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Blues On The Rock is back this Sunday, October 12th, when Blue C host another afternoon of blues music and conversation at Fort Perch Rock, New Brighton, with their special guests Joey Shields and The Wheels playing gritty, down home blues. Music from 1pm-4pm, £3 admission.
Don’t be late!
The next event in the excellent Blues on the Rock series happens next Sunday 14 Sept.
Blue C host their third Blues On The Rock session at Fort Perch Rock, New Brighton, from 1pm-4pm this Sunday, afternoon, September 14th. Their special guests are the Xander Brothers.
Keith and Stuart Alexander, as part of their larger group Xander and The Peace Pirates, have already played at the Philharmonic Hall twice in recent months, supporting Eric Bibb and Buddy Guy. Not bad! So here is a rare opportunity to catch the Xanders performing a blues set in the intimate surroundings of the fort’s basement music venue.
The Talkin’ Blues segment will attempt to shed some light on Keith’s phenominal guitar technique. There will be a display of blues memorabilia and a chance to win blues CDs. There is a cafe/bottle bar and admission is £3. Sunday afternoon, September 14th, 1pm-4pm. Don’t be late!
Nope! Not together! Just a selection of the artists in the region tonight.
Angela Brown and the Mighty 45s at The Met, Bury
Wilko Johnson at Pacific Road, Birkenhead
Also playing tonight but not featured
Little Toby Walker - Grand, Blackpool
INTERNATIONAL GUITAR FESTIVAL OF GREAT BRITAIN PRESENTS…
WILKO JOHNSON + SUPPORT
05 SEPTEMBER 2008
To say Wilko Johnson (Dr. Feelgood/The Blockheads) has the energy of a man half his age would be unfair, as most couldn’t get near his level of manic unstoppabilty!
Johnson’s career began in the 1970s as a staple of the ‘pub rock’ movement as guitarist and founding member of Dr Feelgood. He soon developed his own choppy, percussive guitar style, inspired by Johnny Kidd & the Pirates. The use of his fingers instead of using a pick allows him to play rhythm and lead at the same time, and allows him the freedom of being able to move around on stage in his jerky, almost unhinged style.
After leaving Dr Feelgood, Wilko went on to form the Solid Senders and play with Ian Dury’s Blockheads before forming his own trio - The Wilko Johnson Band - with Blockheads bassist Norman Watt-Roy and drummer Steve Monti (Curve/The Jesus and Mary Chain). Wilko remains one of the most exciting and individual guitarists on the circuit, catch his electrifying show at Pacific Road Arts Centre this September.
WILKO JOHNSON appears at Pacific Road Arts Centre on FRIDAY 5TH SEPTEMBER at 8pm. For tickets contact Box Office 0151 647 0752. Book on-line at www.pacificroad.co.uk
Sunday 17th August - Crosscut Saw
Free 5-7pm - Fletcher Christian Tavern, 55 Main Street, Cockermouth CA13 9JS
Tel. 01900 825856
Award winning blues band; get along to hear something special
Crosscut Saw are an established, three piece, award winning blues band from Leeds.
In addition to their own authentically crafted material, Crosscut Saw pay tribute to such greats as Muddy Waters, RL Burnside and Buddy Guy. Touring Europe and promoting their album, this prominent Leeds band has worked with numerous top names and most recently supported Dr Feelgood, Aynsley Lister and toured with Eddie Blue & The Ravens (US) and Jake Walker (US).
Crosscut Saw have played all over Britain and Europe, including blues festivals such as Colne Great Rhythm and Blues Festival, Burnley Blues Festival and Bishopstock Blues Festival.
Consisting of front man Alex Eden (Blues Musician of the Year 2003) on vocals, electric guitar and harmonica with Richards: Ferdinando on Drums and Green on bass.
Crosscut Saw know how to put on a great show. Get along to a gig and you’ll see something very special.
www.myspace.com/crosscutsaw
www.crosscutsaw.co.uk
Other northwest gigs include..
Forty 4 - Fort Perch Rock, New Brighton - Sun 10 Aug - 1pm
Liverpool blues duo Blue C host their second Blues On The Rock gig at Fort Perch Rock, New Brighton, on Sunday afternoon, August 10th.
Special guests this time are the fine blues band Forty 4, led by ex-Down At Antones frontman Neil Partington, so an afternoon of quality music is assured.
Raphael Callaghan of Blue C will also be talking to Neil about his career in blues music. There will be a display of blues memorabilia, and blues CDs to be won. There is a cafe/bottle bar, and music is from 1pm-4pm. Admission £3.
Blues on the Rock at Fort Perch Rock
featuring Blue C
13 July 1pm to 4pm
Merseyside bues duo Blue C are hosting a series of 2nd-Sunday-in-the-month blues sessions at an unusual but superb venue - Fort Perch Rock at New Brighton.
Raphael Callaghan, singer, slide guitarist and harmonica player of Blue C, got the idea from attending the long-running and hugely successful Merseybeat Story events at the historic fort, when veteran members of Merseybeat groups of the 60s would perform in the intimate setting of the venue’s tiny basement room.
Callaghan, whose harmonica work has graced sessions by Alexis Korner, Eric Bibb and Bonnie Raitt, said: “We hardly ever play in Liverpool these days and it is hard to find a suitable venue for our kind of music”.
“But the basement room at Fort Perch Rock just oozes with atmosphere even before a note is played. What with Tony Davis’s jazz sessions there as well, I hope the fort will become the place to be for quality roots music on Merseyside.”
Blue C’s special guest at the first Sunday bues afternoon on July 13th is Al Willard Peterson, whose pedigree goes back to the Cavern days and stints with Almost Blues, Supercharge, 29th And Dearborn and his own long-running R & B band, The Lawnmower.
Music is from 1pm-4pm. There will also be a blues disco, a display of blues memorabilia and CDs to be won. The fort has a cafe and bottle bar, and admission is only £3.
Further Sunday blues afternoons with Blue C and guests are scheduled for August 10th and September 14th. Enquiries: 0151 709 5484.
DAVID ‘HONEYBOY’ EDWARDS
PACIFIC ROAD ARTS CENTRE, BIRKENHEAD
MON 02 JUNE 2008
It may sound cliché, but this June Pacific Road Arts Centre will become host to a true living legend. Born in 1915, the son of a sharecropper in Sunflower County, Mississippi, Honeyboy Edwards is the last surviving link to the mythological past of pre-war country blues - the last remaining original Delta blues musician.
The original Delta bluesmen travelled the southern American states during the 1930’s as hobos, roaming together from town to town. It was these musicians’ who shaped the blues from early folk music and later became one of the main influences on rock ‘n’ roll. Edwards left home at the age of 17, and knocked around the South for years as an itinerant musician and gambler, honing his unique style of Delta blues music. In 1956, Honeyboy moved to Chicago and soon gained his reputation as an outstanding slide guitarist.
“Mr. Edwards is among the last authentic performers in the blues… everything he does is infused with the rocking drive and hypnotic modal flavour of depression-era blues at its most intense.” - New York Times
“Despite his advanced age, Edwards can still attain an almost frightening intensity, delivering lyrics in a dark, throaty shout and ripping single-note phrases from his fretboard as if he were tearing them out of the Delta soil itself.” - Chicago Reader
DAVID ‘HONEYBOY’ EDWARDS appears at Pacific Road Arts Centre on MONDAY 2nd JUNE at 8pm. For tickets contact Box Office 0151 647 0752. Book on-line at www.pacificroad.co.uk
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