Doors 7.30pm

No Support 

Wishbone Ash

 8.45pm

Venue Details

The show on the 5th April was so good that we immediately re-booked the band for this October gig - twice a year, it must be good!

There was a very big crowd which was way up on last year and proves our point that this is a superb band who continue to win more and more fans. Don't leave it too late to book your tickets for this one.

Background blurb ....

Wishbone Ash deserve long service medals for their 30 years of touring the world. The band are renowned for delivering high quality rock, the sort that has depth not just volume. Stalwart Andy Powell remembers back in the 60’s when the band were looking for a guitarist, “they started running advertisements in the music papers and prospective guitarists would come to the house and audition. It finally came down to Ted Turner and me and they couldn't decide between us. So the band decided not to hire a keyboard player, as they'd originally planned and took us both instead!"

The group was subject to a variety of influences - Powell was a veteran of various semi-pro blues and soul outfits and a player who listened to bands from Fairport Convention to the Who. "Pete Townsend had a profound impact on me as a rhythm player", Powell says and credits his experience in soul bands, working with horn section harmonies as the inspiration for the dual lead guitar format that he and Ted Turner developed.

Powell continues, "It was crucial in those days that everybody have their own sound, there was a great spirit in the air in the late 60's. The clubs were very active, there was a lot of R&B and a lot of blues, like the Pretty Things and early Fleetwood Mac. The scene was open to anything that would expand the imagination."

As for the group's name, Powell explains, "We wanted something that wouldn't tie us down to a particular style and came up with a number of wacky names - I remember Third World War and Jesus Duck. Finally there were two lists, one of which had the word Wishbone on it and the other of which had Ash. The combination sounded intriguing - actually, it sounded like more than it was."