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Tickets £14.50 advance
Doors 7.30pm
Support
8.00pm
Nine Below
Zero
9.00pm
Times approx.
This is a standing gig.
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NINE
BELOW ZERO
+ Support
After the last NBZ gig .....
Another belter! These guys are simply
brilliant! The place was jumping with the music,
while appreciating the high caliber musicianship
- they were as tight as a fish's ****. They covered the lot,
cracking R&B, blues and a touch of pop/soul.
What other band could get away with doing
straight down the middle blues then jump on to
the Monkees "Day Dream Believer"!
Brief
biog about Nine Below Zero
Dennis
Greaves heads up the band,
playing guitar and singing better now than at
any time in his career, a legend in waiting
persona! Then there is the mighty rhythm section
of Gerry McAvoy
and Brendan
O'Neill blowing up a storm!
Gerry is a bass player's bass player, who spent
15 years laying it down for Rory Gallagher as
did Brendan on drums for 10 years.
Over this fat
slice of rhythm, comes the unique harmonica of Mark
Feltham ,since January 2001 Mark
has been back playing with Nine Below Zero
needless to say anyone who knows the band will
be aware of his history, himself and Dennis
being the founder members of the band. Live,
this combination is lethal, hammering and
nailing the big R n B sound to the floor of many
a famous stage. It is not unusual for the band
to sell out big clubs weeks up front so don't
leave it too late for this Cluny gig.
"NBZ are brilliant live, they work so hard
, the audience often go home as exhausted as the
band" so says Andrew Zweck of top promoters
Harvey Goldsmith Ents. They have carved out a
very credible niche, a place they will be for a
very long time to come, because, who else is
this good?.....this often? NBZ are the viable
alternative to Alternative, a band that most
definately come to play, a band with their own
genuine sound and deep understanding of their
musical roots. NBZ have a tireless spirit, no
regrets, no excuses, no crap.
Riding Shotgun
35 years on the road with
Rory Gallagher and
Nine Below
Zero
Gerry McAvoy's
long-awaited autobiography - Riding
Shotgun: 35 Years on the Road with Rory
Gallagher and Nine Below Zero - was released
last June at the Rory Gallagher
International Tribute Festival in Rory's place of birth, Ballyshannon, Co.
Donegal. Gerry McAvoy
was Rory's bass player
from 1971 through to 1991, the only constant
factor on all 14 of Rory’s solo albums which
sold over 30 million copies worldwide. No-one
knew Rory better or was closer to him throughout
this most creative period of his life, before
serious illness blighted his career.
Gerry is highly regarded as a musician's
musician and, as Rory's right-hand man for over
20 years, his career has given him the
opportunity to meet and play with a veritable
who's who of rock and blues performers - from
Muddy Waters, John Mayall and Van Morrison
through to Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, the Rolling
Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Deep Purple, Rod Stewart,
ZZ Top, Rush, Eric Clapton, Sting and U2.
In 1991, with Rory's health having
deteriorated to the point where he had all but
given up touring and recording, Gerry
reluctantly left the band to help reform R&B
legends Nine Below Zero, with whom he has
recorded eight successful albums. Nine Below
Zero continue to tour Europe almost incessantly
and remain one of the UK's hardest working
bands. Gerry was also responsible for creating
the Band of Friends - an informal reunion of
ex-Rory Gallagher band members who get together
several times a year to play tribute concerts
and festivals all over Europe, following Rory's
tragic death in 1995 at the age of 47.
Riding Shotgun is the story of
Gerry McAvoy's life before, with and since
Rory
Gallagher. But it's also a story about a group
of young musicians growing up amid the madness
that was Belfast during the Troubles. And how,
out of that cauldron of violence and hatred,
emerged a group of performers who were to take
the world by storm and launch an Irish assault
on popular music that continues to this day. The
story of how, amid the hype and insincerity of
the music business, a softly spoken and
intensely shy Corkman could become a legend: a
folk hero to whom all modern Irish musicians -
from Bono to Boyzone - acknowledge a debt of
gratitude.
Based on over 100 hours of personal
recollections and interviews with many of Gerry
and Rory's friends and colleagues in the UK and
Ireland, and illustrated throughout with dozens
of unique and previously unseen photographs from
Gerry's personal collection, Riding Shotgun
is a sometimes shocking and often hilarious
account of what it was really like to be a
musician in one of the 1970s' biggest rock
bands. It's also quite possibly the nearest we
will ever get to unravelling the complex
character that was and remains
Rory Gallagher.
Riding Shotgun: 35 years on the road with
Rory
Gallagher and Nine Below Zero
by Gerry McAvoy, with
Pete Chrisp, is published
by SPG Triumph at £18.99. Hardback. 375 pages
plus 32 pages of photographs.
For more information please contact:
www.ridingshotgun.co.uk
Get the full
NBZ background from
http://www.ninebelowzero.com/
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