Date

Band

Genre

Start

Fee

September 2010

Sat 11th	Norman Beaker Band		7.30pm	£10 - members £8
Based in the UK in Stockport, near Manchester, they regularly appear on radio and television, play all over Europe and make records. Currently doubling as Chris Farlowe's Band, they are on tour in the UK and throughout Europe this year. They have also been chosen by Van Morrison to appear as Special Guests on his current UK tour. Other artists they have worked with over the years reads like a 'Who's Who' of Rock and R'n'B and include: Chuck Berry, Graham Bond, Jack Bruce, Lowell Fulson, Peter Green, Buddy Guy, Paul Jones, BB King, Alexis Korner, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Louisiana Red, Fenton Robinson… the list is endless.

November 2010

Sat 6th

The Worried Men

7.30pm

£7 - members £5

December 2010

Fri 3rd	Matt Schofield		7.30pm	£15 - members £13
British Bluesman Matt Schofield is widely regarded as one of the most distinctive and innovative guitarists to have emerged on the world scene for several generations. He is rated in the top ten British blues guitarists of all time (Guitar & Bass Magazine) putting him in the company of such iconic names as Eric Clapton and Peter Green.

Sat 11th	Eddie Martin		7.30pm	£10, members £8
Born in London in the 60's British Blues Boom, Eddie Martin turned professional after being nominated for Best British Blues Guitarist, Band and Album between 1996 and 1998. Since then he has played or recorded with many greats from both sides of the Atlantic, including John Mayall, Peter Green, Buddy Guy, and Taj Mahal. A master acoustic and electric guitarist, harmonica player, songwriter and powerful singer, Eddie Martin has been described as "the most remarkable blues man of his generation" by Blues in Britain. On the electric, his forbears are Freddy King, Albert King and Buddy Guy, as, for example, "The Times" has noted. His guitar-playing alone has seen his CD work commended by the Guitar Press around Europe, receiving "excellent" tags from "Guitar" in the UK and "Guitar and Bass" in Germany. Most strikingly innovative is the simultaneous rack harmonica and guitar style that he has developed and which caused the International Harmonica Federation to single him out as one of the innovators on the instrument at the World Harmonica Festival in Germany.

January 2011

Sat 8th	Virgil and the Accelerators		7.30pm	£10 - members £8
With a 15 year old schoolboy drummer Gabriel McMahon, a 16 year old bass player Tom Sansbury (who is at Music College) and the fiery 17 year old Virgil McMahon on guitar, Virgil & The Accelerators is a young band on the up escalator. Hailing from Aberystwyth mid-Wales and with barely handful high profile supports behind them Virgil &The Accelerators have seemingly come out of nowhere to make a big impression. Ostensibly a power trio and fronted by Virgil, a guitarist for whom tone, sustain, dynamics and spontaneity count just as much as speed and volume, Virgil and his band are so much more than many of their contemporaries. Come to think of it, they are so young they probably don’t have too many contemporaries let alone any that can boast opening for the likes of The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Carvin Jones and Sherman Robertson.