Lloyd Courtenay
The Barron Knights drummer for the last
13 years now and an old friend the group have known for around 30 years
having recorded with him and worked at the same venues.
His first professional job was working in a band backing Adam Faith
in the sixties.
Praying
for straight drive in HongKong
Then he went on to work with many other
artists until joining a band called Arrival in 1970 who had two top ten
hits during the first year. He worked at many major venues including The
Isle of Wight Festival and also performed a Royal gala Performance for
The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh.
On
a Harley in Perth Australia
Later in the seventies Lloyd worked with Roy Orbison whenever he toured England and in the eighties he toured with Randy Crawford on her European tours and also worked in America for a while.
Sailing
with Garth in Auckland Harbour
He joined the Barron Knights
in the early nineties. As you can tell from the quality of the people
who have sought his services, Lloyd is a fine drummer. He has worked as
a backing musician in cabaret and consequently is very suited to the Barron
Knights act which demands great variety of it's musicians
In the
Falklands the penguins are not impressed
Oh yeeesss!!! I enjoyed
that one!(Dubai 04)
Although he a appears
to be very quiet, Lloyd has a great sense of humour and contributes to
the comedy on stage, he comes up with some great lines and is the first
to burst out laughing if anything goes awry while the group are on stage.
He is now teaching at three schools in the Midlands near his home in Grantham.