buy tickets now ...


[Barking Spider] [listings] [artists] [our venue] [bullfrog] [links] [ticket sales] [folk festival] [Gallery] [Home Page]
back to main spider site spider This is the archive of the combined Barking Spider and Andy Broad Portsmouth Blues Site mailing lists.

For the latest information on what's on at The Bullfrog Blues Club click here
For information about Andy Broad and his various blues and jazz projects click here

Barking Spider Promotions Mailing List
Southsea Folk And Roots Festival Mailing List
Portsmouth Blues Site Mailing List

 
 

archive head spider 2017_October 2017_October_05_1

Elles Bailey - BUllfrog Blues Club - TONIGHT (thursday 5th Oct)


Bullfrog Blues Club regular Alan Childs was good  enough to send a review of
Elles Bailey's  gig at the 100 Club in London on Tuesday night - she's at
The Bullfrog Blues Club TONIGHT! 



Read the review, and you'll know that this is one gig NOT to be missed!!!! 



"She roared, she prowled the stage like a lioness and she won over a very
full Tuesday night crowd at the Tuesday Blues Club. I've seen Elles Bailey
once before -- at the 100 Club then as well -- but last time was an
acoustic set with her opening for `The Ladies Of The Blues' and here, for
the official album launch, she was headlining over Stacie Collins and Big
Wolf Band with a full electric band.



And what a band - Joe Wilkins on guitar was superb, especially his slide,
Matthew Jones on drums, Zak Ranyard on bass and the inimitable Jonny
Henderson on organ. So, the question was could she cut it with a band of
such renown? She not only cut it, she blew them away. The band were superb,
no question, but in the end they were totally her band and they were
benefiting from performing with Elles Bailey.



The `Wildfire' album has been getting some serious attention in the press
and on radio (as well as a **** review in Music-News) but taking the songs
to the stage brings out extra levels and `Wildfire' or `What If I' were
delivered with total confidence, massive certainty and simply blew the
crowd away. `Shackles Of Love' got the whole place boogieing and her song
for Janis Joplin `Girl Who Owned The Blues' had a heart wrenching impact.
Even her version of Taylor Swift's `Shake It Off' worked at a level that
Swift hasn't reached. The dark and soulful `Barrel Of Your Gun' really came
over as a live number too and her tribute to Muscle Shoals 'A Perfect
Storm' had the crowd swaying and dancing. A personal favourite moment was
seeing the crowd howling back at her as she did a brilliant `Howlin' Wolf'.



On stage Ms Bailey is a total attention dragger -- you simply cannot take
your eyes off her tousled hair, her prowling movements and those piercing
eyes. Never still, except when she was at her electric piano, but you could
see that she was having a great time up there.



So, definite proof that Bristol has produced yet another top blues lady and
one who will shortly have outgrown the 100 Club. She is one of the best
live artists I've seen this year and I will be back to catch her again. A
cracking night at the old place but a triumph for Elles Bailey."


Elles Bailey is at The Bullfrog Blues Club at The Dockyard Club, Onslow Rd,
Southsea, PO5 2NHnTONIGHT- Thursday 5th October. 

Doors open at 8 p.m.                                                        
        Advance tickets are just £8 and are still  available via our secure
website www.barkingspider.abelgratis.com via Paypal and also from Street
Level Music, 139 Albert Rd, Southsea, Hampshire, PO5 2SQ. Tickets also
available on the door.