After the excitement and crackling atmosphere of the last two weeks we’ve arrived at the annual post TT slump.
The island is quiet and tranquil once again, well almost! There are a few bands still forging ahead this weekend after their recent busy period.
Borderline continue where they left off with their relentless TT schedule by making appearances at The Creek in Peel on Friday and The Railway in Douglas on Saturday.
The band state that their influences range from Rock’n’Roll, Rhythm’n’Blues, Fifties Rockabilly, New Orleans R’n’B, Psychobilly, Country and Western Swing, Sixties Soul, Chicago Blues, Texas Jump, Swamp Blues and Delta Blues. Their musical influences come from the likes of Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Robert Cray, Albert King, B.B. King, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Jerry Lee Lewis, Moon Mullican, Little Walter, Robert Johnson, T-Bone Walker and Ray Charles. The band’s Facebook page is: www.facebook.com/pages/Borderline/578145575594045
9 Mile Smile are another band that have been notching up the gigs recently and are certainly doing well for it. The band is made up by vocalist Angela Wells, guitarists Graham Smith and Grant Evans, bassist Lewis Thompson and Johnny Wade on drums.
They specialise in covers from the likes of anything from the now ubiquitous Kings Of Leon and Stereophonics to Blondie and Michael Jackson via Amy Winehouse and Aretha Franklin.
Quite a mix and well worth seeing as what they do, they certainly do well.
The band appear at Jaks Bar in Douglas on Friday night. For more information on the band and any further dates, please visit www.facebook.com/9MileSmile
For anyone who had planned on attending the forthcoming Matt Creer show due to take place at the Centenary Centre in Peel this Saturday, sadly it has been announced that the show will now not be going ahead.
Matt will however still open the show the following Saturday at the same venue as support to Anxo Lorenzo.
Further information on the Centenary Centre website.
There isn’t much that I can say about Davy Knowles that hasn’t already been said many times over.
This time however it’s his turn as he has been writing a travel/tour blog while on his current trek across the States as part of the George Thorogood/Brian Setzer tour and it’s well worth a read. Please visit www.davyknowles.com/blog
Thanks for reading and I’ll see you next week.