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Ian Willians has emailed in a selection of pictures from last weekend’s excellent Worthenbury Blues and Roots Festival. You can see the whole set at the bluesinthenorthwest.com photo archive. Scroll down to see Lionel’s official review. Here are a couple of pictures to whet the appetite.
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There a few pictures from Sunday night’s Buddy Guy gig in Liverpool on Shertila’s Flickr site.
Buddy guy, Live in Liverpool, originally uploaded by shertila.
Flickr photo Nicky Moore’s Blues Corporation, originally uploaded by shertila.
Shertila has posted a couple of nice Honeyboy pictures on Flickr. They are from the recent gig in Birkenhead.
David “Honeyboy” Edwards in Birkenhead
Originally uploaded by shertila.
Ian Siegal Band -Warrington Blues Club -30 May 2008
It was an excellent night at Warrington Blues Club last night featuring the excellent Ian Siegal Band. A full review will follow but I thought that I’d just upload a few initial impressions and a dodgy picture.
Ian and the boys stormed through over two hours worth of blues, funk, country, americana etc. The thing that I like very much about Ian Siegal is that he always brings passion to the show, you never get the feeling that he is going through the motions. All three of them really seem to enjoy themselves on stage and the enjoyment really shines through. There is a strong feeling of arrangements being done on the fly in true improvised tradition, I even saw Ian leading the band using the old jazz hand key signals for the different chords.
Readers of bluesinthenorthwest.com will know that I am a terrible photographer, I only have a little pointy clicky camera and zero skill to go with it. I was lucky enough to meet blues fan and excellent photographer Paul Webster. I am certain that Paul will have some top quality photographs and I will post the link to them when they are available. The lucky devil is off to Chicago this weekend so we may have to wait a few weeks.
A great show last night at The Harbourside. Hamilton Loomis enthralled the capacity crowd and left everyone happy and enthusiastic. If you didn’t go, shame on you, you missed potentially the gig of the year.
Great playing by all concerned (from an English rhythm section too), funky grooves and a fantastic vocal performance. A real entertainer and destined for a great career.
Lionel is doing a proper review so keep your eye open for that. I have uploaded my best photos, hopefully somebody has better quality ones that I can either use or link to. Let me know if you have any.
This was my first time at the Harbourside and I was very impressed indeed. A nice room, good sound and friendly people. My thanks to John and Lorraine for such an excellent event. I’ll be back.
All my photos can be found at Flickr.
Paul has a great Big Pete photo up on Flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigoax-blues/2380447814/
It’s part of his excellent Burnley Blues 2008 set.
Blues in North Wales
Roland Chadwick - Goin’Up The Country at Worthenbury Village Hall - 28 March 2008
I was out of the country last Friday so completely unable to go to either of the excellent gigs in my part of the bluesinthenorthwest.com region. There is a full review of the Backbones gig but, so far, I only received a few words from the Roland Chadwick gig at Worthenbury. There is some good news.
Number one - the words were very positive….. “it was absolutely superb…. the man is a brilliant musician with a great sense of humour”
Number two the few words were accompanied by some excellent pictures that can be seen at the bluesinthenorthwest.com photo archive.
Never Slim has a set of excellent photos of this year’s Burnley Festival.
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=burnley%202008&w=39989459%40N00
Earl Thomas, originally uploaded by Never Slim.
I couldn’t make the Jim Crawford gig at Worthenbury on 22 Feb. I have no review to publish but Ian did kindly send some pictures for our enjoyment.
As usual there are other photos in the bluesinthenorthwest.com photo archive.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kenpeace/sets/72057594077095337/
Following on from Lionel’s review of Harry Skinner and Dave Saunders at Worthenbury on 14 Dec, I received some pictures from Ian Williams.
One of the pictures is below but you may see all seven at the bluesinthenorthwest.com photo archive.
Check out Funkyrockchick’s photos at Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/funkyrockchick/sets/72157603403895642/
There are three new videos on the Hookers website from the recent birthday celebrations.
The site features videos from Trafficker, Karac and The Three (grumpy old) Musketeers (!)
Check out http://www.hookerblues.co.uk and click on the videos link at the top of the page.
Pete says…
Any promoters who might like to book Karac, as they really are a cracking band, contact me at pete@hookerblues.co.uk
Once again some excellent pictures from Paul Webster. Here’s one of Connie Lush and Ian Siegal.
You can see the whole set on his Carlisle Blues Festival Flickr page.
Originally uploaded by Paul Webster.
Paul Webster has upload a lovely set of pictures from Colne Fest 2007.
Go here for the full set.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigoax-blues/sets/72157602259814590/
32, originally uploaded by Paul Webster.
Some new pictures featuring The Stumble.
STUMBLE COLNE 2007, originally uploaded by The Stumble Blues Band.
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