MIKE WHELLANS

e: Dr JOHN BARROW
m: +44(0)7968 13 17 37
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JUNE 2015
Th 04 KIRKCALDY KY2 5TA Polish Club 01592-26 34 74
Su 14 MELROSE Book Festival
Su 21 GLASGOW Bodega
JULY 2015
Fr 24 CRAIL KY10 3TZ Festival British Legion Hall
Mo 20 EDINBURGH Jazz Festival
AUGUST 2015
Sa 08 KIRKBEAN - private function
Sa 22 PORT OF MENTEITH FK8 3JY Doune The Rabbit Hole Festival Cardross Estate
Th 27 to Su 30 EDINBURGH Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's Edinburgh Festival Fringe
SEPTEMBER 2015
We 16 DUNFERMLINE KY12 9EG Thistle Tavern 01383-72 58 72
DANISH TOUR
Fr 25 September to Su 11 October
OCTOBER 2015
Tu 13 to Fr 23 Germany / Holland available
Sa 24 Germany FRANKFURT AM MAIN 60313 Alte Oper 0049 69 13400
Su 25 Germany / Holland available
"Acoustic Music Centre @St Bride's sell-out shows 2011 to 2014 (incluisve)! Winnner - "Best Act" (Mettman Blues Week 2008, Germany). Unashamedly good rockin' 12-bar blues on 6/12-string guitars (accurately picked at eye-watering speed), mouth-harps (Mike just packs 'em with great music and blows it at you), and a wee tottie drum-kit. Hear his show-stopping vocal percussion; a veritable tour de force. Mike sings, plays drums, writes songs, and just seems to have boundless energy - and that's what it's all about: energy! The most dynamic one-man blues band around the Forth delta. There's one guy on-stage, but close your eyes ... it's Mike Whellans Band!
(Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme, 2015)
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"Mike Whellans is a consummate bluesman: a brilliant songwriter, a sharp singer, and a meanhand at the guitar. Think of him as a Jimmy Reed or Willie Dixon transplanted from Lake Michigan to the shores of Loch Lomond" (Utne Reader).
"Mike Whellans is the real thing, a keeper of the one-man blues band flame that burned so passionately in the work of this highly specialized form’s masters, including Doctor Isaiah Ross, Jesse Fuller and Whellans’ great British forerunner, Tony ‘Duster’ Bennett. Like all true bluesmen and women, when Whellans sings and plays, he means it. He can set a scene of darkness and foreboding as the Boogie Man lurks, play twelve-string guitar in the grand driving blues tradition to propel his Winding Track, and sing of hugging his baby’s deserted pillow so that you really feel his loss. If you’re already familiar with Whellans, you’ll know to expect a fired up and ready one man blues band explosion. But if this is your introduction, prepare to hear a talent who’s not only his own man as a singer, guitarist and ace blues harpist, he’s his own rhythm section, too" (Rob Adams).
MIKE WHELLANS plays 'good time' blues and doesn't believe in doing things by halves. A Whellans gig is straight from the hip energy so you've got a great entertainment in prospect with the most dynamic one-man blues band any side of the Forth delta.
Based in the UK and 'self-contained' with his own PA and transport, he can play an enormous range and style of concerts pretty much anywhere in Britain & is also available for European dates
Read here for more about MIKE WHELLANS.
See DropBox folder Mike Whellans for promotional materials.