Johnny Cat - Vocals / Manager

John started the band back in 1993. It was only meant to be a hobby but 13 years later and Souled Out have played at top venues all over the UK supporting artists like Jools Holland, The Darkness, Heather Small, Boney M and The Drifters to name but a few. When he's not busy fronting one of the tightest bands on the circuit, John is a closet thespian and has appeared on the TV in a number of programmes including 'The Secret Plot To Kill Adolf Hitler' where he played Molotov and 'The Millennium Dome Heist' where he played the dome. He was on the 'Weakest Link Entertainers Special' a couple of years ago and managed to sing to Anne Robinson. He was voted off first.

Dave Fish - Vocals / Tambourine / Cowbell

Dave is one of the founder members of Souled Out and is the undisputed best singer in the band. Hold on....that's Daves handwriting! Dave has had a long and distinguished career in the music industry starting when he was five and won a singing competition at Butlins. Dreams of stardom occupied his mind for many years but after being kicked out of the Dagenham Girl Pipers for not coming from Dagenham, his career hit the skids for a while until he was introduced to Johnny Cat by the bands first drummer, Gary Law. Since then he has gone on to be the undisputed best tambourine player in the band. Smokes like a chimney.

Joiese - Vocals

Joiese began her career starring as Blousey Brown in the West End production of Bugsy Malone at the tender age of eleven. She then went on to appear in various musicals, including Guys & Dolls, Grease and My Fair Lady in the West End, in which she played the leading role of Eliza Doolittle. Joiese has also appeared in pantomimes as well as various television programmes and commercials. Joiese has been a proud member of Souled Out for 9 years and look forward to the band’s continuing success.

Lisa Fabian - Vocals

Lisa started her singing career performing with Rick Astley back in the 80’s when Johnny Cat still had hair. It's a natural career progression to move from Stock Aitken and Waterman to Souled Out so expect to see Pete Burns, Hazell Dean and Sinitta joining the band soon! Lisa has recently come back into the welcoming bosom of the Souled Out family having had a beautiful baby boy. The fact that the little critter looked exactly like Johnny Cat when he was born is a total coincidence. Let's face it, all babies look like Johnny Cat when they are born!

Maria - Vocals

How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? That was the question we were asking ourselves. We thought long and hard about it. Should we have a long, drawn out talent contest which involved people ringing in and voting for their favourite each week? Should we ring Simon Cowell and see if he was free for a weekend? Should we drag Brucie out of retirement and be a judge? In the end we decided the easiest course of action was to get a fantastically talented and gorgeous singer called Maria. When you think about it, it's pretty clever.

Julie - Vocals

Julie comes from a musical theatre background and has performed in a number of West End shows including Grease, Boogie Nights, Footloose, Happy Days, The Graduate and Starlight Express.

When questioned about the rumours surrounding certain..*ahem*..members of the band, Julie confirmed that there is absolutely no similarity whatsoever between Johnny Cat and Dirk Diggler from Boogie Nights. None. At all. So let that be the end of the rumours. Started by Mr Cat.

Jon Bénét - Keyboards

Started working as a professional musician at the age of 18 and has worked in a variety of venues including West End Shows, Cruise Ships and London Hotels. Has previously worked as a Musical Director for Marti Webb, Bonnie Langford, Martine McCutcheon and Elaine Page. Jon has been running his own big band since 1978, which, as well as performing in some top venues throughout the UK, has worked (amongst others) with Don Lusher and Kenny Baker. Was voted the sexiest member of the band on the old website. He obviously has a large family.

Ray Jones - Guitar

Ray shot to fame playing the guitar in “Four Weddings and a Funeral”. Since then he has gone from strength to strength and has now reached the pinnacle of his guitar playing career - working with Souled Out. When he is not playing guitar for the band, Ray is a professional rust repairer and also has the largest collection of left handed screwdrivers in the South East. Was officially the least sexy member of Souled Out according to the vote on the old site.

Danny Boy - Drums

Danny joins Souled Out having played with Nik Kershaw and Chaz and Dave amongst others. He's promised to provide us with a full bio at some point in the future but he's has just nipped off to Margate to have some jellied eels and a pint of Courage.

Gertcha.

Young Brad - Drums

Young Brad is only five and like lots of little boys, he likes to bash things with sticks. We used to let him sit on the tour bus with us and whack old jam jars and empty tins of beans to entertain us on long trips Oop North.

One day Danny Boy got stuck in the toilets at a gig in Macclesfield. Rather than cancel the gig, we let Young Brad sit in for him on the drums and he stepped up from whacking jam jars to whacking Premier drum sets pretty well so, every now and then, we let him come out to play with the adults.

Chaz - Bass

Chaz started playing bass relatively late at the age of eighteen but has been playing in bands ever since. His early influences were heavy metal and one of his first bands were 'Battlezone' with former Iron Maiden vocalist, Paul Diano. He then went on to form 'Wildpassion', a pop funk band that played the London circuit including a gig at the Marquee on Wardour Street. He concentrated on playing keyboards and writing songs for the next few years but was persuaded to get back on the gig circuit by Johnny Cat in Tesco's in Bromley following an argument between the two over a parking spot.

Trevor - Trumpet

How Trevor came to be in Souled Out is one of those stories that is often told on the circuit. Firstly, let us put a couple of urban legends to rest. Trevor was not captured on a Pacific island, transported across the Atlantic on a steam liner and displayed to baying crowds in New York City before scaling the Empire State Building where he fell in love with Joiese and returned to England to be in the band. Nor was he raised by apes in the jungle, discovered by explorers and bought back to England to become the Earl of Greystoke. The story of Trevor joining the band is far more fantastic than any of those and...oh dear...we seem to have run out of space. Another time, perhaps?

Rico - Sax

Citing his influences as John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Joe Lovano and Lisa Simpson, Rico is the Sax Man. Rico is an expert on the history of the saxophone. He can tell you that Antoine-Joseph Sax is the man credited as being the inventor of the instrument. He could also tell you that the earliest recorded mention of the saxophone was 12 June 1842 when Hector Belioz wrote about this new, magical instrument in the Paris magazine 'Journal des Debats'. Without doubt he could tell you that Wagner introduced the saxophone to the masses in 1861 at the premier of his opera 'Tannhauser'. He can't, however, spell saxophone.

Dave "Muzza" Murray - Trombone

In the same way that Rico is an expert about his instrument, Dave is the complete opposite. He hasn't got a clue. In fact he doesn't even know what a trombone looks like. You see Dave suffers from a rare condition where if he hears the word 'trombone', he wets himself. He discovered that he suffered from this highly unusual complaint on a traumatic visit to the National Trombone Exhibition at the age of 8. Since that day Dave has erased the word from his memory by using a combination of ancient Chinese mind control and highly addictive drugs. What you and I see as a trombone, Dave sees as a 'peepee'. Dave would like to say that he loves playing with his peepee in Souled Out.

The Crew

The technical team is headed up by Nigel Davidson, of Classique Events in Chelmsford. Most of the equipment used by Souled Out is supplied by them. The crew operates a "no nonsense" approach to getting the job completed as efficiently as possible accommodating the requirements of the customer and venue wherever possible. The crew used to love playing practical jokes on the band but that all had to stop after a gig in Macclesfield where they looped the word 'trombone' into Muzza's earpiece as he was standing next to an electrical supply.