I’M TONY

Hannable’s father came out of the RAF in May, 1970 and the family then moved to Doncaster, where Hannable for a time worked down the pit at Yorkshire main colliery, Edlington. He then met up with a couple of lads at work and they then set up another band called “Road”. Until Hannable went into the army at the age of 19 years, First Regiment Royal Horse Artillery, based in Detmold, West Germany. On arrival in Detmold there was a classic rock band already formed within the Regiment called Iron Mountain.  In September 1973 he was in Alberta, Canada for eight weeks. One night in the town called Medicine Hat he played a gig with a local house band from a local rock club. The band broke up in 1974 due to band members leaving the Military. Hannable left the regular army and joined the voluntary reserves at Christmas in 1976 and moved to Gainsborough.  He had a brief break from music up until 1978 where he was one of the founding members of a band called “Tonic” where Ihe started to play Bass.  Hannable moved to Melbourne Australia in 1980 until 1989’. In 1986 he was a founding member of a classic 50s/early 60s rock ‘n’ roll band called Sha-boom. In 1987 the band turned professional and from 1986 -1988 I wrote ten songs for Sha-boom.  In June 1988 he was elected writer full member of the Australian Performing Rights Association (APRA). At this point the band was offered a publishing deal by Modern Records in Sydney for one of Hannable’s songs called “I sold myself to Rock ‘n’ Roll”.  At this point the band broke up acrimoniously and Sha-Boom was not allowed to use my songs. At the break up Hannable and Ricky Lee Sha-Boom’s Manager left to form Roxy and the Bad Boys. The band was involved in Yamaha Rock 89, the winner going to Tokyo to represent Australia in the Oceanic Song Competition.  The band were semi-finalists coming in 15^th of over 900 bands.  He returned to Gainsborough, UK in November 1989.  He didn’t play any music until 1998 after moving back to Liverpool in 1997 where he played lead guitar with a band call Bop till Ya Drop working with the sax player Billy Burton who was Jerry Lee Lewis’s sax player in the UK and Europe, Les Ball drummer with TV comedy showband The Numskulls and in the 1980’s Ken Dodd and Bass player Dave Price who worked with Quicksilver and The Protectors in the 1980’s and Alan (The Marriage) Peters on vocals formerly with The Senators and  The Detours in the late 50’s/early 60’s.  In 2000 he worked with Alby Bingham as part of  Alias Smith & Jones a clubland duo playing clubs in Northern England and North Wales.  In 2004 he became a pub landlord working in Liverpool, The Grosvenor in Ellesmere Port and in 2006 Hannable moved to Colne in Lancashire taking over the Jolly Hatters. He was medically retired in 2006 and in 2007 he joined a classic rock band called Judas Tree as Lead Guitarist until 2008.  In 2010 Judas Tree was reformed as a duo with Mark Whitely.

In 2016 Hannable formed the band “Once bitten twice shy” and that was when he met, current lead singer and his co songwriter Vanessa Wilson. This band broke up in 2017.  He then set up a recording studio in Lower Darwen in Lancashire where the band called Devils Prophets was formed.  This was the embryo of Blue Monday Revolution, various band members came and went and in 2021 Vanessa Wilson rejoined Hannable as lead singer/songwriter.  They now play and write music together as Hayes & Wilson Music creations UK and, their songs are currently complementing their up and coming new album within the band called Transendence.