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Gig review: BRAVE RIVAL- Thames Side Brewery, Staines, 8 December 2024
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Gig review: STRAY- The Cavern, Raynes Park, London, 7 December 2024
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Gig review: GUN – Barrowlands, Glasgow, 14 December 2024
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Gig review: THE DAMN TRUTH – The Grace, London, 26 November 2024
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Gig review: LAZARUS HEIGHTS – The Auditorium, Bassilac, SW France, 7 December 2024
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Album review: RYAN ROXIE – Imagine Your Reality
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Album review: TRIGGERFINGER – Colossus
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Album review : JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR – Heavy Soul
Journeyman Records [Release date 07.06.24] Joanne Shaw Taylor’s ‘Heavy Soul’ is a decent album with a handful of good songs, some fluid guitar playing and moments of intuitive band interplay, but the inclusion of 3 covers and the overall aim … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alison Prestwood, Anton Fig, Beth Neilson Chapman, Bob Clearmountain, Carmen Vandenberg, funk, guitar, Joan Armatrading, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Kenny Gamble, Kevin Shirley, Leon Huff, review, rock, soul, Van Morrison
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Gig review: JOE BONAMASSA – Live Stream, Austin City Limits Live, Austin, Texas – Thursday April 1, 2021
There’s almost an irony about Joe Bonamassa livestream coming from Austin, Texas, which in the late ‘80s was coined ‘live music capital of the world’ by Austin Music Network’s Ronnie Mack, before officially being designated as such in 1991. Quite … Continue reading
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Tagged Anton Fig, Cohen Brothers, gig, Jade Macrae, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Bonamsssa, Led Zeppelin, livestream, Rod Stewart, Ronnie Mack, Steve Mackey, Steve Ray Vaughan, Tom Waits
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Gig review: JOE BONAMASSA – Royal Albert Hall, London, 25 April 2019
It was ten years ago to the very week that Joe Bonamassa took the biggest chance yet of a promising career and played the Royal Albert Hall. As he recounted from the stage on this evening, it proved to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Anton Fig, blues, blues rock, gig, Joe Bonamassa, Michael Rhodes, Reese Wynans, review, Royal Albert Hall
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Album review: JOE BONAMASSA – British Blues Explosion Live
Provogue [Release date 18.05.18] ‘British Blues Explosion Live’ is the latest conceptual vehicle for the prodigiously talented Joe Bonamassa and his constant search for a meaningful context with which to keep the blues alive. Playing to a seated outdoor crowd … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alvin Lee, Anton Fig, blues, Bluesbreakers, British Blues Explosion Live, Cream, Eric Clapton, Free, George Harrison, guitar, Ian Anderson, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Joe Bonamassa, John Martyn, Led Zeppelin, Liverpool, Reese Wynans, review, Robert Plant, rock, Rod Stewart, Rory Gallagher, Russ Irwin, Steve Winwood, The Cavern, The Yardbirds
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Album review: JOE BONAMASSA – Live At The Greek Theatre
Provogue [Release date 23.10.16] CD/DVD/Bluray The key element in Joe Bonamassa’s ‘Live at the Greek Theatre’ DVD/CD release is his integral role in ‘blues heritage’ music, as reflected in the DVD’s strap line ‘Keeping The Blues Alive’. The broad based … Continue reading
Gig review: JOE BONAMASSA – Clyde Auditorium, Glasgow, 3 July 2016
Without doubt Joe Bonamassa is one of the biggest blues stars in the world at the moment. Over the last few years he has grown a large and very loyal following who turn out in numbers whenever he rolls into … Continue reading
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Tagged 3rd July 2016, Anton Fig, blues, british blues explosion, Clyde Auditorium, Eric Clapton, gig, Glasgow, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Joe Bonamassa, Led Zeppelin, live, Mike Rhodes, Reese Wynans, review, Russ Irwan
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Gig review: JOE BONAMASSA, Brighton Centre, Brighton, 30 October 2015
And so to Joe Bonamassa in Brighton, on the Mascot magical mystery tour bus, with a stick of rock in my hand, blues in my veins, refreshments close to hand and ear plugs at the ready. The mystery is simply wondering … Continue reading
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Tagged Anton Fig, Big Boy Bloater, Brinsley Schwarz, Catfish, gig, guitar, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Bonamassa, Lee Puddefoot, Lee Thornburn, Leslie West, Mark Hughes, Mathhew Long, Michael Rhodes, Paul Long, Peter Noble, Reese Wynans, review, Shantih Lata, Steve Marsh, Walter Trout
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Album review: ERIC JOHNSON MIKE STERN – Eclectic
Eric Johnson Mike Stern – Eclectic Heads Up [Released 10.11.14] Not so much ‘Eclectic’ as simply exhilarating, the pairing of blues-rock guitarist Eric Johnson and jazz fusion guitarist Mike Stern may not have generated a lot of new material (Stern for … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Anton Fig, blues, Chris Maresh, Christopher Cross, Eclectic, Eric Johnson, funk, fusion, guitar, jazz, Leni Stern, Malford Milligan, Mike Stern, review, rock
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Gig review: JOE BONAMASSA – Royal Albert Hall, London, 30 March 2013
Having spent the best part of a year planning this four-gig, four-set and four-band career retrospective, Joe Bonamassa was entitled to look a little weary after completing his London residency, performed to a grand total of 14,000 people. Given tonight’s … Continue reading
