1/4/10: Tour dates page updated today.

18/3: Solo/Duo Dates pages updated today.

12/2:  BB fans may like to know that in the February edition of Record Collector  there's a feature by John Collis on British Blues, with contributions from Hughie, Paul and Tom. It's Part 1 and Part 2 (next month) has Dave's contribution.

30/4:  Please note that AroneWeb's email address has changed to aroneco(at)yahoo.co.uk

25/9:  Paul Jones & Dave Kelly - "Live at the Ram Jam Club" CD  and "An Evening With" DVD  both now available from the Shop page of this site.

20/9:  SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

On Wednesday 28^th November 2007 The Blues Band will be filming a live DVD at the Fisher Theatre, Broad Street, Bungay, Suffolk. There are a limited number of tickets available for this event and these are being initially offered exclusively to the fans. Tickets may be purchased from the theatre box office at £20.00 per ticket and are available by calling 01986 897130.  By purchasing tickets you will be giving your permission to be filmed.  www.fishertheatre.org

15/8:  See and listen to Steve Winwood, Jeremy Spencer, Paul Jones & Tom McGuinness together at Notodden:
 

http://www.nrk.no/musikk/festival/notodden_bluesfestival/1.3137169

28/7:  Gary Fletcher will be doing a live session and interview on Bob Harris's Radio 2 show tonight.

22/7:  Both The Blues Band and Gary Fletcher in his solo capacity were extremely sorry that due to the extreme flooding they were unable to play the Upton upon Severn festival today.

12/7: Tom McGuinness's two solo CDs, Tom McGuinness and Double Take are now both available to download on ITunes.

10/7:  Paul Green is an old friend of Tom McGuinness's from schooldays. The keen-eyed among you will have noticed his writing credit on the song Fat City on the album of the same same name. He also co-wrote Heading For A Breakdown on Tom's solo cd Double Take.  Paul has just had his first novel The Qliphoth published by Canadian publishers Libros Libertad. It can be ordered through Waterstones or direct from the publishers www.libroslibertad.ca  The writer Iain Sinclair says it is " Straight bladed satire. A word quest launched from the edge-lands of arcane knowledge". Check it out.

7/7:  Gary Fletcher's second solo album, long awaited by many fans, has now been released on the BGO label (BGO CD780) and is available to purchase both in the shops & online via this site, Amazon and many others.  Already featured on Bob Harris's Radio 2 Saturday night show, with an interview & session scheduled with Bob for 28 July, the CD contains 12 tracks and incorporates the talents of Rob Townsend from The Blues Band on drums, John Evans on lead guitar, and Gary's son, Jack Fletcher, on bass.  The album is co-produced by Gary and Bill Gautier, with additional mixing assistance from Dennis Greaves, and also features the superb musicianship of Bernie Marsden & Micky Moody from Whitesnake, Dennis Greaves & Mark Feltham from Nine Below Zero, Paul Jones & Dave Kelly from The Blues Band, Steve Simpson, Lou Stonebridge & Bill Gautier.  Sleeve design is by Bill Smith.  Sound clips will be added to both this site and Gary's own one - www.garyfletchermusic.co.uk - very shortly.

An early review from the Dorset Echo, 6 July 2007: It’s back to the stereo for the last item under the microscope this week, namely the Human Spirit album by Blues Band bassist and mainstay Gary Fletcher. Perhaps less celebrated than some of his more high-profile bandmates, Fletcher has nevertheless been quietly nurturing a rather profound songwriting talent for some years now, and the album is a low-key but absorbing triumph. Using blues music as a jumping-off point, Fletcher deftly avoids any of the stylistic limitations to which the genre is often prone by keeping the melody quotient high and the lyrical content sincere. Like a more credible Mark Knopfler or a more animated J J Cale, this is rootsy fare with impeccably underplayed musicianship, at its most effective on emotive songs such as Solanski’s Knife, about the surgeon who saved Fletcher’s son’s life.

MARCO ROSSI

11/4:  It is with sadness that we announce the demise of the Ready! newsletter which so many BB fans have been receiving in the post over the last 25 years.  To read the final issue, click on the thumbnails below.

3/3: FINALLY ...... apologies for the delay but a new members-only Blues Band forum has now been set up by Judith Rookledge at  www.phpbbplanet.com/thebluesband  Please support Judith's hard work in getting this up & running by posting regularly!!