ABOUT THE BAND

THE HEATERS are the resident band at The New Crawdaddy Club.

Your hosts, and resident band, The Heaters are a vastly experienced four-piece outfit.The band is drawn from many and varied musical backgrounds but with the common desire to play the music they love - the Blues.

The three Paul's, Paul Dean ( keyboards ), Paul Milligan ( Lead vocals & Guitar ) and Paul Reynolds ( drums ) all played together back in the 70's in well respected local band " Skint " along with bassman Dave Bronze who went on to play bass for Eric Clapton.They were in great demand on the local circuit, playing six nights a week, as well as being booked to support the big bands of the time at The Kursall, The Queens and Chancellor Hall in Chelmsford, gigs which traditionally were only given to London bands. Amongst the bands that they played with were : Pretty Things, Curved Air, Ace, Heavy Metal Kids & Colin Blunstone.
Fourth member of the Heaters is Chris Patching on bass guitar and vocals. Chris's career has spanned just about every style of music from jamming with The Shadows and the Beatles in his early bedroom days to becoming one of Kenny Ball's jazzmen, albeit for one night. He was heavily influenced by the Tamla Motown house bassists like James Jamerson and Carol Kaye but has always listened widely to all styles of music and is also bassist with top function band Arizona.
As well as bass duties with the band, Chris is also responsible for the Crawdaddy Club website ( www.newcrawdaddyclub.co.uk ) and any of you that have visited the site will agree what a great web site he has produced.

As well as running the club each week, The Heaters are starting to spread their wings further afield with dates at many venues and playing some of the major blues Festivals including Upton and Colne.

The Heaters are the perfect ' warm-up ' for the guest acts each week and are considered by many main acts as being a hard act to follow.