
FULLHOUSE
Alongside - FREE, Bad Co., Whitesnake and Thin Lizzy, “Frankie
Miller's Fullhouse“ remain one of the greatest of British
‘Classic Blues-Rock‘ Bands of the 1970’s! One who along with the
other bands named here, dominated the stages of Arena’s
Worldwide. Frankie Miller’s great song writing gift, is now
legendary with over 150 Song Covers by the Worlds Greatest
Artistes including: Ray Charles, Sir Elton John, The Eagles &
Rod Stewart, Johnny Cash, and The Travelling Willbury’s. His
incredible Soulful voice - arguably the Greatest of the
Blues-Rock voices ever to come out of Britain. His Band
‘Fullhouse’, Toured, and Recorded with him, inc. his Greatest
Chart Single Success - Be Good To Yourself’, they Performed all
over the World with Frankie, & now, once again, are rated as one
of the Greatest “Classic Rock n’ Roll Bands” on the Touring
circuit today. This year sees Fullhouse out on the Road again
promoting their new album “FULL HOUSE PLAY FRANKIE”on MIG
Records, don’t miss them.

In previous years, Chantel stepped
out in the pro-musician world and her stunning live performances
demonstrated that she had the ability to perform rock for the
new age, played by a musician born with an effortless
virtuosity. Since then, she has built a loyal and growing fan
base who follow her every move.
If you
measure an artist’s prospects by the company they keep, then
Chantel has been moving in the right direction. Early in her
career, Chantel was invited to perform with Joe Bonamassa, on
two of his UK tours.
Over the
last few years, Chantel has received great reviews of her 5
albums, the last 2 being released during the 2021 Covid
lockdown. The ‘Shed Sessions Volumes 1 & 2’ were recorded at
home and mixed by Wayne Proctor of Superfly Studios due to the
pandemic. They were born out of a weekly livestream which
Chantel performed throughout lockdown.
Over
lockdown, as well as the 2 albums, Chantel released a rock cover
of ‘Stupid Love’ by Lady Gaga and had a track on ‘Gumbo Blues, a
tribute to Dr John’, both through Cleopatra Records in the USA.
She also released the single ‘I Will See’, which she co-wrote
and recorded with David ‘Nova’ Nowakowski (Scars on 45).
Chantel is
writing for her next studio album, and is debuting some of the
new tracks on her tour which, is taking place throughout the UK.
These are one off shows not to be missed. Chantel stated, ‘I’m
over the moon to be back out on tour again, the last couple of
years have been incredibly tough for everyone in the music
industry and it’s just so wonderful to be able to play live
music in front of great crowds once again’.
Finalist
2020 UK Blues Challenge. UK Blues awards nomination best blues
band for the years 2020, 2021 and 2022. The Cinelli Brothers
have a passion for the music of the 1960’s, an amalgam of blues,
rock and soul, and add a twist of contemporary style, making
them a rising force on the music scene. Their appeal crosses all
manner of boundaries, attracting a significantly younger crowd
to their shows as well as pleasing the ears of older fans.
Brothers Marco (guitar, keys, vocals) and Alessandro (drums,
B/V’s) are joined by Tom Julian-Jones (guitar, harmonica,
vocals) and Stephen Giry (bass, guitar, B/V’s). The band has
released three albums to date: Babe Please Set Your Alarm (2018)
Villa Juke Joint (2021) No Country For Bluesmen (2022),
featuring guests on every track, including Dana Gillespie, Ian
Siegal, Big Joe Louis and many up and coming stars of the
British blues scene. The Cinelli Brothers tour widely in the UK
and across Europe, playing clubs and festivals, delivering live
shows of predominantly original material with high energy,
great
musicianship and showmanship. They have been nominated for UK
Blues Awards and are establishing themselves as one of the
leading lights of the UK blues scene. Definitely a band not to
be missed!
Way
back in the halcyon days of rock, there came a trio of
'superheroes' known as the Groundhogs, riding the blues boom
into unchartered territory, they gained a reputation as one of
the most dynamic live acts around, and are influential and
inspirational to this day. The classic line-up of Tony McPhee,
Ken Pustelnik and Pete Cruickshank toured the world for 6 years
straight, including seminal shows with the Rolling Stones, John
Lee Hooker, John Mayall and Canned Heat, and at the legendary
1970 Isle of Wight festival along with Jimi Hendrix. In this
time they produced 4 renowned albums: 'Blues Obituary', 'Thank
Christ for the Bomb', 'Split' and 'Who Will Save the World'...
Now Ken Pustelnik brings you a new and exciting line-up -
Groundhogs, playing that classic material with verve and power,
and giving performances of energy and excitement that are as
fresh and relevant to the modern audience as the originals were
back in the day...
The Band
Ken Pustelnik (drums)
Original member of
the classic line-up, officially joined in 1967, leaving at the
height of their success in 1972 and features on all of the first
5 Groundhogs albums.
Chris D'Avoine (Vocals/Lead Guitar)
Incendiary guitarist of Mean Blue Monsters, Snatch it Back
(w/ Ken Pustelnik) and formerly with numerous outfits such as
Shiva.
Latch Manghat (Bass)
Heavy and hard-driving
bassist of cult British stoner-metal band Gonga,
Guitarist/Vocalist of the Rollbars, and producer of numerous
artists such as the Heads.
Sol Latif (Lead Guitar)
Long-standing member of the Rollbars, formerly lead
guitarist of Lastwind (w/ Ken and Latch), his ability to
traverse the intricate and unorthodox sections are unmatched.
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.
James Oliver has
already rubbed shoulders with many of the greats of the guitar
firmament. Now, having recorded three vital, very contemporary
albums with his band Glas, he is preparing to write a new
chapter of not only his career but also Welsh music history.
His progress since forming Glas in early 2012 has been steady
rather than spectacular, playing every gig in the Valleys before
expanding horizons beyond. See him on stage, though, and
spectacular is very much the word. Little wonder the late, great
Deke Leonard of Man/Iceberg fame was moved to say that ‘Speaking
as a guitarist, James Oliver scares the hell out of me.’ Taff
Williams and Tweke Lewis, who have played with him, were
similarly impressed.
Oliver’s propulsive guitar won Glas an invitation to play the
prestigious Monaghan Blues Festival in Ireland – the first Welsh
act to do so – while other festivals at Tenby and Colne soon
followed. His rootsy, Fender-fuelled music has been heard
supporting the likes of Albert Lee . Bill Kirchen,and, only this
year, Played London’s legendary 100 Club. Former Love
Sculpture/Dave Edmunds bassist John David has worked
with Jamesin the studio, further enhancing a more than
respectable CV.
As music business veterans will tell you, success is 10 per cent
inspiration and 90 per cent perspiration. As he enters the next
stage of his career, James Oliver has a track record that shows
he will not allow an ounce of his talents to be wasted. And with
new musicians to interact with, chances are the music in store
will exhibit hitherto unheard dimensions to delight his growing
army of fans. Blues, rock a billy, rock and country…it’s all
here in one explosive pickin’ package.
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.
THE
HIDING MAGPIES are an emerging alternative Rock Band from
Lancashire. Their first album covers all aspects of love, loss,
and redemption with a nod to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
Their latest album ‘Searching For Gold’ establishes them as a
great melodic band in their own right. This exciting line-up is
now a six piece with glorious three-part harmonies and
impressive musicianship.
Jake Dixon the bandleader, songwriter, singer and guitarist is
amply supported by the pooled band experiences of tours with
Chuck Berry, Nico, Louisiana Red, Atomic Rooster, and Denny
Lane.
Their latest single ‘Home’, recorded at Hope Mill Studio in
Manchester, will be released in February 2023 and marks a new
era in the bands’ development.
Wherever they play, be it a pub, club or festival, they are
always rewarded with standing ovations and a following of loyal
fans.
This year they will be appearing at The Northern Kin Festival,
The Blues Rhythm and Rock Festivals in Glasgow, Whitby and Looe,
The Beatherder Festival and countless other gigs around the UK.
Fast
losing their reputation as the “best kept” blues secret in the
UK, Backbone Blues Band are setting a pace to 2016 and ‘17 with
a busy and varied schedule. Although still a British rarity;
they are better known in the USA than in the Thames Valley, from
where most of them hail, and with their 6th annual tour of the
States under their belt in October 2015, the band are tipping
their hat at the next twelve months here at home.
Their
reputation is growing fast and has attracted the attention of
visiting American artists Loomis Hamilton and Larry Garner for
whom they’ve played support, as well as the UK’s young slinger,
Laurence Jones who they’ve recently shared a stage with at
Reading and Rebecca Downes.
Their second album ‘Which Way
To The Blues’ was released in late summer 2015, and received a
glowing review in Blues in Britain magazine; they said ‘an album
full of highly enjoyable goodies by five guys at the top of
their blues’. Their first album in 2013 ‘Made in Britain’
enjoyed similar reviews and was promoted live on the famous
Sonny Payne’s radio show in Helena Arkansas, ‘King Biscuit
Time’. “More of a privilege than a promotional stunt, Sonny’s a
genuine hero of the blues” commented Duncan Highet, the band’s
bass player and singer.
They’ve played from ‘Beale to
Bourbon’ on their USA tours, including Beale St in Memphis, King
Biscuit Festival in Helena, the Balcony Music Club and Bamboulas
in New Orleans and the world famous Ground Zero Blues Club,
where they have an entire Sunday dedicated to them under the
billing, “The Big British Blues Brunch”. They fold all that
experience into their performances back in the UK. Influenced by
the old blues men and inspired by the new, their music has blues
at its heart, and is threaded with soul, rock and country and
delivers a style that’s both eclectic in its construction, but
unmistakably “Backbone” in its delivery.
“What we’ve
learned most from our tours of the Delta, is that as well as the
music, you have to put on a show. Just playing well isn’t
enough” says Tony Seaman one of the band’s guitarists. “You
can’t just shuffle on stage in old jeans and a scruffy T-shirt,
you have to pay your dues and pay respect to the music and
audience”. Frank McConnell the other guitarist in the band
expands on the theme, “We play songs. Yes it’s plainly the
blues, but not predictably so; well written, well-constructed
and well-executed songs is what try to do, we’re also choosy
about the covers we play and give them the full Backbone
treatment too”.
Backbone are a band that have clearly
worked hard at what they do. With a tight rhythm section,
creative guitars and keys and soulful vocals, they deliver a
sound that grooves when it swings and punches well above its
weight when it rocks.
Backbone Blues Band are Duncan Highet (Bass / Vocals), Martin
Jezzard (Drums), Tony Seaman (Guitar / Vocals), Frank McConnell
(Guitar) and Steve Pearce (Keyboards). Go see them, they know
their work.
Thomas
Atlas is a British guitarist, singer and songwriter. His early
career saw him touring the UK and USA with Soul and Blues
outfits before pursuing his own musical endeavours.
A new line up saw a difference in direction with players from
“The Brand New Heavy’s” and “The Brothers Groove” coming on
board.
The first Glimpse into what Atlas had in store came from a
series of successful Youtube videos released in 2018 under the
title “Garage Funk”, resulting in a sensational response from
fans and industry alike.
Atlas found himself venturing out of the garage to play some of
the most prestigious venues in the UK such as Ronnie Scott’s,
100 Club, The Borderline, Birmingham Town Hall, Birmingham
Symphony hall and a residency at Jools Holland’s Jam House.
In 2019 Atlas was touring Europe, Electrifying audiences with
his unique style of guitar playing. Fusing roaring Blues solos
over his Funk-laden arrangements.
The
Milk Men is a band made up from the cream of British R’n’B
talent and pedigree.
Bringing together young veterans of the UK’s live music scene.
The Milk Men have been tearing up venues and festivals all over
the UK with their dynamic live show.
With former Pirate Mike Roberts on drums, Lloyd Green (son of
guitar legend Mick Green) on bass guitar, husky blues singer
Jamie Smy on vocals, the band is rounded off on guitar by Adam
Norsworthy, also know as the singer and guitarist in blues scene
mainstays Mustangs.
The band draws its influences from a wide range of classic bands
from Dr Feelgood to Fleetwood Mac. Their original music is
classic blues rock, but always played with attack, energy,
melody and a sense of fun.
The band has released four hugely-acclaimed albums of original
material, and their latest and finest album Spin The Bottle saw
the band cement their reputation as one of the UK’s premier
keepers of the British Blues Rock flame.
The band has headlined major blues festivals all over the UK
including Swanage and The Great British Rock & Blues Festival in
Skegness. 2023 sees them take their unique brand of catchy blues
rock all over the country playing at festivals everywhere from
Cornwall to Carlisle.
Vintage-Contemporary
Blues Rock.
Unforgettable Lyrics, Unmissable Solos, Unrivalled Rhythm.
Ramblin’ Preachers was formed by Ross Connor and James Ives.
Fuelled by a passion for Blues Rock, the aim was to create
original Stomping Blues with Big Riffs, Powerful Vocals, and
Tasty Solos.
Backed by the tight rhythm section of Bassist, Craig Howe and
Drummer, Richard Baker. The band has created a Mouth-Watering
sound that is sure to get you off your seat.
The band’s eclectic sound sees them take influence from the
likes of: Free, Led Zeppelin, Chris Stapleton, Rival Sons, and
Philip Sayce to name a few. Their sound has seen them play shows
across the UK and have shared the bill with artists such as:
Jared James Nichols, Danielle Nicole, King King, and many
more...
Ramblin’ Preachers are kicking up a storm...

Vintage blues duo based in Plymouth in
the UK. Vince has been playing and singing the blues in all its
forms since the mid 80s and has influenced many likeminded
musicians with his guitar playing. Sophie Lord was one of those
people. Recently returning to Plymouth after 10 years working as
a bass player in London, Sophie joined forces with Vince in
early 2022. Together they have gained a huge following on social
media platforms for their blues music videos which have reached
millions of people around the world. Their style touches on jump
blues, calypso, swing & ragtime.
Hailing
primarily from Bristol, Phoenix River Band’s crowd-pleasing,
distinctive 'West Coast' sound is a potent mix of original songs
with driving beats and soulful melodies, merging elements of
Classic Rock, R&B, Blues, Country Rock and Americana.
Centred around song
writer Chris Melhuish, who sings most lead vocals and plays some
pretty mean blues-infused guitar, the band comprises the rhythm
section of Dave Dunster on drums and Mike Pitt on bass,
keyboardist Andy Allpass on organ and piano, and vocalists Jo
Melhuish and Shelley Dunster, who blend nicely in harmony, with
Jo also singing lead with a very soulful voice. All of them
integral to the bands overall sound.
Inspired by, and taking
influence from the likes of
Fleetwood Mac, Creedence
Clearwater Revival, Dire Straits, Tom Petty, The Allman
Brothers, The Eagles, Chris Rea and Jackson Browne,
Phoenix River Band's music is rooted in the song writing ethos
of the '60s and '70s, delivered by a band that you might think
sounds like one from that period but, in truth, sound like no
one but themselves, in a style best described as ‘Atlanticana’.
Comfortable in any
setting Phoenix River Band have delighted music-lovers from
small club venues to Concert Halls & Festivals, playing fully
electric or 'unplugged' sets and performing with many classic
artists including Wishbone Ash, Love Revisited, 10cc, The
Blockheads, The Yardbirds, Focus and Walter Trout.
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