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Downliners Sect are an English R&B and blues-based rock band, formed in the 1960s beat boom era. Stylistically, they were similar to blues-based bands such as The Yardbirds, The Pretty Things and the Rolling Stones, playing basic R&B on their first album The Sect.
Contemporaries of the Rolling Stones and Yardbirds, the Downliners Sect was formed by deerstalker-hatted rhythm guitarist Don Craine in the spring of 1963. Their brash and exciting brand of R&B soon gained them a residency at London’s Studio 51 club where they recorded their first E.P.
Downliners Sect were a British 1960s group with an R&B style similar to The Yardbirds or Rolling Stones, formed by rhythm guitarist/vocalist Mick O'Donnell with drummer Johnny Sutton when their group the Downliners disbanded after a disastrous French tour.
The Downliners Sect has continued to develope whilst firmly retaining it's roots and reputation for high energy R&B. Until 2022 the band was led by founder Don Craine on guitar & vocals; original frontman Keith Grant on vocals & bass. In 2007, the harmonica player Paul Tiller left the band and was replaced by John O'Leary.
The story of the Sect starts in Twickenham, a London suburb back in 1962 when a young man named Micks O’Donnell started a band called the Downliners (after the Jerry Lee Lewis song "Down The Line". After some member changes and a disastrous tour to France, the band split in the beginning of 1963.
Biografía. Con fans como Steve Marriott, Rod Stewart o Van Morrison, los Downliners Sect se convirtieron en una de las grandes sensaciones del circuito R&B de la ciudad de Londres en los años 60 con sus bulliciosas y enérgicas interpretaciones en directo de clásicos de Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley o Jimmy Reed, al estilo de los primeros Rolling ...
Active. 1960s - 2010s. Formed. 1963 in London, England. Genre. Pop/Rock, Blues. Styles. British Invasion, Garage Rock, Rock & Roll, Freakbeat, British Blues, Regional Blues. Group Members. Don Craine, Keith Grant, Terry Gibson, John Sutton, Paul Holm, Paul Tiller, Pip Harvey, Ray Sone. New Releases. Articles. Staff Picks. Advanced Search.
