From the monthly archives:

October 2008

East Sussex National Golf Club…

by admin on October 28, 2008

…and other prestigious venues…

…are places where Cornucopia has played! We started life as a jazz band called Melodius Thunk, and have played at, among others, the Globe Theatre, the Park Lane Hilton, Lambeth Palace, The Valley (Charlton Athletic Football Ground), The New Connaught Rooms, Number 4 Hamilton Place, HMS President, the East Sussex National Golf Club and London City Airport (for their Family Fun Day).

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Spicerhaart Christmas Party

by admin on October 25, 2008

A new client…

Spicerhaart Group, comprising Haart estate agents, Spicer McColl, Darlows and Felicity J Lord, have just booked us as the 8-piece band for their Christmas party on 18 December. We are delighted to be providing the entertainment for them, and will make sure that the event rocks, as ever.

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Scouting for Girls…

October 25, 2008

…at the Bond pre-screening No, it’s not what we’ll be doing – it’s who it is rumoured will be there. A little bird has told me that this popular band, who released hits such as “She’s so lovely” and “Heartbeat”, are planning to come and perform their new song, “James Bond” at the evening, so [...]

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Charity Ball

October 24, 2008

Prince’s Trust and Macmillan Cancer Support The NatWest bank are holding a Charity Ball on the 2 Dec at the Hilton Metropole in London. Tickets are £110 and the proceeds will go to support The Prince’s Trust, Macmillan Cancer Support, St Francis’ Hospice and the Newspaper Education Trust. There will be a champagne reception, charity [...]

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The Railway, Blackheath

October 23, 2008

Solo gigs for Richard I do a regular spot at the Railway, Blackheath (next to Blackheath Rail Station) on Wednesdays from 8-11pm. I was there again last night – good crowd – more responsive than the week before, where I barely got an acknowledgement that I existed… Played and sang a few songs which I’ve [...]

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Centerparcs, Longleat

October 23, 2008

Cornucopia, wild at heart Next Saturday (1 Nov) Cornucopia will be playing at The Venue, Centerparcs, Longleat Safari Park. We do this approximately once per month – it’s a blooming long way, but we only play for an hour, and the audience is always responsive. We play from 9.30-10.30 pm, so if you are by [...]

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TAXI Road Rally

October 23, 2008

LA, here I come In just over a week I will be flying to Los Angeles for the TAXI Annual Road Rally. For those of you who don’t know, TAXI is an American song placement company – if you write songs, then they try to ensure that they get heard by the right people. I [...]

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Quantum of Solace

October 21, 2008

…the name’s Bond, James Bond… For those of you that don’t know, Cornucopia have been contracted as the band to perform at the pre-screening of the new James Bond movie “Quantum of Solace”, starring Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko and Mathieu Amalric. This will be happening at a venue in Central London on 30 October – [...]

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Maeve Morris

October 21, 2008

Soprano Extraordinaire I have the privilege of being great friends with Maeve and her husband David Falconer. I actually grew up with David in Dublin – we were quite competitive musically, but these days we just co-operate. We have very different musical interests, but at the same time remain remarkably similar in approach. When I [...]

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Absolute Radio…

October 20, 2008

…from Abbey Road Studio 2 Some of you may have heard Cornucopia mentioned on the Christian O’Connell show on Absolute Radio when they broadcast from Abbey Road Studio 2 to celebrate the rebranding from Virgin Radio. Basically, Christian mentioned that they were looking for a house band to play the stings in between the travel, [...]

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