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Rory
Ellis (AUS)
-25th June
www.roryellis.com
A full house greeted the 'Melbourne Minstrel' on his first visit to the Aire
Delta
Pic. Charles
Waller
with
bbc5 on sultry form
with 'Never Too Hot for the Blues' and 'Blow Me a Breeze'
Pic
-Barbara
Big
Pete and the Backbones
(NL)- 21st May -£10
(Now known
as MOCT !)
featuring the
outstanding guitar work of Sander Kooiman.
A FOURTH CONSECUTIVE FULL HOUSE....
www.myspace.com/bigpete1977
www.myspace.com/MOCT
Pics- Charles
Waller
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for 'Blues in Britain' review.
Plus bbc5
.....and the utterly wonderful 'bbc' audience.
Matt
Schofield Band -30th April -£10
www.mattschofield.com
hofield, the UK
has produced the best blues guitarist from any country in decades.
LA DAILY NEWS, U
A
packed house for the UK's top guitar-slinger and his multi-national band.........
Pictures -Charles
Waller
Hamilton
Loomis Band
(USA) -26th March -£10
www.hamiltonloomis.com
Pictures -Charles Waller
Guy Tortora Band
(USA)- 5th March -£10
f
eaturing the huge keyboard
talent of Janos Bajtala (Hungary)
and Costa Tancredi (Italy)
on bass
www.guytortora.com Pictures -Charles Waller
Tommy
Allen Band (with Johnny Hewitt)
(UK)-12th February -£10
Bringing guitar-supremo,
Tommy Allen, and harpist extraordinaire, Johny Hewitt, together with powerhouse
rhythm section Micky Barker (Drums) and Chris Lomas (bass) was just what Dr. Love
ordered for a 'Valentines
Weekend'......
Pictures
Charles Waller
with bbc5
Oliver Darlings'
Dirty Robbers (UK) -8th
January -£10
Pic - Charles
The Dirty Robbers braved the
frozen North to warm the hearts of the 'bbc' faithful...
Click on thumbnail for
Blues in Britain review.
The
'Honeyboy' Hickling Band
(UK) -11th December -£10
www.honeyboyhickling.com
Ben
Waters (UK) -27th November -£10
www.benwaters.com
Brilliant
Boogie-woogie, Rock 'n'
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Roll,
Jazz and Blues
from Ben
(and bbc5)!
.....not to mention the tasty supper provided for the packed house by the Watson
family...Happy Birthday Jackie!
"Ben really
enjoyed his trip North -He says you spoiled him to bits..." (Anne -Ben's
Mum)
Click on the 'thumbnail' for
the 'Blues in Britain' review of Ben's visit.
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Pics -
Charles Waller
bbc6!
The Revolutionaires
(UK) 13th November
-£10
Blues. Rhythm & Blues and Rock
'n' Roll!
www.revolutionaires.co.uk
Durham's finest had 'the bbc' bouncing when the, thankfully fully-fit,
Revolutionaires returned to Laycock ...superb!
(Pictures -Charles
Waller)
Photo- Ken
Chatwin
plus
bbc5 with
their tribute to Louis Jordan
'Oc-oustic
October (Part 2)
Rag
Mama Rag (FRA) 16th October
-£10
www.ragmamarag.co.uk
Pictures
-Charles Waller
with
bbc5 unplugged
(pic -Ken
Chatwin)
Little
Toby Walker (USA) 2nd
October -£10 www.littletobywalker.com
Photo
left -Charles Waller; 
(audience pic -Carol Walker)
Click
thumbnail for Toby
Walker's
review in
November's
Blues in Britain
Magazine.
with bbc5
and special guest
Graham Robinson
www.blueguitars.co.uk
Graham picture - Charles Waller
"...you have the
best blues club
in all of England...."
(Toby Walker)
Harper
(AUS/USA) 4th September -£10
Pic Ken Chatwin
The world's
only
American band fronted by a British-born, Australian-raised, didgeridoo-playing
blues singer roared into Laycock to
kick-start our third
season in no uncertain terms.
www.harper.biz
Season #2
-2008-9
Lightnin'
Willie
and the Poor Boys
(USA) 10th July- £10
www.ligh
tninwillie.com
Lightnin'
Willie pic - Ken Chatwin
...supported
with a fine set from
bbc5
which included five 'originals' - 'Never too hot for the Blues',
'Dressed for the
Blues' and Three Kings of the Blues', 'Way Down Town' and 'Delta 'til I Die'
bbc 5
photos - Chris Owens
Doug MacLeod
(USA) 12th June - £10
www.myspace.com/dougmacleod
Another
packed-house gave a tumultuous reception to Doug on his return to Laycock.
Doug
Photos-Charles Waller Doug portrait -Chris Lackey
Fruteland
Jackson (USA)
with
The Bob Hall Show
(UK)
8th May £10
www.fruteland.com
B&W
picture -Ken Chatwin
'Real deal' Blues
with
Fruteland Jackson
(from Mississippi, via Chicago) ...what a charismatic performer!
Colour pictures -Charles Waller
...and, not forgetting, 'the
Bob Hall Show'
Hamilton
Loomis Band (USA) 24th
April £10
www.hamiltonloomis.com
Sax pics-'Ickledot'
www.ickledotco.co.uk
Band pics -Chris
Owens
Kyla Brox Band
with
Victor Brox
(UK) 27th March £10
www.myspace.com/kylabrox
Another magical night at the
Village Hall, captured by Charles Waller's outstanding photographs.
Big
Pete & the
Backbones (NL)
13th March £10 http://www.myspace.com/bigpete1977
Pics - Charles
Waller
with
bbc5
(featuring Martyn Paley-'the professor
of the blues')
Michael
Roach & Johnny Mars
(USA) 2
7th
February £10
www.roachandmars.com
'The Gentlemen of the
Blues'
Pict
ures
- Charles Waller
Click
thumbnail for Peter Greenwood's Keighley News review.
with support
from 'bbc5 unplugged'
and, their
special guest, Graham Robinson
www.blueguitars.co.uk
Khalif 'Wailin''
Walter' Band (USA)
6th February
£10
'Ass-Shakin' Boogie' from Chicago.
www.myspace.com/khalifwailinwalter
Click on thumbnail
for Blues in Britain review.
".......thank
you so much for the invitation to play there... it is a
wonderful club
and an incredible
audience......." Khalif 'Wailin' Walter'
photograph-Charles Waller
Memo Gonzales
and the Bluescasters
(USA/Germany/Holland/Turkey)
23rd January
£10
www.memogonzalez.com
They
opened the 'bbc' in September 2007...then came back to rock another
'full
house'!
Pictures -Charles
Waller
Click
thumbnail for Blues in Britain review (Feb. '09)
The
Ramon Goose Trio
with Akos
Hasznos (bass) (UK) 9th January
£8
www.ramongoose.com
Pics
-Charles Waller
Another outstanding, new, young-band thrill the 'bbc' audience...
Click
below
for link to live video footage of 'Stormy Monday' at 'the bbc'
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VLc4dFBerko
Click on
thumbnail for Blues in Britain review.
2008
Paul
Lamb & the Kingsnakes
(UK) 12th December £10
www.paullamb.com
Paul Lamb pic - Idris Richards-
"This
is one of the best Blues Clubs in the world... "
(Paul Lamb
Oliver
Darling's Dirty Robbers
(UK) 5th
December
Pictures -
Charles Waller
£8
(Free to Members)
www.thedirtyrobbers.co.uk
"Thanks
very much for having us.... .. the gig was great.... we'd really like to come
back and do another sometime."
(Oliver Darling)
Click on thumbnails
for Blues in Britain review
10th
October
The Groanbox Boys
(Canada, USA, France)
Band
Picture-Charles Walker
Click for
T&A
story
Click for
THE GUARDIAN feature
See 'Reviews Page' for Peter
Greenwood's 'Craven Herald' report.
12th September
The Ian Siegal Band
(UK)
Ppicture -Charles Waller
21st
century British Blues at its best!
(2007-8 season below)
4th July Party
-free JD's all round!
The Guy Tortora
Band (USA)
featuring the huge keyboard
talent of Janos Bajtala (Hungary)
Picture -Idris
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Blues in Britain
Review.
13th June
The Hokum
Hotshots (UK)
2nd May
Kyla
Brox Trio with
Victor Brox
(UK)
Kyla and Dad pic. -Idris)
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Blues in Britain review
18th April
The
Mojo Buford Band
(USA)
with the blues guitar of
Tommy Allen (Wales)
The Chicago Blues Legend
says 'farewell' to his UK fans.
Portrait -Idris
Richards
11th April
Doug MacLeod
(USA)
One man, one guitar, one
outstanding night of music....
Picture -Idris
14th March
The Boo Boo Davis Band
(USA)
A real slice of down-home
Mississippi Blues from 'Boo Boo'.
"Thank You, Dave!"
Picture -Idris Richards
22nd February
Michael Roach
& Johnny Mars (USA)
World-class blues from
the utterly charismatic Roach & Mars ...live music doesn't get any better than
this!
Pic -Idris Richards
25th January
The John
O'Leary Band (IRL)
2007
December 14th
The
Revolutionaires (UK)
'Local hero' John
Watson (R) saves the day when sickness strikes this hard-rocking quartet!
November 23rd
Paul Lamb &
the Kingsnakes
(UK)
Bluesland's
favourite geordies have 'the bbc' jumping!
Click on
thumbnail for Blues
in Britain review.
Picture -Idris
November 2nd
The Two Timers (UK)
Photo -Idris Richards
October 12th -
Kent Duchaine
September 14th -The Grand
Opening!
Memo Gonzales
and the Bluescasters
(USA/Germany/Holland/Turkey)
www.memogonzalez.com
Pic
-Chris Lackey
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thumbnail
for Blues in Britain
review.
April 2007 -'
In the Beginning.....
Three
generations of local blues enthusiasts met to launch 'the bbc'.
This site was last updated
08/14/10
Bronte
Blues
Club
With
an emotional, high-energy outing from
bbc5
who said 'Goodbye' to superb bassist,
'Cool
James' Ferguson.
7th November
Kent
Duchaine
