You can catch top live blues bands and attractions from 8pm every Tuesday at Snobs Bar, 200 Broad Street, Birmingham, B15 1SU.
All performances free admission unless otherwise stated, admission subject to capacity. Doors open at 7pm.
Tuesday 7th October – Martin Burch Band
Sharing a love for the rock of the 1970s and the blues music which helped spawn it, Leicester three piece The Martin Burch Band came together as a side project in early 2020 but quickly developed into the main interest for Martin Burch (guitar, backing vocals) Martin Johnson (vocals and bass guitar) and David Rowe (drums and backing vocals). The Leicestershire based musicians endeavour to convey some of the energy of Rory Gallagher, the groove of Free and the quirky drive of ZZ Top. They will draw on the music of these and bluesmen such as Muddy Waters, B.B., Albert and slot in Burch’s own material while doing their best to send an audience home satisfied and tickled too at the end of a lively evening.
A combined CV would include previous positions playing in Dawson and the Dissenters, the Piranah Brothers, Mama Don’t Allow, the Vikki Clayton Band and many more.
Tuesday 14th October – The Shakedown Brothers
Tuesday 21st October – Sant Anna Bay Coconuts (Belgium)
Tuesday 28th October – The Uptown Jukes
Tuesday 4th November – Steve Young & the Real Time Players
Tuesday 11th November – Alex Voysey Blues Band
Tuesday 18th November – James Oliver Band
Tuesday 25th November – Stuart Maxwell’s Blues Raiders
The History of Henry’s Blueshouse
The original Henry’s Blueshouse opened in The Crown Hotel in 1968 and ran every Tuesday under the flag Tuesdays is Bluesdays. It was said by Melody Maker to be “the first progressive music venue outside of London”.
Organised by trumpet player and band manager Jim Simpson, originally as a platform for Bakerloo Blues Line, later shortened to Bakerloo, it quickly developed into one of the most important music venues in this city. American bluesmen and leading British rock and blues attractions featured weekly at the small upstairs room adjacent to New Street Station which was to gain worldwide recognition as the birthplace of one of the most influential rock bands of all time, Black Sabbath. Simpson became their manager and took them from obscurity to a chart topping attraction with the single “Paranoid” and the albums “Black Sabbath” and “Paranoid”. The latter reached number one on the album chart, a feat not repeated by Black Sabbath until 43 years later.
Henry’s was seen as an important stepping stone to fame by dozens of bands including Status Quo, Jethro Tull, Thin Lizzy, Robert Plant, Judas Priest, Rory Gallagher & Taste, Thin Lizzy, Chicken Shack and Ten Years After – click here to view a full list
American Bluesmen to grace the stage at Henry’s Blueshouse included Arthur Big Boy Crudup, who wrote “That’s Alright Now Mama”, the first Elvis Presley hit, Champion Jack Dupree, Lightnin’ Slim, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Reverend Gary Davis and J.B. Hutto.
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