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Tony O’Malley

Tony shadesTony joined Frank, Dyan and Paddie as Arrival's piano player when they relocated to London in 1969. After a couple of hit singles, Arrival were uncomfortable about being encouraged in a pop-oriented direction. Tony was then instrumental in pulling together the Arrival singers with the other musicians who eventually became Kokomo.

His distinctive voice and funky piano playing is a cornerstone of Kokomo's sound. He also had a spell as a member of 10cc in 1977-78, touring widely and recording the “Live and Let Live” album.

As well as his Kokomo activities, Tony fronts his own band, and regularly gigs in the UK and on the continent.

Read more on Tony's own site

Tony's upcoming gigs

Video

Half Moon, July 2017

Rise & Shine and What’s the Fuss from the Wednesday night. More to come!

Archive / Interviews

Tony’s interview on Unity Radio’s “This is Soul” show, promoting the March gigs

The interview starts about 7 minutes in and takes up pretty much the whole of the rest of the hour. Tony is interviewed by Jim Baker, and gets to choose …

Video

Half Moon, October 2016

A few numbers from the first of two great nights at the Half Moon, October 2016

Photos

The Half Moon, Putney – 14-15th October 2016

By general agreement, these were the best gigs since the 2014 re-union – two sold-out nights with crowds in the weekend mood helped. For the record, Mel Collins was back on sax (“Bet …

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Lonely Town, Lonely Street

From the the first of two sold-out nights at Half Moon, 14 October 2016

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The Robert Elms Soul Night at Boisdale, Canary Wharf, 8th April 2016

Boisdale is a up-scale ‘restaurant in Canary Wharf that has live jazz, blues and soul music every day. Robert Elms hosts an occasional Friday ‘soul night’ there, often with tribute …

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British soul pioneers, Kokomo, built their reputation and loyal following with awesome live shows. A series of packed reunion gigs since 2014 proved that the band is grooving as well as ever. This led to the "Soul Summit", with old touring partners the Average White Band, that sold out the Royal Festival Hall in 2015.

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Interviews

Tony O'Malley

A 2015 interview with Craig Chaligne of the 'Louder Than War' site, timed for the release of his Back in the Bag album, and including some Kokomo insights.

In conversation with Keef Trouble in 2010 (video)

Frank Collins

Frank talks about his life and times in music (video)

Neil Hubbard

A backstage video interview

Jim Mullen

Jim's unusual guitar technique explained

Mel Collins

Mel talks about his career to Chris Groom.

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Thanks to Steven Cropper, John 'Ziggy' Parkes, Anita Corbin and Neil Holmes for their photos, Peter Hubbard, Doug Dean and David Bird for doing the lots of leg work on the gig dates and the reviews/clippings.

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