Tony Elliott has spent his adult life as a professional Musician
and vocalist, playing guitar, bass guitar and keyboards.
Tony’s range of experience is diverse and includes composing, producing, arranging, touring, management, marketing & media.

Using this experience and that of other like minded musicians and
creative people he decided to start Catapult Enterprises. The music
industry is very diverse with many opportunities for those who are
determined to find them, this drove Tony to create Catapult.

Catapult offers a wide range of services, covering many different
creative projects under the umbrella of 'Catapult Enterprises'.
Originally most of these projects were musical however not exclusively,
we also offered a design service which has now grown to a successful design & promotion service and a gallery supplying original art to
private and commercial clients.

Tony's professional career began in the early 80's with 'Sebastian's Men'. Their single release 'Horizon/Canvas of Slaughter' produced by Gil Norton, reached no17 in the independent charts. The band toured extensively in the UK and recorded a John Peel Session (details of the session can be found on the bbc radio 1 site). They stuck together for 3 years but gradually lost momentum and disbanded in '84.

Tony went on to co-form the 16 Tambourines signing a major recording/publishing contract with Arista/BMG, you can find out more about the 16 tambourines by visiting www.16tambourines.com. In the late 80's the '16 Tambourines' evolved into 'The Tambourines'.

The Tambourines got together in May 1990 adding two new members - Alan Gillibrand and Mark Roberts and went on to release 2 Independent singles 'You're so Beautiful' and 'She Blows my Mind'. The band constantly toured around England, adding various European dates along the way, through lack of management the band folded in late '93.

After the Tambourines fizzled out Tony formed 'Catapult' a powerful 3 piece, with drummer Tony Potter and guitarist Steve Chan. Their release 'Everybody Gets there in the end' can be found on the compilation album 'Tramspotting' and was adopted by a North West radio station as an England World Cup song .....until England lost! Music press at the time said they were 'small enough to fit in your pocket, powerful enough to blow the national grid', sadly Catapult disbanded 1998.

After Catapult ended, Tony entered into several writing projects,
started a Musical Performance course for young people in Liverpool and turned his talents to producing music for TV and Radio. His current projects are shown on the Catapult Enterprises web site, and include song writing partnership Elliott Davis, Catacoustic and the Whitebridge record label, the 1st release being 'Catacoustic Overtones' a compilation of the best unsigned Merseyside artists.

© Catapult Enterprises 2006

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