by BMmanager | Mar 15, 2024 | Gig Reviews, News
Monday, March 4thThe 100 Club first opened its doors in 1942, the original name being “The Feldman Swing Club”. The name change happened when the father of the current owner took over the club in 1964. Words: Stephen Harrison Pictures: Jerry Tremaine ...
by BMmanager | Feb 22, 2024 | Gig Reviews
Nigh on its third decade since its original TV showing, The Transatlantic Sessions completed its final 2024 tour date with applause ringing around this venerated hall as Country royalty, Carlene Carter, led the entire onstage ensemble through a rousing Ring Of Fire....
by BMmanager | Jan 30, 2024 | Gig Reviews
A month long series of blues concerts, at this relatively new venue, warmed the cold January cockles as blues hotshot guitarist, Connor Selby and Irish blues queen, Grainne Duffy, combined their bona fide talents to entertain a very decent turn out of blues...
by BMmanager | Nov 30, 2023 | Gig Reviews
Van Morrison belied his sometimes-grumpy reputation as a performer by opening tonight’s set with a bopping Accentuate The Positive, the title track of his latest long player and twelfth album in a highly productive decade. He wonderfully took this song’s message to...
by BMmanager | Nov 1, 2023 | Gig Reviews
30TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY: AIN’T NOTHING BUT THE BLUES BAR, LONDON By: Barry BluesBarn Hopwood When offered the chance to see one of the best singer/songwriters in the UK who swaggers along side the Blues, you don’t take it, you jump on it and wrestle it to...
by BMmanager | Oct 4, 2023 | Gig Reviews
September 29th 2023 Brook’s Blues Bar is one of London’s oldest running blues gig venues. Its location has changed over the years but run by blues stalwarts, Tony & Ann Rosenberg, it remains a haven of guaranteed acoustic blues quality. September saw a rare visit...