You always know what you are going to get from a King Pleasure and the Biscuit Boys concert – slick presentation skills, feel-good jump jive, blues, boogie-woogie and soul songs.
Add together one of the best-known songbooks of the past 500 years and a support slot from one of the country’s finest acoustic guitarists, and you have all of the ingredients for a memorable concert.
This newly formed trio led by guitarist Fred ’T’ Baker treated an attentive audience to a showcase of complicated instrumentals that ranged from atonal noise bombs, to solo classical guitar pastiches.
The title of this musical evening made it sound a bit like maybe a programme of tired oldies Shawaddywaddy-style – but refreshingly this was no tired tribute act.
With a repertoire of popular songs and a stage act honed through more than 30 years of playing together, The Sleaze Brothers gave their large audience a good time at the Guildhall.
His day job involves playing fiddle for folk-rock super-group Fairport Convention, but Ric Sanders was allowed much freer rein when he appeared with his trio at Lichfield Guildhall.
Ricky Cool and the In-Crowd took their enthusiastic fans back to the swinging Flamingo Club – a sixties hot-spot famed for its nights of flamboyance, glamour and music that fused blues, jazz, ska and reggae together.
