Farewell To Jeff

Unfortunately I have to start with not to good news, drummer Jeff Walker has decided that he needs to spend more time with his young family and is to leave the band, his wife Sue has recently given birth to a baby girl, Madeline, three year old Curtis now has a sister.

We wish Jeff, Sue, Curtis and Madeline all the best for the future, Jeff will be missed.

Replacing Jeff is ex Undertakers drummer; Clive Knowles. Clive is a very experienced musician and Shooter, while sad to be saying farewell to Jeff, are pleased that Clive has agreed to join the band.

Shooter have been playing the usual social club/holiday camp gigs over the last few months and will be doing the same throughout June and July.

Recently Shooter played at MerseyCats, what a greatly night, the band went down a storm and can't wait to return, we'll keep you posted.

A gig to look out for is Shooter's first appearance at Liverpool's new Cavern Club, this is on Sunday 23rd August. This will complete a full hand of appearances at the Club for Shooter guitarist Keith, as he will now have appeared at the Cavern Club, old and new, including playing on the original clubs closing night, with all the major bands that he has been in since he started his career in the mid 1960s, they are as follows; The Rebels, Ricky Gleason & the Topspots, Caliban, and now Shooter.

The re-united Ricky Gleason & the Topspots are now out on the road, this was one of guitarist Keith's first bands and he will be a feature with the band subject to his availability from Shooter.

Ricky & the Topspots have had appearances at MerseyCats and have future gigs at The Cavern and Liverpool's Mathew Street Festival, with the Cd title; 'Then & Now' is on release, it's all systems go.

A gig list for 2009 and reviews of of our June gigs will feature in our next Blog.

Keep on rockin'