Rob Yeo
Keyboards, Musical Director & Programming
Rob Yeo is a professional Piano & Keyboard player, musical
director and producer based in London, UK. With over ten
years of live and studio experience, Rob is an outstanding
musician.
He trained classically from aged 16, achieving grade 8, but
quickly developed a passion for playing Pop, Soul and Jazz.
Using multiple keyboards, he began gigging aged 18 and
developed a strong grounding in many different musical
genres.
In 2005 he studied at Leeds College of Music, meeting and
working with some of the UK’s finest musicians and teachers.
Rob went on to win best Pop/Jazz Piano Player of 2008
and attained a BA in Popular Music and an MA in Music
Performance, achieving firsts in all performance modules.
Rob has worked all over the UK & overseas recording, directing
and performing with various artists & bands including Tito
Jackson from the Jackson 5 and 80s group Five Star.
Rob
has also performed for David & Victoria Beckham, Gordon
Ramsey, Samuel L Jackson and Richard Branson among other
celebrities at various destinations around the world.
Rocky
Morris
Drums
Originally from South Wales, UK, Rocky grew up on his parents’ record collection, subsisting on a formative diet of Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers and Toto. He took up the pots and pans at an early age, before graduating to a drum kit at the age of nine, spending his teenage years cutting his teeth on the local music scene.
At 18 he relocated to London to study jazz at the prestigious Trinity College of Music where he toured Europe and the USA with Portugese singer Guida De Palma and Jazzinhio during his first year. After two years, he left to go full-time with his band Palladium who had secured a record deal with Virgin Records and subsequently toured the UK and Europe with artists such as The Kooks, Mika, and The Feeling.
Palladium disbanded a few years later, and Rocky shifted focus to writing and producing music for other artists, working with the likes of Little Mix, JLS, James Aurthur, Kylie Minogue, Sugababes, K-Pop sensations Shinee (for whom they wrote provided a number-one single). He co-wrote and produced two tracks on Ellie Goulding’s multi-platinum selling album Halcyon, as well as working on a track with her for the Divergent movie soundtrack. During this time his second band project, I See Monstas, signed to Jimmy Iovine’s Insterscope Records (as well as Polydor Records UK) and toured extensively around the globe for the next four years.
Rocky is now back doing what he loves best – being behind the drums! – and has recently been working with Andy Taylor of Duran Duran (and producer of Rod Stewart’s Out Of Order among others).
Nik Carter
Sax, flute and percussion
Nik is in high demand both in the UK and
abroad as a live performer and session
musician. At 17 Nik attended the Royal
Academy Of Music Junior Jazz programme
and the following year gained a place on
the Jazz BMUS course at Trinity College Of
Music in London.
At 20 Nik was asked to join Lily Allen on
two world tours and performed with her at
such prestigious venues as Wembley Stadium
and The Royal Albert Hall, music festivals
including Glastonbury and V Festival and
major TV shows all over the world. As part
of The Blackjack Horns, Nik is recognised for
his contribution to the No.1 hit single ‘Dance
With Me Tonight’ by X Factor finalist Olly
Murs, which sold over 800,000 copies and is
still his highest charting single to date.
Nik has also worked with many other artists
including Alexandra Burke, Labrinth, James
Morrison, Nicole Scherzinger, Beverly
Knight, Scouting For Girls, Mark Ronson, Gloria Gaynor, Walter Afanasieff, Jamie
Lawson, Boy George, Ed Sheeran, Duffy, The
Maccabees, Future Cut, Pixie Lott, Lemar,
Katie Melua, Alesha Dixon, Jocelyn Brown,
Samuel L Jackson, Wretch 32 & Lorde. Nik’s
West End and touring musical theatre credits
include Dance Til’ Dawn (starring Vincent
and Flavia from Strictly Come Dancing), The
Rocky Horror Picture Show and Bat Out Of
Hell – The Musical.
He is an active endorsee of Yamaha
Saxophones, Lawton Mouthpieces, D’Addario
Woodwinds, 64 Audio In-ears, Hercules
Stands & Bam Cases.
Simon Small
Guitar & Vocals
Based in London, Simon is an
accomplished guitarist with many years of
live, studio, and television experience.
Having first picked up the guitar after
hearing Edward Van Halen’s solo on
Michael Jackson’s ‘Beat It’ and wondering
“How the hell do you do that with a
guitar?!”, he was gigging at fourteen, and
began playing professionally at seventeen.
With a strong grounding in Rock, Blues,
Pop, Funk and Soul, his passion for
the instrument and music in general
continues to this day.
Simon is very proud to have performed
‘Handbags & Gladrags’ live with Rod
Stewart on BBC’s Parkinson show in 2008.
He has also performed at everything from
intimate private dinners for the Beckhams
to live television appearances with Tom
Jones and to sold-out arenas around the
world with a number of different bands.
Xander Bone
Saxophones & Percussion
Alexander Bone is a 22 year old saxophonist, composer, arranger and producer based in the UK.
He has performed twice as a soloist on the BBC Proms. First on The Last Night of the Proms in September 2015, performing two of his own orchestral arrangements broadcast to millions on BBC Two.
Most recently he performed as part of the 2018 Young Musician Prom at the Royal Albert Hall, celebrating 40 years of BBC Young Musician, broadcast on BBC Four.
He has worked with big names in jazz, pop & electronic music including:
Nile Rodgers, Rudimental, Kylie Minogue, Gary Barlow, Gwilym Simcock, Liane Carroll & David Newton.
In 2014 he was crowned the first ever winner of the BBC Young Musician - Jazz Award, and in 2016 he was voted the winner of the British Jazz Awards “Rising Star” by members of the public.
Al Vosper
Guitar & Vocals
The beautiful city of Exeter is where Al was born & cut this teeth playing the music of rock bands of the time and of course ‘Rod Stewart & the Faces’.
1978 saw his first venture on the road when he toured Europe with a band called ‘First Class’ who had a hit with ‘Beach baby’.
In 1983 he moved to London and within a year he was on his first world tour with a French artist called Julien Clerc.
The next 8 years saw Al recording / touring the world with artists such as David Cassidy, Freddie & the Dreamers, David Essex, Lulu & many others,
In 1989 after a gig at Ronnie Scotts Al met and joined a band called ‘London Beat’ who had a No.1 hit in 22 countries called ‘I’ve Been Thinking About You’ and once again the world of touring opened up.
In ’93 Paul Young came to see Al whilst playing with ‘London Beat’ and was asked to join his band, which he did for the next 3 years.
In Nov 1996 Al formed the Illegal Eagles who are still touring today
In 1998 Chris de Burgh came knocking at the door and he spent 14 years touring to the four corners of the earth.
In the last 6 years he has worked with Joe Cocker, Il Divo, Alfie Boe and 2017 saw him on a Euopean tour with the great artist Anastacia.
After a call from Paul Metcalfe in Sept ’17 to play guitar in ‘Some Guys Have All The Luck’, Al jumped at the chance, and he loves it!