Shakey Vick’s Website.

The Mill Arts Centre, Banbury

shakey — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:42:48 +0000

September 8, 2012
8:00 pm	to	9:20 pm

Chris Youlden & The Shakey Vick Band/The Blues Attic Revisited

The Mill Arts Centre, Banbury,

Saturday September 8th 8pm

The Chippenham

shakey — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:26:10 +0000

June 2, 2012
8:00 pm	to	10:30 pm

The Shakey Vick Band with Jon T_Bone Taylor

The Chippenham Shirland Road. London W9

8pm Saturday 2nd June. Free

Ravenscourt Park

shakey — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:18:26 +0000

May 25, 2012
7:45 pm	to	8:30 pm

Shakey Vick & Jon T-Bone Taylor duo at Ravenscourt Greenhouses in Ravenscourt Park for the
Hammersmith Community Gardens Association, on Friday 25th May. 7.45 – 8.30 pm

Ain’t that the blues

shakey — Fri, 04 May 2012 09:51:22 +0000

A few weeks ago, being at a loose end one evening, I decided to go and catch some live blues, so after some deliberation I chose ‘ain’t nothing but…’in Soho as a suitable place to queue for a drink. There was some enjoyable piano playing early on and then Jimmy C and his band started their first stint. They are one of those bands who seem to have a good rapport with the audience and I found it interesting and enjoyable. Then duty called and I went and joined Gigi who’d been out at a birthday party, which she didn’t enjoy. Ain’t that the blues.

My next excursion was to do a twenty minute spot at The Castle in Portobello Road with a trio of blues musicians known as Eddy and the Wild Dice. We were supposed to do twenty minutes but ended up doing an hour and finishing off the evening. We’ll be there again tonight, (Friday 4^th May) at ten o’clock so that’ll keep me off the street for a while.

I also had a little outing to the Hideaway in Streatham for the Muddy Waters memorial get-together. It was good to run into Big Joe Louis, who opened the evening’s proceedings in his usual inimitable style. He was then followed by the house band and assorted guests. I was one of those guests but I’m not exactly sure how assorted I was. Anyway I did a couple of numbers and thoroughly enjoyed it. All I need now is some gigs. Ain’t that the blues.

No time like the old times

shakey — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:28:47 +0000

Last Friday I went to the Castle in Portobello Road where there was an evening of live music with various performers. I was called up to do a few numbers and will be back there soon, though not this Friday as I’ve got other plans. I’m hoping to get together with Eddy, a young bluesman I’ve met a few times. He plays guitar and harp in a rack and sometimes busks on the ‘bello. However he recently got mugged and got a broken Jaw for his troubles so singing and playing are out of the question at present. I wish him a speedy recovery so he can get back working solo or with his band.

A couple of days ago I received the publicity layout for the Blues Attic Revisited Festival in Banbury in September. It looks good and there is already interest in the event which takes place in two venues, with a great variety of blues acts lined up.It will be good to catch up with Mick Clarke and Steve Smith among others. I’m looking forward to it.

I went to meet Chris Youlden yesterday and he gave me a list of answers to an online interview for Dave Peverett’s son Jason which I’ve got to type up to send in email form. The resulting interview will be on Jason’s website the Peverett Phile. The answers led to much reminiscing about the old times in the early sixties. This in turn proceeded to the idea that we should write it all down while we can still remember it. We even thought about a joint online book of some kind. As Mel Wright is more of an archivist than either of us, perhaps we should include him in the project should it ever get off the ground. Perhaps we could call it Autobiograthree?

Speakeasy blues

shakey — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:04:14 +0000

I was unable to do the charity gig a week or so ago. I’d had a heavy cough with flu like symptoms, which continued for weeks despite My having had a flu jab and a session on antibiotics. My voice had gone completely but had started to return but on the day before the gig I still couldn’t manage to sing, so I had to call it off at the last minute, not something I enjoy doing at any time.

A few days later, I ran into Gordon Smith and he told me that his arthritis had really got bad again and was lasting much longer than usual. This meant he couldn’t play guitar for longer than a quarter of an hour. As a result he’s had to blow out a lot of gigs. I hope he can recover soon. He still manages to give guitar lessons to Jim Mercer, so perhaps I’ll have another guitar option soon.

I recently did an interview for a Greek site called Mixalis blues run by Mike in Athens I really liked the site when I visited it and there were some good photographs that I hadn’t seen before as well as some off my site. I really like the layout too which is no doubt down to Mike’s blues magazine work. Mike sent me a link:

Shakey Vick’s interview which is how I caught up with it. I hope it works on this site too but if not I’ll try to get another link for anyone who is interested.

Last Sunday Gigi and I went down to Streatham to Graeme Miall’s Speakeasy promotion at Hideaway which takes place every two weeks. It was good to see Graham again, the first time since he left the Oval Tavern gig. Another great pleasure was to hear Errol Linton and his band who were the act that evening. A great band and some brilliant playing from Errol and the guys, with even a touch of Kwela in one of their numbers. An enjoyable evening and I have no doubt I’ll be visiting Streatham again.