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The
Next Gigs
Saturday 13th
March 2010
The
Yardbirds Club
Church
Street
Grimsby
DN32 7DD
Booking Tel: 07771520374
http://www.myspace.com/yardbirdsrockclub
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Wednesday
17th
March
The
Malt Shovel Tavern
121
Bridge St
Northampton, NN1 1QF
01604 234 212
www.maltshoveltavern.com
More gig information on The
Gigs page
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Carlisle Blues Festival
Blues in Britain has written a review
of the festival and although Storm Warning only get 4 lines, they are
very nice lines so our thanks go to the reviewer Norma Victor. Alan
White from the Early Blues website www.earlyblues.com
(it's not just early blues and its a great site) took some pictures, see
below. To see more pictures of Storm Warning and other artists at
Carlisle click
here
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Another good northern based blues website reviewed the Carlisle
Festival. Blues in the North West website www.bluesinthenorthwest.com
This is what Lionel Ross said about Storm Warning;
Saturday Evening: The evening session was opened by Storm Warning,
another relatively unknown band, who significantly enhanced their
reputation with a beautifully delivered set. The fine, husky vocals of
Steve Norchi were enhanced by Bob ‘Mad Dog’ Moore on guitar and a
highly effective rhythm section of Derek White on bass guitar, Roger
Willis on drums and keyboard player, Ian Salisbury.
Storm Warning's comment: Not sure we would agree with 'relatively unknown
band' bit but it's all relative as Lionel said - compared to the Beatles
or The Rolling Stones, we guess we are. Anyway thanks to Lionel for the
very nice words. Steve's 'husky vocals' was due to him having a cold but
suits the Blues.
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Digital Blues Awards
Storm Warning have been awarded an award for
'Best Album of the Year' from Digital Blues. They also came third in the 'Best
Band'
To see a the list of winners and other blues
info visit; www.digitalblues.co.uk |
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Something
Real
Something
Real is getting plays on US internet and to air radio and the
band are expecting reviews in the US press and on US websites soon.
The first review is on the All About Jazz website (blues as well). www.allaboutjazz.com
To go direct to the All About Jazz website page with the review click
here
We understand that a band from Russia are
going to be playing ‘Bullets’ in their live set and this will be
interesting to hear if they ever record it. Here’s part of their
message to us;
Sergey from Samara
Blues club says;
The music from your album "Breaking Out" is so crasy
bluesy! (Sorry for my English ) And the first song - Bullets - very...
very ... I Like it!
For populate you group & songs in our city, my blues band tryes to
play this song (Bullets).
We'll have
to add Russia to our touring plans.
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Storm Warning on the Classic Rock Cover CD
The October issue of Classic Rock magazine had Storm Warning's 'Hard To Be A Man' track on the cover
CD along with Joe Bonamassa, Oli Brown and Megadeth!
"Soulful
gut-bucket groove that’s half hard times, half
good-time-all-the-time…..they delve deep into breezy jazz, fiery rock or
smoky R&B, but the blues always call them back.”
Classic Rock magazine
www.classicrockmagazine.com
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Check out myspace for Storm Warning www.myspace.com/stormwarninguk
Storm Warning on Youtube. For videos click
here
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Chris Farlowe New CD
Chris Farlowe's latest CD Hotel
Einang has a Storm Warning track on it. The track is The Woman? Or
The Blues? The CD is now available in the UK. If you want to
hear Chris's version, you can order the CD now by emailing
info@bluescdstore.com
or
visit
www.bluescdstore.com
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Here is one of the
reviews on Something Real;
STORM WARNING - “Something Real”
(Pete
Sargeant )
www.fairhearing.co.uk
A second album from this line up
following the well-received 'Breaking Out' set, with the classic
drums/bass/guitar/keys/harp instrumentation to draw upon ; inspired
by rock and blues master figures (bassist Derek White runs a roots
cd supply firm) the best thing about this band is that they are not
modelled on a particular artist or band and furthermore they write a
lot of own material.
Harp and vocal man Stu Maxwell
was kind enough to co-star at my band's tribute to Junior Wells
earlier this year, alongside John O'Leary and if you want an example
of his skill on the reeds try his take on 'Nothing But Smoke'
included here, as cool as the modern blues can get. There is nothing
on this disc that the band cannot deliver live on stage, which is
often down to the nimble rhythm section (Roger Willis on drums) ;
Ian Salisbury could pass for John McVie but plays keys in this line
up. Bob Moore plays fluid guitar but rarely sounds like a Clapton
imitator – hear his steady lines on starting cut 'On The Road', a
blues travelogue if ever there was one. Hear them skip into 'Blues
101' with Maxwell using a dirty harmonica tone, what a great jazzy
feel and unusual chord changes. A soulful cruisin' sound rolls
'Something Real' along like a riverboat, the guitar sings and leaves
plenty of spaces, beautiful ! 'Long Ride' has a very cool keyboard
part and an edgy beat.
This group sounds pro, looks pro
and completely avoids sterility by taking care with their material –
how easy it would be for them to do all the cliched numbers that
every band does. But they have their own style which has the
potential to take their appeal way beyond a 'blues audience'
For more reviews from the media
on Something Real click
here
For details of how to buy the CD, go to
The Shop
Archive News
Storm Warning at Darlington
On the first visit to the
Darlington R&B Club, Storm Warning packed out the club and the band
seem to make a big impression on the crowd. A great response and
hopefully be back in Darlington next year. Pictures from the gig
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Thanks Bottleneck
Blues Club
Storm Warning
played the
Bottleneck Blues Club at the Roffen in Rochester to
a packed club. Recently numbers at the club haven't been so good and they
hadn't had such a crowd since Ian Siegal played sometime ago. So thanks to
everyone for turning out on a Tuesday night and of course thanks
to Richard Dobney the organiser for booking the band. This is what he said
in his email after the gig;
"Storm
Warning
presented a beautifully crafted set, weaving an intoxicating mix of the
traditional with jazzier and rockier elements to keep momentum through
to the inevitable encore. They've certainly hit the nail on the head in
designing this set of, principally, original material and this fresh
approach, expertly executed by a great team of musicians, was more than
appreciated by the members, indeed the feedback received, both at the
event and follow up e-mail, has been quite phenomenal!"
New Review
The debut album
'Breaking Out' still continues to attract attention. We had an email from a
new friend in the US, John Gibson. Visit this blues blog to read his review
of 'Breaking Out.'
http://bluesreview.blogspot.com
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Rawa Blues Festival Poland
Storm Warning played the Rawa
Blues Festival in Poland on 6th October and were very well received
by the Polish audience. The band had extensive media coverage before
and during the festival. The large crowd took the Storm Warning's
music as they played a rocking set which was recorded for TV. The
band shared the bill with Janvia Magness or the Ayslum Street
Spankers. Both were great on and off stage. Our thanks go to Ired
Dudek for his superb organising of the festival and his hospitality.
Also thanks to Martyna and Magda our guides or looked after us,
radio DJs Ryszard Gloger and Przemek Draheim and
all the Polish people we met and who have emailed us with their kind
words.
Pictures from Rawa courtesy of
photographer Ryszard Kocaj
www.blackfox.vel.pl
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Radio Mercury
Blues Charts
1. JANIVA
MAGNESS - Do I Move You ? (NorthernBlues)
2. BOOGIE CHILLI - Live Time Blues (Flower Rec)
3. COCO MONTOYA - Dirty Deal (Alligator)
4. GOV’T MULE - High & Mighty (Blue Rose)
5. BILL PERRY - Don’t Know Nothin’ About Love (Blind Pig)
6. WALTER TROUT & FRIENDS- Full Circle (RuF)
7. ROBERT CRAY BAND - Live From Across The Pond (Vanguar)
8. DANNY BRYANT’S REDEYEBAND - Days Like This (Blues Music)
9. STORM WARNING - Breaking Out (Storm
Warning)
10. IRMA THOMAS - After the Rain (Rounder)
11. JEREMY SPENCER - Precious Little (Blind Pig)
12. JONNY LANG - Turn Around (A & M)
13. THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND - Songlines (Sony/BMG)
14. NICK MOSS & the FLIP TOPS - Live at Chan’s (Blue Bella)
15. JAMES HUNTER - People Gonna Talk (Rounder)
16. KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD - Ten Days Out (Warner) N
17. SŁAWEK WIERZCHOLSKI - Historia Choroby- Box (Agencja MTJ)
18. MEMO GONZALEZ & THE BLUESCASTERS - Live in the UK (CrossCut)
19. JOE BONAMASSA - You and Me (Provogue)
20. JOE LOUIS WALKER - Playin’ Dirty (JSP) N
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Storm Warning on a US Sampler
Network Pacific Record company based in
Eureka, California chose a Storm Warning track to go onto their Blues
sampler cd. After hearing Breaking Out this is what they said about the
band
"Your tunes are very interesting
(such a nice change from the standard 12 bar "sounded like all the others"
demos). Great writing, arrangements, and musicianship. We were taken with
the last tune on your cd. It is one of the most unique blues cuts we have
listened to."
The last track being 'Whisky Blues' is
on the cd amongst bands from the US and Europe. The cd is available across
the US. To buy the cd visit
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