Andy Mitchell & the Big Funk Playing Funk Music from the 70's, 80's Soul and Electro, 90's Dance and 00's R&B

Created in the 90’s Andy & the Big Funk was created by lead vocalist Andy Wood Mitchell to back a variety of live and recording situations.

The Big Funk as the name suggests covers funk, soul, R&B and dance music but a

Mitchell also created a number of different line ups such as Rocks Off that largely concentrates on Yacht Rock and Eighties bangers, Popfunkstatic featuring the slightly funkier cuts from 80’s pop.

The Davy Jones experience dedicated to the music of David Bowie and number of other bespoke shows including 90’s Dance Diva’s; Thursday Night Soundtrack including the recent recording at Abbey Road Studios of Funksploitation a collection of tracks from the era Shaft and Superfly, Pricilla Queen of the Desert, The Roots of Soul and Sounds of Mowtown & Stax.

A few notable events, supports & clients include:

The America’s Cup

The All Stars

Alvin Stardust (Support)

Arsenal Football Club

Bafta

The BBC

Brands Hatch

Richard Branson

Car Phone Warehouse

Cowes Festival Isle of White

David Genola

Desmond Dekker (Support)

Disney

English Rugby Team

Granada Television

The Guild of Film Production Executives

Katrina Leskanich (guesting with the band)

Lady Sainsbury

Lee Johns (Support)

The Lion King West End Theatre Premiere

The Lowe Syndrome Trust

Lulu (Support)

Marlborough College

Stephen Marks (French Connection)

The Ministry of Defense

Billy Ocean (Support)

Ronny Wood

The Roof Gardens

Sean Hughs (Support)

Shack attack (Support)

Sky B Sky

The Soap Awards

Claudia Schiffer

Edwin Starr (Support)

Steps (Support)

Peter Straker (Support)

Three and Out Premiere

Tiny Tickers Charity Ball

Tony Hadley (Support)

The Variety Club of Great Britain

Andy’s entry into the world of show began with The Chicken Shed Theatre and he then went onto form his own original band projects playing in a variety of London venues Dingwalls, The Rock Garden, Le Beat Route, Production Village, Subterranea etc and innumerable festivals, colleges and universities as well as recording Three albums under this line up. It was during this period his long association with the world famous Abbey Road Studios began with Mitchell training as an engineer.

In addition to his own recording and live performances his credits singing and playing harmonica include working with the likes of Damon Alban; BBC Television; BBC Radio 4; BBC London Live Radio; Carla Bruni; Paul Carrick; Natalie Cole Charles and Eddy, Evita Film Soundtrack; Grow Your Own Soundtrack, Steve Harley; Roy Harper; Barry Manilow; Billy Myers; Only the Lonely theatre show; The Revival Hope Project Charity Single; Tom Robinson; Star Search USA, International & UK; Sara Stockbridge; Andrew Lloyd Webber & Bill Wyman.

The Big Funk line-ups have included the talents of Cynthia Erivo, Alexander Burke,

Angie Brown, Vanessa Haynes (Incognito, Van Morrison, Chaka Khan; Kim Mazel; Mica Paris); & Janet Ramus (Nick Cave; The Doves; Tom Jones; Ronan Keating; Kylie Minogue; Billy Ocean; The Shapeshifters) amongst the many guest vocalists featured in the band along with such sessioneesters as Matthew Johnson (Duffey; Jamiroquai; Beverly Knight; Purple Disco Machine; The Weekend) Jody Linscott (Bryan Adams; Joan Armatrading; Eric Clapton; The Clash; Phil Collins; The Bee Gees; Roger Daltrey; Ray Davies; Dido; Bryan Ferry; Jay-Z; Elton John; Avril Lavigne; John Mayall; Patti LaBelle; Paul McCartney; Robert Palmer; Pet Shop Boys; David Sanborn; Santana; Pete Townshend; The Who) Andy Smith (Lauryn Hill; Westlife; Rod Stewart; Gwen Steffani; Shakira; All Saints; George Michael; Belinda Carlile; Lulu; Eternal; Take That; Gloria Gaynor) Perry Melius

(David Lyndon Hall; Jamelia; Billy Ocean; Tricky; Bobby Womack; Aswad; Gabriel) this is a small sample of the exceptional players forming the Big Funk line ups.

Line ups from Five Piece to Thirty Six Piece depending on the event, gig or festival