Mon 07 Jul: Carling Academy Liverpool
Joe Bonamassa
£16adv
Doors 7pm
plus Special Guests
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Guitar Legends Show
The Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
27 July 2008
Gary Murphy presents a night of the legends in Liverpool on 27 July 2008. The concept of the show is to show how the guitar has developed over the years, going from the early 1920s right through all the genres of guitar, including jazz, blues, country, country rock, pop up to the present day.
There will be 22 guitarists songs performed live using each of the signature songs of the legend. BBC Radio Merseyside’s Billy Butler will be narrating the lives and story of each guitarist.
www.myspace.com/garymurphyband
For a larger version of the poster, please click here.
Rocky Athas
at the Liverpool Marina
Thursday 17th July 2008 (doors at 8pm, show starts at 8.45pm)
Texan guitar-slinger Rocky Athas returns for his third visit to the Liverpool Marina. On this occasion, his masterful guitar playing will be complemented by his original band, Lightning, which in the late ’70s and early ’80s was one of the biggest draws in Texas nightclub history. Their music encompasses a broad range of blues music, including powerful blues rock.
Rocky grew up playing guitar with his pal Stevie Ray Vaughan. By the age of 23, he was honoured as one of the ten best guitarists in Texas by Buddy Magazine’s Texas Tornadoes. SRV received his induction two years later. They hold this honour with such noted guitarists as ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, Johnny Winter and Jimmie Vaughan. In recent years, Rocky has recorded a number of highly acclaimed albums on the British-based Armadillo Music label, the latest being Lightning Strikes Twice with Lightning.
Liverpool Marina is situated at Coburg Wharf, Sefton Street, Liverpool L3 4BP.
Tickets for the concert (£10 each in advance and £11 on the door) are obtainable from John Welsh on 0151 428 2855 or by email: johnswlesh@hotmail.com.
The Monton Music Festival
Manchester’s newest music festival is running over the weekend 4/5/6 Jul.
The festival features more than a handful of classy blues acts and a heap of other interesting events. The main music events are at the Monton House Hotel.
Fri 4 Jul Ian PARKER, OV8, Compass Roses.
Sat 5 Jul Blues n’ Trouble, The Harpbreakers
Sun 6 Jul The Animals and Friends, The Roach Twins Band
Monton is near Eccles. There are many fringe gigs and other activities. For more information please take a look at the website.
Matt Taylor has two shows in the bluesinthenorthwest.com region as an acoustic duo with Jonny Dyke. Both dates are in The Living Room bars of the cities.
Tues 8th July - The Living Room, Manchester
Weds 9th July - The Living Room, Liverpool
For a full size poster click here.
Back from Canada, Matt Schofield is on the road in the UK during the latter part of June, which includes a visit to Manchester, his birthplace, for a show at the Manchester Academy on June 27. Schofield left Manchester as a
child and has never played in the city having previously only got as close as Warrington and Bury.
Here is the poster for the Worthenbury Blues and Roots Festival 2008 to be held in Worthenbury (yes really!) on Sat 28 June 2008.
Whilst it is an outside gig, the stage will have plenty of tents and marquees suitably placed in the unlikely scenario that we have rain.
See you all there.
For the full size jpg version click here and for the high quality PDF here.
Connie Lush and Blues Shouter will be at Alexanders in Chester this Thursday. 19 June.
Tomorrow sees Adrian Burns at Allerton Manor Golf Club.
www.adrianburns.com
myspace.com/adrianbyronburns
As ever John Welsh is the man to call 0151 428 2855.
Tommy Allen & Johny Hewitt appear together in an acoustic gig at Worthenbury on Saturday June 14th following on from their successful debut at The Hollins in Macclesfield a couple of months ago.
Tommy will be playing acoustic and resonator guitar as well as mandolin and banjo whilst Johny will provide his usual trademark superb harmonica and both lads will share vocal duties.
Their set comprises predominantly traditional blues covers with a good smattering of Tommy’s songs and one or two more contemporary songs given a blues makeover.
Doors open at 8pm and the boys go on stage at 9pm. For info call 01948 770215.
This looks interesting. I have to admit, Ash Grunwald is a name that I had not heard before. Check out the rather good YouTube clip.
He’s on at Telfords on July 4th.
Adrian Byron Burns
at Allerton Manor Club
Wednesday, 18th June 2008 (doors at 8pm/start at 8.45pm)
In 1969, Adrian Byron Burns opened shows for Neil Young and Ritchie Havens in his native USA, which led to a European tour in 1971. In 1972, he became a member of Talisman in Germany, who opened for Little Richard, Alexis Korner and Vinegar Joe. Adrian moved to England in 1974 and has frequently toured Europe, sharing a stage with a host of top class blues stars including BB King, Robert Cray and Charlie Musselwhite.
As a solo acoustic artiste, Adrian combines his wonderfully deep, mellow voice with excellent guitar playing. He is also rightly acknowledged for his own material and for his original interpretations of other artiste’s compositions, notably those of Hendrix, Lennon/McCartney, Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson. This promises to be another highly enjoyable evening in the friendly and relaxed atmosphere of the Allerton Manor Club.
Link: www.adrianburns.com
The Allerton Manor Club is situated at Allerton Golf Course, Allerton Road, Liverpool L18 3JT. Tickets for the concert (£10 each) are obtainable from John Welsh on 0151 428 2855 or by email to johnswelsh@hotmail.com.
Watermelon Slim
Manchester Academy
16 July
£12
Mojo - Best Blues Album 2007
North American Blues Foundation - Best Blues Album & Best Band Award winners 2008.
American blues musician William Watermelon Slim Homans has been performing since the early seventies and has been linked to several notable blues musicians including John Lee Hooker, Robert Cray, Champion Jack Dupree, Bonnie Raitt, ‘Country’ Joe McDonald and Henry Vestine of Canned Heat.
He plays his guitar in the style of the Mississippi Delta Blues, playing his Dobro guitar lap-style with a slide. Homans usually performs acoustically, but has also been known to play electric. Recently, Homans has been performing live alongside a supporting band named The Workers.
2005 saw Homans receive a nomination for the prestigious W C Handy Award for ‘Best New Artist Debut’. He and his band have also been nominated for a further six Handy Awards in a variety of categories and also for a Maple Blues Award from the Toronto Blues Society for the 2006 release ‘Watermelon Slim and The Workers’.
Homans’ latest release is 2007’s ‘The Wheel Man’, which is the fourth album by Watermelon Slim and the second with The Workers. In this particular album (as is the case for all of Homans albums) Homan single handed-ly revives the blues scene with a little help from his authentic old school blues musicians.
Watermelon Slim will be performing live at Manchester Academy 3 on Wednesday 16th July.
bluesinthenorthwest.com believe that the supporting band will be the Harpbreakers.
The Ian Siegal Band play the Warrington Blues Club this Friday 30 May 2008.
“Awash with wit, lust and distraction…one of the most inventive Blues recordings ever made by a British artist.” MOJO****
“This album is a rare combination of cleverness and craft.” **** (Excellent) PENGUIN BOOK OF BLUES RECORDINGS
It has been said that had Siegal been around in the sixties he would today be accorded the same reverence as artists such as Van Morrison, Joe Cocker and Eric Clapton. Instead, he is a child of the seventies who dropped out of art college in the late eighties to go busking in Germany. From the streets of Berlin Siegal progressed to clubs around Nottingham, then to London and ultimately to major stages around Europe.
Two successive European tours (2003/4) opening for ex-Rolling Stone Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings brought him to the attention of a wider audience. This was followed by UK tours as a duo with Big Bill Morganfield (son of Muddy Waters, the man who Siegal calls The Blues God). During this time Siegal was also capturing the hearts of audiences in Holland, Belgium, Austria and Hungary. In 2005 he topped the Soul/Blues/Jazz charts in Holland and in 2006 he debuted in the USA, appearing at major clubs and the largest music festival on the West Coast.
“If my Daddy were alive today he’d say “That’s my boy!” BIG BILL MORGANFIELD (son of Muddy Waters)
Moving to London to further his career was inevitable and Ian was soon an established part of the London Blues community. That’s where today’s Ian Siegal band was born.
Many gigs followed, along with a number of appearances with American artists. He has also sung with other bands, notably The Lee Sankey Group and can be heard on the album “Tell Me There’s a Sun”.
Appearances on larger festival stages followed - such as Edinburgh, Lugano, Peer, North Sea Jazz – establishing him as one of the most natural, exciting and vibrant talents on the scene today.
Saturday May 31st sees the much requested & long awaited return of British guitar legend Robin Trower to The Marine Hall, Fleetwood.
Robin Trower came to prominence in the late 60’s when he joined Procul Harum and in 1972 he left to embark on a highly successful solo career. Never content to rest on his laurels, Robin has continued to record and release new material. Earlier this year his new CD, Seven Moons, a collaboration with Jack Bruce, received excellent reviews.
Support band for the show is the marvellous Aynsley Lister Band, themselves no strangers to the Fylde Coast.
Tickets are on sale, priced £15, from the Marine Hall box office on 01253 771141. Doors open 7.30, showtime 8.00pm
A fabulous line up for the Maryport Festival this year. They also have a brand new website up and running.
http://www.maryportblues.co.uk
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