For all your Entertainment Needs whether it be Compere, Karaoke or Cabaret

                         Also a ‘Songs of the Beatles’ show available.

        With over 15 years experience in Tenerife and over 40 years in the business.

 

 
                   A POTTED HISTORY

      ELIOT OWEN began his musical career in the mid 60's, touring with various bands, the dance halls and theatres in South Wales and the West Country. Then in 1967 he formed his own band, Samantha Krisp,  (where the name came from, no one seems to remember), who took up a residency in the Pelican Club in Barry Island, replacing Dave Edmund's  'Love  Sculpture', who had succeeded another quite well known act,  Tommy White and the Esquires. (Whatever became of Tommy White?)  Last I heard he had changed his name to Tom Jones and gone to America or somewhere.                                  

  After two years, however, it was not to be third time lucky, following  two No.1 selling acts, so Eliot left and joined Spinning Wheel from Swansea and went to work on the American Bases in Europe.

  Six years of non stop travel and a stint working for B.B.B. Records in Rome, he decided it was time for a change, so in 1975, he returned to the U.K.            

                                                        It was time to give the Big Time a shot.
 
 Touring again, this time Britain, mainly working the London pub scene, his new band, Dozy, entered and reached the national finals of the Melody Maker Rock Competition two years running and were picked up by E.M.I.

  Time Out magazine reported in 1977 that only two bands doing the rounds in London were going to make it that year, one was Dozy and the other a little known band called Dire Straits (whatever happened to them?)

  After a recording  test at Advision Studios, in London, and a meeting with the top brass, a record deal was on the table, but just days before everything  was due to come to fruition, the Sex Pistols  fiasco happened, resulting  in E.M.I. withdrawing all finance for new acts,and although Polydor showed an interest in picking up the option, Eliot had had, as he describes it, a 'gutsful', so he left that side of the business in 1978, to get a “proper job“. After having traveled non stop for all of his life, (his Dad had been a military man), the next year seemed like heaven.  He and Carol, (whom he had lived with since 1972, later to be married in 1976), had been living out of suitcases for years, now got to settle down, and life became “normal”.  
       
                                                                Home every night… You What??.            
 
  But the itchy feet finally came back, so for ten years, Eliot did what he said he would never do, work at it as a spare time job, just doing the clubs. However, he stuck at it, doing the Northern Working Mens Clubs, with  a variety of different duos, trios and groups, playing other people`s music, and eventually decided to go it alone in 1989, as the expense of even running a club band had become extortionate.

  As recession began to affect the entertainment business, a lot later than it did anything else, work began to dry up. From working 26 to 28 days a month it gradually began to shrink to 24, then 22 and then even less, so in 1994, he decided to move to Tenerife.

   After working at a variety of different cabaret venues for about  five years, he took on the prestigious job at `Dreamers Cabaret Bar` owned by Roy, from ‘Freddie and The Dreamers’ in mid 1999, working with the very best cabaret acts in Tenerife, where he learned more in three years than he had in the previous twenty about  audience intimacy.

   Moving on in 2002 to the Corner Bar, a prestigious Cabaret venue, along the strip in Parque La Paz, he spent an amazing six years as resident entertainer, leaving in the summer of 2008 to pursue a new project.

   Having been an avid fan of the Beatles since the early 60’s, he had always wanted to do  A ‘Beatles’ Tribute. So he set about gathering the very best backing tracks to some of his all time favourite ’Fab Four’ songs and has put together a show suitable for all.
 
  Mixing this with his Karaoke hosting and compere work makes for a balanced variety for this all round entertainer

                       Eliot lives in Llano del Camello, near Las Chafiras with his wife, Carol and daughter, Charlotte.

 

Contact.        (34)    922 703223
                    (34)    634 320283


 






 

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