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New Biographies and Gallery pictures

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Gig News: Swansea Gig List July 2008 + New York City USA (major gig list)

Tour News: The Animals 'Unleashed and Acoustic' Autumn 2008 Tour, venues and festivals can book direct from Slim's Blues email or call more for details Bowden & Williamson (The Animals & Roach Twins) Acoustic duo dates available December 2008 February 2009 contact for more details.

Reviews: Buddy Whittington CD 'Solo' (Bob Williams)

New Biographies: Bowden & Williamson, The Animals & Animal & Friends

News: By using Slim's Blues as a listing site your advert is constantly on the home page many freebie magazines (the exception Feedback which I contribute) are discarded after one read and you are usually stuck on the back pages! so why not use us for your festivals, venues, music shops and for artist PR, this is free if you are an associate or for a small fee you can get home page listing + a special newsletter inclusion which will be read by at least 2000 readers email for details and fees

We can guarantee many 1000's of readers will see your advert at local national & international level

New Biographies: Over 30 to check out, more going on weekly! New Reviews: also New Gallery pics: Buddy Whittington & Bowden & Williamson (The Animals & The Roach Twins)

check out Information Page: Book your artists and bands for 2009 festivals & gigs now!  many of the artists on Slim's Blues are in high demand through out the year - and they also have European commitments.

If there is an artist/band you need,and they are not on Slim's Blues  Email or Call us for more details we have 100's of contacts all over the UK & Europe with a 24 hour reply!

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            11th - 13th July 2008 Cilycwm Llandovery

Gŵyl Cenhedloedd Bychain, dathliad o gerddoriaeth Cymru a chenhedloedd bychain eraill. Cewch brofi cerddoriaeth ryfeddol o Gymru a bedwar ban byd mewn lleoliad dymunol.

 The Small Nations Festival, a celebration of the music of Wales and other small nations.Here you will find the best of Welsh and International music in all its wonderful variety, all packed into one week-end in the most idyllic setting. This is, and will remain, a small festival with a total capacity of 1500.

BEDOUIN JERRY CAN BAND , BELLEVUE RENDEZVOUS , CHAOS THEORY , EMBER , FFLUR DAFYDD , FFYNNON , HELEN ADAM , JOHNNY ACTION FINGER , JUDITH SILVER , LITTLE GEORGE SUEREF , LONDON BULGARIAN CHOIR , LONGITAL , LOWRI EVANS , N'FALY KOUYATE , ONE VOICE , POT BOILERS , RADIO LUXEMBURG RUMBEROS DE CUBA , SAMBA GALEZ , SIAN JAMES , SICKNOTE , SWCI BOSCAWEN , TERNE ČHAVE , YUCATAN  :       

Next Gig : Terry Clarke (King of the 12 string)

 Friday 18th July

The Alleyrat Blues Club

Cheltenham

has been set up to raise money for local charities and is held on the Last Friday of every month. The Alleyrat Blues Club aims to be a small friendly club with atmosphere bringing you top blues bands from all over the country.

Next Gig: Big Mammas Door Friday 30th September

The Abertillery Blues Festival is back for it‘s fourth year with a world class line up and will be held over three days from Thursday 17th July to Friday 19th July 2008.

The main events on the Friday and Saturday will be held under a marquee in the beautiful setting of Abertillery Park, this year’s festival sees the same successful mix of Welsh, British and American Blues.
The festival has become one of the biggest Blues events in Wales and this year its going to be even bigger, one of the most popular and exciting live rhythm and blues acts in the UK, Dr Feelgood will headline the Friday evening. Also performing on Friday, the 21st Century blues man with his harrowing guitar work – Ian Parker. Voted best UK female voice for 5 separate years by Blues in Britain – Connie Lush and last but not least the distinctive and exciting music by Storm Warning.

On the Saturday evening we have Robert Cray coming to Abertillery Park, this American Blues artist rocks, wails and plunges way down to the bottom of the blues well and is unlike anything you have heard before. Cray has won 5 Grammy’s for his soulful vocal and instrumental artistry, he has also played at the Royal Albert Hall opening a gig for Eric Clapton himself. They have played more than a thousand gigs across the world. His second album Bad Influence shot to number one in the UK indie charts while Eric Clapton paid tribute to his colleague by covering the title song. He has recorded with the Rolling Stones, B B King, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Chuck Berry, Bonnie Raitt along with other giants – this is a performance you would not want to miss!!

Supporting Robert Cray on the Saturday night, a fantastic line up of International Blues artists. Opening the stage the Tyler Brown Band who has been playing their individual brand of blues music around the country for the past three years. Stunningly singular talent of American blues artist, Samuel James. The Hard Travellers, this band has a fantastic line up which includes Dave Sharpe (The Alarm), Henry McCullough (Wings & Joe Cocker), Colin Allen (Dylan & Stone the Crows), Zoot Money (Animals & Big Roll Band), Gary Fletcher (The Blues Band). Last but not least Jon Cleary will also be performing.

The Big Cheese Festival 25th-27th July 2008 Caerphilly Wales

Set in the shadows of one of Europe's largest Castles the town of Caerphilly comes to life as people of all ages come to The Big Cheese, an extravaganza of street entertainers, living history encampments, music, dance, traditional funfair, folk dancing, falconry, fire eating, minstrels, troubadours and much more. The Big Cheese is a 'must see' attraction for all visitors. Portraying the history, heritage and culture of Caerphilly, the 2007 event attracted over 70,000 people. Families from all over the country flocked to Caerphilly to experience this fun filled programme of activities and entertainment. The Big Cheese weekend is a FREE event and over 80,000 people are expected in 2008, just click on one the links to the left to find out more.

Featuring roots music from some of Wales finest blues and folk artists including blues band J44, the delta blues sounds of The Revelators and Welsh folk language artist Lowri Evans Just head for the music tent and immerse yourself in some traditional chilled out blues and roots.   

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The SalisburyRock & Blues Club Walter Rd Swansea

From the ashes of the former Tawe Delta Club, comes The Salisbury Rock & Blues Club. You can see & hear local, national and International artists every Tuesday night. Promoter Clive John, former Man & By Standers keyboard player.  'This is the home of the blues in South Wales, and always a great night of music  and fantastic atmosphere'

                                  (Inset picture Jon Amor)

In the eighties Cardiff born Little George decided to make London his home and from there he began to build a solid reputation as a dedicated Blues & Soul man. His love for down-home blues included the likes of Jimmy Reed, Snooky Pryor, J.B. Hutto & Muddy Waters, not to mention some of the great soul blues artists like Johnnie Taylor, Clay Hammond & Sam Cooke. After sometime he joined forces with the like minded & wonderful 'Big Joe Louis & His Blues Kings' and very quickly they became well known as being one of the toughest blues teams around. Whilst paying his dues as Big Joe's Harp player touring all over the world, he also featured as a vocalist and soon became known as one of the U.K.'s finest and unusual blues singers and not surprisingly began running his own band as well as playing with Big Joe and then went on to win the 'Blueprint' magazine "Harp Player Of The Year" award 3 times.

Playing The Small Nations Festival Cilycwm Llandovery Sunday 13th July 4.30pm

gtfm present  the blues show every Monday Night Between 10pm & 12 midnight   the best blues in Wales

tune into Bob and Norm who present the Blues Show on GTFM 107.9, in South Wales and LIVE on World-Wide Web, every Monday from 10 to midnight. They play the best in Blues, from Delta to Chicago to London to Texas. Blues Show Bob says: 'We feature anyone playing Blues music well on our show. We are comfortable with playing music from pub bands alongside International megastars. It's the commitment that is most important. We all need to keep promoting this wonderful music.' A recent development for the Blues Show is the number of artists keen to come to the studio to record live sets. In recent months, we've welcomed Hamilton Loomis, Derrin Nauerndorf, Ian Parker, The Boogie Men, Brazilian Big Gilson, Sherman Robertson, Ian Siegal, Dave Arcari, The Spikedrivers, Rob Tognoni, Racing Cars, Aynsley Lister, Steve Arvey and local sensations Blue Traffic to our studio Many well-known names - including Krissy Matthews, Danny Bryant, Sean Webster, Jack The Biscuit, Claire Simone, Stevie Finn and SJ3 are queuing to record for us in coming months

The Real McCoy

 Delta Blues at it's Most Authentic!

New CD 'Betrayal Blues'

title track being played on GTFM Mon 31st March 2008

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