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THE ANNUAL ROCK’N’BLUES FESTIVAL AT BUTLINS, SKEGNESS TAKING PLACE OVER THE WEEKEND OF 28-31 JANUARY 2011
BUTLINS ARE PROUD TO BRING YOU THE ANNUAL ROCK’N’BLUES FESTIVAL AT BUTLINS, SKEGNESS TAKING PLACE OVER THE WEEKEND OF 28-31 JANUARY 2011. ONE OF THE UK’S PREMIER ROCK’N’BLUES EVENTS IS CRAMMED WITH MUSIC IN THREE VENUES ON THE EAST COAST OF ENGLAND. SEE THE ADVERT ON PAGE 3 of Blues Matters magazine FOR HEADLINERS BUT HERE ARE MORE ACTS YOU CAN SEE AT THIS POPULAR EVENT; Dr. Feelgood, The Hamsters, Climax Blues Band, Lorraine Crosby, Girlschool, Taste …………………………………….
Don’t forget the acclaimed Blues Matters stage in JAKS which this year features: Green Mac, Idle Hands, Dale Storr Band, Clare Free Band, Elephant Shelf, Larry Miller, Delta Ladies and Babajack and of course the now legendary Saturday afternoon JAM with Gary Boner and Roadhouse. Reason enough to come along on it’s own!
butlins 2011
butlins 2011
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Yorkshire Blues Festival Mayday weekend 30th April to 2nd May 2011
Yorkshire Blues Festival Mayday weekend 30th April to 2nd May 2011
Yorkshire Blues Festival
BLUES MATTERS PODCASTS & Radio
A new feature just started on Bluesmatters.com is Podcasting, already featured are the Rev Peyton’s Big Damn band who got a plug for their UK tour and their album ‘The Wages’; a stunning interview with R&B legend Georgie Fame may be up and available by the time you read this. Negotiations are under way for a feature on Jools Holland, and
fast rising UK band Hokie Joint are also in line. Gary Boner & Danny Gwylim of Roadhouse are in line for a feature on Roadhouse past and present and there are lots of exciting projects in the pipeline. How do you get to hear it? Go to
www.bluesmatters.com and click the icon. It’s just starting and readers and friends of BM will be getting regular email updates on what’s happening as we develop it.
Russ Tippins Electric Band Debut Album Electrickery
Russ Tippins
Bluesworks by Earl Klatzel – new revised website
Bluesworks by Earl Klatzel – new revised website
the golden age of Blues Bluesworks
Sunday 7th November – Roadhouse, plus support, launch their new CD,Dark Angel at the Boom Boom Club Suton FC, Gander Green Lane……check out details on Top promoter Pete Feenstra's Website http://www.feenstra.co.uk/
I’m delighted to announce that our new CD, Dark Angel has now been completed and is on schedule for release in the first week of November:
Amazingly with a few demo MP3 tracks whizzing about, it has been playe in Canada, The USA (Kansas and Altlanta) and Essex. Some achievement for a CD that has not been released yet.
Cover art is once again by all time acclaimed CD cover artist, the legendary Vaughan Oliver. So you are not just buying a CD, you are buying a piece of collectible art.
Listen to the title track:
Sunday 7th November – Roadhouse, plus support, launch their new CD,Dark Angel at the Boom Boom Club Suton FC, Gander Green Lane……check out details on Top promoter Pete Feenstra’s Website:
Gary Boner
Five years since the Licensing Act came into force, and no sign of a let up for live music.
Five years since the Licensing Act came into force, and no sign of a let up for live music.
Earlier this year the government revealed in answers to questions from Lord Colwyn that only about 25% of bars and restaurants could lawfully host live music (because they don’t have authorisation for ‘entertainment facilities’):
But many councils still treat the minority of venues where live music is legal as potential sources of mayhem, crime and disorder. Consider this premises licence condition for a venue in Brent:
‘… Live bands and solo musicians may not perform on the premises unless 14 days written notice is provided to the police licensing officer and the police licensing officer have given his/her prior written approval for the performance to take place…’
Or this criminal prosecution of a pub by Dacorum Borough Council for not having their windows closed while jazz was being played:
These are just two of many examples reported by campaigner John King on The Publican’s ‘Listen Up!’ Facebook page – where the pub trade campaigns for more live music:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=141223114767&ref=ts#!/group.php?gid=141223114767&v=wall&ref=ts
The impression is that councils and nimby local residents would rather promote the sale of alcohol than the playing of innocuous live music. And that is indeed what happened to a Dorset Tea house earlier this month:
The irony is that the social and economic cost of alcohol abuse to local authorities and the police must exceed by several orders of magnitude the cost of occasional noise nuisance enforcement against live music.
For a new and up-to-date investigation into the shrinking infrastructure for live music as a consequence of entertainment licensing, see the ‘Three Rivers Case Study’ link on the Live Music Forum website: www.livemusicforum.co.uk
It would seem that none of the area’s 34 restaurants can legally host live music.
Hamish Burchil