The venue might have been new to us on Friday night, but the band and the songs certainly weren't. Indeed you can substitute the smaller but very pleasant 229 The Venue in London's Great Portland Street for the cavernous Great British Music Festival at Olympia 41 years earlier - but there's no substitute for the legendary Scottish rockers Nazareth. The current line up consisting of Pete Agnew - bass, Lee Agnew - drums, Jimmy Murrison - guitar and Carl Sentance - vocals, blasted out all their favourites including 'Hair of the Dog', 'Love Hurts', 'My White Bicycle', 'This Flight Tonight', 'Razamanaz', 'Shanghai'd In Shanghai' and finished with 'Broken Down Angel'. With great support from the Sabbath sounding Death & the Miser, check out our photo gallery from the gig here.

Today's Track Of The Day is the new single from Mollie Marriott entitled 'Truth is A Wolf' which was released on Friday. Mollie is the daughter of the late Small Faces/Humble Pie legend Steve Marriott, and Paul Weller features on the single playing Hammond organ and guitar. The single is the title track taken from Mollie’s forthcoming album due to be released on Mollie’s own Amadeus Music label on Friday 3rd November. Mollie is also the special guest on Bad Touch’s November UK tour (photo courtesy of Rob Blackham) which includes London's O2 Islington Academy on Sunday 26th November.

At their peak, Nazareth were huge, selling vast quantities of albums and hit singles, pulling in enormous crowds to their shows all over the world. Like all the best bands, Nazareth came from humble roots. They formed in Dunfermline, Scotland, and played the Scottish clubs throughout the 1960’s in their original incarnation as The Shadettes. The name change to Nazareth came in 1971 when the band moved to London to start what was to become a long and illustrious recording career. Fast forward 46 years to last night and London's 229 The Venue, Great Portland Street, where the current line up consisting of Pete Agnew - bass, Lee Agnew - drums Jimmy Murrison - guitar and Carl Sentance - vocals, pumped out all their classics including 'Hair of the Dog', 'Love Hurts', 'My White Bicycle', 'This Flight Tonight', 'Dream On', 'Where Are You Now' and 'Razamanaz', but no 'Woke Up This Morning' and 'Bad Bad Boy'. With great support from Death & the Miser, check out today's Video Of The Day with more photos to come.

Today's Track Of The Day features Wishbone Ash playing 'Persephone' at The Rockpalast, Cologne on 1st December 1976. Their line up that day was Andy Powell - guitar, vocals, Martin Turner - bass, vocals, Laurie Wisefield - guitar, vocals and Steve Upton - drums and indeed Turner, as part of his "The Beauty Of Chaos 2017" tour, plays London's iconic 100 Club tonight. Meanwhile, Powell's Wishbone Ash also play London's O2 Academy Islington this coming Thursday 19th October, supported by one man Canadian power trio Steve Hill.

"If you are going to sing and play the Blues, you need to have been around a bit, you need to have lived. Walter Trout has been about a bit and he’s lived. And he has died a couple of times too. Four years on from his traumatic liver failure and replacement, the once prolific six string demon had to learn to walk and talk again, let alone find his way around a fretboard. But years of relearning the instrument again from scratch has returned Mr. Trout to the shoal of top guitarists in the world. His cathartic 2015 album 'Battle Scars' saw Walter put his traumas into words and music with such skill as belied his tortuous ascent from the depths of disability and despair and the man taking the stage today shows only remnants of his life altering experience." Read the whole of Mother's Walter Trout Under The Bridge gig review from Wednesday here plus check out our photo gallery here.

Friday the thirteenth is lucky for a change given today's Video Of The Day is Idlewar's 'Hang' taken from their new CD 'Rite' which was released yesterday on Off Yer Rocka Recordings. Similarly, today sees the release of albums by both King King and Bigfoot (pictured), namely 'Exile & Grace' and 'Bigfoot' respectively with both bands supporting their new releases with UK tours - Bigfoot this month and next - and King King in January next year.

"Joni Mitchell's 'This Flight Tonight' was the first Nazareth single I ever bought and Agnew's bass was as tight as ever on this Rock classic. An honour to witness it. Murrison's Zep type riff on 'One Set Of Bones' from 'Rock 'N' Roll Telephone' was literally a classic head-banger as my air guitar mate managed to crack heads with me! No offence taken although Sentance slowed things down with 'Dream On' although they upped a gear with the Bluesy Pop of 'Holiday'. The mid-set recess continued with 'Turn On Your Receiver' from 'Loud 'n' Proud' - always thought that one sounded a bit like 'Last Train To Clarksville'!" That was part of our take two year's ago on Nazareth's sadly departed O2 Brooklyn Bowl gig, but we are off to see the guys again tonight at London's 229 The Venue.

The Blues Club Podcast Track Of The Day returns on a Friday with another two hours of non-stop Best in Blues with More Music and Less Chat, featuring New Releases, Classic Tracks, UK Independent Blues Broadcasters Association Presenters' Picks and much more. Music this week Includes tracks from Tommy Castro, Mindi Abair, Kelly Zirbes, Hamilton Loomis, Van Morrison, Savoy Brown, Pam Taylor, Rebecca Downes, Benny Turner, King King, Sunday Wilde & Reno Jack, Brothers Osborne, Kings & Associates, The Hoodle, Norman Beaker, Gregg Allman, Mississippi MacDonald, Walter Trout (pictured), Dave Ferra, The Rolling Stones, Hamish Anderson, Richard Townend & The Mighty Bosscats, Laurence Jones, Chris Rea, Sam Kelly's Station House, Robert Hokum, Johnny Rawls, Chris Daniels and the Kings, Richard van Bergen, Dee's Honeytones, B. B. & The Blues Shacks and more.

Last night Walter Trout completed the second of his two gigs at London's Under The Bridge as part of his UK tour supported by 2016 WRC Award 'Best Blues Rock Performance' winner Sari Schorr & The Engine Room. Anyway, with a review from last night's gig in the pipeline from Mother, if last night was as good as Tuesday night then they would have seen Walter on "top masterful form" as our new buddy Jim from Ayr - who was down for both gigs - put it! Check out not only today's awesome Video Of The Day featuring Walter and his guests father and son Matt and Paul Long from Catfish, but also have a look at our photo gallery from Tuesday night here.

John Idan, lead guitarist/vocalist with the world famous Yardbirds, is taking a break from touring tonight to play some great Rhythm ‘n’ Blues at The Eel Pie Club, The Patch, 67 London Road, Twickenham TW1 3SZ with his own band, The Natural Blues Band - which he originally formed in his home city of Detroit. Doors open at 8.30pm with music from 9-11pm. WRC members are reminded that they can use their cards to get discounted admission.

Celebrated Rock guitarist Michael Schenker's tour starts next month on Thursday 2nd November at the London O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire followed by Sheffield O2 Academy (3rd), Manchester O2 Ritz (4th) and Hull City Hall (5th). Tickets for the concerts, with the exception of Hull are available here, whilst Hull are available here. Support is from UK Rock band Departed as the ‘Michael Schenker Fest’ project reunites the original Michael/McAuley Schenker Group vocalists – Gary Barden, Graham Bonnet and Robin McAuley, plus MSG musicians Steve Mann (guitar, keys), Chris Glen (bass) and Ted McKenna (drums).

On today's 2016 WRC Award winning Rock On The Ridge Track Of The Day - apart from some great music from the likes of Wicked Stone, At The Sun, Monster Truck, Mount Holly and loads more - there is also a very special guest on the show, namely Pete K Mally - Rock Comic (pictured). Anyway, listen to Jules & Bob as they find out not only about Pete's new 2018 Live 'n' Loud show in Bristol, Epsom, Manchester, London and Nottingham but also about Progtoberfest in Balham on Sunday 29th October which Pete is hosting.