Eye and Songs From The Heart. This little disc of musical gems arrived at RMHQ in late October with a release date of mid-January 2019...
