PRE STUMBLE DAYS
Colin Black with The Hideaways
Boyd Tonner Blackwater Blues Band
Boyd Tonner
Hailing from Kilmarnock, Boyd found his love of the blues with early band The Horny Toads. A few stints with other bands got him into song writing and arranging music. The bus ride to Glasgow to jam with a newly forming blues outfit called The Blackwater Blues Band (Nimmo Brothers/Zander Greenshields) proved a pivotal moment and taught him many things about life on the road. Following a move to England, Boyd got a call from Colin Black to help form what is now The Stumble.
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Impeccable rhythm and all round creative genius. Boyd was one of the original members that formed the band with Colin in the late 1990s. He was previously an original member of The Blackwater Blues Band band with Alan and Stevie Nimmo. As well as drums he is also a fine guitar player and an accomplished songwriter having penned most of the bands releases.
Simon's first band Blue Waters 1992-94. The clip was taken at The Golden Cross, Oswaldtwistle 21.6.1993
Cameron with Mark Radcliffes Big Figures and Wilko Johnson left and Norman Watt Roy
Below The Upsetters and The Dirty Hat Band
EARLY STUMBLE DAYS
Boyd, Simon, Monster Mikey Scott, Colin and Paul
Left to right. Simon, Davie Ritchie, Boyd and Colin
Alan Nimmo and Simon Dixon
Taken in Paris at the New Morning. On tour with Steve Cropper and The Animals January 2013. Left to right. Paul, Boyd, Simon, Colin, Cam and Rob Livsey
Left to right. John Hislop, Monster Mikey Scott and Colin Black.
Johnny Spencer Skegness
Simon Anthony Dixon working the audience
Left to right. Boyd Tonner, Colin Black, Rob Livsey, Simon Dixon, Cam Sweetnam, Dave Heath, Johnny Spencer, Ant Scapens and Paul Melville