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...
by BMmanager | Oct 3, 2023 | Gig Reviews
The UK’s northernmost Blues Festival, held in Orkney, once again proved a major success. With a mix of local and national/international blues artists, this year’s event was hailed as the best by some attendees who have been coming for over two decades. The...
by BMmanager | Sep 18, 2023 | Gig Reviews
Words: Colin Campbell Pictures: supplied Interview with Dylan Pepper Festival Organiser and Drummer with Andy Taylor Group First I asked Dylan about the background and how he got involved? When I was just a little boy, my mum used to take me up to it, and it was run...