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Thursday Night Blues Red Rooster Festival 2024 30th May 2024 Robert Finley,  daughter Christy Johnson and band. Rain water turning grass to mud Canvas pulled by the gale The music's beautiful  But it's still coming down These boots were made for water They won't disappoint But they're getting heavy With the mud they collect But people keep on dancing Gathered tight in the big top Listening to Robert Finley's gospel He preaches, Never stop!   ~ Good advice from the Sharecroppers' Son . What a showman! And if he walks the talk, what an appetite! Listen to Robert Finley's latest Black Bayou recorded with the man from The Black Keys, Dan Auerbach.  I will be back at Red Rooster for the noon start today...it's still raining here. :( Spencer Ide Euston Hall, Suffolk 31st May 2024

Red  Rooster 2024 Weather Ain't Nothing to Crow About I woke up last night Cursing the rain Wind howling through my curtains  Temperature down Weatherman looked happy He'll have plenty to say No two hours the same Let alone three days I'll be heading there soon Got my tent and waterproofs Heading to Thetford With my Wellington boots ~ Yep, Red Rooster '24 , The UK's biggest and best blues and Americana festival, held in the grounds of Euston Hall , Suffolk, near Thetford.  The festival runs from this evening, 30th May through to the night of 1st June, 2024 . Some of the big name artists and bands performing include, William Bell , Asleep At The Wheel , Robert Finlay , North Mississippi Allstars and Muireann Bailey and the beautifully bizarre,  Bob Log III .  William Bell, is a huge catch for this year's festival. He is writer of many, many hits, such as Born Under A Bad Sign and Private Number. He will be performing with Take Me To The River. Here is one of W...

The Big Gig Santiago & The Soulmovers and Mississippi MacDonald Dereham Memorial Hall, Saturday  25 th  May 2024 Santiago & The Soulmovers, Dereham Memorial Hall. (c)CLP   Absolutely chucking it down.  Branches breaking under the combined weight of foliage and very heavy rain.  Perfect for the drive out through flooding, via a phantom road diversion, to Dereham for an evening of blues.   Arriving slightly frazzled by the evening’s journey, I really needed to hear something to relax me, soothe my worried mind and slow me down.  Thankfully, I found it within the comforting confines of Dereham’s picture-book Memorial Hall.   Mississippi MacDonald strolled on stage in a classic black showman’s suit with shiny seams, with mighty fancy lapels, wide as a Concorde delta wing and just as aerodynamic.  He strapped on his Fender CS ’61 as he greeted the audience with a Londoner’s  “Good evening, ladies’n’gennelmen. ...

The Big Gig: Santiago and The Soulmovers with Mississippi MacDonald At the Dereham Memorial Hall,  Saturday 25 th   May 2024  Doors at 19:00h Show Starts 20:00h Tickets £17 each Presented by Norfolk Blues Society  Every blues and music fan in the country, will be crossing off the weeks until the 10 th   Dereham Blues Festival  that runs 10 th   / 11 th   / 12 th   / 13 th   and 14 th   July, but for me that seems a way off yet.    So, this  weekend, on Saturday 25 th   May , to help keep everyone going and to give a foretaste of what's to come, the Norfolk Blues Society has laid on the Big Gig at the Dereham Memorial Hall . A thriller of a double bill of blues is lined up, with Santiago and The Soulmovers and Mississippi MacDonald .   Santiago and his compadres, The Soulmovers, Juan Gasco (drums) and Thanos Papageorgiou (bass) went down an absolute storm at the 2023 Dereham Blues Festival and are comin...

Similarly Feathered Avians Fly Together Gig Review:  Murmurations   Norwich Puppet Theatre:  16 th  May 2024 Bumping into some well-known musical folk outside Voodoo Daddy’s on my way home after this gig, I was asked my opinion of Murmurations ’ performance at Norwich Puppet Theatre .   “I can see them one day, playing a sold-out concert at the South Bank Centre.  They are quite different and they are that good!”  was my gut response. Murmurations, Norwich Puppet Theatre 16th May 2024. Photographer TBA I had just heard a most a beautiful set of original compositions and was still held in the moment.  This morning, in the cold light of day, I hold firm on that opinion, although I acknowledge the journey from Norwich Puppet Theatre next the Wensum, to the Royal Festival Hall by the Thames is a bit of a leap. However, for this group, it is not a bridge too far to imagine.   Everyone in the audience was enthralled. Sober supporters of ...

Songs of Alienation Pared to the Bone   Richard Hawley ‘In This  City  They Call You  Love ’ New Album Review   Release Date 31 st  May 2024 on  BMG It took a few plays to appreciate the new Richard Hawley album, ‘In This  City  They Call You  Love ’   which is released by  BMG on 31 st  May 2024.  You'll need to be in a certain emotional state to get the most from this album.  Initially it comes across as cruise-ship-lounge music, possibly to be played before the second sitting for dinner is called.  In the round, this is a pleasant listening experience. By the close of the last track, you will have heard the singer-songwriter employ all his talents to good effect, as well as ghostly echoes of some of pop music's greatest male voices: Presley, Cash, Orbison. Hawley sets off with a wheel-spin screech of guitar, for the opening track and single cut For His Heels  before recounting tales i...

VOTE PEDRO DANGER Interview with Pedro Danger: Bass Player; Guitarist; Singer. The live music scene in Norwich and Great Yarmouth is hotting up.  After being locked into the chrysalids of bedrooms, apartments, shared houses and student halls, a whole new generation of Norfolk musicians has emerged.  There is so much going on locally it is hard to keep track.   The Norfolk-based musicians who used lockdowns to experiment, learn new instruments and fine-tune their skills, are now out and about, playing an almost overwhelming quantity and quality of music.  Naturally some spread their wings and headed to London, but others have returned after finding the capital too expensive, not to their taste, or less collaborative than they knew Norwich to be.   For example, this past month I have been made aware of a flock of women musicians calling themselves  Murmurations  who are bringing an angelic, harmonious element to the local contemporary musi...