One for you blues-rockers – The Sean Webster Band at Alexander’s, Chester on Friday, 30th December – admission £4.

Hey y’all check this guy out. Gary Potts mentioned him the other week and then he pops up on the Blues-L mailing list. Great tone and a pretty good band too. Vocals sound strange with the accent. The video clips are small but pretty good audio. Enjoy… http://www.helgetallqvist.com/

John Welsh tells me that…. This super Steely Dan tribute band are playing at the Liverpool Academy 2 on Saturday, 25th February, 2006.

Hey everyone, check out Bluepower by clicking this link. There is an excellent interview with a great harmonica player Mark Hummel, he chats about his life as a bluesman and plays some records that have influenced him. Downloadable for your MP3 players or can be listened to online. I’ll be listening the Ike Turner interview [...]

Hurrah! – Grahame Rhodes sends me the following excellent review. Before I paste it in let me confirm just what a great gig it was…..OK here goes with the review. This was a great way to round off a most enjoyable year at Warrington Blues Club with The Cadillac Kings – Britain’s finest exponents of [...]

It seems like, as usual, gigs have pretty much died out over the Xmas period. The only thing I know about is Connie Lush at the Harbourside Club in Liverpool on Boxing Day. Tickets £12. Give Vinnie Reynolds a call on 07950 012994 if you are interested. If anyone knows of anything else then please [...]

Excellent gig by the Cadillac Kings tonight. Great band, great songs, lovely people. I hope that Grahame or Lionel will send me a few words to add to this blog. My pictures are up to the usual quality : ( and I didn’t even take all of them. I must either buy a new camera [...]

Not blues related at all, but I though this was so good I decided to post the link here. Have you ever wanted to produce a large monochrome picture displayto decorate your personal spaces? If so read on….. http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/ It’s brill! Here’s an example…… Thanks to Chuck Nevitt for tipping me to this one.

John Welsh emails to inform us that Simon “Honeyboy” Hickling will be appearing at the Harbourside Club in Liverpool on Tues 24 January 2006. Doors at 8pm. Tickets are £10 each; available from John on 0151 428 2855.

Today would have been the birthday of one of the greatest blues harmonica players ever, so a Happy Birthday to Rice Miller a.k.a. Sonny Boy Williamson II. Born 05 Dec – the actual year is a debatable item so I wonder just how acccurate the date can really be. Died 25 May 1965. My favourite [...]

Tonight – The Wildcards at Telfords Warehouse Fri 09 Dec – The Cadillac Kings at Warrington Fri 09 Dec – Rod Clements at Worthenbury

Pete Evans emails to announce the grand re-opening of Hookers Blues Club in Wrexham. The kickoff is now Sat Feb 11th featuring Trafficker and Big Blue House. In the meantime the line-up at Worthenbury is confirmed as…. Jan 27th Rick Payne 17th Feb Phil Bates 31st March Ernie Payne