Hot Club of Glasgow Town

Well as the month of May draws to a close and as I am about escape into the sunshine for what could be our summer I would like give a quick recap of my musical highlights for the month of May.

I finally caught up with Dutch bluesman Hans Theessink and was not disappointed. I’ve always missed this hard grafting performing despite him being on a never ending touring schedule when he visits Glasgow. He stated during his show that he once played a new years party on a ferry for 7 hours substituting the lyrics in famous songs to see if anyone would notice. I knew exactly where he was coming from with that one!

The Glasgow Americana Festival was another musical highlight for the month. Now in its 3rd year with a week long run of shows it is proving to attract some real musical gems to Glasgow. I am already looking forward to see who will be at next year’s festival.

I caught Otis Gibbs at the Twisted Wheel, a great guy with a great beard, growling voice and well crafted songs. The title for his tour is sure to be well received anywhere outside the US, I bet he sells out of the posters of the tour schedule.

I also had a really good knees up at the Hot Club of Cowtown. Yup that’s their name. This Western Texas Swing group are all fantastic players and I stood in awe (whilst bopping up and down) at Whit Smith's guitar playing, whose licks just didn’t stop flowing. Don’t miss this band the next time they visit.

Read Rob Adam’s review in the herald here.

It was a pleasure to be called up last minute to open for David Ferrard, Kim Edgar & Yvonne Lyon, all fantastic Scottish singer songwriters who had teamed up to put on a show in the stunning St Andrews in the Square.

Roll on June