This
was the first concert of the year for Sue and me. I had always wanted to go to
a show at the Eel Pie club, a quite famous rhythm and blues place from the 60s in Twickenham, UK.
They only do shows at this place every other Thursday. We arrived about 25mins
before they start the show at 21 and got a beer. No real English beers at all
on tap or in the fridge, a shame.
The
Blues Club is made up of a lot of local guys including the drummer and keyboard
player from Dire Straits (Guy Fletcher and Danny Cummings), William Topley (The
Blessing) on vocals, Robbie McIntosh (Pretenders, Paul McCartney) on guitar,
Peter Hope-Evans (Pete Townshend) on harmonicas and jews harp. Alan Rogan played the bass.
The
place was about 60% full and pretty packed around the upper floor of the bar.
There were some young kids that were totally into it but overall it was an over
60 crowd!! The band played two sets of about an hour each, mixing blues
classics with a few originals. The first set was mostly all short tracks
3-4mins long and not a lot of smiling and joking around but the 2nd
set opened up with a Canned Heat track and that got the place really going and
they had a lot more fun with this set and did a lot more solos on all the
instruments. Guy also played a lot of lap steel and fewer keyboards. Peter was
very dominant on the harmonica though, sometimes too much. Just one song with
out massive harmonica for every moment would have been nice. Great version of the classic song called
44.. It was a fun night and a few local
stars showed up like Pete French (Leafhound) and Mick Avery (The Kinks) as
well. Fun night… All pictures by Jennifer Noble. Thanks.
No comments:
Post a Comment