Needless to say it was a very busy Friday night, everyone who had turned up knew precisely why they were there, to see and hear the best blues band in the region and they did not disappoint one little bit.
This is my favourite style of music, it always has been since I first started listening to it in the late 50s, and it is becoming more and more popular witnessed by more and more rock and blues festivals. Their first set commenced with “Automatic”, Jimmy Reed’s “Ain’t That Loving You, Baby”, Eric Clapton’s “Reconsider Baby”, Big Joe Williams’s “Baby Please Don’t Go”, “9 Below Zero” from Sonny Boy Williamson, “Spoonful” first recorded by Howlin’ Wolf, “Times Are Getting Tough”, “Confessing The Blues” and finishing the set with “So Many Roads” from Otis Rush.
Little Walter’s “Just Your Fool” started the second set, “Too Late, Brother”, “Worry You off My Mind”, “Evil”, “Someday, Baby”, “You Don’t Love Me”, “You’re So Fine”, “One Way Out”, Jimmy Rogers’s “Chicago Bound”, “Riding On The L & N” and finally “I Got My Mojo Working” from Muddy Waters.
From the past few years with probably more than 300+ different bands appearing at The Kings this for me was its best night ever and thanks as always to Balding Bloke for the superb sound-engineering. The Legendary Night Owls will be back on THE wedding day of the year opening this year’s LudaFest on bank holiday Friday 29th April 2011…do not miss them.
WooHoo, I got out for a gig on a Saturday night for a change! Scunthorpe area band Point Blank wisely used regular sound engineer Balding Bloke for their first-ever visit to The Kings comprising two sets of 31 cover songs, some old, some new, some very surprising.
The first set commenced with The Who’s 1964 “I Can’t Explain”, “Somebody Told Me” from The Killers and the fifth song in was a very first-timer at The Kings, the mighty “Stay With Me” from The Faces written by Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood. How do you follow that? How about “Shine” from Take That, probably another first-timer, some Scouting For Girls, more Killers, Green Day’s “Time Of Your Life” and completing the first set an excellent 1989 “Rocking In The Free World” from Neil Young.
The second set started in a similar manner to the first with The Who’s “Substitute”, “Molly Chambers” from the Kings of Leon, “Mr Writer” of The Stereophonics, The Jam’s “That’s Entertainment”, Robert Palmer’s “”Bad Case Of Loving You”, some T Rex, AC/DC and more Kings of Leon with “Radioactive”. I’m fairly certain that The Killers “Human” was a first-timer and was followed by an excellent Foo Fighters medley.
And then we had the first BIG surprise of the night, not only a first-timer but for me they could’ve just played this for a couple of hours, Creedence Clearwater Revival’s 1969 “Fortunate Son”, tremendous stuff. We were drawing to the end of the night now yet the encores kept coming with “Dakota” from The Stereophonics, the ever-present “Sex On Fire”, probably another first-timer with Snow Patrol’s “You’re All I Have” and then the second surprise as their last number, and most definitely a first-timer, Ike and Tina Turner’s 1973 classic “Nut Bush City Limits”…an excellent night was had by all:-)