Meet the band

Bob Poole (lead guitar and vocals)  began his career playing guitar and singing with local rock and blues bands before joining British 60s chart group Cupids Inspiration, whose biggest hit "Yesterday Has Gone" stayed at the top of the British charts for 8 weeks. 
 
He toured with all the famous bands of that era including: Love Affair, The Tremeloes, The Swinging Blue Jeans, Marmalade, The Troggs, P.J. Proby, Hermans Hermits, The Nashville Teens and The Drifters.  
 
Bob re-located to Germany in 1991 as a better geographic location for his constant international travelling. His solo show in which he entertains people with vocal and guitar creating a sing along party atmosphere has taken him all over the world playing company events across Europe and Asia. 
 
Bob returned to the UK in 2009 where he has taken the concept of his solo show into a full group situation by joining with other top class musicians to form the good time party band Side By Side.
 
 
Paul "Swanner" Swanson  (lead guitar and backing vocals) is a veteran of the better part of a thousand gigs with local stalwarts "The Hangover Blues Band". Over a 20 year period they have travelled the UK, playing from the Orkney Islands to Lands End, and, moving further afield, gigging from the West coast of Ireland to the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, where they performed on the same bill as BB King and Gary Moore.

These days he is an established guitar tutor in the Warwickshire area. Self taught, and with widespread musical influences he brings his own eclectic style to Side by Side UK.
 
 
Chris Wright (bass guitar and backing vocals) picked up the bass guitar when he was 45 and still hasn't put it down!
 
He has been a member of the Hangover Blues Band for 7 years, recently joined Steve Walwyn & Friends (Dr Feelgood guitarist), is a member of the re-formed Rogues, Willy & the Wombats, The Blues Rats and fills in with several other bands. 
 
He is influenced by many players  in jazz, blues, rock and pop and  by many drummers and songwriters.
 
Rick Medlock (drums and backing vocals) is a seasoned musician who has done session work for Capital Radio and BRMB as part of 80s band Pzazz. Rick was later an integral part of the original stage production of Blood Brothers, starring  Barbara Dickson and has worked with legendary song writer Kenny Young and Grammy Award winning Two Tone producer Roger Lomas as well as top US. soul acts, the late  Danny La Rue  and local showband Smackee.

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