You can catch top live blues bands and attractions from across the UK and further afield 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 20th May – The Shufflepack
Tuesday 27th May – Dirt Road Band (featuring Steve Walwyn [Dr. Feelgood], Horace Panter [The Specials], Ted Duggan [Badfinger])
Tuesday 3rd June – Honeyboy Hickling Blues Band
Tuesday 10th June – Jamie Thyer & The Worried Men
Tuesday 17th June – Martin Burch Band
Tuesday 24th June – Rich Dickinson’s Driving Force
The Junction, 212 High Street, Harborne, B17 9PT
Every 2nd Sunday of the Month
Doors 6pm. Live music from 7pm
Free admission
Sunday 8th June – Jamie Thyer & The Worried Men
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.
