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.
Monthly Archive for August, 2006
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    –    Smokehouse Blues – The Welcome, Whitfield
08-Sep    –    Eddie and Frank Thomas – Worthenbury
08-Sep    –    Hitman Blues Band – Warrington Blues Club
08-Sep    –    Olly Allcock – John Paul Jones, Whitehaven
09-Sep    –    Slingshot – Fletcher Christ. Cockermouth
10-Sep    –    Hitman Blues Band – Navy Club, Maryport
10-Sep    –    Olly Allcock – Fletcher Christ. Cockermouth
14-Sep    –    F and E Thomas – Fletcher Christ. Cockermouth
15-Sep    –    Appleby Beer and Blues Festival
15-Sep    –    The Groovecats – John Paul Jones, Whitehaven
16-Sep    –    Appleby Beer and Blues Festival
16-Sep    –    Smokehouse Blues – The Talbot, Burnley
16-Sep    –    Trafficker – Fletcher Christ. Cockermouth
17-Sep    –    Appleby Beer and Blues Festival
17-Sep    –    Baudelaire Bros – Fletcher Christ Cockermouth
21-Sep    –    Wabash Cannonballs – Fletcher Cockermouth
22-Sep    –    Joe Bonnamassa – Manchester Academy
22-Sep    –    Les Wilson and Mighty Houserockers – Hookers
22-Sep    –    Wabash Cannonballs – John Paul Jones Whitehvn
23-Sep    –    Under Influence – Fletcher Christ Cockermouth
24-Sep    –    Joe Bonnamassa – Boardwalk, Sheffield
24-Sep    –    No Time for Jive -Fletcher Christ Cockermouth
28-Sep    –    Ana Popovic – Alexander’s, Chester
28-Sep    –    Sam Kelly – Fletcher Christ. Cockermouth
29-Sep    –    Nimmo Bros – Thornton Lttle Thtre – Cleveleys
29-Sep    –    Sam Kelly’s Primo – Warrington Blues Club
30-Sep    –    Revelator Band – Fletcher Christ. Cockermouth
30-Sep    –    Sherman Robertson – Southport Arts Centre
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.
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 a film of Highway 61 the legendary music highway from Memphis to New Orleans encompassing all of the sites, scenes and sounds that made this highway the most famous music trail in the world whilst Eddie a most accomplished multi instrumentalist adds the narration in an amusing and informative style whilst playing the songs of the legendary blues and jazz men like Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson.
Tickets for this unique evening cost £10 and can be reserved by ringing 01948 770215 (eves)
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 the time of the gig. Following that, Kevin Thorpe’s Out Of The Blue will be appearing on Wednesday, 6th December. Many of you will remember that cracking band from a few years back. Kevin has recently reformed it with all the old favourites on board. Next year will see Doug McLeod (USA), Geoff Achison (Australia) and the return of Little Toby Walker (USA).
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 so just keep checkin www.kingbz.co.uk for any updates.
We would also like to wish Tony Carter (TC) all the very best for the future “keep on blowing dude”
So on to next year, soon we hope to be in the studio to record our first album of original material, with also a tour of Europe planned and possibly the US its looking like the King Bz are about to fly again we will keep you posted.
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 and Shetland’s very own and the program house band the Rumshack Blues band.
I’m looking for bands to get in touch if they want to be played by supplying CD’s of their music, so if you could give me a mention on your blog and pass the word around of the podcasts existence I would very much appreciate it.
The link is at http://www.shetlandpodcaster.co.uk
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