On Friday August 1st the maverick talent that is Martin Stephenson will be appearing at The Lawrence house Studio of The Grand Theatre, Blackpool as part of the “Studio Blues” season   Martin Stephenson is a supremely gifted singer, songwriter, musician and performer, whose career in music stretches back over twenty years. Born in County [...]

Audio only, but no worse for it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfcniJIrR08 For your Pee Wee bonus, here he is from the 1980s. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4sGWPaucZ8

Sherman Robertson Originally uploaded by Chris R.C. More Maryport pics from Chris RC.

Blues crowd on Shipping Brow (1) Originally uploaded by allybeag. allybeag has posted a few Maryport photos on Flickr. Click the photo to access the whole set.

Audio only. But what a copper bottomed classic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XP5J8lN3gY

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Hello from Madrid, originally uploaded by kenpeace. Here’s a dodgy cameraphone moblog picture from my 9th floor terraza on the Paseo de la Castellana. 11 pm and just in a pair [...]

This Thursday sees another outing for the individual talents of Tommy Allen and Johny Hewitt playing together as a phenomenal blues duo. I saw them for the first time at the Worthenbury Festival this year and I thought that they were great. They will be at 35 in Oswestry next Thursday.

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A great day yesterday.  Great atmosphere, great music, great food and great weather.  The highlight for me was Jon Cleary and the Absolute Monster Gentlemen Band.  They were absolutely incredible, one of the best bands that I have ever seen. Photos are starting to trickle into Flickr.  Here’s one from marra121. http://www.flickr.com/photos/7568142@N06/2705689047/ Unfortunately I cannot [...]

There is a slab of Soul and RnB on the Fab Channel website. http://www.fabchannel.com/URL Fab Channel for those that don’t know broadcast live concerts filmed in Amsterdam.

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Having fun at Maryport, originally uploaded by kenpeace. Smashing weather all day. Here’s a moblog of Grahame.

  As The Rocky Athas Band had already delivered two stunning shows at Liverpool Marina, it was no surprise that the venue was packed to hear Rocky revert to a previous incarnation with drummer/vocalist, Walter Watson. They had taken Texas by storm in the 1980s with their band, Lightning, and this tour of the UK [...]

The Thirteenth Annual Rory Gallagher Tribute Concert SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 27th 2008 from 8pm to 2am at The Cavern Club, Liverpool Tickets £15 from www.ticketmaster.com or from The Cavern Pub Tel: 0151 236 4041

Friday 25 July 2008 is Stax night on BBC4 Respect Yourself – The Stax Story Part of Stax Records Night. The story is about Stax Records whose hits include Sittin’ On the Dock of the Bay, Soul Man, If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don’t Wanna Be Right), Knock On Wood and Respect. A white [...]

Anyone wishing to promote bluesinthenorthwest.com for example at a blues event can now use the brand new bluesinthenorthwest.com flyers. These are available in PDF and in JPG (in lower quality for those without Adobe Reader) formats for download, printing and distribution (2 flyers per page).  My sincere thanks to Paul Webster for the use of two [...]

I was looking for some film of the great Roscoe Gordon and stumbled accross this sweet little cover of “No More Doggin” from The Igor Prado Band from Brazil. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHPT4Zi7QqM