Blues Club Website

[marky49]

Check out the line up here:

http://fessingauthor.blogspot.co.uk/

....I've seen Blues Club. This is certainly the most authentic blues music you'll find in London, with a serious blues music muso audience to match who are almost as entertaining to watch as the band. The line up is extraordinary with a founding member of Dire Straits on bass; a guitarist best known for his stints with Paul McCartney and The Pretenders; an ex Mark Knopfler drummer; Mark Knopfler's keyboard player who's played with Knopfler since joining Dire Straits for the Brothers In Arms album; the Jews harp player from Medicine Head (I used to love them!). Topping it all off at the front is the deep, rich, soulful sound of The Blessing William Topley on vocals listen and read about them here.

William Topley - Vocals
Guy Fletcher - Keyboards
Robbie McIntosh - Guitar
Danny Cummings - Drums
Peter Hope-Evans - Mouth Organ and Jews Harp
John Illsley - Bass

[Pottel]

Wow..glad he was not " accepted" for the straits line up 

[superval99]

Just noticed!   John Illsley in the Blues Club Band - wonderful!     

[ingridswing]

Will see them this weekend 

[twm]

We will definitely not be attending the Troubadour gig. We already have two other things on that day, including one that could be quite strenuous,  and I believe that, in the traditional arrangement for the Troubadour on a Saturday night, this gig is likely to go on until the early hours of Sunday morning. You''ll get value for money, I'm sure, but not if, like us, you feel like going to sleep. "Enjoy yourselves, it's later than you think".

[ingridswing]

It's a pity but a good guess: see you next year 

[knopflerized]

I wanted to come, but no chance to find a last minute (cheap) flight...

Have fun my friends !!

[ingridswing]

It really was a great show, how could it be different with this line-up? The stage in the pub was really small so no pictures because it was filled up with all the musicians. And lack of light as well. Had a nice chat before and after the gig with Danny and a short chat with Guy after the gig. The other musicians, before the main show of BluesClub were really good as well. Max Fletcher really has a good voice!

Worth the travel in my opinion!

[twm]

And did it go on well past midnight?

[ingridswing]

Yes very well, even more energy on stage at the end of the gig.

[twm]

Thanks, ingridswing.

I used to go to The Troubadour a little bit in the mid-1960s, usually to the late-night sessions that began at 10.30 p.m. and went on to whenever people wanted to finish. I would guess 1.30 a.m. or maybe 2.00 a.m.  Another music place in Central London around that time was "Les Cousins" (supposedly taken from the French but always pronounced as though English) and it used to run Saturday night sessions that began at 11.00 p.m. or midnight and ran right through to the very early hours of Sunday morning (around the time the tube trains started up). The good thing about both arrangements was that all sorts of performers, who had completed their contracted Saturday evening performances elsewhere in London, would turn up for a late-night bash. You just never knew who would be there.