Snowy White Blues Project

Legendary guitarist Snowy White returns to the Northeast with a mood changing mix of rhythms and blues. It will be fantastic to see him again with his new Blues Project Band after extensive touring with Roger Waters.

Following the hugely acclaimed 2 year world tour of Dark Side of the Moon with Roger Waters which finished in 2007, Snowy began a rediscovery of his blues roots and together with long term collaborator Juan Van Emmerloot on drums, Matt Taylor as a perfect guitar foil and Ruud Weber Jr. on bass, commenced the recordings which turned into the current Snowy White Blues Project and produced the album 'In Our Time of Living'. All three front men share lead vocals and the band has a new dynamic, from the raunchy 'Can't Get Enough of the Blues' to the subtle picking acoustic guitar swing of the classic Skip James song 'I'm So Glad' borrowing from the original idiom. All that and a neat segue into 'Bird of Paradise' in the mid-set semi-acoustic section!

Remaining faithful to the same Gibson Les Paul guitar for 40 years, Snowy has become known for his own style of 'English Blues' - a combination of clear, clean blues phrases and harder-edged riffs that are a recognisable feature of his very personal songs.

It was after a long absence that Snowy marked his return to UK touring with his own band in 2005. This was marked by the release of the excellent album The Way It Is, which included a new recording of his1983 hit single Bird Of Paradise featuring Who keyboardist John 'Rabbit' Bundrick. It also covered good friend Peter Green's classic track, Black Magic Woman.

This British born guitarist has toured extensively with  Pink Floyd promoting both the Animals and The Wall albums, performing 'Comfortably Numb' on top of a specially created  80 foot wall in front of 350,000 people in Berlin. He also recorded two albums with Thin Lizzy, 'Chinatown' and 'Renegade'.

Snowy is joined by Matt Taylor on guitar and vocals, Juan Van Emmerloot on drums and Ruud Weber Jnr plays bass and great vocals.

The show will include songs from the new album plus some old favourites and blues classics. Snowy likes to mix the sounds so there is a good blend of upbeat numbers alongside those gut twisting guitar songs. Put this together with Snowy's determination never to play exactly the same set twice and it promises to be a very entertaining evening!

• Snowy White Blues Project - Thursday 11th February - Newcastle

• Jeff Lang - Tuesday 16^th February  - Newcastle

• Coco Montoya - Thursday 4th March - Newcastle

• Eric Sardinas - Tuesday 9th March - Newcastle

• Martin Turner - Thursday 18^th March - Newcastle

• Poppa Chubby - Wednesday 24th March - Newcastle

• LiveWire [AC/DC night] + Slip Of The Tongue - Thursday 25th March - Newcastle

• Rob Tognoni - Thursday 8th April - Newcastle

• Young Guitar Heroes featuring The Mitch Laddie Trio + Scott McKeown + Stefan Shil - Monday 12th April - Newcastle

• The Hamsters - Thursday 22nd April - Newcastle

• Sinnerboy - Thursday 29th April - Newcastle

• John Otway - Wednesday 5th May - Newcastle

• Limehouse Lizzy - Thursday 6th May - Newcastle

• Larry Garner & Norman Beaker - Thursday 13th May - Newcastle

• Buddy Whittington - Thursday 3^rd June - Newcastle