Blues Shakeout

We play electric blues, with influences from Chicago all the way down to Texas with side-trips to Florida and the Bayou. There’s just a hint of country in there too. The band has run for 5 years, first as Maxwell Street Blues Band and for the last 2 years as Blues Shakeout. We offer a basically uptempo Rhythm & Blues experience and have successfully played repeat gigs ranging from ‘listening’ audiences at pub, club and specialist venues, through to ‘mad-for-it’ jive dancing club audiences.

Who are those guys? Dave Dangervocals After 25 years on the road full-time with heavy-rocking band, The Dangers, the man saw the light and came home to the Blues. He’s paid his dues, and got the experience, the craft skills, to pick up an audience and make them fly. Jim LowtonDrums Recently joined powerhouse of the band, Jim brings a love of The Band, Little Feat and classic rock to drumming. He cites Levon Helm and Jim Keltner as influences and he's only 30! Carl Marshall Harp, Tenor and Alto Saxes The Corps of Drums taught this man everything he knows. First got a band together in the Falklands in 1992 because the beer had run out. Once played ‘Rawhide’ 6 times over to the civilians at Port Stanley Town Hall because that’s what the people liked. Sound a familiar story? Tony Ward-Keyboards Boogie-woogie piano and so-o smooth Hammond soundsnice! Another battle-hardened entertainer, spending every night in a 5-ton lorry travelling over Falklands sheep tracks to bring Rock’n’Roll to the furthest outposts of the Empire. Jon Roberts Guitars The newest member of the band, with a long history of professional and semi-pro playing in the clubs and theatres of Britain and Ireland. Jon's playing is fluent, lyrical AND rocking. A really inventive lead player and solid rhythm Craig Booth-Bass First picked up a bass guitar in 1973 and claims to have headlined Edison Lighthouse at Blackburn Kings Hall. Played punk-before-punk with the Fallen Angels, and revived an interest in music (life?) with Monty’s Python in 1996. Now come home to first love, RnB-tinged Blues

we play about once a week live, which is great. We like almost all the venues we've played from the Rivoli Ballroom, Lewisham (to die for Edwardian, Catford Blues Club, through the rockingest local pubs to a monastery. it's difficult to choose, but one of our favourites is Pissarro's in Hastings where we've been playing for about 3 years and the people are so-o cool. The dancers are nutty and the candles on the table never go out! recently, we did a boogaloo blues festival and that was just great. Check out www.boogaloopromotions.com

Southern blues, Chicago, Bayou. Increasingly , the Allmans. In fact we're in love with Gregg Allman at the moment - check out 'Searchin for Simplicity'. Just lately we've really started grooving off Steve Earle - he means it.

The guitarist often talks about his tools, but at the end of the day, who really listens to a guitarist talking about guitars? The rest of the guys have stuff, mainly works.

For a big sound, good time Blues Band, check us out