Hardest Working Band 2009....

[roger bayliss]

Thought some of you might find this interesting reading from BBC website

Cliff and the Shads made 2nd place.. also entry respecting Joe Brown

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8432278.stm

[TWANGER 59]

Hi , fantastic news , and after 50 years ! Ron

[JimTidmarsh]

I would have thought The Searchers must have had some sort of mention. They do somewhere close to 300 gigs a year and have done non-stop since the 60s. OK, so some of the venues are on the small side but I'd be surprised it there really was a harder working band. They also do alomost annual tours of Aus/NZ and Canada.
Bass player Frank Allen is a great mate of Bruces'.

[kittycph]

I thought it looked very easy at the 2 concerts I was attending.
Are they counting number of concerts or numbers of audiences?
I seem to remember, that earlier I have read, that the Shadows sold close to 300.000 tickets.

[chas]

Who would have thought you'd see Cliff & The Shads above Take That in this day and age!
Chas.

[Sleepwalker63]

I thought it looked very easy at the 2 concerts I was attending.
Are they counting number of concerts or numbers of audiences?
I seem to remember, that earlier I have read, that the Shadows sold close to 300.000 tickets.

I think that the PRS list is only interested in performances in Britain.

[chronikman-ch]

Congratulations to Cliff & The Shadows
but:
Poor Inquiries
Cliff Richard and The Shadows performed on 36 Concerts in 2009
The weeks in chart
Heinz (chronikman)
see Tour Detail from Wikipedia
The Final Reunion Tour Cliff Richard and The Shadows 2009/10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_ ... he_Shadows)

[JimTidmarsh]

Out of interest, I enquired thorugh The Searchers website what Frank Allen thought of this & Git a reply from him today -

Yes, I very much doubt that even Joe Brown (where they refer to those playing in smaller venues) would do as many concerts as us. in venues of a similar size

The problem is that the list is based on completed PRS forms and in fact very few venues ask for specific forms. They tend to pay a blanket fee covering all the various acts who play there. They appear to have two scales. Large venues and smaller ones therefore it will not be based on the actual number of people attending but rather the amount of venues in a certain size range. And then they will only count if they have filled in PRS forms with the name of the act working on a specific night.

Large venues on concert tours and many of the official smaller cvic theatre type venues require PRS forms to be completed with the name of the artiste and the songs they performed but this frequently gets ignored.

I have counted 197 Searchers concerts this past year. That includes foreign shows (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland etc). I have no idea what the estimates for either Status Quo ir Joe Brown are.

[roger bayliss]

Nice to read some of the responses here as I sort of drew attention to this sort of knowing it would be the usual credibility level that the press have a tendency towards these days and the real facts would make a mockery ..