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Vieira and The Silvers -  Live at Red Rooster 2024 Main Stage, 1st June 2024 Saturday, 1 st  June, is day three of the tenth Red Rooster Festival .  The relentless cool breeze has blown in some dry weather and there are people, kids mostly, leaping off the springboard into the Black Bourn that runs through the grounds of Euston Hall.   The woodland ringing the big top holding the main stage, is filled with picnic chairs and tables, beer coolers and the well-insulated festival goers, enjoying life outside without being rained on.  There are a lot of Red Rooster regulars there.  They seem relaxed and easy-going.  The music an essential part of their picnic dining, BBQing, summer cruising and boozing existence. It’s all very suburban and comfortable, all very BBC Radio 2.   Yet, weaving through all the folding chairs and circles of camping music-lovers, putting all that behind me, stepping into the big tent, I discover a buzzing f...

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...

Adamson Reels in The Years CUT TO BLACK - BARRY ADAMSON Album Review by Spencer Ide   Barry Adamson has found his voice and what a voice!  His latest album is a sumptuous collection of image-driven, powerful, self-penned songs, with two co-written by Siena Barnes. A show-reel from an eclectic talent, revealing the too rarely-heard vocal talents of an accomplished musician and composer.  Every track on this album projects series of strong visual images, not least in the opener  The Last Words of Sam Cooke,  which has a little nod in the title (perhaps) to Haydn’s ‘Last Seven Words of Christ’.    This first track is a dramatic script about the demise of one of the greatest song writers, who died in messy circumstances in 1964 at the Hacienda Motel, Los Angeles.  Substance abuse, three gunshots to the chest, accusations of attempted rape and threatening behaviour did little for Cooke’s reputation, at a time when his songs were adding a new dimen...