DENNIS SIGGERY - LEAD VOCALS

I became interested in music at very early age. At just sixteen I joined a band called The Five Diamonds as lead vocalist and we played a number of local gigs and youth clubs. I stayed with the band for a few years before taking up a career as a DJ in an R&B club playing Blues and Soul music.

Then I did what most of us do, got married, got a "proper" job and let music take a back seat. But by 1996 I had the urge to sing again, and with the help of a few friends I formed The Acoustic Blues Band. We played bars and clubs and recorded one album, 'Our Kind of Blues' - half covers, half originals. I got hooked on recording and decided to try a solo album - and ended up making seven! The albums turned out to be basically Rock music, all except the last one 'Back To The Blues' which began to hint at a future direction. In 1999 The Acoustic Blues Band became The Southside Blues Band. This band were together in various line-ups for nearly a decade playing pubs, clubs and festivals, but only recorded two albums. As explained below, I met Neil Sadler when I went into No Machine Studios to record one song and with the his help I came out later with three albums! The two of us decided to get some musicians together and form a band - the Eric Street Band. We played a couple of local gigs, one of which was recorded live and an album was made - 'Eric Street Band - LIVE'. Following the success of this, we were asked to support The Animals at The Wallingford Blues Festival in 2009. Since then we recorded nine more albums ending in 'Across The Board' in 2016. These are all listed here in the ALBUMS page. Later in 2016, I was itching to do more live work, so I formed the new Eric Street Band with Gordon Vaughan, Henry Smithson, and Adam J Perry. Gordon and I started writing together and it didn't take long before we had a whole album's worth of material - which became 'Purple Passage' - released in late 2016, marking a new chapter with the new band... More: https://ericstreetband.com/about.html