Real-Music Events

What do the critics say about our events...?
"At the last Real-Music event, I think I found my soul" - Darren (Shrewsbury)
"Yeah, baby!" - Simon (Darren's friend)

We've promoted a range of events, featuring local bands; bands that don't often play
in Shropshire; and we've brought some bigger names too....
Were you there for the now mythical Pontesbury
event with Peter Green and Splinter Group?
Review of Peter Green in Pontesbury

We've been focusing on bringing "Big Names to Small Places"
and these included....

Friday 17th November, 2000
Tom Robinson
yes, the man who brought you "War Baby", "Martin", Grey Cortina", and loads more, including the anthemic
"Sing if You're Glad to be Gay", and (of course!) that motorway anthem.... well, he was with us for an evening and
brought them all to Worthen Village Hall...& some of his newer material too.

What can we say? People are still coming up to us to ask when we can have him back.
This was an amazingly warm and lovely evening with a warm and lovely guy - several people came up to reminisce
about intimate moments in their lives which his songs brought back
(just a tad too much information from some of them, actually.....).

We had support from "Your Dad" - now what can we say about them...? Probably very little that's printable! There's music
& there's comedy - then there's musical comedy... somewhere in the middle of all that, but defying description are "Your Dad"
- persons of a nervous disposition were warned to sit at the back (or wait outside!) - but will people ever listen?!
God knows what's happened to that poor woman who had to 'cut the jumper' or the man mistaken for William Hague.
Thanks to whoever drew an amazing likeness of Ian (singer with 'Your Dad') on the tablecloths...
.... Ian took the tablecloth home with him!

Friday 8th December, 2000
The Groundhogs
Yes. Really.
The legendary Tony (TS) McPhee & the guys.... formed in the early sixties as a backing band for John Lee Hooker on his tours of the UK
(and named after one of John Lee's songs, "Groundhog Blues"), they rapidly established themselves as one of the UK's top blues outfits....
in the early seventies they jumped on the heavy rock bandwagon and made it their own,
with top-selling albums like "Split" & "Thank Christ for The Bomb"

Recently they've gone back to their blues roots, and last year released the highly acclaimed album "The Muddy Waters Songbook"
- they played a whole bunch of blistering stuff for us at Worthen from their blues and progressive rock repertoires...
check out Pete Jameson's review of the night

Support was from Wild Honey - just about the finest pop/rock outfit you could wish to hear - and once again they gave a
fantastic performance. A bit of history that night too for Wild Honey - Steve, the drummer, gave his swan song
(can drummers have swan songs?...Ed) that night and we gave him a bottle of bubbly to
mark the special, and yet just a bit sad, occasion.

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