CHARLES AND DAVINA

THE music world has been shaken to its roots by the announcement that a new covers band has “gentrified” the music of earthy pub rock favourites, Chas and Dave. EXCLUSIVE Hertfordshire duo Charles and Davina have taken the saucy, knees-up back-catalogue of the Rockney hitmakers’ and modernised the lyrics for a new generation of music lovers. “I’d always been a fan of Chas and Dave’s music,” pianist Charles Ffouton-Mattress told us. “But I never felt the lyrics spoke to people like me. So, when Chas Hodges sadly passed away in 2018, I felt a calling to form a covers band to perform his and bassist Dave Peacock’s music, without the rough edges.” “So I teamed up with my university friend and musician David St John Leonard and we took the…

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Viz (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2023

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