CHELMSFORD: Hot Box Live

Saturday 9th November, 2024

2:00pm

Event information

Hamish Stuart and Robbie McIntosh - Superstars unite for this very rare show.
What can I say - This will be amazing
Hamish and Robbie formed 50% of Paul McCartney's band back in the late 1980s and early 1990s. And what a band that was. Previously both Hamish and Robbie were mainstay names on the rock and Roll stage and after their stint with Paul McCartney, they have both remained in the public eye both of them staying at the top of their game.

Hamish was born in Glasgow, His first professional band 'The Dream Police'. He recorded a couple of singles with the Dream Police before he was invited to join the recently-formed Average White Band (AWB) in June 1972.

A member of AWB from 1972 to 1982, he went on to work with Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, and David Sanborn.

He wrote Atlantic Starr's 1986 hit "If Your Heart Isn't in It" and songs for Smokey Robinson, Jeffrey Osborne, George Benson, and Diana Ross.

Stuart joined Paul McCartney's band (where he switched between guitar and bass as necessary with McCartney) for McCartney's 1989 comeback album, Flowers in the Dirt and appeared on several other albums and McCartney's world tours of 1989 and 1993.

After collaborating on numerous albums for other artists, he recorded his first solo album, Sooner or Later, in 1999, 17 years after leaving the Average White Band, which he released on his own record label, Sulphuric Records.

Apart from playing with his own group, the Hamish Stuart Band, and with his fellow Glaswegian guitarist and friend Jim Mullen, Stuart has also produced Gordon Haskell and the Swedish singer-songwriter Meja.

In 2006, Stuart toured as the bass player with Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band. He joined Starr again for a 2008 tour, where he performed "Pick Up The Pieces" and "Work to Do". He once again toured with Ringo in 2019 playing "Pick Up the Pieces", "Work to Do", and "Cut the Cake". Although the tour paused because of COVID-19 precautions, it resumed in 2022, completing tour dates initially planned for 2020

In 2007, he produced and appeared as a guest vocalist on the album All About the Music, by The All Stars collective.

In July 2015, Stuart reunited with his AWB bandmates Malcolm "Molly" Duncan and Steve Ferrone to form The 360 Band. This is in essence one one-third of the original Average White Band. They released an album titled Three Sixty in 2017 and have been performing live together along with supporting musicians.

He is the curator, along with partner Claire Houlihan and friend Tom Sutton-Roberts, of the annual mOare Music festival, held in the village of Oare, Faversham, Kent.

In recognition of his unique contribution to music, Stuart was awarded with a BASCA Gold Badge award in 2016

Robbie McIntosh was best known as a session guitarist and member of The Pretenders from 1982 until 1987. In 1988 he began doing session guitar work for Paul McCartney joining his band full-time until early 1994. He continues to play sessions and has performed both with his own band and as a sideman with John Mayer.

McIntosh performed session guitar work for many artists throughout his career including Winter Mountain, Aynsley Lister, Kevin Ayers, Boyzone, Cher, Diane Tell, Eric Bibb, George Martin, Gordon Haskell, Heather Small, Joe Cocker, Daryl Hall, John Mayer, Kirsty McColl, Luz Casal, Mike + The Mechanics, Nine Below Zero, Paul Carrack, Paul Young, Mark Knopfler, John Illsley, Roger Daltrey, Russell Watson, Mark Hollis, Talk Talk, Tasmin Archer, Tears for Fears, Eros Ramazzotti, Thea Gilmore, Tina Arena, Tori Amos, Vin Garbutt, and Norah Jones.

During 1977 and 1978, McIntosh had become friends with James Honeyman-Scott of The Pretenders, who contacted McIntosh in 1982 with a view to his joining The Pretenders to fill out the band's live sound. Honeyman-Scott died in June 1982 and was replaced by Billy Bremner. During the Christmas period of the same year, McIntosh joined The Pretenders. He toured extensively with the band and was also credited on the albums Learning to Crawl (1984) and Get Close (1986), before leaving in September 1987.

In 1985, McIntosh became the main guitarist on Roger Daltrey's sixth solo album Under a Raging Moon, a tribute to The Who's former drummer Keith Moon who had died in 1978. The album was Daltrey's best charting success in the US and McIntosh was featured in the music video for "Let Me Down Easy" aside from Daltrey opposite Bryan Adams also playing guitar.

He left K.M.O. in 1988, taking on session work and became the lead guitarist for Paul McCartney's band, touring and playing on all of McCartney's albums from 1989 to 1993. He can be seen in the concert films Get Back and Paul Is Live.

After leaving McCartney's band he realised his long-time ambition to have the time to form his own band and is quoted as saying: "I decided to pick some of my favourite players for a band that I thought would give a particular sound and edge to my songs. So I grabbed Paul Beavis, Pino Palladino, Mark Feltham and Melvin Duffy to form The Robbie McIntosh Band in 1998. We did some gigs and recorded Emotional Bends as a debut album." Earlier instrumentals became the basis of a second album Unsung inspired by Douglas Adams.

In 2004 McIntosh joined Norah Jones' touring band staying in the band a year for the "Feels Like Home" world tour playing slide, acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin and backing vocals. He toured with John Mayer from 2006 to 2010 providing rhythm and lead guitar, dobro and mandolin. He performed all slide guitar parts during that period as well.

Both Hamish and Robbie have well and truly made their mark in the Rock and Roll World. Its your chance to see and meet them up close and personal at The Hot Box Live.

28 - 29 Viaduct Road
Chelmsford
CM1 1TS

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