UK 'live' dates: Climax Blues Band - 'Couldnt Get It Right' hitmakers return with ph

CLIMAX BLUES BAND – UK, ‘LIVE’!

Phenomenal response to their new studio album, ‘Hands Of Time’.

“Classy recording, very classy album. Back to the heady heights of 'Gold Plated'. Full to the brim with radio-friendly tracks”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o60RpEBLK_k (Hands Of Time)

" ‘Hands Of Time’ is a brave step forward. It’s the sound of a mature band drawing on historic roots to explore polished songcraft through a mix of deep funky grooves with a soulful feel, born of bluesy antecedents. Colin Cooper would surely have approved. **** ! (Pete Feenstra, Get Ready To Rock! )

Founded in the 60's, by Colin Cooper, Climax Blues Band has always focused on its roots, a unique combination of jazz and blues. After 50 years, 21 albums, the classic world-wide hit ‘Couldn't Get It Right’ and tours of the UK, Europe and the US, Climax Blues Band are now touring with a new album of original material and still playing the blues in a creative way that has always been synonymous with their name

Founder member Colin Cooper led Climax Blues Band from the mid-1980s, George Glover having been on the keyboards since 1981 and Lester Hunt on guitar since 1986. Roy Adams and Neil Simpson joined the band on a permanent basis around 1990 on drums and bass guitar, and in the 90s the band released the live album 'Blues From The Attic' and the 'Big Blues' studio album, ‘The Songs of Willie Dixon’. This band continued to tour around the UK and Europe, and a US Tour until Colin’s very sad untimely death in 2008.

His wishes were for the band to carry on, and it took a while before the right recruits were found in Graham Dee on vocals, and Chris ‘Beebe’ Aldridge on saxes, both supremely talented and with the level of commitment to continuing the Climax Blues Band journey with passion and style, always acknowledging the history of the band but energy and enthusiasm to move forwards.

UK and European shows confirmed this approach and the live album ‘Security Alert’ (mixed by Roy Wood of The Move, Wizzard and ELO fame) was released in 2014, to a great response from fans old and new, mostly covering songs from the Climax back-catalogue and representing the bands new approach to these songs. However, the main objective was to introduce new songs to the repertoire and work towards a brand new studio album. A sneak preview 4 track CD EP, 'Tempus Fugit' was released for sale only at shows in 2017, working up to the full album ‘Hands of Time’ - 13 new songs released in January 2019, and the live set has become very much the sound of Climax Blues Band today, with Graham and Chris stamping their personalities on the music, with the unmistakeable Climax groove at the heart of the music. The album shot to the top of the Amazon Hot New Release Download chart, and Number 3 in the iTunes Blues Chart.

JANUARY 2019

30th: SWITZERLAND Konzertfabrik Z7 Pratteln, Switzerland

31st: AUSTRIA Altes Kino Rankweil, Rankweil, Austria

FEBRUARY

1st: SWITZERLAND Muhle Hunziken Konzert AG, Rubigen

2nd: SWITZERLAND Kultur Im Eisenwerk, Frauenfeld

20th: YORK, Fibbers 3-5 Toft Green, York YO1 6JT https://www.ticketweb.uk/event/climax-blues-band-fibbers-tickets/8831375

22ND: EDINBURGH, La Belle Angele

23RD: TROON Winter Blues Fest

24TH: LIVERPOOL, Liverpool Philharmonic

MARCH

1ST: TORRINGTON, Plough Arts Centre

7TH: STOKE, Eleven

8TH: BILSTON, Robin 2

9th: LONDON, Borderline

13th: WAVENDON, The Stables

APRIL

12th: KINROSS, Backstage At The Green

14th: SHEFFIELD HRH The Blues Festival

MAY

31ST: LICHFIELD, Guildhall

JUNE

14TH: CANTERBURY, Blues on the Farm

JULY

7TH: DUFFIELD, The Eyes Have It Festival

AUGUST

2ND: FAVERSHAM, A New Day Festival

DECEMBER

13TH CAMBRIDGE, The Junction

More shows to be announced!

https://climaxbluesband.com/