The Whodlums

The Whodlum's are a 5 piece unit but play as a 4 piece band; we are all mates; and we are the 1st North East Tribute Band to "The Who". The band formed Summer 2006 with the aim to recreate the authenticity and sound of "The Who" live. The band play an array of songs from 'Substitute' 'My Generation' 'Pinball Wizard 'Bargain' and 'The Seeker' with the added bonus of 'Wont Get Fooled Again' , 'Who Are You' & 'Baba O Riley' completing the set list. The Whodlum's play the music of the band they have followed all their life. John: "We understand that "The Who" are the worlds biggest Rock Band and to produce the sound and music of The Who is going to be a very difficult task, however because we are all WHO fans and enjoy playing the songs you will find that The Whodlum's put their stamp on each song". The songs are played The Whodlum's way.

John - Lead Vocals
John a mad Who fan, first starting playing guitar seriously in 1998, His fist serious band was an All Acoustic set up then moved to a Mod style band playing songs by The Jam, Weller & The Who. The band was called 'Substitute'. It was in 'Substitute' that I moved from Rhythm Guitar to Lead Vocals.

I was at 'The Wholigans' gig in Newcastle (the original Who tribute act) when I decided that I wanted to get involved in something similar, to play the music of 'The Who'. If you were at this gig you would have felt the energy from these guy's, they were awesome.

I just wanted to play such songs as Pinball Wizard, See Me Feel Me, My Generation, I can See For Mile, Squeeze Box, Can't Explain The Kids Are Alright, Pictures of Lily, Magic Bus and my favorite 'Behind Blue Eyes'. The list could go on and on.

It is a great pleasure to work with such talented lads in The Whodlums creating a set list from scratch has been the highlight. Cheers Lad.

My vision was to play the music of The Who and maybe one day play with in the very FIRST North East Tribute band to 'The Who' that was my goal when I first decided to pull this all together and guess what "I did it".
Cheers, John

Pete - Lead Guitar and Vocals
Joined the band in 2007 and says "I love Pete Townshend's style of guitar playing, so being in the Who Tribute band is just great". He uses Rickenbacker and Gibson guitars.

Ian - Bass Guitar and Vocals
Aka, Thunder Fingers, The final piece in the Whodlums jigsaw, The band waited a long time to find their man and as the saying goes "great things come to them that wait". Welcoming words by the band. Ian plays his Bass like Thunder, he steals the show with his power and rawness on The Real Me, Won't Get Fooled Again and My Generation. Ian simply loves to play bass guitar and raises to the challenge of playing bass lines from 'The Ox' Mr Entwhistle.

Ian uses Fender Jazz and Fender Jazz Custom guitars, and a rig consisting of a Trace Elliot 500 Watt head, Trace Elliot 1x15 and 4x10 cabs with specially designed Celestion drivers, and Line 6 effects processor.

Can you see the Realllllllllllllll me Can Ya CAN YA

Bob - Drums and Vocals
I was born sometime before they invented electricity and learned drums in my teens. At that time I was heavily influenced by the great rock drummers of the time namely John Bonham (Led Zeppelin) Keith Moon (The Who) and Simon Kirke (Free). These drummers were not big on speed, more on technique and that's the way I like to play to-day making use of difficult snare and base drum combinations. I have been a member of many rock bands over the years and presently use my own customised Premier kit with top-range Sabian cymbals to give a sharp rock sound. I recall seeing The Who a few times in the 1970s and they were awesome, so when I was given the chance to join the whodlums, I jumped at it! ...as much as you can once yur over 50 !

Keep on Rockin'...

Dan - Sound Engineer
It's a pleasure for me, to be able to help and learn beside these talented artist. I'm also proud to handle the electrical side of the band which consist of: EP2500 - Behringer Europower 2x1200 watts power amplifier; PMH1000 - Behringer Europower 8 channel mixer desk; 2 Peavey power subs, backed up by 2 Celestion SR1's; 3 Carlsbro independent monitors. Beside this we also have for the guitars one Marshall and one Trace Elliot power backline speakers.

You might hear them saying Russian Dan, but chill out i'm not from Russia.

The Songs we play
Come and watch the show and enjoy the music of THE WHO.

• I Cant Explain
• Substitute
• The Seeker
• Anyway Anyhow Anywhere
• So Sad About Us
• Pinball Wizard
• See Me
• The Kids Are Alright
• Behind Blue eyes
• Who Are You
• I Can See For Mile's
• Squeeze Box
• I'm One
• Baba O'Riley
• Pictures of Lilly
• You Better You Bet
• Bargain
• Won't Get Fooled Again
• My Generation
• Boris The Spider
• Magic Bus
• 5:15
• The Real Me
• Lets See Action

To find out more about the The Whodlums call Alan 07721 634181 or