The Blue Hyenas

THE BLUE HYENAS ARE AN EDINBURGH BASED BLUES TRIO .
FOUNDER MEMBER SANDY "BEACHES" TWEEDDALE FRONTS THE BAND WITH HIS POWERFUL VOCALS AND IMPERSSIVE MIX OF GUITAR STYLES
ARRIVING BACK IN THE UK IN THE MID-80S, AFTER SPENDING TIME LIVING AND WORKING AS A MUSICIAN IN AUSTRAILA AND DEMMARK, SANDY THEN PLAYED WITH MANY LOCAL BANDS BEFORE FORMING THE HYENAS.
SANDY HAS PLAYED AND SUPPORTED MANY A MUSICIAN IN HIS TIME, BUDDY GUY, PETER GREEN, AND BERT JANSCH. HE HAS ALSO TOURED TWICE WITH LOUISANNA HARP PLAYER LAZY LESTER TO NAME BUT A FEW. SANDY IS ALSO GUITARIST WITH W.C HANDY AWARD WINNING BLUES'N'TROUBLE WHOM BB. KING DESCRIBED AS ONE OF THE BEST WHITE BLUES BANDS HE'D EVER SEEN.
RUSSELL[BISCUIT BOY] CLINK- BASS, MANDOLIN, GUITAR, DANCING AND JOKE TELLING. STARTING OF IN THE WORLD OF FOLK + COUNTRY MUSIC, RUSSELL JOINED THE HYENAS SEVEN- ODD YEARS AGO, PLAYING MANDOLIN ON THE SONG "LOVE TO WIN" ON THE HYENAS SAN TRAQUIAR ALBUM[2001] SOON AFTER JOINING THE BAND FULL TIME. RUSSEL HAS ALSO TOUR AND PLAYED WITH OTHER MUSICIANS LIKE,CHICAGO SLIDE-GUITARIST STUDEBAKER JOHN MATT "OLD" HOLBORN-DRUMS, MATT IS THE NEWEST MEMBER TO JOINED THE HYENAS, SANDY AND MATT MET LAST YEAR AT THE EDINBURGH BLUES FESTIVAL WHERE THEY WERE BOTH WORKING. MATT IS A GREAT DRUMMER , A MEAN FIDDLE PLAYER AND FRONTS HIS OWN BAND "The Ubiquitous Kings of Rhythm"THE BLUE HYENAS The Three Monkeys, Edinburgh, May 10 ****SITUATED in one of Edinburgh best new music venues, rarely has a dose of the blues felt so good thanks to blues trio The Blue Hyenas.Led by cool, talented guitar-slinger, Sandy Tweedale, his driving rhythm section are a tight, frisky, jiving outfit.The icy chill of The Thrill Is Gone was an inspired Jimi Hendrix medley and the Latin rumba of Bo Diddley's Mona really got the crowd going. But if one song summed up this great evening it was Eddie Burns' When I Get Drunk, Tell Me, Who's Gonna Carry Me Home? Blues-tastic.BARRY GORDON [DAILY RECORD]