LOVE with Johnny Echols

LOVE with Johnny Echols is a Manchester concert by a line-up led by founding guitarist Johnny Echols, performing the music of the American rock band Love at Band On The Wall.

Love is an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles. Signed to Elektra Records, it released its eponymous debut album in 1966, and its catalogue also includes Da Capo, Four Sail and Forever Changes. Arthur Lee was the band's longest-serving leader, and this line-up keeps that repertoire in performance.

Johnny Echols, a founding member and guitarist of Love, takes part alongside Rusty Squeezebox on lead vocals and guitar, Mike Randle on guitar and vocals, David Green on drums, James Nolte on bass and Nick Frater on keyboards. Baby Lemonade also joins Echols on stage. That group was Arthur Lee's band from 1993 until Lee's death in 2006, and it toured with the Zombies in the United States and played Glastonbury festival on consecutive occasions.

The programme centres on Forever Changes, performed in full, with other favourites and some deeper cuts, which Echols has said will include a few surprises. The show takes place at Band On The Wall, a live music venue on Swan Street in Manchester's Northern Quarter that mainly hosts pop, rock and indie concerts. The audience has grown younger, with teenagers and students among those discovering the music.