Sayer Music Official Website

Sayer Music - The official website of Ron & Charlotte Sayer

Ron and Charlotte started a musical relationship over 14 years ago.
Firstly collaborating in songwriting and then working as a duo on the local (Norfolk) covers scene. The duo was first called “Midnight” and was a very new project for both Ron and Charlotte. Ron had only ever performed in bands before and for Charlotte it was her first ever taste of singing live.
The success of this first act was amazing and was a sign of things to come. They continued writing original material and put together a 4-piece band “Spider Murphy” to record with in London after small deals were discussed with independent labels. However the record companies ideas on how to move forward were quite different from the bands and so it was decided that they stay in Norfolk entertaining their local crowds in pubs and clubs in a way that they were happy with.

The duo also soon became known as “Spider Murphy” and Charlotte decided to expand on the band and make it a 7-piece with brass section. The band specialised in soul and R’n’B and again was received with open arms on the local circuit.During this 14 year span the various acts have had brilliant write ups and reviews by local newspapers as well as some national ones in NME and Melody Maker and also Guitarist magazine.
They have performed live on local radio and been on radio chat sessions. The band won a local battle of the band competition and won vouchers to be spent at a local music shop. Spider Murphy were inaugural winners in “The Talk” talent show back in ’97 winning studio time as well as a cash prize.

A lot of these competitions were won due to Charlotte and Ron’s original compositions as they have continued to write music covering all styles. Back in ’00 they won another competition to support Pete Best the original drummer with the Beatles. Yet the biggest claim to fame has to be Charlotte and Rons’ independent entries to The Guitarist of the Year competition. Both of them entered into separate categories – Ron in the Electric Guitarist of the Year category and Charlotte in the Acoustic Guitarist of the Year category. They were amazed to discover that they were both selected to play at the finals held at Wembley during the National Music Show Exhibition. Ron went on to win the title of National Guitarist of the Year and a very tasty custom shop Fender Stratocaster into the bargain. The following day Charlotte went on to become the inaugural winner in the acoustic category receiving a Washburn acoustic as her prize. This was an amazing time for the couple a great time to meet new contacts in the business. Due to the uniqueness of a couple getting to this level they were invited back the following year to perform together on the live music stage.

It has been an eventful 14 years and it looks as though the next 14 will no doubt follow suit, although their attention has been concentrated in other areas of late as Ron and Charlotte now have two wonderful yet highly spirited offspring in Jasmine Beth and Jadon Nile.
The original writing is still very much in progress and they are working toward selling CD’s of these songs locally and via the Internet.
The Spider Murphy duo has burst back on the circuit entertaining audiences, and Ron is continuing his solo act ‘Purple Ronnie and the
now very popular three-piece “The Ron Sayer Band”.

The Future

As well as aiming to take all their projects onwards and upwards Ron and Charlotte are always open to new ideas. Both are keen to dep for other acts, to do session work and consider offers of interesting musical scenarios.
Due to the great interest the pair have had in their original songs this is definitely something which will be pursued and perhaps, well, who knows what will happen next. Having experienced (as celebrity guests) the glory of the Ivor Novello awards the couple surely have a taste for bigger things – Watch this space.

Links

www.dawghouse.co.uk
www.abbababes.co.uk
www.robbenford.com
www.srvfanclub.com
www.tdpri.com
www.chrisduartegroupfans.org
www.templeofblues.com
www.texasflood.com
www.lyricsrobot.com
www.myspace.com/theronsayerband
www.myspace.com/charlottejoyce
www.myspace.com/blueevolution
www.lot55.co.uk
www.cordonline.co.uk
www.fenderforum.com
www.townclock.co.uk

DIARY

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Just wanted to say thanks to all of you who we've seen recently - the last few gigs have been really good and very well attended by you all - hence why I just wanted to say a formal Thank you as we've barely had a chance to chat at the venues, but needless to say its been great to see you all.

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Saturday, June 02, 2007

Hi A message thats really intended for Kazza but I'm sure theres a few others that may like to know this - Unfortunately The Never Turn Back in Caister has been tkaen over and then closed so many times of late that we found ourselves with bookings that just kept falling through, on the last couple of occasions we weren't even informed by the owners it was people like yourselves who were good enough to let us know before we turned up to play!! So in answer to your question - its unlikely at the moment that we'll be working there in the near future unless things change. The nearest venues that we play in the area are The Seadell in Hemsby and The California Tavern. Cxx

Friday, April 27, 2007

Skeyton Goat - Big Charity Event - Dont forget this one!! 18th May Tickets from Wendy 01692 538152 Ocean Room Events 1st Nite - May 4th 9th June (Ron and I will not be at this one - but rest assured we will be covered by 2 other great players :) 7th July 1st September 13th October 10th November

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Hope you're all enjoying a Happy Christmas and looking forward to the New Year!! Love to see some of you guys over the next few days - should be having some good nights to come. XX

Saturday, August 26, 2006

Blinder of a night at the Walnut Tree Shades on Thursday, great sound and some inspired playing..... I'm sure you'll agree! Thanks to all of you that came, and weren't there some people!! I hear the way to the toilets were outside - as you couldn't get to them inside. LOL. It appears you all liked the giglist mailshot let us know if you would like to be added so that you can get more regular gig dates direct!

Saturday, August 12, 2006

Hope you all like the new look to the website - thankfully finally got round to it!! Let us know your thoughts x

Saturday, July 15, 2006

Just a note again for all who saw Ron and myself up in Norwich outside the forum with BBC Bus on Thursday we played an acoustic set of varied numbers which was really enjoyable again greatly received. Hope some of you heard us on Radio Norfolk and I believe Radio Lincolnshire will be hearing more of us as they took our assortment of CDs! Will putting up a link to the websites soon too so you'll soon see all about that!!

Saturday, July 15, 2006

Thanks to everyone who came to the Mad Mag Day event today in Gorleston my band(The Charlotte Joyce Band) had a great time and we were very well received as debut performers there. We had some lovely compliments - makes things so worth while.

Friday, February 10, 2006

OOh meant to add Ron said how great Optic was last night. Some guy commented how much he enjoyed the playing - thats all us musicians need sometimes at the end of the night to feel appreciated and that we have done our job well Thanks.

Friday, February 10, 2006

The Charlotte Joyce Band date at the Cali was great thenks so much all of you that came and supported us and for all your calls and e-mails Cx

Saturday, August 20, 2005

The Ron Sayer Band Cd - yes its here!! Its going really well and if you'd like a copy then of course they're on sale at gigs or e-mail us - I think Ron is selling them at a mere snip of £8 quid - hey but don't quote me on that one. Also the 'Riffs' CD is also for sale for just a fiver. A reminder that to complete your set there are Purple Ronnie solo and Spider Murphy CDs!! Catch up again soon as bookings are beginning to come in again for next year and it could well be quite a mixture of events as I will be 'out on the scene' even more!!

Saturday, July 09, 2005

Just to let you know that the band CD should be arriving on Tuesday (12th July) therefore the CD will be available from me, Will or Paul at gigs from the following week. My riff CD should be ready pretty soon as well so Riff/guitar fans beware!!! We've had a fun time of late with plenty of special guests at gigs. Big thanks to: Sonny Lee (Yes, THE Sonny Lee), Rob Holmes (Grade 6...in wer arranging), Oli Brown (International Star) Carol(normal key)Nicholls, Marie(I'll just pop home and get my amp!)Nicholls, Hannah (hiya & Bya) and the amazing Marc(Tearituptearitupetc) James. It was also great to have Charlotte back fronting the band for a set at the Jollys last sunday. The lucky audience were suitably amazed at Charlotte's 'debut' return to the band!! See you at a gig soon (just don't ask for 'amarillo') :-)

Friday, May 20, 2005

All is going well! Thanx to everyone for your support - we have had some great gigs recently and alot of this is due to you guys coming out regularly to see us at your favorite venues - it makes us push ourselves harder and further and keeps improving the acts!!