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Purchase tickets
online for some of the Northeast's leading music
concerts
and shows.
Tickets £13.00 available on the door tonight.
Doors 7.45pm
Virgil & The
Accelerators
8.00pm
Popa Chubby
9.00pm
This is a standing only gig. |
+ Virgil
& The
Accelerators
Awesome
Guitarists
Set For
Intimate
Gig
He’s
awesome,
just
awesome,
as our
American
cousins
would
say. The
first
thing
that
hits you
about
Popa
Chubby
is that
he's a
big lad,
the
second
is how
fast his
fingers
move
around
the
guitar,
the
third is
the
sound he
gets
from his
guitar –
it’s err
….
awesome!
As if
that was
not
awesome
enough,
he is
playing
in
Newcastle.
Expected
to be
served
with up
two
hours of
thrilling
blues to
rock
with
attitude
as
Popa
Chubby
covers
songs
from his
excellent
albums,
alongside
superb
interpretations
from the
likes of
Freddie
King and
Jimi
Hendrix
and the
set
often
includes
excellent
renditions
of
classics
such as
Walk
On The
Wild
Side
and
Wild
Thing.
Popa’s
guitar
is the
proverbial
extension
to his
body -
it’s
like
another
limb.
The
affable
New
Yorker
first
started
playing
the
drums at
the age
of 13,
but
after he
discovered
the
Rolling
Stones,
he
turned
to the
guitar.
Smart
move.
Although
he grew
up in
the
1970s,
he took
his cue
from
other
artists
of the
60’s,
including
Sly &
The
Family
Stone,
Jimi
Hendrix
and
Eric
Clapton.
By the
time he
was in
his
early
twenties,
he
enjoyed
and
played
the
blues,
but also
worked
for a
while
backing
punk
poet
Richard
Hell.
When you
are next
surfing
for
albums,
check
out his
Electric
Chubbyland,
a
two-disc
set of
him
covering
Jimi
Hendrix
songs
issued
by Blind
Pig
records
in 2007.
POPA'S NEWEST
DELIVERIES AFTER DARK
DEBUTS AT #4
ON BILLBOARD'S
BLUES CHARTS.
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After
the last gig
....
Just
one of
those
very
special
nights
when
everything
works.
Two
superb
bands,
very
friendly
audience,
excellent
ales in
a
fabulous
pub.
Robot
Elvis
started
the
proceedings
with a
45
minute
set of
covers
which
hit the
spot
perfectly.
They are
packing
out pubs
throughout
the
region
and its
no
wonder
why on
this
performance.
Popa
Chubby
sat at
the
merch
desk
during
RT's set
and was
also
very
impressed.
"Those
guys are
rockin
...."
Then
it's
bandana
on,
guitar
over the
shoulder,
foot on
the
peddle
and
whoosh
we're
off for
a two
hour
extravaganza
of blues
to rock.
He's
brilliant!
Lots of
his own
compositions
which
demonstrated
the
quality
of
Popa's
new
album,
"Deliveries
After
Dark."
He
chucks
in some
wonderful
standards
- he
loves
his
Hendrix.
He's
[hopefully]
going to
be back
next
year, so
watch
out if
Popa
Chubby
gets
you, you
will
know
about
it!
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Catch
some Popa Chubby in some YouTube action
at
www.popachubby.com/
The furious "Sally Likes
to Run" captures that arena rock feel with
enough cowbell to keep Christopher Walken happy
while the title track crunches like Deep Purple
in "Highway Star" mode.
The epic "Man of the Blues" should easily
satisfy longtime fans with its classic Chubby
sound, but "Grown Man Crying Blues" and "I'll
Piss on Your Grave" sound like the blues by way
of a rock band.
For Chubby, it's usually the other way around,
but he's often mentioned his growing up on rock
before finding the blues, so don't be too
surprised that he sounds ten years younger than
he did on his last album. The ambitious
performances, the good-timing rock songs, the
searing guitar solos, and the willingness to
experiment -- "Woman in My Bed Dub" flirts with
reggae while the "Theme from The Godfather" is
done cowabunga surf style -- all suggest youth
and embrace freedom.
With all this excitement coming across in a
convincing, fist-pumping fashion, Deliveries
After Dark is a very loud success. It's only a
matter of how much blues the longtime Chubby fan
is willing to sacrifice.
~ David Jeffries, All Music Guide
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