{"id":81,"date":"2013-11-27T13:26:34","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T13:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skylinerband.co.uk\/?page_id=81"},"modified":"2026-11-01T21:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T21:21:11","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.skylinerband.co.uk\/?page_id=81","title":{"rendered":"Meet The Band"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alan Collier, Trombone, Band Leader:<\/strong> Alan started his musical career as a trombone player with a brass band and has played at the highest level, contesting against bands such as Black Dyke Mills and Brighouse & Rastrick. His London-based band were regularly invited to perform on BBC radio. He has played several times at brass band \u201cNational Finals\u201d at the Royal Albert Hall and probably every major concert venue and park in London. He finished his brass band \u201ccareer\u201d by playing at the \u201cBritish Open\u201d, a lifelong ambition. When he moved to Suffolk he became immersed in the local big band scene, also playing in function bands, pit orchestras and the like. He started his 1940s-style band Skyliner after realising he could style a band around playing the right music for dancing, using authentic musical arrangements and achieving the right \u2018look\u2019. Alan is proud to be part of the Red Feather Club team and values the friendships made because of the special place that it is.<\/p>\n

\"Rebecca\"<\/a>Rebecca Collier, Ironing Board <\/strong>(Piano):<\/strong> Rebecca who grew up in Felixstowe, Suffolk, and started taking piano lessons at eight. A chance purchase of a Glenn Miller compilation at the age of ten started her love of jazz, in particular music from the big band era. At high school, she wanted to learn a second instrument and took up the trombone. Rebecca won a scholarship to attend Chetham\u2019s School of Music in Manchester. After leaving Chetham\u2019s, Rebecca chose a career in banking, keeping music as a hobby and playing the trombone in local big bands. It is through playing in big bands together that Rebecca met her husband, Alan. Rebecca works at a school in Ipswich and is training to become a music teacher.<\/p>\n

 Dave Osborne, Trumpet: <\/strong>Dave has been\"Dave<\/a> a professional musician for more than 30 years. He also arranges music for bands and cabarets. He\u2019s travelled around the world seven times aboard cruise ships and was the last bandleader on the QE2. Originally from Scotland he has been based in Norfolk since the early \u201890s. He now teaches, freelances for bands and leads ska and strict tempo dance bands.<\/p>\n

Molly Rose, Vocalist:<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Rob Watson, Drums:<\/strong> <\/p>\n

\"Nigel\"<\/a>Nigel Emerton, Upright Bass: <\/strong>Nigel started playing the double bass at School and soon found himself in  the School orchestra, then the Luton youth orchestra, followed by Bedfordshire county youth  orchestra playing at the Edinburgh festival,  The Royal Albert Hall, and  touring Cyprus. During this time he acquired his first Bass Guitar and started playing Jazz  and Swing with the Bedfordshire youth Jazz Orchestra, and over many years,  various other Dance bands and big bands. these included:- Page 3 Big Band, The Chico Arnez Orchestra, Five Star  Swing, String Of Pearls Orchestra, and over 20 years with the party \/ function  band Aries. Nigel is very pleased to now play with Skyliner.   <\/strong><\/p>\n

Martin Eaton, Tenor sax:   <\/strong>
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Julian Landymore Alto Sax\/Clarinet:<\/strong>
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Alan Collier, Trombone, Band Leader: Alan started his musical career as a trombone player with a brass band and has played at the highest level, contesting against bands such as Black Dyke Mills and Brighouse & Rastrick. His London-based band were regularly invited to perform on BBC radio. He has played several times at brass band […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skylinerband.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skylinerband.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skylinerband.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skylinerband.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skylinerband.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":60,"href":"https:\/\/www.skylinerband.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/www.skylinerband.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skylinerband.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skylinerband.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}