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The line up for the main stage at Newark Blues Festival has been confirmed for both Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th September with tickets now on sale on the website.
Aynsley will be headlining the Blues at the Castle event on the evening of Saturday 11th September. The event also features Virgil and the Accelerators, Kevin Thorpe’s Tipping Point (new band featuring the former Out of the Blue front man) and the Sean Webster Band. Tickets are just £10 for adults on our Early Bird offer.
In addition to Blues at the Castle we have several other events over the weekend, all free to enter, featuring other superb artists such as Chantel McGregor, The Mustangs, Wilson T King and Ron Sayer to name but a few.
Basically a full weekend of top Blues music for a tenner!!
Thanks
Newark Blues Festival
]]>Hope you are all doing well, Just wanted to drop by and let those of you who are near Switzerland on June 17th know that I will be playing drums with an all star band in Coyote Ugly, Winterthur. Switzerland.
John Lyons - Vocals & Guitar (John Lyons Band.USA)
Zach Prather - Vocals & Guitar (Willie Dixon/Luther Allison.USA)
BB.Chung King - Vocals & Guitar (The Buddaheads/Grammy Nominee.USA)
Kellie Rucker - Vocals & Blues Harp (The Buddaheads/Sessions.USA)
Richard Cousins - Bass Guitar (Robert Cray Band)
Matt Savnik - Hammond (Rhona Dorsey/Dennis Bullock.CH)
Doc Spoons - Drums (Aynsley Lister/Oli Brown/Dave Jackson/Sessions.UK)
Should be a blast, hope to see some of my Swiss, Austrian and German Pals there!
TTFN
Spoons
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This was billed as an Aynsley Lister Band/King King “double header”, and both bands played decent length sets, Aynsley got the full 90 minutes, but King King were already on stage and in full swing when we arrived a little late after an awful journey through what Alan Nimmo refered to as “the pissing rain” when he thanked the near sell out crowd for coming out on such an awful night.
So - King King were on first and having only seen them play a 40 minute support slot previously, it was great to see them play an extended set, and boy are they good! (So good they named them twice? 
) The band is built around Alan Nimmo’s great singing and guitar playing (and superbly enthusiastic frontmanship), but take nothing away from the other guys - they are all superb musicians and really won the crowd over. I am mightily impressed by this band. If you’ve not seen them and they show up in your area, don’t miss them.
After a fairly quick re-arrangement of the stage, Aynsley wandered out with the old jazz guitar (I think he took the lighting guy by surprise, as the house lights seemed to stay on for a couple of minutes) and started playing some great slide. I thought perhaps we were about to be treated to a solo opener, but after a few bars Midus, Simon, and Dan joined him on stage, and proceeded to rock the house with “Sugar Low”. They then went on to delight a packed house with a terrific set. The audience were buzzing but did manage a perfectly observed two minutes silence during the quiet bit of Purple Rain, which really brought the house down. The guys were clearly enjoying themselves and feeding off the atmosphere that a packed house gives. Aynsley even gave “Disco Dan” (his words - not mine) a couple of minutes in the spotlight with a nice little blues jam between songs.
Aynsley again took the time to have a chat afterwards, almost as soon as he got off stage, as did the rest of the band. Mrs Icon (they all seem to think that’s really funny - but what else should I call her) got her set list signed by them all, and remarked to Midus that she always looks like she’s having such a great time on stage. Midus replied “That’s because I am!” - And we all thought she was just laughing at Dan! 
Or maybe Aynsley getting his words wrong
Here’s what we got:
Sugar Low
With Me Tonight
Early Morning Dew
Soundman
What’s It All About?
Soul
Hurricane
Big Sleep
Running Out On Me
Purle Rain
Crosstown Traffic
In The Morning
Balls Of Steel (Encore)
One slightly inebriated punter came over to Aynsley afterwards and made the point that after King King’s set he felt Aynsley and co would need to “raise their game”. He said he thought they had, and came over really well. Can’t disagree with that…......
Thanks for a great night guys - I even managed to get out of the one way system at first attempt - and it had stopped raining.
Ian
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Aynsley Lister Band -Wingspan Club, Crawley, West Sussex 16.04.10
http://www.feenstra.co.uk/
14 items in this playlist….enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=954BB8A0F35D4627