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Since this is a receptive crowd, clearly enjoying themselves, there's no problem getting the audience warmed up as Jimmy's distinctive, competent, confident vocal performance, backed by some incredibly impressive musicians, delivers a well-chosen, crowd-pleasing repertoire, the pace of which is maintained with the likes of "Take On Me" (A-ha), "Boys Of Summer" (Don Henley) "Footloose" (Kenny Loggins) and "The One And Only" (Chesney Hawkes). After initial introductions and niceties, they get the evening underway with "Saturday Night's Alright" and we're off on a trundle down memory lane with "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" (Tears For Fears), "Died In Your Arm"s (Cutting Crew), and particularly enjoyable covers of "Rosanna" and "Hold The Line" (Toto) followed by an all-time favourite of mine, "A Design For Life" (Manics). And, in covering material from the Eighties and Nineties, they've cherry-picked much-loved quality classics, while not falling into the easy trap of choosing the obvious hits.
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But boy - what a difference a year makes! Here they are tonight, all polished, suited and booted - unusual maybe for a pub band, where attire is more casual, but certainly what you'd expect from any professional function band, which is exactly what they've become. The first time I saw this band was a midweek slot at the Spinning Wheel in Paignton for their debut outing over a year ago and I admit it did feel like they were just another cover band - albeit one with exceptionally well-known members in Jimmy Alderson, Simon Westaway and Alex Smith (best known for their association with Joey The Lips) - the lineup completed with Dan Sennet on bass and Steve Sims on keys.
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We pride ourselves on delivering a wide range of material which showcases our musicianship and whether you come to a public gig or hire us for your event we promise you an evening you won't forget.
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Not the easy ones, not the obvious ones, but the ones that will make you go "oh, I remember this." and will probably lead to gyrating of the trousers and possibly full blown 'dad dancing'. We have all performed in some of the most popular and longest running bands in the area but wanted to do something different to play the music that we loved in our teens, to tackle some more difficult stuff and to have a good time. Riviera Dogs are a 5 piece band based in South West England delivering a polished set of quality music from the decade that taste forgot. But despite the questionable fashion choices and horrendous hair you have to admit that were some great tunes and memorable movies. Now the 80s were responsible for some truly awful stuff.