The Strange Blues Band
7 June 2025, Saturday, 8pm
Tickets: £14
https://thebridgemos.org.uk/your-centre/the-strange-blues-band/
Refreshments and snacks are available to purchase from our licensed bar, 7:45-11pm
The Bridge, 9 Sea Road, Milford On Sea, Lymington, SO41 0DB
Free Car Parking, Sea Road Car Park
The Strange Blues Band are Marty (lead guitar and vocals), Crash (rhythm guitar and vocals), Colin (bass) and Greg (drums and vocals). They mainly play songs of the great rock bands of the ‘60’s and ‘70’s including, The Who, The Stones, The Doors and Led Zep. We’ve all seen such ‘cover’ bands at the local pub where Pete Townsend’s power chords are usually reduced to a discordant mush and Robert Plant’s legendary vocals resemble more the whine of a hungry lap-dog than the howl of a Tyrannosaurus Rex in heat. The question is, therefore, why are The Strange Blues Band such a fresh and exciting live act?
One answer is, although they are all accomplished musicians, they play as a band rather than a group of individuals and, on Saturday night at The Bridge in Milford on Sea, the music often joyously transcended the basic format of guitars, bass and drums. There was also evident an unspoken appreciation of traditional blues and rock and roll which made members of the 50-strong audience want to get up and dance to such hairy biker anthems as Deep Purple’s Smoke on the Water and Free’s All Right Now. My personal highlights were renditions of Karl Perkin’s 1957 hit, Matchbox Blues and the 1970 Hawkwind classic, Hurry on Sundown which effortlessly captured the psychedelic beauty of the original.
(From a review by Ian Hey, 2024)
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