How old is foster and allen

He has a tremendous singing voice, with the ability to make any song his own. In they got together a small group and went over to the U. When their U. It was difficult at the beginning and after a time working around the circuit in the U. IT stayed in the Irish Charts for 40 consecutive weeks, re-entering for a further 13 weeks.

However, at this stage, this was only in Ireland! It was not until that this single was released in the U. It climbed rapidly to the top half of the British Top Things now started to happen very fast for the new Foster and Allen and the demand for their services at venues all over Ireland and the U. They did their first concert tour of the U. In addition to the U. By: Aidan Lonergan - 1 month ago shares. News 2 months ago. By: Irish Post - 2 months ago 48 shares. Latest News.

News 4 hours ago. By: Gerard Donaghy - 4 hours ago 73 shares. Sport 22 hours ago. By: Gerard Donaghy - 22 hours ago 1. Sport 1 day ago. By: Gerard Donaghy - 1 day ago shares. News 1 day ago. After spending Christmas together at their home in Lurgan, Tony is back on the road with his other partner — Mullingar-based Foster, with an Irish tour, followed by a UK tour in March and Australian tour in May.

In the band were touring in England, when a friend of the band — Pat Callaghan, from Derry — who ran an Irish dance venue in Brixton, asked Allen, on keyboard and Foster, on accordion if they would help him launch his new pub, near Kilburn tube station. We probably made more money in those seven nights than the whole tour. The Nightrunners broke up shortly after we came home and we formally launched Foster and Allen.

We got talking about doing an acoustic version of Status Quo's Burning Bridges, with two accordions and it was a perfect partnership. When he arrived and opened his accordion case, it turned out him and Mick had exactly the same accordions. But for Allen, their infamous appearance on Top of the Pops in , dressed as Irish leprechauns, was his overriding career high. The opportunity arose when their second single, A Bunch of Thyme reaching number one in Ireland and 18 in the UK charts, the pair were summoned back from tour in America to appear on in the prime-time music show.

There were people dancing away on the dancefloor and walls of lights — it was a great experience. The following year, their hit Maggie once again made the UK charts and reached number on in Australia.