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Yesterday's WRC coverage of Friday's Wildhearts (pictured) Shepherd's Bush Empire gig was kindly retweeted by Ginger himself! Anyway, you can find more of John Bull's pics in our Wildhearts Photo Gallery here plus further individual band galleries featuring The Wildhearts, Baby Chaos and Hey!Hello here.

Today is the last day to enter our Jagger competition! Yes Chris Jagger's Atcha will be returning to the Mick Jagger Centre, Dartford DA1 2JZ next Saturday 26th September at 8pm with his five piece band including drummer Malcolm Mortimore (Gentle Giant, Ian Dury), our mate and multi-instrumentalist Charlie Hart (Slim Chance, Eric Clapton) plus also Jagger's ‘trio’ members Elliet Mackrell on the fiddle, bassist Dave Hatfield and of course Chris himself on guitar and vocals. To win a pair of tickets simply e-mail wrinklyrockers11@aol.com the name of Chris’ brother. Editor’s decision is final and alternatively tickets can be purchased for £17.50 (Concessions £15.50) from the MJC Box Office on 01322 291100.

Recognised as one of the finest Blues singers in the UK, five times 'Best UK Female Vocalist', Connie Lush, will be performing with her band at The Eel Pie Club tonight. Earning her place in the gallery of greats, alongside Alexis Korner and Eric Clapton, Connie has also been twice voted 'European Blues Vocalist of The Year' by the 'French Blues Trophies Awards'. In recent years, Connie has performed in over 30 countries and has played at some of Europe's largest and most prestigious festivals, including Glastonbury Festival 2011, wowing audiences in Moscow, New York and LA plus she toured with the late B.B. King throughout the UK, finishing at The Royal Albert Hall! Doors open at 8.30pm and the music starts at 9.15pm. WRC members are reminded that they can use their cards to get discounted £10 admission.

After a busy week of gigs for the WRC - who better to sit back and listen to tonight than Route 66 host Rory Auskerry? So make sure you listen to Pure Radio 107.8FM here between 6pm and 8pm - and if you miss it - watch out for our Track Of The Day later in the week!

And we're not talking about the WRC entourage that attended Wembley Arena last night either! So were ZZ Top dogs and did we clap off Thunder at this highly anticipated gig? Well you'll have to be patient - but for starters check out our hot off the press Video Of The Day and the pic above with a considered review plus more photos and vids to come tomorrow!

We're grateful to WRC member Keith Baxter for this take on Larry Miller's recent gig in Kinross. "An ardent bunch of hardened Larry Miller fans witnessed him in all his glory. His vocal meanderings between songs only served to give us a heartfelt sense of belonging. Ranging from full on Blues rockers to quiet emotional songs, we the audience were privy to impassioned playing by a man unparalled in his field. Quite how he does it is an absolute mystery as it appears to pour out from his very soul. So we came away priveliged to have seen such a professional at the very top of his game." Nice one Keith - we pretty much had the exact same feeling after Larry headlined BluesFest 2013. And we make no apologies for Larry's opener once again being our Vid Of The Day!

Two weeks of recording has seen Blues Rock outfit Blacktop Deluxe add another ten Tracks to 'Suds & Crow' and so their second album is beginning to take shape! Bearing in mind tomorrow is the 71st anniversary of D-Day - one of their new tracks is 'Gibraltar Barn' - a humble tribute to the extreme bravery and sacrifice of the women and men of the Special Operations Executive (see our Video Of The Day). The Blacktops' are also still hopeful that the new album will include a possible very special guest guitar appearance on one (or even two tracks) if they are lucky enough to get his label to give him permission! Meanwhile pre-orders of the new album can be made here!

"Thanks for braving the elements - luck of the Devils" bass guitarist Graeme Wheatley tweeted us the morning after the night before! Yes the weather was pretty crap as the WRC entourage got soaked walking along the embankment on Thursday night towards Tamesis Dock for 2014 WRC Award Winners Little Devils' album launch. The irony of the name of their new CD 'The Storm Inside' was not lost on us - but its recent critical acclaim was the carrot as we approached the Dutch Barge in torrential rain. Needless to say the evening improved once we had a beer and Little Devil's came on stage earlier than expected at around 9pm. Another wry smile as they opened with 'Storm Warning' and despite a few sound gremlins - they professionally shrugged that off and then launched into the impressive 'Heavy Weather' (cue another wry smile) that showcased all elements of this four-piece band plus their originality with lead singer Yoka Qureshi playing both the sax and flute. The set list then correlated with the CD as they followed up with 'Wounded', 'Skin Sin', the very catchy 'Deep Inside' and 'Birth Of The Blues' - highlighting the musical (and personal) chemistry between Yoka and lead guitarist (and partner) Ray Qureshi. B.B. would have loved that one. 'A Long Time Ago' (see Vid Of The Day) introduced Graeme on vocals with Yoka complementing on flute, however, the driving force of drummer Sara Shaw as the spine of Little Devils really hit home with the ballad 'The Ghost Of Your Kiss'. Yoka's vocals were back to the fore on 'All About Love' and their single 'My Perfect You' - perhaps this was the perfect storm! The last track from 'TSI' 'Stand' was sandwiched in between Bonnie Raitt's 'Love Me Like A Man' and 'Orphans Of The Storm' from their 2009 album 'This Is How It Starts' which in hindsight was indeed prophetic given the quality of this latest release. Suffice to say those that had the pleasure of attending the gig had forgotten about the storm outside but had loved 'The Storm Inside'. Go to our picture gallery here. AJ.

Today's Black On Blues Track Of The Day is another popular Blues women special including Sunday Wilde, Val Starr And The Blue Rockets, Debbie Bond, Funkyjenn, Fran McGillvray & Mike Burke (pictured) and Hurricane Ruth.

Just a few months after releasing their fourth studio album 'Havoc', Progressive Metallers Circus Maximus (Vid Of The Day) are popping over from Norway to the United Kingdom for a one-off show at London's Underworld here on Saturday 27th August. Formed in 2000 and initially being a covers band, they gained much credit for their versions of technically challenging tracks by top bands such as Dream Theater and Symphony X, and then started writing their own material for their first album 'The 1st Chapter' which was released in May 2005. Further albums followed; these being 'Isolate' released in August 2007 and 'Nine' released in June 2012, before 'Havoc' was released in March 2016. Since 2005 the band line-up has been vocalist Michael Eriksen, brothers Mats Haugen (guitars) and Truls Haugen (drums), bassist Glen Cato Møllen and keyboardist Lasse Finbråten.

".. And if that wasn't enough the cover of Cocker and the Beatles original ‘With A Little Help From My Friends’ virtually blew the top of the Blues Tent right off! Simply fecking brilliant.. JD isn't a raconteur and at one point apologized for not saying much saying that "dialogue was through the songs." Too bloody right! The Blues Rock market is crowded right now as people look to the past for their future inspiration, but there’s a way to get your music heard above the rest. Be so good you can’t be ignored. And if talent counts for anything, then in ten years time, it’s the Nashville based Simo that are set for arenas. They are to soon to complete 3 European tours since inception and the latest album ‘Let Love Show The Way’ has received great critical acclaim... Onwards and upwards surely if there is any justice....." Check out WRC correspondent Steve Borkowski's latest SIMO Ramblin' Man Vid Of The Day today plus of course the rest of Wrinkly The Silver's awesome Sunday review here.

If there is a down side to seeing Joe tonight (surely not?), then not only are we missing the England game (probably a good thing) but we are also missing Ramblin' Man Saturday Main Stage openers Inglorious tonight (see our Download Vid Of The Day) at the first of two 'Road to Ramblin' Man' FREE gigs at Big Reds on Holloway Road, London. The second gig is Sunday's Blue Stage's Tax the Heat on Friday 15th July.