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Future of the Blues Festival 2007 |
Part 2 |
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Portcullis
Fishponds Sept 1st & 2nd |
Click on the band name below to see photo's |
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Saturday |
Sunday |
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Electric Super Mud |
Steve Payne |
| Jon Amor |
Loose Change |
| Hollowbone |
The Bonevilles |
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The Cedars |
Chris Scott BluesDevil |
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South London Pistons |
Uncensored |
| Jay Tamkin & the Crackers |
Mean Red Spiders |
| Vulnerable Things |
Hollowbone Acoustic |
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Having attended a number of blues jams at the
Portcullis in
Fishponds, I think that I can give you the formula for successful
musician based events. Hollow bone are blues duo Yanu Zsigo & Damien
Cheung pictured on the right. They are highly competent performers
that have won the respect of the musicians that attend these events
and this is the first requirement as organisers. |
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The second is the ability to run and
control such events with confidence and humour. Yanu does this
extremely well. They are also lucky to have the support of the
landlord and landlady of a well run pub, the Portcullis. Well done
Steve& Arlene for supporting live music in the way that you have! |
This was supposed to be an outdoor event and the
stage was set. Unfortunately the council objected to the event two
days before it was set to go leaving no time to appeal, so the event
was staged inside. A big #uck you to the officious council
pricks that did this, especially when you bear in mind that a pub
just down the road has been hosting regular outdoor Sunday live
music all year.
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first Future of the Blues festival was born. I was only able to
attend the first part of Sunday so I asked around some of the
audience that had weekend tickets about how things went on Saturday.
The general opinion was that the event was as good as it could be.
Top bands, a friendly crowd, excellent venue and Yanu & Damien on
top form. All those that I asked said that they will be at the next
fest. |
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Mean Red Spiders - Traditional blues that got the
crowd dancing. |
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A carnivore masterpiece. This hog took 9 hours to
roast! I am a veg head & had a packet of crisps. |
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Steve introduces Hollow Bone on Saturday night. |
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Hollow Bone on top form playing an acoustic set. |
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| Yanu |
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Damien |
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"Yanu takes a well earned break..." |
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Yanu's mate Prakash came "All the way from Santa Fe" to the festival
and got up to jam with Hollowbone on Sunday. |
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Hollow Bone opened the festival with an acoustic set on Sunday and
had a few guests up to do a mini jam ... |
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MORE PHOTO'S TO FOLLOW |
