The Fake Leather Blues Band

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The Fake Leather Blues Band
Also known asFLBB
Origin Pretoria, South Africa
Genres Blues, Rock
Years active2003–present
MembersConrad Jamneck
Peter Toussaint
Franco Jamneck
Wim van Vuuren
Pedro Barbosa
Past membersGideon Meintjies
Nathan Smit
Riaan van Rensburg
Jaco Mans
Jonathan Peyper
Stefan Dixon

The Fake Leather Blues Band is a blues band from Pretoria, South Africa. They are also commonly known simply as FLBB.

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Band history

The band was formed in May 2003 during a jam session with Conrad Jamneck, Peter Toussaint, Franco Jamneck and Gideon Meintjies. [1]

Over the years the band has had different drummers and rhythm guitar players. In the meantime, FLBB played the Oppikoppi festival several times, [2] as well as other festivals such as the Up the Creek festival [3] and the Strab [4] [5] and FORR festivals in Mozambique. As of 2018 the band has not released any albums, but they have filmed concerts that can be found on YouTube.[ citation needed ]

Band members

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References

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  2. "Oppikoppi 2014 - the Baas awards". Baas de Beer.
  3. "Up the Creek: Wrap Up". News24.
  4. "Strab music festival". Malongane.
  5. "Q&A: Conrad Jamneck Of The Fake Leather Blues Band". Rolling Stone. 13 May 2014.