Memphis Plates Biography

Memphis Plates was formed from well known local musicians to play American music how it should be played; Plugged in and rocked up and just oozing that fat Memphis Sound. From hard core Honky Tonk Country to the driving rhythms of the Deep South there is nothing they won’t tackle. Lynyrd Skynyrd, Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, The Mavericks all the way through to the Eagles.
	This IS the music that America gives to the World. In fact you will find that nothing is sacred, listen to us rock up Hank William’s ‘Your Cheating Heart’ and play banjo in Hendrix ‘Hey Joe’.
The band was named after a line in the Creedance Clearwater Revival Song ‘ Proud Mary’ "Washed a lot of plates in Memphis, Honked a lot of pain down in New Orleans" This one line sums up the music we play and not the fact that anybody looks like Tina Turner who also covered the song.
	We have been fortunate to play in most venues around Milton Keynes including Dukes, Zaks and most pubs and had the honour of supporting Mick Abrahams, Blodwyn Pig at the Woughton ‘Pitz’. I had great pleasure playing dueling banjos with Mick in the sound check. Now we are branching out and have been seen at the odd line dance with a few famous people playing along. (Martin Alcock from Fairport Convention and Jethro Tull)