Interesting that Chris Spedding is not part of the band - it appears that Tom V is taking his place...

Also interesting that a backup drummer to TGPT is in the band

Yes, I don't know why Spedding isn't "on the team" this time, but a friend of his confirmed to me that he isn't. Hopefully he'll be back in the future, as he has done at least one private show with BF since the Roxy tour was announced.

I've heard that "Tugg" may be billed as a percussionist, rather than as a drummer (although maybe the promoters like to feel reassured that all eventualities would be covered if Andy, Phil or TGPT fell ill on tour!).

The rumour mill suggests that we'll be seeing Neil Jason and Fonzi as well, but I haven't seen any official confirmation.

I have the tour band information but can't announce it yet.

The names mentioned on this thread that have come from their social media or that are mentioned in interviews are the full band with the exception of two new backing singers that have never toured with Bryan or Roxy before.

I will update the tour page section as soon everything is 100% confirmed and OK to do so

Yup

Who knows (about Sped)? Perhaps at 78 years of age (2 years older than BF) it may be that he didn't want to do a tour, felt he wasn't able to do it and maybe just wasn't asked. Hopefully Phil will have had some input into who is to play second guitar. I think he gets on well with Sped judging by some of his comments, particularly around the time of the 2001 tour. Not sure if Tom and Phil have played together before, but I hope that Tom is used very much as the second guitarist and knows/respects his place. On the Avalon tour sometimes it felt as if Phil was number two to Neil Hubbard (no disrespect to him, I'm told that he's a nice guy) and then we had the crazy situation at the IOW festival where three guitarists were on stage