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The Bottleneckers

The Bottleneckers

About Me

The Bottleneckers are basically what members of The Five Aces do on our nights off.

What was originally conceived as a duo between Richard & his friend Jon Paul (The Mighty Saturns) playing delta blues swelled to a 5 and sometimes 6 piece band that play 50's Blues and everything from rock n' roll to swing jazz via the occasional delving into of Ska and even Folk guitar and whatever the bejesus we fancy.

We play all round Glasgow unless we are away touring far flung exotic places with the five aces. Keep your eyes peeled for other regular gigs around about Glasgow and the UK.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/15/2005
Band Website: thefiveaces.com
Band Members: Richard - Singing, Harmonica, Occasional slide guitar. Jon Paul - Guitars both slidey, pickey and strummy. Duncan - Guitar - sometimes slidey, usually swingy, sometimes paid to watch from the bar. Mark - Double Bass, things that can be scratched, very infrequent drums. Ross - Right, Look - Drums and that's that. Iain - occasional upright piano mangler.
Influences: Bloody hell, here we go - tunes in our ever growing set have been recorded by the following:Little Walter, Big Walter Horton, Slim Harpo, Sonny Boy Williamson(s), Lightnin' Slim, JB Lenoir, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Magic Sam, Chuck Berry, Billy Boy Arnold, The Mississippi Sheiks, Robert Nighthawk, Louis Jordan, Cab Calloway, T Bone Walker, Charlie Christian, Robert Petway, Mississippi John Hurt, Fred McDowell, Arthur Crudup, Carl Perkins, Prince Buster and quite a few others.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Mossend Youtube Overdose

Crivvens, mair footage from the Mossend gig online. Top quality camerawork at the end of Shame Shame Shame. :-) http://www.youtube.com/user/karensch01...
Posted by The Bottleneckers on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:51:00 PST

Youtube

Couple of videos up on Youtube from one of our visits to the far East below. In fact, this is from the first time we played at the Mossend Folk Club, there's a video from us playing there the second t...
Posted by The Bottleneckers on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:39:00 PST

Vacation Time

The more eagle-eyed of you may have noticed that there's a gap of two weeks in our weekly Tuesday residency listings for Blackfriars (missing out 5th and 12th August). Both our banjo men are going awa...
Posted by The Bottleneckers on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:11:00 PST

A life in pixels... (starring Ross Kemp)

Ehh right, ma da e-mailed me a video of us playing on Saturday, taken on his fancy mobile phone. I attempted to upload it on to Myspace, and I believe I've succeeded. Your task, should you wish to acc...
Posted by The Bottleneckers on Wed, 28 May 2008 03:32:00 PST

Overexposure

Well we can't cross the street these days without the paparazzi hounding us and that. If Duncan is featured in the National Enquirer again this month I think I'll scream (no, he is NOT Roseanne's new ...
Posted by The Bottleneckers on Wed, 07 May 2008 05:50:00 PST

Athletic Vaults Date Change

Hi, Just a note for anybody thinking of attending our gig in The Athletic Vaults in May, the date was listed as Friday 23rd May, but the gig has been moved to the following evening.   R....
Posted by The Bottleneckers on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:28:00 PST

Good news for procrastinators!!

As April draws to a close, with only tonight and next Tuesday left of our residency in Blackfriars, time runs short for those who plan to come down 'some Tuesday'. But wait... No! As the residency has...
Posted by The Bottleneckers on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:47:00 PST

Week 2...

How do, Just to let you know the second weekly installment of our two month residency upstairs in Blackfriars (36 Bell Street, Merchant City, Glasgow) is happening to-nite. Our first one went fairly w...
Posted by The Bottleneckers on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:18:00 PST

The News in Garlic

As you may or may not be awarethose of you in and around (or visiting) the Glasgow area of the world, anywaywe will be doing a weekly Tuesday night in Blackfriars (upstairs) in the Merchant City are...
Posted by The Bottleneckers on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:10:00 PST

She’s Alright b/w Saucy

After a weekend of the usual moving microphones and stuff about for ages type recording session shenanigans, we've pretty much finished the recordings for a projected Bottleneckers 45 (just waiting on...
Posted by The Bottleneckers on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:57:00 PST