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About Me

We met up at an open mic night in early 2008, Nicky having moved back to his native Aberdeen after a successful stint in Glasgow with his band "Hurricanebutterfly" and Reading-born Neil playing with a blues band.
We started jamming a few of Nicky's songs, with Neil's light harmonica style bringing a different dimension to the tunes.
Quite a few gigs followed, appearing as Nicky Powel with Neil Evans - including a last-minute showing at the Edinburgh festival.
But it was after a successful gig at the Liquid Ship in Glasgow that we decided that it was time to take it a bit more seriously. We played every gig we were offered, regardless of how small.
At the end of November 2008 we did a small tour and got out first taste of playing at both ends of the UK.
We had a great time, met some amazing people and can't wait to do it all again.
We've written more songs and played to more people, so our next step is to record a new E.P.
As for 2009â€¦â€¦â€¦let's see what happens!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 15/09/2008
Band Members: Nicky Powel (vocals, guitar)
Neil Evans (harmonica)
Sounds Like: We've racked our brains and it's a bit difficult to pin down exactly what we sound like.
There's a bit of acoustic rock, and Nicky's voice gets a bit of a comparison with the Stereophonics.
But a lot of the stuff has a bluesy edge to it, and with one of the crowd favourites, it even teases the borders of glam rock...although thankfully without the sparkly costumes and make up - that would be going too far!!

"These guys combine strong blues roots with current indie sensibilities to create their own sound...and deliver a dynamic live show with plenty style..."

Dave Arcari ("...alternative blues slide guitarist...")
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Hello, are you Fleetwood Mac?

Greetings. It's been a bit of a hectic month, but we're getting back into the swing of things with more gigs coming up-in weird and wonderful new places.Last week there was another mad dash down south...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:01:00 GMT

2009....but first......

Hello there, how's everyone? I hope you have had a fantastic start to the New Year and I hope you're all the same as me&&&&dying from over indulging over the festive period!! bvI've actually made my...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:33:00 GMT

Destination Scotland

After a very late night in ..:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Portsmouth we woke up and departed for Scotland......at 7AM!! ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:48:00 GMT

Destination: Portsmouth

So a third night in Nottingham went down well. A superb blues jam with some very handy musicians. A 16-year-old who plays like Stevie Ray Vaughan and a 70-year-old who plays harmonica like God himself...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:50:00 GMT

Destination: Nottingham

The usual thing that happens when bands head out "on tour" is they live on crap food, sleep in a tour bus and come back looking like stick insects. But not us... that's not the View From The Top Floo...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:47:00 GMT

Nearly time to go.........CANT EFFING WAIT!!!

Hello there, Its almost time to go!!! Were almost ready to branch out of this small town and play all over the uk......well, 3 venues outside of Aberdeen to be exact. Haha it's small, it's fun and it'...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:27:00 GMT

It this thing on?

Been a while since the last blog and does that mean we've been sitting about on our arses doing nowt? Absolutely not. We're working hard as ever. Nicky's written a couple of rip-roaring tracks and I'v...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:13:00 GMT

band born, Saturday nights and Gym Class Heros!!!!

Allo Allo, this is the first time we put a blog on this page, so ill introduce myself, Names Nicky Powel my evil twin is Neil Evans (not really evil nor my twin&duno what brought that on!) ...Anyways ...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:51:00 GMT