March 30, 2010 | 1 Comment
This is the one-hundredth issue under the title Blues In Britain, which would have been more obvious if the last issue, number 99, had not been erroneously numbered 98! The magazine, first published in 1989, was originally called Blueprint and reached 80 issues by December 1996.
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March 28, 2010 | 1 Comment
One of our favourite line-ups is Earl Thomas with Paddy Milner & the Big Sounds, comprising nine very talented musicians. Two of them, Paddy Milner and Marcus Bonfanti, came in to Blues In Britain to talk to Fran Leslie and made her day.
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March 1, 2010 | 1 Comment
Lord Clement-Jones, Tim to his friends, is a Liberal Democrat peer with responsibility for Culture, Media & Sport. He is championing a new bill through Parliament, which aims to restore music to small venues without the need for an expensive and punitive licence.
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March 1, 2010 | 1 Comment
As a teenager in the sixties when the popular music of the day was based on r&b, I became a born-again blues fan after I saw the light at one of Eric Clapton’s 24 Nights shows at the Royal Albert Hall. Many of the people I interview have been blues men who have, as Chris [...]
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