From: James.Danie~urohappold.com (James Daniell) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 15:18:48 +0100 Subject: Re: blues in london
in central London, your best bet is the "Aint Nothing But Blues" bar on Kingly Street in Soho off Regent St. Blues 7 nites a week, the only place that does this now that the Station tavern seems to have lost its music license.
havent really caught too many harp-led bands there - except for the Blackjacks from Brighton and Little George Suref (sp?) is a fine player and distinctive singer- tho' definitely check out ian Siegal (guitarist and very soulful singer, plenty of attitude) or James Hunter (50's r'nb, as in Bobby Bland, Junior Parker, raw rock'nroll, again a guitarist and soulful Sam Cooke-influenced singer).
if you're looking for jam nites, the best is at the World's End pub in Finsbury park, most evbody there is pro or semi-pro. and harpist Tim in the house band is a good player. that's on wednesdays. other than that there's a jam at the Tufnell Park tavern on Thursdays - tho' with both of these jams I havent been there for many months - check out Timeout magazine or Blueprint to see what's happening. also on Thursdays is a kindof jam nite with Station House - a supremely funky soul blues afrobeat outfit (with a little dub and reggae thrown in the mix as well), but the jammers are more like guests of the group. definitely try to check out these guys act - probably the best rhythm section in town and a jaw-dropping slice-and-dice guitarist. and then there's the Bobby-Bland-by-way-of-Toots-Hibbet-styled vocalist and monster percussionist.
other worthwhile acts are Lee Sankey (terrific harp player, very funky hip-hop/G Love-styled groove), Paul Lamb & the Kingsnakes if they're in town. Eugene Hideaway Bridges is a very highly rated guitarist and singer (again big Sam Cooke influence). Dino Baptiste is a fine singer/keyboardist - Ray Charles/blues Bros type stuff.
email me personally if you're after more info.
have fun cheers, James Daniell
>Subject: blues in london >To: har~arply.com >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >X-Mailer: Unknown (No Version) > >hi all, > > in london for a spell, looking for local lowdown on possible brit blues >scene. thanks in advance... > > --Moj > >- --part1_73.285db33.262f61c9_boundary-- >
