FOS brothers
Acoustic music @ The Arts Centre
Date: 16-10-2010 Time: 20:00
The FOS Brothers are Dave and Sam McCrory from East Belfast, N.Ireland, joined by Rom Dobbs an innovative drummer/percussionist from the South West of England.
Together they create a unique soundscape of acoustic music heavily influenced by their Irish roots. It would be difficult to watch a performance without being impressed by their skill as original songwriters and arrangers of traditional music.
Sam McCrory - Vocal + Acoustic Guitar
Sam is one of those gifted individuals that many musicians love to hate. His balance between vocal and guitar could easily have led him to a career in his own right, infact the band usually give him a solo slot at the start of FOS gigs on the condition he does not say anything to the audience !
Dave McCrory Acoustic Guitar, Electric Mandolin + Vocals
Dave is the brains behind the band, writing most of the songs and booking and organizing the gigs. One time instrument maker (he built the electric mandolin type thing he plays) now works as an agent for the FOS brothers and 6 other acts + solar powered stage and circus.
Rom Dobbs Drums, Percussion + samples
Dave & Sam have been trying to kick Rom out of the band for just about as many years as he has been trying to leave, but he is irreplaceable due to a strange ability to work with acoustic instrumentalists in a way few drummers can. The FOS Brothers would cease to exist without the ethnic/ambient dance music influence he adds to the arrangements. Rom is a first rate guitar and drum repairer/technician and also a much sought after session musician.
What FOS Brothers achieve in their performance is something which not many bands labelled under roots manage an eclectic diversity of Irish Folk, world influences and song-smithery (Tim Boxer - Kentisbeare Music Festival)
Caught your set at the Eden Project and it just blew me away. Bought the album and have been listening to it ever since. (Denis Taylor)
The FOS brothers have played on our stage at Glastonbury every year for the last 10 years and still pack the house with their superb musicianship and sublime vocals. (Andy Hope, Croissant Neuf, Glastonbury Festival)
A stirring fusion of original and traditional songs on hypnotic acoustic guitars to 21st century dance grooves.
(Steve Knightley Show of Hands)
www.fosbrothers.com
