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Allan Mayes is a
veteran musician from Liverpool, England with over 40-years’ experience in the
business and 10,000 plus live appearances.
Allan’s career as a solo musician started in 1969. Performing solo & with Liverpool-based
bands Medium Theatre, Severed Head, & Restless throughout the 1970’s, Allan
has played the Cavern Club and shared stages in those early days with the likes
of Genesis & Judas Priest.
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Allan & Declan MacManus, a.k.a Elvis Costello, also had a brief collaborating and performing partnership in the early
1970’s known as Rusty. In October 1971, Rusty
was originally formed with Allan Mayes & Alan Brown (both formerly of
Medium Theatre), Dave Jago, and then Declan MacManus. With Jago leaving & Brown off to Warwick
University, Allan & Declan continued performing as solo musicians but carried
on as Rusty, now a duo. During this
time, the two lads would pen the song, “Maureen and Dan”. These characters would somewhat reemerge in the
1980 Elvis Costello song, “Ghost Train” only with Dan now referenced as
Stan. Later, Mayes would also change |
Dan
to Sam for his “Maureen and Sam” version on 1986’s Stumbling In The Aisle. Allan & Declan made their final
appearance together as Rusty on June 24, 1973. |
| Today, Allan is still playing music, and it has literally taken him
around the world. He has played across
the UK & been on the road in Norway.
In the US, he played Tommy Rockers in Las Vegas, Nevada before going on
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the road for 2-weeks in
Alaska & has played 19 cities throughout Texas from El Paso to Corpus
Christi to Wichita Falls to Beaumont. A
bit of a road warrior, he also made his way over to Arizona, Florida, Georgia,
Louisiana, & Tennessee performing in Tucson, Gainesville, Atlanta, Baton
Rouge, & Memphis, respectively. In
2006, Allan embarked on a successful career performing on cruise ships playing
night after night to wonderful & responsive audiences whilst exploring six of
the seven continents. Allan is amazed by
his good fortune & the experiences that music has afforded him over the
years such as visiting the Pyramids, the Temple of Zeus, the Coliseum, Pompeii,
Istanbul, St. Petersburg, Russia, |
| Iceland, Greenland, Australia, New Zealand, India,
South Africa’s Cape of Good Hope, Jordan’s Lost City of Petra, being on the
Amazon, through the Panama Canal, swimming in the Dead Sea, and the list goes
on - All of this is the result of many years’ hard work; but, more importantly,
it started with “a 16-year kid’s decision in 1969 to buy a guitar”. After pretty much seeing, doing, &
playing it all, Allan resumed a land-based career in the Austin, Texas area as
a solo musician as well as performing with duo partner, LaDonna, as of 2014.
Allan is still playing…
ALL THE CLASSICS,
ALL THE TIME! |
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