Thursday 3rd June 2010 at BJ’s  Blues Club, The Hop Pocket, Carr lane, Chorley TIN PAN ALLEY Tin Pan Alley specialise in Jimi Hendrix & Stevie Ray Vaughan songs with a mixture of ‘Blues Legends’ like Buddy Guy & Freddie King in a very wide ranging repertoire of quality blues and rock songs that include [...]

Message from Lucas Campbell….. Thursday 29thAPRIL  at BJ’s  Blues Club, The Hop Pocket, Carr lane, Chorley 9.30 pm Start Free Admission! MIDNITE JOHNNY and SMOKESTACK LIGHTNIN’ Midnite Johnny and his amazing band debut at BJ’s This really is going to be another great evening to relish, hot on the heels of last weeks tremendous performance [...]

The excellent Northwest band Forty4 will be appearing at BJ’s Blues Club in Chorley this Thursday.  I saw them last night at a low key pub gig on the Wirral and they were excellent. Highly recommended. http://www.myspace.com/forty4music

THE BILL DAISON BAND Thursday 15th APRIL  at BJ’s  Blues Club, The Hop Pocket, Carr lane, Chorley  www.hoppocket.co.uk 9.30 pm Start Free Admission!

This week’s gig at BJ’s is The Blues Train. http://www.myspace.com/bluestrainbuxton 9.30pm – FREE ADMISSION

Thursday 4th March at BJ’s  Blues Club, The Hop Pocket, Carr lane, Chorley www.hoppocket.co.uk 9.30 pm Start Free Admission! THE HEXMEN High Octane R&B of the highest order from this band who have been delighting audiences where ever they perform with their own brand of new wave infused music A no nonsense approach with great [...]

Thursday 11th Feb at BJ’s  Blues Club, The Hop Pocket, Carr lane, Chorley  www.hoppocket.co.uk 9.30 pm Start Free Admission! CRY BABY and the Hootchie Cootchie Boys First time outing for these guys at BJ’s. They are a six piece high energy R&B band similar to Dr Feelgood with some excellent original material too! They have [...]

Thursday 14th January at BJ’s  Blues Club, The Hop Pocket, Carr lane, Chorley  www.hoppocket.co.uk PAPA LEGBA First Time at BJ’s for this young Blues Rock Power Trio from Merseyside who have built up a tremendous reputation for themselves in such a short space of time. They draw heavily from the past masters namely Skip James, [...]

Graham Sells writes with two pieces of news…. 1. We were absolutely thrilled to get a couple of awards last week for our ‘Salt Glazed Blues – EP’ from Blues Underground Network in their annual awards roundup. Best European Blues Album/EP 2009 and Best Blues EP 2009 (Note from Ken – read our bluesinthenorthwest.com review [...]

Thursday 22nd October at BJ’s Blues Club The Section The Hop Pocket Carr lane Chorley www.hoppocket.co.uk Lancaster based 5 piece Rockin’ Blues Outfit The Section are one of the hardest working bands in the Northwest and have ‘trod the boards’ for over 25 years, a great testament to their popularity and staying power ! Mick [...]

Nick Dow is this week’s featured band at BJ’s Blues Club at the Hop Pocket, Chorley.

Thursday 25th September at BJ’s  Blues Club, The Hop Pocket, Carr lane, Chorley  www.hoppocket.co.uk The Boozie Woozie Band And now for something completely different! The Boozie Woozies are a ‘splinter band’ from The Winchesters fronted by the irrepressible Andy Stones on Keyboards. The name of this band really gives you more than just a clue, [...]

Here’s an update from Lucas Campbell at BJ’s Blues Club, Chorley Thursday 10th September at BJ’s Blues Club, The Hop Pocket, Carr lane, Chorley www.hoppocket.co.uk THE LEE WHARTON BAND The welcome return of this superb Preston based 4 piece Blues/Rock outfit. Only the highest quality ‘live’ music from these guys. They do a great version [...]

POST UPDATED The Liverpool blues/rock/funk band Forty4 playBJ’s Blues Club at the Hop Pocket, Chorley this Thursday. www.myspace.com/scarygoodmusic introducing | FORTY 4 Their name comes from a Howlin’ Wolf song:”I wore my 44 so long, I’ve made my shoulder sore” They call home Liverpool, north-west England. Their music is Electric R&B based, with a twist [...]

Thursday 23rd July -  at BJ’s  Blues Club, the Hop Pocket, Carr lane, Chorley  www.hoppocket.co.uk FUSCHI 3  The much awaited return of this Power Blues Funk Trio. They already have a great local following and always go down a storm at BJ’s. In speaking with ‘ace skin man’ Rick Hughes he tells me the band [...]

Thursday 25th June -  at BJ’s  Blues Club – TOMORROW the Hop Pocket, Carr lane, Chorley  www.hoppocket.co.uk The Boozie Woozie Band And now for something completely different! The Boozie Woozies are a ‘splinter band’ from The Winchesters fronted by the irrepressible Andy Stones on Keyboards. The name of this band really gives you more than [...]