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The Brew

The Brew

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Voted Best band 2006/07 - Its Only Rock n Roll Magazine

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The Brew have played every major Rock/Blues and Rhythm and Blues festival in the UK and continue to clock up success after success everywhere they perform.
Voted ‘Best Band 2006/07’ by ‘It’s Only Rock n’ Roll magazine and to be found regularly making the top ten for Top Artists on myspace, Currently ranked at no4 in the Classic Rock, Top Artists on Myspace in the UK 12/08/07 no 64 in the Top Artists Category for Rock Bands,

BBC Radio1 has said of them, “Already tipped for the big time this is a great chance to see a couple of musicians that have a very promising future”

BBC Radio 2, "The power of this Trio has to be seen to be believed”.

The Brew play their own self-penned material with a flavour of Hendrix, Zeppelin and Kula Shaker along with their own interpretations of some classics by the afore mentioned masters.

The Brew are a trio, consisting of guitarist Jason Barwick (18), who shows all the makings of being a fusion of the talents of Hendrix, Page and Stevie Ray Vaughan and is tipped to be one of the UK top ten guitarists. His talent has to be seen to be believed, he plays with the maturity, fluidity and clarity of those three times his age. With Jason all you need to know is that when Hendrix first appeared his entire fellow guitarists had up their playing to compete, Jason does the same with another generation.

Kurtis Smith (19), the band’s drummer, nicked-named already the ‘The Bruce Lee Of The Drum Kit’ and is a worthy successor to the thrones of Bonham and Moon and again tipped to be one of the UK’s top drummers. Not only the band’s power-house but his solo performance on Led Zeppelin’s ‘Moby Dick’, is a master class demonstration of drumming technique and is truly mesmerising!

Last but not least is Tim Smith, vocalist and bass guitarist with the band. Tim not only provides top class vocals but through his bass playing and mentoring, bonds this sensational band into a very tight unit.

In early July 2007, The Brew played and headlined at the prestigious Maasboulevard Festival in Holland and have been immediately invited back to perform in 2008. They were described there at the end of the gig by their Dutch hosts as ‘The father, the son and holy spirit!’ for their sensational performance.

In 2006, The Brew were such a success at The Rock ‘n’ Blues Custom Show at Pentrich, Derbyshire, they were asked not only to do a second gig by the organisers on the following day on the Centre Stage, something not heard of in this events 25 year history, they were immediately booked to return in 2007.

Pentrich, Rock ’n’ Blues regularly attracts some 45,000 people every year and Saturday, July 28th 2007, The Brew headlined on the Cross Piston Stage and were an outstanding success, taking a double encore from the audience. In the following week, they had nearly a thousand requests to join their Myspace and made No.4 in the Top Classic Rock Artists list and number 64 in The Top Rock Artists list out of a listed 1.2 million Bands!! A position they continue to maintain.

The Brew now are consistently building and adding to their following each gig and in August 2007, they will perform on The British Stage at the UK’s biggest R’n’B festival in Colne and then start a UK tour in the autumn and European tour in November.

The Brew are not to be missed, they are the bright future for the British music scene! The Brew are signed to International and Awarding winning magazine ‘Blues Matters’ record label.


"it is impossible to give it justice through mere words alone, … they produced a sensational performance. William Shakespeare would struggle to descried the effect the freshness and power this band achieve and deliver to their audience, I can say no more, awesome" - Keep Music Live Magazine Leeds 10/07 (Review of British Rytnm and Blues Festival at Colne 08/07)
"…It was Monumental, That band is amazing... Jimi Hendrix, John Bonham and Roger Waters in the same room, they kick ass... At last young true excellent musicians playing Classic Rock of today... Yes, it's possible!" – Marie-Amelie Mastin DJ and Presenter, Classic 21 (Belgium), Review of The Gig in Gembloux, Belgium, 30/05/08
"They have an electrifying Jimmy Page - style performance with Hendrix-inspired stunts an awe-inspiring mixture! Already tipped for the big time this is a great chance to see a couple of musicians that have a very promising future!" - BBC Radio 1
"The power of this Trio has to be seen to be believed" - BBC Radio 2
"The Applause was so great they were asked to return the next day and play again. My personal opinion is that they out shone any other band at Rock N Blues and that includes main stage…" Rock n Blues Show, Derby July 2006 … Its only Rock N Roll Magazine
"I'll stick my neck out and say within 3 or 4 years time they will be the best 3 piece to come out of the UK in the last 20 or so years..." Rock n Roll Magazine

Rotosound Strings
Sheldon Amps
Stagg Drums
Animal Custom Drums - "Kurt, of the band The Brew is one of the finest young drummers in the UK today!" - Carl Gavins, Animal Custom Drums
Shine Guitars - "We think we have made a really great discovery with Jason and The Brew, Jason will very likely be one of the top ten guitarists in the country in the next few years!" - Oliver Webb, Shine Guitars


The Brew - Little Wing (Live, from upcoming DVD 2008) - Belgium
The Brew - Hearts Desires - Live at Classic21 - Belgium - 2008

New Lands - Live - Spirit of '66 - Belgium '07


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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/3/2005
Band Website: the-brew.net
Band Members:

Bass/Lead Vocals - Tim Smith,

Guitar - Jason Barwick,

Drums - Kurtis Smith,


Influences: Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Ray Vaughn, The Who, Kula Shaker, Wolfmother


Sounds Like: Power and Riff style of Led Zeppelin mixed with the jimi hendrix style guitar
Record Label: Blues Matters
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

REVIEW - The Joker - Eurorock

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/09/20/090149.php The ingredients that make up this particular Brew are as follows. Take a young guitarist that is part Jimmy Page, part Stray's criminally underrat...
Posted by The Brew on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:33:00 PST

REVIEW of The Joker

After hearing amazing things about this band and following their incredible gig at my local venue The Three Tuns, I had to get my hands on the album! Anyone lucky enough to have been at Woodstock, Mon...
Posted by The Brew on Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:49:00 PST

REVIEW - Live at Three Tuns

Brewing Up A Storm 'The Brew' - Live At The Three Tuns, Gateshead. Friday 22nd August 2008 After coverage by both national radio in the UK and the Europeanequivalents of BBC television, along with muc...
Posted by The Brew on Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:46:00 PST

European Update...

Hey Everyone, its been a while since weve had an update but things have been rather hectic here in the Brew camp...We had a Great festival in France, The crowds over there really got behind us at both...
Posted by The Brew on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:45:00 PST

Live Video from Belgium

Hey everyone, we have found a video of us playin New Lands Live in belgium on you tube....check it out!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oufxms8Bt8g...
Posted by The Brew on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 04:02:00 PST