THE MUSICIANS
Wendy Martin - Vocalist
(Director of Temple Acoustic)
Wendy has vast experience in soul, blues, jazz, rock and pop and is an accomplished pianist as well as experienced in percussion and ukulele.
Having studied and achieved a higher professional diploma at The Voice College London, Wendy Martin is a qualified vocal coach. As well as being the lead singer for the UK leading range of Temple Bands, she also sings for the Joe Loss Orchestra, has sung for Kevin Thorpe’s 'Out Of The Blue', has supported Van Morrison at Maryport rhythm and blues festival, performed live at Earls Court Arena, London and has been performing across the UK in some prestigious venues and overseas for private functions and residencies for the past 18 years. Among the list of ever growing UK venues Wendy has performed are, The Ned, Soho House, The Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Earls Court Arena, Main stage Oxford festival, The O2 and Crowne Plaza London.
Mattie Wensor - Guitarist 1
Matt has established himself as an independent music professional across a variety of fields and has a First Class BA Honours Degree in Popular Music. Matt’s professional career began at aged 17 playing and has played across the UK and Europe for numerous established lineups, such as the since The Leicester Symphony Orchestra and sharing the bill with artists such as SISTERAY, Emma Buckley, Harriet Rose, Adam Slack (The Struts) and Kelsy Karter.
Matt has also has played at prestigious events and venues such as De montfort Hall, and The Silverstone F1 Grand Prix. Matt also regularly works as a Producer/Engineer/Session Guitarist on studio recordings that have led him to perform and produce on music with artists such as: Elliott Randall, Lunaxis, Victoria Leitner, Valnea Bulić, NEYA, Abandon The Chase, Hidden, Tinuke Jonah, MJV, Jaded, Lodestone, Kyle Newman, Cecilia Ventura, Jamie Hyde, Natalie Taylor, Arizsi and Matt Peach.
Some of these live sessions and studio recordings have been aired on UK television and had radio airplay across Europe, Australia, Africa, America and Asia alongside on stations such as Primordial, TotalRock, BBC, Hard Rock Hell and Kerrang. In additional to Matt's wealth of live experience, he has has the great benefit of being tutored by Elliott Randall and Joel Heokstra (White Snake) who are both personal friends.
Scotty Watson - Guitarist 2
Scott has been a highly acclaimed professional guitarist/singer/songwriter for more than 15 years. He has studied jazz from a young age but his styles range anywhere from Rock, to pop, to funk, to hip-hop, to blues. He has a unique, flamboyant and captivating style and is also no stranger to some incredible loop pedal work.
Scotty has written a number of songs for well known artists and has collaborated with the sound sculpture on a number of documentary films. Scott’s experience of live performances, ranges from main stages of Glastonbury music festival, live TV appearances, and BBC Radio 1 performances, to opening music at award ceremony’s.
David Keech - Percussionist
Dave Studied Jazz at Leeds College Of Music and was originally a house drummer at Lincoln Theatre Royal. Since then his musical CV as a drummer, percussionist and musician director speaks for itself...
Dave's credits as Musical Director/Supervisor include:
One Night Of Tina European Tour 2019 - Musical Supervisor; The Addams Family Netherlands tour 2018/19 - Musical Supervisor; Footloose UK tour 2016/17 - MD/Drums; The Tina Turner Experience GelreDome Stadium - MD/Drums; HAiR Ahoy Arena, European tour, MD/Drums; The Queen Experience GelreDome Stadium, RAI Theater Amsterdam - Musical Supervisor; Sensual Dreams Hippodrome Casino - MD/Drums. Orchestrations/Vocal Arrangements; 9 To 5 Original UK tour - Music Preparation, Orchestrations (some); Voices Of The Amazon International tour - Orchestrations; Sensual Dreams Hippodrome Casino - Orchestrations; HAiR Ahoy Arena, European tour - Orchestrations/Vocal Arrangements; Joe Maddison's War ITV - incidental music; High School Musical 2 On Stage! UK tour - Orchestrations (some).
