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About Vincent

Everything from original songs to Classic Blues, Americana, Country and Folk Fock.

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Guitarist

Manchester

Public liability insurance of £10 million

Singer, songwriter, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist with experience playing at large and small venues, private parties across the UK and Europe.

Vincent's Reviews

Cannot rate Vincent highly enough. So talented, versatile, professional, courteous and nothing was too much trouble. He went above and beyond to make this a very special evening. He even learnt a song for me in a very short period of time which went down a storm. Would not hesitate to recommend Vincent to anyone who appreciates "real" musicians. Thank you so much Vincent for making the night a very special memorable one.

Having live music at our wedding was important to us, yet we were nervous as trying to find something to suit everyone’s varied tastes can be difficult. Vincent blew everyone away, both his sets were superb, and he was so lovely, polite and an absolute professional. Many of our multi-generational guests commented on how much they had enjoyed Vincent’s performances. We will certainly use Vincent again for future events, Thanks so much, D and J x

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Vincent's Song list

Covers include:

A Face in The Crowd (Tom Petty)

After the Goldrush (Neil Young)

All Along The Watchtower (Bob Dylan: various)

All You Need Is Love (The Beatles)

Ambulance Blues (Neil Young)

Am I Wrong? (Keb Mo)

Baby Let Me Follow You Down (Bob Dylan)

Barstool Blues (Neil Young)

Baby Please Don’t Go (Blues: Various))

Beware of Darkness (George Harrison)

Big Boss Man (Blues : Jimmy Reed)

Black Magic Woman (Fleetwood Mac)

Billy the Kid (Traditional: Ry Cooder)

Bird On The Wire (Leonard Cohen)

Bright Lights Big City (Blues: Jimmy Reed)

Boomer’s Story (Ry Cooder)

Bring It On Home To Me (Blues: Various)

Busted (Johnny Cash)

Cabin Down Below (Tom Petty)

Catfish (Rolling Stone)

Cecilia ( Simon and Garfunkel)

Come Back Baby (Blues: Various)

Come on In My Kitchen (Blues: Various)

Comes A Time (Neil Young)

Cortez The Killer (Neil Young)

Cowgirl in the Sand (Neil Young)

Cripple Creek Ferry (Neil Young)

Crippled Inside (John Lennon)

Crossroad Blues (Blues: Various)

Death Letter (Blues: Various)

Don’t Cry No Tears (Neil Young)

Don't It Pass You By (UB40)

Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood (The Animals: Nina Simone)

Don’t Stop (Fleetwood Mac)

Don’t Think Twice. It’s Alright (Bob Dylan)

Do Re Mi (Ry Cooder: Woody Guthrie)

Down Down Deeper and Down (Stratus Quo)

Down The Dustpipe (Status Quo)

Drug Store Truck Driving Man (The Byrds)

Every Woman I Know (Ry Cooder)

Forever Young (Bob Dylan)

Friday I’m In Love (The Cure)

Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash)

For the Turnstiles (Neil Young)

Games People Play (Joe South/ Lucinda Williams)

Get Off My Cloud (Rolling Stones)

Get Rhythm (Johnny Cash)

Give Me Some Truth (John Lennon)

Going Down Slow ((Blues: Various)

Going, Going, Gone (Bob Dylan)

Going to Brownsville (Blues: Various)

Goin up the country (Canned Heat)

Good Night Irene ((Blues: Various)

Hard Rain Gonna Fall (Bob Dylan)

Hard Time Killing Floor (Blues: Various)

Have You ever Seen The Rain? (Creedence Clearwater Revival)

Hazel (Bob Dylan)

Heart of Gold (Neil Young)

Hell Hound On My Trail (Blues: Various)

Hey Hey My (Into The Black) (Neil Young)

Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye (Leonard Cohen)

Hey Jude (The Beatles)

Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan)

Home Grown (Neil Young)

Homework (Blues: Various)

Honky Tonk Women (Rolling Stones)

How can a poor man stand such times and live? (Americana Traditional : Ry Cooder)

Human Highway (Neil Young)

I Believe in You (Neil Young)

I Can’t Be Satisfied (Blues: Various)

I Can't Stand The Rain (Lucinda Williams / Tina Turner)

I Don’t Want To Talk About It (Crazy Horse: Rod Stewart)

I’d Rather Go Blind (Etta James)

I Feel So Good (Blues: Various)

If I Was A Carpenter (Leon Russell: Various)

I Heard it Through The Grapevine (Marvin Gaye)

I Hear You Knocking (Blues: Smiley Lewis: Dave Edmunds)

I’m Only Sleeping (The Beatles)

I’m So Tired (The Beatles)

In My Life (The Beatles)

Isis (Bob Dylan)

Isn't It A Pity (George Harrison)

It’s All Over Now (Rolling Stones)

It’s All Over Now Baby Blue (Bob Dylan)

It Seems So Long Ago, Nancy (Leonard Cohen)

I Still Miss Someone (Johnny Cash)

I Put A Spell On You (Screaming Jay Hawkins: Nina Simone)

I Won’t Back Down (Tom Petty)

In My Life (The Beatles)

I Shall Be Released (Bob Dylan)

I Shot The Sheriff (Bob Marley)

I Want You (Bob Dylan)

I Won't Back Down (Tom Petty)

Jolene (Dolly Parton)

Keep On Rocking in The Free World (Neil Young)

Knocking on Heaven’s Door (Bob Dylan)

Looking for a Lover (Neil Young)

Let It Be (The Beatles)

Let’s Work Together (Canned Heat, Brian Ferry)

Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan)

Lilly Rosemary and The Jack Of Hearts (Bob Dylan)

Little Red Rooster (Blues: Various)

Johnson’s Love (Country: Dwight Yoakum)

John The Revelator (Blues/ Gospel)

Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (Bob Dylan)

Make Me a Pallet ((Blues: Various)

Mad World (Tears For Fears)

Meet Me In The Morning Bob Dylan/ Lucinda Williams)

Mellow My Mind (Neil Young)

Money Honey (Blues: Various)

Motion Pictures (Neil Young)

My Beloved Monster (Eels)

Me and The Devil (Blues: Various)

Mr Pitiful (Otis Redding)

Mr Soul (Neil Young)

Mr. Tambourine Man (Bob Dylan)

Mustang Sally (Soul: Various)

My Babe (Blues: Various)

My Old Friend the Blues (Country Rock: Steve Earle)

Mystery Train (Blues: Various)

Natural Mystic (Bob Marley)

Nobody’s Child (Country/Rock: travelling Wilbury’s)

Ohio (Neil Young)

On Borrowed Time (J Geils Band)

One Love (Bob Marley)

On The Beach (Neil Young)

Ophelia (The Band)

Oh Well (Fleetwood Mac)

One Kind Favour (Blues: Various)

One Little Song (Gillian Welch)

On The Road Again (Canned Heat)

Out On The weekend (Neil Young)

Outside Women (Blues: Various)

Pack Fair And Square (Blues: Various)

Paint It Black (the Rolling Stones)

Pocahontas (Neil Young)

Police Dog Blues (Blues: Various)

Powderfinger (Neil Young)

Preaching Blues (Blues: Various)

Prodigal Son (Blues/Gospel)

Queen Bee (Taj Mahal)

Rainy Day Women 12 & 35 (Bob Dylan)

Reason to Believe (Tim Hardin: Various)

Redemption Song (Bob Marley)

Revolution (The Beatles)

Revolution Blues (Neil Young)

Riding on The L & N (Blues: Various)

River (Joni Mitchell)

Roadhouse Blues (The Doors)

Roll Another Number (Neil Young)

Room at The Top (Tom Petty)

Running Down a Dream (Tom Petty)

Run Through the Jungle (Creedence Clearwater Revival)

Samson and the Warden (Louden Wainwright)

Serves You Right To Suffer (Blues: Various)

Shelter from the Storm (Bob Dylan)

She’s Tuff (Blues: Various)

Sitting on The Dock Of The Bay (Otis Redding)

Sisters of Mercy (Leonard Cohen)

Sixteen Tons (Americana/BVlues: Various)

Smokestack Lightning (Blues: Various)

Southern Pacific (Neil Young)

Spoonful (Blues: Cream: Various)

Stand By Me (Ben E King, John Lennon)

Star of Bethlehem (Neil Young)

Stop Breaking Down (Blues: Various)

Strange Fruit (Billie Holiday: Nina Simone)

Sweet Home Chicago (Blues: Various)

Tamp ‘Em Up Solid (Blues: Various)

Tangled Up In Blue (Bob Dylan)

Terraplane Blues (Blues: Various)

The Apartment Song (Tom Petty)

The Butcher (Leonard Cohen)

The Heart That You Own (Country: Dwight Yoakum)

The Home of The Blues (Johnny Cash)

The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll (Bob Dylan)

The Old Laughing Lady (Neil Young)

The Story of Isaac (Leonard Cohen)

The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Blues: Ry Cooder)

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (The Band)

The Weight (The Band)

The Wind Cries Mary (Jimi Hendrix)

There’s Your Trouble ( The [Dixie] Chicks)

This Wheel’s On Fire (Bob Dylan)

Time To Kill (The Band)

Three Little Birds ( Bob Marley)

Tomorrow Never Knows (The Beatles)

To Sing For You (Donovan)

Tombstone Blues (Bob Dylan)

Tonight Will Be Fine (Leonard Cohen)

Tough Mama (Bob Dylan)

Universal Soldier (Buffy St Marie: Donovan)

Vampire Blues (Neil Young)

Vigilante Man (Woody Guthrie: Ry Cooder)

Visions of Johanna (Bob Dylan)

Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) (Jimi Hendrix)

Walking Blues (Blues: Various)

Walk On (Neil Young)

We Can Work It Out (The Beatles)

What I Don’t Know (Country: Dwight Yoakum)

What’s Your Hurry? (J Geils Band)

Whiskey In The Jar (Trad Irish: Thin Lizzy)

White Line (Neil Young)

Who Knows Where The Time Goes? (Fairport Convention)

Who’ll Stop The Rain? (Creedence Clearwater Revival)

With Little Help From My Friends (The Beatles)

World on a String (Neil Young)

Yer So Bad (Tom Petty)

You’re a Big Girl Now (Bob Dylan)

Vincent's Prices

Last updated: 2026

Note: prices may vary based on travel distance. For an exact quote, click “Check availability”.

Duration	Price
Short performance (up to 15 min)	£200
Up to 1 hour	£225
Up to 2 hours	£375
Up to 3 hours	£500

Drinks reception2 hours

Two performances of up to 45 mins each during your drinks reception

£250

Recording sessions3 hours

Price covers home rehearsal before recording session. Additional hours will require overtime payments at £65 per hour

£375

Wedding ceremony3 hours

This includes music before the service begins, music during the signing of the register, and music as guests leave.

£375

Bar/Club Event3 hours

Two set event plus set up and take down time.

£437.50

Private events3 hours

Two 45 minutes sets plus set up and take down time. Additional costs for travel and late night finishes may apply.

£500

Wedding ceremony + Drinks reception + Dinner4 hours

- Music before the service begins, music during the signing of the register, and music as guests leave. - 2 x 45 min performances at the drinks reception. - 2 x 45 min performances as dinner is being served.

£625

New Year's Eve3 hours

Two set event finishing before 1 am on new year's Eve.

£625

Customer questions

What do your clients love most about your performances?

Clients like the range and varied style of my music from acoustic folk and rock and pop to electric guitar, Lap Steel, Mandolin and Banjo.

Which venues have you performed at in the past?

Numerous bars and music venues across the UK as well as venues in Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Spain and Brazil.

Which artists have you been most influenced by?

My main influences come from music originating in the blues (Robert Johnson, Muddy waters, Howling Wolf) and folk traditions (Woody Guthrie, Leonard Cohen Bob Dylan) as well as classic artists such as Neil Young, John Lennon, The Rolling Stones, Tim Petty and other artists such as Otis Redding, Nina Simone, Lucinda Williams and Ry Cooder.

What is the most high profile gig you've performed?

I played numerous gigs in Belgium including a 12 gig Americana and folk rock tour of the province of Antwerp in 2019, I have played 2016 Cluj Napoca 'Jazz In The Park Festival ' in Romania as well as playing guitar and lap steel as part of a two day "Asian Fusion' concert in Lancashire.

What if my timings change after I've booked you?

I always try to be as flexible as possible to ensure that your event runs as smoothly as possible. Dates can be changed by negotiation up to 7 days in advance. Time changes can be changed by negotiation up to 2 days prior to the event.

Can you provide an iPod/DJ service before and between your sets?

iPad music is available if requested and you are welcome to use the PAfor announcements and playing your own music etc.

How much time do you need to set up?

Set up times depend on the venue but generally set up and initial sound check will take 30 minutes to one hour. Take down normally 30-45 minutes.

Can I pick the pieces you play from the set list?

I'm happy to include discuss any special requests for a few songs and I will do my best to include them in my normal sets. However I will need at least a week to ensure any new songs that are not already in my standard repertoire so that I can learn the songs.

Do you bring all the equipment you need to perform?

I can bring a full PA, amplifiers as well as all Mics, cables stands and instruments.

Can you learn specific pieces before the event?

Depending on the request I can normally learn some new songs given sufficient notice (minimum of 7 days) and assuming that songs are within my vocal range.

Musicianship

Genres:

Folk rock, 1930s era music, 1990s era music, 1970s era music, 1960s era music, 1980s era music, Folk, Country, Blues, Acoustic, Americana, Covers, Soul, Rock, Alternative rock, Classic rock, Pop rock, Reggae, Vintage, Pop

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Instruments:

Guitar, Electric guitar, Lap steel guitar, Harmonica, Slide guitar, Bass guitar, Drums, Banjo

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Event types:

Bar / Club / Venue event, Wedding, Wedding proposal, Funeral / Memorial service, Hotel / Restaurant event, Private event, Corporate event, Charity event, Concert, Recording session, Theatre / Show, Birthday party, Christmas party, New Year's Eve

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Other skills:

Audio engineer, Composer, Songwriter, Lyricist, Instrumental teaching

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