Thursday
the 25th of July. BLUE's Theme Night featuring "TOM COLBORN"
& Guests
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On
arrival @ the venue you are confronted with Steve the Doorman
and asked for your Entrance Fee of just £3 which goes towards
a different local Charity for each event, plus this years Ely
Feast, itself a Charitable Community Organisation and lastly,
if enough "Hillman Hunters" show up, the Band..!
TOM COLBORN Gig - The Score;
Money
Raised, £30
£10
To a Charity. Held over till next
gig.
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It was a bit different
again this week...
This week the
Feast Committee treated us to a
Top Blues Guitarist / Singer by the name of Tom Colborn described
by RealCity Magazine as a "brilliant blues Guitarist" and
"prodigiously talented".
The
theme for this week was the Blue's and locally, or Globally for that
matter, they don't come much more Bluesy than Tom
Colborn...
Tom's
next engagements after this night @ PURE is The Cambridge
Folk Festival which goes some way to describing just how good
our Tom is at playing the Blues.
Tom looks a lot like Jarvis Cocker
when he was trendy and young but that is where the similarity ends
as he batters out some real genuine sounding Blues songs. If I were
in New Orleans and Tom was the entertainer, I would think he was the
grandson of a famous Blues player...except he ain't black..!
THE
BIT IN THE MIDDLE
L!VE G!Gs @ PURE
proudly present
"The Bit in the Middle"
 Oh
yes...
...them
again..
The Max Sax Duo made interesting
viewing again this week as they "Blues up" some
classic Songs such as "How I learned to Sing the Blues",
"Summer Time Blues", "Singing the Blues"
and other songs with the word "Blue"
in the title.
Instead of the Saxophone Al bought along his Midi Wind Sound
Controlling Generator Instrument thang this week and treated
us to some sounds that you just don't hear every day that
fitted well with their version of the Blues which really did
bring tears to the eyes...
 Also
performing in the "Bit in
the Middle" this week was "JE", or half of
the great Local Band "JEFF"
who gave us some modern and original songs in the style of
the Blues.
Ian & Andrew have performed this spot before and deserve
respect for the fact that they dare, where others dare not
for fear of ridicule, although it has to be said that not
many have a voice as good as Andrew or a harmony as good as
Ian.
Prince Charmin's the pair of 'em and it will not be long,
I am sure, before JEFF, the full band will be appearing again
@ PURE and other top venues..!
http://www.jeffofficial.co.uk
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So
back came Tom to play us out with some "real" Blues numbers
where the "Bit in the Middlers" had just pretended...
Tom
plays finger picking Blues & Slide Guitar Blues both, very convincingly.
He played his songs and other people's songs
equally as effectively
with gravel in his guts and spit in his eye.
I
can say in all honesty, that if a Blues comeback is around the corner,
Tom Colborn will be riding high on that new wave.
If it remains a niche, specialist market, you will find Tom playing
the hippest Concept Blues bars.
Review - Michael Gillett
mg@ely.org.uk
