HISTORY

Founded in 2006 and hailing from Coventry, Havannah is the brainchild of guitarist Carl Williams and vocalist Luca Rusnighi.

Havannah impressed audiences right from the start thanks to their energy, their sound and their great versatility. Despite more drummer changes than Spinal Tap, Havannah managed to perform at a consistently high standard and to obtain great feedback from audiences and musicians in the rock and pop circuit.

In 2009, Carl switched over to bass and Havannah evolved into spin-off supergroup Fully Stacked, featuring drummer extraordinaire Federico Girlando and guitarist Mark Patton of V8 fame.

The project was very successful but short-lived: ever-increasing musical and personal commitments of all band members led Fully Stacked to disband in 2010. Mark rejoined V8, Federico kept playing all over the country with original project Neurotic and party band Rococo and Carl pursued a college career. Luca, in the meantime, decided to expand his range of vocal abilities and joined Rococo as a dep singer, but true to his roots he also became the frontman of the Cloned Stones and ultimately of Zed Lepp, a tribute to Led Zeppelin featuring Peter Primmer of V8 on bass and professional drummer Tom Voce.   

Despite a year of great fun in the local circuit, however, it became apparent to Luca that he missed playing various types of music…and that he missed gigging with Carl, with whom he had forged a strong friendship and who, in the meantime, had picked up the guitar again.

And so, in the summer of 2011, following a few jam sessions with Carl at the Clarendon in Leamington, a chat with New Jersey-born bass player Paul Pinnock (who shared the same stage with both on various occasions) and a quick audition to Leamington-based drummer Jeremy “Jez” White, Havannah reformed and are now back in the saddle!

So what next? Well, in the word of Steven Tyler …Let the music do the talking!