Hi,
Just thought I'd mention a few words about the artist Ernie Payne who Echo Productions had the great pleasure (Although happily Accidentally) to film a couple of years back when he did his first tour of the UK.
He passed away on the 17th September from heart problems and cancer.

Ernie Payne was one of those all too rare performers who had the ability to move and take you somewhere else in his performances and music.

Although he was unfortunately not very well known, as he only released one CD very late on in his life, I personally would rate him up there with other like minded performers such as Terry Callier and Richie Havens. He definitely came from the same place as those mentioned.

When we had the chance to film him we were actually at the gig to capture Ray Stubbs who was sharing the bill with him on the night. Fortunately we were asked by Graham Anderson of the Jumpin' Hot Club as a favour and ended up filming three numbers from him. I now wish that we had filmed the whole performance as I think we may have the only documented footage of this great artist. Hopefully this footage will be around for many years to come as a tribute to him. (You can see this on our youtube channel "Echofilms").

As I said before, it's all too rare these days to come across an artist of Mr Ernie Payne's calibre and I'm glad I was there to be a small part of that.

Ernie Payne R.I.P

Sean.