Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Future Juke preview - A Festival of 21st Century Blues

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There’s this Future Juke Festival coming up at a handful of venues in London in the next week, in case you hadn’t noticed.  So I thought I’...
Monday, May 28, 2018

Rev. Sekou featuring Luther and Cody Dickinson - In Times Like These

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The cover of  In Times Like These , by Rev. Sekou, tells you a lot. A sharp dressed black dude wearing a three-piece whistle and a trilby w...
Sunday, May 27, 2018

Here Comes The Sun - Blues Enthused meets Austin Gold

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It's not so much an interview as a conversational concoction, really.   Austin Gold are a band who've been getting some attention i...
Friday, May 25, 2018

Black Cat Bone - Get Your Kicks Sessions EP

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With a bottom end that rumbles like thunder coming over the hills, Black Cat Bone certainly make their presence felt on this 5-track EP.  S...
Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Fantastic Negrito - Please Don't Be Dead

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Calling Fantastic Negrito genre-busting may be a bit of an exaggeration, but like Gary Clark Jr and Rag’n’Bone Man he’s one of those artist...
Saturday, May 19, 2018

Simon McBride Trio - Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh, 17 May 2018

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So here’s a question. You can go see Joe Bonamassa in some arena for a hundred quid, or you can go see Northern Irishman Simon McBride and ...
Sunday, May 13, 2018

King King, Austin Gold - Playhouse, Whitley Bay, 11 May 2018

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On it.  On it, on it, on it.  King King were totally on the money tonight. Maybe Alan Nimmo had a premonition.  Coming onstage he looks o...
Thursday, May 10, 2018

Andrew Robert Eustace - Stories

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Andrew Robert Eustace ain’t exactly your archetypal blues moniker, is it?  Doesn’t really have the same ring as Blind Arkansas Joe, say.  N...