Ten
Years After will not stand still even in their 53rdyear of
existence. Following their legendaryWoodstock performance in
1969, the pioneers of theBritish Blues Invasion went on to gain
internationalfame, playing some the world’s largest
venues(Madison Square Garden New York, Budokan Tokyo,The Royal
Albert Hall London JahrunderhalleFrankfurt and many others)
throughout the decades,and their last album, an all new studio
album ("ASting in the Tale") was released in 2017. Now in
theircurrent incarnation, they are promoting their latestlive
recording, entitled "Naturally Live".
While the veterans keep celebrating more
than half acentury on the road, classics such as "Love Like
AMan", "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl", "The Hobbit","One Of
These Days" and "Choo Choo Mama" gettheir live treatment just as
long-standing fanfavorites like "Gonna Run", "Nowhere To Run",
"I SayYeah”, "Hear Me Calling” or "I’d Love To Change TheWorld”,
not to mention various surprises and tracksof recent date.
...drawing
mainly on his glorious heyday with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers,
and the band he founded - the original Fleetwood Mac.
“The Supernatural”conveys the poignancy of Peter’s playing and
writing, from “The Stumble” to “Man Of The World”. It includes
personal anecdotes from players who knew him, original songs
inspired by him, and embraces the early Mac’s sense of fun.
Conceived by singer-songwriter-guitarist ‘Timeless Tim’ Hain, a
lifetime Green lover, the line-up includes fellow devotees Alan
Glen (Yardbirds, Nine Below Zero) on harmonica and vocals; the
ever-Green, hugely entertaining Robin Bibi on guitar and
vocals; Tansay Omar on drums, and Osibisa’s frontman Gregg Kofi
Brown, who played with Peter in the early days of Kolors, on
bass and vocals.
Brave
Rival are the South East’s brand-new rip-roaring rock and blues
Machine. Hailing from Portsmouth, the UK Blues Award Nominated
band features the powerful and beautiful twin vocals of Chloe
Josephine and Lindsey Bonnick. On lead guitar, providing
dramatic guitar solos and crunching rock riffs is Ed “The Shred”
Clarke. And holding it all together is the rhythmic backbone,
the self-proclaimed engine room of Billy Dedman (bass) and Donna
Peters (drums).
Drawing influence from the likes of John
Mayer, Aretha Franklin, Heart, Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin and
Tedeschi Trucks, Brave Rival offer a style and sound that you’ve
always known, and yet never heard before.
Since their
inception in the summer of 2019, Brave Rival have gone from
strength to strength, featuring in Raw Ramp Magazine as one of
the 'Top 20 Bands To Watch In 2020' and nominated
for 'Breakthrough Act 2019' by Get Ready To Rock Radio.
At the turn of the decade, hot off the heels from supporting
blues rock giants such as Stevie Nimmo and The Billy Walton
Band, Brave Rival captured their raw energy live by recording
their headline set to a gracious sold-out audience at Hook’s
famous Echo Hotel Music Club. This fabulous set of early
material was quickly released to critical acclaim as their first
Live Album ‘Brave Rival Live at the Echo Hotel Music
Club’. Keeping the momentum going, a Kickstarter was launched
for their first studio album with the target easily reached by
their loyal fanbase with time to spare. It was then time to
repay that loyalty with a studio album. Little did they know
however, that the world was about to change forever.
With
the pandemic putting the brakes on recording plans, Brave Rival
spent much of the UK Lockdowns writing new material via the
power of Zoom calls and Google drive. The abundance of material
produced served them well for the eventual recording of their
debut album in the summer of 2021. Recorded at The Mayfair
Studio in the picturesque Surrey countryside with
producer/seducer Tarrant Shepherd at their side, Brave Rival’s
highly anticipated debut album “Life’s Machine” arrived on May
6th 2022 to critical acclaim. Emerging Rocks Bands Magazine said
it best when they described the album as “Boss blues energy from
start to finish”. Similarly, Powerplay Magazine finished their
ten out of ten review by saying that “Brave Rival have unleashed
one lean, mean and well oiled machine!”
Tipped as one of
Joe Bonamassa’s “favourite discoveries this year” the future is
looking incredibly bright for this young up and coming band. A
successful set on the introducing stage at the 2022 Great
British Rhythm and Blues Festival in Skegness saw them win the
competition, securing a deserved place on the main stage in
2023. The relentless gigging and hard work in 2021 has also paid
off for the band with a UK Blues Award Nomination for Best
Emerging Blues Band.
Brave Rival are a band on a meteoric
rise, firing on all cylinders and are about to take the world by
storm. Their unique combination of beautifully harmonic, soulful
vocals, epic guitar solos, pounding drums and powerful bass
serves up an infectious sound that is not to be missed.
Mississippi
MacDonald sounds like he should be on Stax or Hi. He has a
strongly southern soul inflected vocal delivery, musical
accompaniment that sounds just like Albert King turning up on
the Malaco label, a tight, controlled band that is right on the
top of its form, and songs that come straight out of the classic
southern soul-blues songbook. He is a 3x British Blues Award
nominee with a multi-album back catalogue. In 2021, he signed to
APM Records, releasing his album "Do Right, Say Right" in
November. In a short time, the record has reached number 1 on
the IBBA British Blues Charts, and the top 10 of the Roots Music
Report Blues / Contemporary Blues charts. RocknloadMag.com said
this :"The album is a joy to behold and to anyone who has even
tried tackling the guitar you’ll know there is playing the blues
and then there is “playing the blues” and Mississippi does the
latter. We are very lucky in the UK to have such a rich pool of
players of serious quality that we can call our own and
Mississippi is another one to add to that list"
International
touring blues rock powerhouse Catfish are making waves on the
music scene in the UK and Europe. In 2018 they won the UK
Blues Award for Blues Act of the Year (England) to add to their
2016 British Blues Award. This year they were nominated for
three UK Blues awards, winning two of them - Band of the Year
and Blues Instrumentalist of the Year (Matt Long).
In the last few years, they have played at almost every major UK
blues festival and have established themselves as a real force
in the British blues scene. They now tour regularly in Europe
and, although their tours in March and April plus most of the
summer festivals have been cancelled this year due to Covid-19,
they still have a November tour of Europe in the diary.
Their first two albums 'So Many Roads' and ‘Broken Man’ both
reached no. 1 in the IBBA airplay charts. The second of these,
‘Broken Man’, was also nominated for a UK Blues Award and was
named album of the year by the IBBA. Their current album
'Burning Bridges' was released in May 2019 and has
received excellent reviews from the UK and European music press.
It was the third most played album by the Independent Blues
Broadcasters Association in 2019 and has been nominated for a UK
blues award for 2020 as album of the year.
'Catfish are one of the finest live bands in Britain today. The
quality of musicianship is outstanding and in Matt Long, they
have one of the greatest young guitarists on the scene
today...' Blues Matters Magazine.
Robert
J. Hunter has taken the Blues and Americana scene by storm with
his gruff and powerful voice.
Born on
the depths of the island of Alderney, where he began honing his
craft at a young age, Robert J. Hunter has come a long way from
his three mile long island home.
With a
sound that echoes the likes of Free, Glen Hansard, Drive By
Truckers, Whiskeytown, Rory Gallagher, The Faces, Bruce
Springsteen, and The Band, RJH is a performer capable of tearing
off the roof, and putting it back together again with a
reassuring pat on the shoulder with his mix of barnstorming
overdriven foot-stomping guitar and delicate acoustic ballads so
stirring that you could hear a pin drop.
Previous
releases from the band, ‘Stir All Night’, ‘Hurricane’, ‘Suitcase
Blues’, ‘Easy Street’ and ‘Good People’ have received rave
reviews worldwide, with tracks reaching number one in the iTunes
Blues Chart and the IBBA Charts on several occasions. Robert and
the band have also earned radio play on BBC Radio 2, BBC
Introducing, Planet Rock and global independent radio stations.
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