Paul GaRneR

the Paul Garner banD have been toGether For seven years. We recorDeD our First album, What colour Will you see, in 2009 anD it receiveD some rave revieWs, With blues matters at the time PraisinG our ‘increDible maturity, With a unique anD aPProach then we have the awesome talents of Jason Ribeiro on drums and Claudio Corona on organ, with Claudio’s left hand dexterously covering the bass duties. Basically we’re a ues-rock trio, albeit a ‘unique and refreshing’ kind of one, and definitely more on the blues side of the fence. Traditional blues is what I grew up listening to, the whole spectrum from Mississippi, Memphis, Chicago through to my favourite contemporary blues guitarists like Jimmie Vaughan, Robert Cray and Ronnie Earl. But really it was Hendrix that made me want to play guitar, since I was six or seven. Then alongside of that I love great songwriters like Waits, Dylan and John Hiatt.

Whether we’re doing our own songs or covers, really what we do is to try and put those things together in a new way, mixing elements of the early blues roots with contemporary influences and all with our original spin on it. I call our style ‘progressive blues’. We released our second album, 3 Get Ready in 2012. Since then we’ve done our first couple of tours in Europe, including main stage at Horsens Bluesfestival in Denmark (they’ve asked us back again this year), and venues in Holland, Germany, Belgium and Poland. We’ve had such a good response everywhere, it’s been very encouraging. This year we’re playing the Shetlands Blues Festival, also dates in Portsmouth, Edinburgh, Harrogate, Rochester, as well as Belgium and Sweden. It feels like things are really taking off for the band and we hope to do more festivals in the UK next year. See you at a gig real soon! f or tH e late St new S on tH e paul g arner b and vi S it: www.paulgarner.com, or go to: www.facebook.com/paulgarnerband