Vocals - Q.B. Slim
Quarry Bank (or Q.B.) Slim was born in the heart of the Dudley blues delta, way back in the harsh winter of 1970. After a quite astoundingly unremarkable childhood, immediately followed by a stupendously uneventful adolescence, Slim made some life changing discoveries. These were as follows: 1) Money doesn’t grow on trees. 2) Neither do naked women.
Slim quickly realised that if you wanted either of these things then you had to work for them, and there-in lay the problem. Like all right thinking individuals Slim hates work. As he himself says, “I burnt myself once. I didn’t like it so I avoid doing it. I feel the same way about work.”
After a series of dead end jobs Slim decided to stick with what he knew best. Unfortunately, there wasn’t much money to be made from falling over drunk and swearing at strangers, so he tried the next best thing and became a stand up comic. He was moderately successful.
After a short stint as a tattooist, and a few more duff jobs he ran a karaoke with his Father - the hugely talented King Ralph. It was here that he discovered that he could carry a tune almost as well as he could carry a skin full of beer and so he embarked on a career as a pub singer by the name of Toby Wild. He was moderately successful.
Then in the deep, dark winter of 1999 Slim helped to create a good rocking Blues & Boogie band with the aide of some people who could almost play their instruments, before unceremoniously sacking each one of them and replacing them with people who could really play their instruments. He christened them The Bo Dudleys, and set off on a whistle stop tour of the Black Country and Birmingham, playing such venues as The Maverick, The Rock Cafe 2000, The Robin R’n’B Club (I & II) and The Fiddle & Bone, as well as recording a four track CD. They were moderately successful.
By 2004 he'd sat in with many bands (most notably S.O. Blue) and was fronting the Jam Night at the Maverick Drinking House every other Wednesday where he met the men who would shape his destiny (f*ck me, that’s a bit melodramatic isn’t it?! - Ed)
And now it’s 2007 and he’s back doing what he does best – fronting a hard rocking boogie band, backed by some of the best musicians in the Midlands. The beer swiggin’, hard giggin’, ass jiggin’, best friggin’ boogie band in town – The BACKDOOR BOOGIE KINGS.
It’s all about the boogie!
