About

Stiff Joints is a blues-folk-rock band based in Sheen, South-West London. For the past decade or more the band has been a familiar part of the south-west music scene playing local venues such as the Hare & Hounds (East Sheen), Bull’s Head (Barnes), the Halfway House (Barnes), Ye White Hart (Barnes), the Charlie Butler (Mortlake), the Jolly Gardeners (Mortlake), the Home Guard (Sheen), London Welsh RFC (Richmond), Rosslyn Park RFC (Roehampton), Brentford FC, and the Watermans Arts Centre (Brentford) as well as performing at birthdays, weddings, funerals, and charity gigs – including a yearly all-day spot for Leukaemia Research’s London Bikeathon (on Ham Common). The band does venture further field and in recent years have played several gigs in London’s West End (Callaghans in Piccadilly), in the West Country (headlining the Hatherleigh Festival in Devon in 2005), and in the south of France (Bize Minervois)..

Duo versions of the band also play regularly in local wine bars (Leonardo’s in Sheen and Paradise Road in Richmond).

The current band line up is as follows:

• Brian Coope -- vocals, rhythm guitar
• Jon Riley -- guitars, mandolin, keyboards
• Mel Coote -- keyboards, saxophone
• Mike Allin -- bass guitar
• Dan Allsop or Adam Roman -- drums

Founder member Dick Brooks also guests from time to time on guitar and vocals. In recent years members of the band have also played with other London bands – notably the Soul Operators, the Bluescasters, the Mad Cow Blues Band, Bad to the Bone, Earl Gator Band, and the Purple Buddhas.. A Rock Family Tree approach would see band members appearing in Bloody Murder (in the 1980s) and the JG Blues Band (in the 1970s) at venues ranging from Les Cousins (in Soho), the Greyhound (Fulham), and the Half Moon (Putney) to the Cabbage Patch (Twickenham) and the Red Lion (Brentford).

For bookings email info@stiffjoints.co.uk or telephone 020 8876 2197.

A limited edition CD – Creakin’ n’ Groanin’ – appeared in November 2001 and the band is currently recording a new CD of originals.

This is what the Real Music Live website said about our most recent gig at the Bull’s Head:

“Accomplished singer/songwriter Brian Coope with his excellent band whose melodic folk rock tinged Blues make for a contemporary Stealers Wheel ish McGuinness Flintish evening of great self penned songs and astute covers.”