Online exclusive review by Martin Byrom
Nottingham’s Old Market Square is the largest urban public space in Britain (bar London’s Trafalgar Square) and provided the ideal arena for the main acts at this year’s free City Pulse Festival. The event had focused on a Retro theme and the preceding two days had seen The Manfreds, Alan Price, [...]
Online exclusive review by Clive Sinclair-Poulton
Sugar Ray Norcia flew from Rhode Island to Cork for this one-off pre-Christmas charity gig. It was a treat for all.
Arriving a day beforehand he had enough time to practise with Alex Orelli and the BluesMakers, a local Cork based band who were such long time fans of the legendary [...]
Online exclusive review by Dave Sawyer
The Hop Pocket in Chorley is home to BJ’s Blues Club which holds regular gigs on Thursday and Saturday evenings throughout the year. The club was founded by Brian ‘BJ’ Jeffrey in February 2007 and has since become a firm fixture on the north west blues circuit.
Sadly BJ lost his [...]
Online exclusive review by Darrell Parsons
It’s not often I’d go to the 100 Club on a Wednesday, especially with the prospect of an early start the next day, but this was a rare opportunity to see a blues legend in the flesh. Oh… and some chap named Charlie as well! Seems I wasn’t the only [...]
Chris Simmonds reports on the 25th Chicago Blues Festival – online and exclusive!
More..Jane Spence reports on the 2nd Mijas International Blues Festival – online and exclusive!
More..Archive CD review from 2003
Currently slippin’ and slidin out of your radio with her sly White Stripes cover ‘Fell In Love With A Boy’, its the end of the beginning for Joss Stone. Let’s see what we have here – just sixteen, ‘from that little English town of Devon’ as our American friends would have [...]
