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COSMIC CHARLIES
Press Reviews
Their
expertise is remarkable...
It all comes flooding back...
-- Time Out
"...Truck along with a hundred or
so fellow tie-die diehards to the strains of the intermittently brilliant
Cosmic Charlies, the leaders of Britain's small
but Deadicated group of tribute bands."
- Independent [Oct
2001]
The fine English Dead cover band, the Cosmic Charlies, played to a soldout crowd at the Last Waterhole, just as it had on previous Phish visits. Charlies guitarist Brian Kenneally and his cohorts pumped up the heads with an outstanding take on the Dead's Eyes of the World and a version of The Other One that interpolated Phish's Stash into the jam...
-- Relix
TRIBUTE band The Cosmic Charlies play a marathon
12-hour gig in honour of Jerry Garcia at The Fountain
in London... I'll be there!
--Daily Mirror
A Grateful Dead tribute band? Surely not?
Yup. That's what several hundred West Coast enthusiasts were greeted with when they turned up to pay homage to one half of the Dead's acid rock contemporaries, Jefferson Starship.And the boys from the Home Counties weren't half bad.Wisely eschewing the tendency to step into character (ie Pigpen's leathers, Weir's ponytail, Garcia's face-furniture) the Cosmic Charlies let the music do the talking: they're a tribute band in the true sense of the word, not a doppelganger outfit. That means you don't get note perfect renditions of songs like Scarlet Begonias, Sugaree or Terrapin Station -- but you do get a splendid approximation of a Dead-like musical journey complete with spacy improvisations that---eyes closed--are amazingly convincing....
-- Record Collector magazine
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