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Yeeeeeehaaaw!   The UFO Rodeo Band Red Rooster Festival 31 st  May 2024 & 1st June 2024   It had been a long night, with rain generating floods in the roads approaching the Red Rooster festival site.  Campers and the MoHo people were getting their collective act together, steeling themselves for an unseasonably cool day ahead and somebody, anybody had to get the show going again.  Who would be first on stage in the big tent on such a dank Friday at noon? Who had been dealt the Joker from the deck?   “Now it’s time to face the music.  Time to find out how the story ends…” Gavin Bowers dramatically introduced his previously rarely-heard singing voice to the half-awake, half-crowd, as the UFO Rodeo Band confidently grasped the nettle and fired the starting pistol for Friday, setting off at a brisk canter, to pour some much-needed, burning Bourbon down Friday's chilly throat .     After their lively opening number, the band ...

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...

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...