I just stumbled across a listing of a lot of UK blues clubs at electricbluesclub.co.uk.  This may be useful if travelling or if you are a band looking for gigs outside your main areas.

A late gig addition for the upcoming weekend for After Hours at Dickie Doodles, Kendal on 02 Sept. They also play at The Talbot, Burnley on 30 Sept.

There’s a video of Kelly Joe Phelps on this week’s Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour.  Click here for the show overview and here to go to the video directly.

02-Sep      -    KylaBrox – LH Studio Grand Theatre, Blackpool 02-Sep     –     Last Chance – Fletcher Christ. Cockermouth 02-Sep     –     The Badge – Bowering Park Hotel, Liverpool 03-Sep     –     Radio KFK – Fletcher Christ. Cockermouth 03-Sep     –     The Badge – O’Connor’s Bar, Ormskirk 06-Sep     – [...]

The Studio Blues gigs start again in The Lawrence House studio at The Grand Theatre, Blackpool on Saturday Sept 2nd with the marvellous Kyla Brox and Danny Blomeley. Tickets £8.00 from the box office on 01253 290190 or online at www.blackpoolgrand.co.uk. Further gigs lined up include Kevin Brown, Steve Phillips, Catfish Keith and Ian Parker.

Walter Trout & The Radicals play The Marine Hall Fleetwood as part of their Full Circle Tour on Monday October 30th at 8.00pm. Support is the excellent young Lancashire band Tantrum. Tickets £15 from the box office 01253 770547 or online at www.marinehall.co.uk

The Nimmo Brothers will appear at Thornton Little Theatre, Thornton Cleveleys, near Blackpool on Friday September 29th. Tickets are £10 from Alan Pearson on 01253 890927 or email towerblues@btinternet.com.

SBWII plays the big 14 hole Marine Band in LOndon in the 1960s.

Angels On The Backroads – the history of Highway 61 Brothers Eddie and Frank Thomas from Iuka, Mississippi make a welcome return to Worthenbury on Friday September 8th as part of their latest UK tour following their last sell out tour in April 2005. Professional film maker Frank, who has worked in Holywood will present [...]

Trust Gary Potts of The Cadillac Kings to turn up one of the best new harmonica players that I heard in recent years.  Arne Rasmussen.  The band are really good too, the guitar, the Hammond and the all-important rhythm section.

Lionel writes with sad news of a cancellation and other Harbourside Club news…… Unfortunately, the Kyla Brox gig due for 13th September at the Harbourside Club has been cancelled. The next gig will welcome Phil Bates (ex ELO PartII) on Wednesday, 25th October. Phil performs a brilliant acoustic set. I’ll send you more details nearer [...]

Beardo and Spinner present a weekly podcast of blues. Click the banner to download or listen online.

Dave Raven on BFBS Radio 2 presents an excellent podcast Blues show each week.  For me the highlights are often the live sessions recorded on the houseboat. Click here to go to the Raven’n’Blues website where you can listen, download or even subscribe.

It seems that I missed the anniversary of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s death in 1990. Luckily Chuck’s blog reminded me this morning. Chuck’s post has a link to YouTube. Six strings down.

The King Bz write in to tell us…… We would like to take this opportunity to welcome Chantelle McGregor into the King Bz, an absolutly outstanding player who has played for amoung others Bonnie Rait, Joe Bonnamassa and many many more, Her Bio will soon be on the Web-site in the next couple of weeks [...]

JimmyC emails to announce the launching of his brand new Podcast, Jimmy says…. Hambone’s Blues Rumshack will concentrate on playing and promoting British Blues bands and internet sites for bands like Podshow, Garageband and MySpace. Episode one featured tracks from Lil Ed and the Blues Imperials, Cephas and Wiggins, MG James, Dave Arcari, Lazy Poker [...]