So, a new era has begun! With the onset of the new band with Harry on the pristine clean drum–kit, we can now start work on the long awaited new album! Mike Thorburn went out with a bang on his last gig at the ‘Cally’ in Carlisle. Have a good rest lad, & enjoy your Jack, Jim & Johnny!
Musically, the band belongs mostly in the blues, maybe not the old-style American down home type, where you sit on the veranda, kick the dog etc. etc. but certainly electric blues typified by the early Mayall & Clapton era. Along with original compositions off their latest album, 'Why the Long Face', the band play their own arrangements of such classics as 'Sweet home Chicago', ‘Key to Love’ and ‘Baby Please Don’t Go’. In fact, they try to really 'liven up the old place'! And with Roz blowing up a storm on her Alto Saxophone the band certainly has a different feel to most of the bands on the 'blues' circuit, and many venues have commented on this very fact! The blues 'duels' between Olly & Roz are assuming legendary status up & down this old sceptered isle. Sometimes the referee has to step in to stop them getting out of hand!! Plus the new up-market rhythm section of Stephen ‘Harry’ Harrison and Rockin' Eddie Chicken (Carlisle Utd Season Ticket Holder) giving it severe ‘welly’ at the back of the band, the old speakers certainly get a harsh wake-up call on every gig!
Experience is there in abundance, but also vitality, and most importantly, 'feel'. So don’t just sit there! Get yourself moving, either to one of the gigs round the country, or perhaps you might ‘extractum digitum’ and order one or many C.D’s from our back catalogue.