Legendary Blues Rock guitarist and singer-songwriter, Robin Trower, best known for his 1974 milestone album “'Bridge of Sighs'”, began his 13-date October UK Tour last Friday night at The Waterfront in Norwich. Robin's special guest on all dates is none other than BluesRockFest headliners the Stevie Nimmo Band (pictured) and we will be at their Islington Assembly Hall gig on Tuesday 18th October. Trower’'s latest album, “'Where You Are Going To”', was released in the UK earlier this year by Manhaton Records.

The Marshman had the amazing Black Market III live in the Channel Radio studio on Blues On The Marsh last night. Anyway, today's Track Of The Day also includes tracks from The Rev. Marc Falconberry, Kenny Neal, Janice Harrington and The Ken Landings Band, Deb Ryder, Big Head Blues Club, Red Butler, Mighty Sam McClain, Liz Mandeville, Felicia Collins, Blackberry Smoke and a Blues track from Belarus!!!!!

British Southern Blues Rock group Bad Touch have premiered the official video for their new single '99%' which is today's Vid Of The Day. It’s taken from their new studio album 'Truth Be Told' which is due to be released on Friday 2nd December. The 5-piece rock band from Norfolk, who recently supported the Kentucky Headhunters on their critically acclaimed sell-out UK tour, will embark on a UK co-headline tour on Saturday 19th November 19th with Australian Rock band Massive. The new album sees Bad Touch celebrating Classic Rock with Southern boogie influences, supported with heavy guitar riffs and an iron-clad, tight rhythm section, in the great tradition of Black Crowes, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Led Zeppelin.

Today's October 2016 WRC e-mail Bulletin not only looks back at our amazing BluesRockFest but also other September gigs including Cortes, Sari Schorr & The Engine Room, The John Verity Band and The Blues & Burlesque Revue plus interviews with Circus Maximus and Slim Chance. With Wrinklystock 5 now on the horizon, we also look ahead to October gigs from Brit Floyd, Robin Trower, Nickelback, Bad Company, Amor & Fisk and Broken Witt Rebels. Remember just go here to sign up for FREE membership where you can get discounts on selected gigs and merchandise! And if you are not currently on our e-mail circulation list then please send us your details in the contact box below!

Today's Blues Club Podcast Track Of The Day has 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 tracks from some artists and bands appearing at the Chelmsford Blues in the City Festival this weekend including King King, Red Butler, Kaz Hawkins Band, RootBone, Catfish (pictured), Eric Clapton, Sari Schorr, Trev Turley & Friends, Deb Ryder, The Ken Tucker Band, Jason Elmore and Hoodoo Witch, Southern Culture on the Skids, Lew Jetton, Northsyde, New Orleans Suspects, Enrico Jerimiah Marques, Vaneese Thomas, Jamie Williams & the Roots Collective, Bobby Rush, Elles Bailey, Tommy Castro, Dove and Boweevil, Bruce Katz, Mark Harrison, Fabulous Thunderbirds, GT's Boos Band, Kat Kings, Pete Harris Blues Band & Jon Vaughan, B. B. & The Blues Shacks and more.

Not only does The Marshman have the amazing Black Market III live in the studio here on Blues On The Marsh at 7pm tonight, but there are also tracks from The Rev. Marc Falconberry, Kenny Neal, Janice Harrington and The Ken Landings Band, Deb Ryder, Big Head Blues Club, Red Butler (pictured), Mighty Sam McClain, Liz Mandeville, Felicia Collins, Blackberry Smoke and a Blues track from Belarus!!!!!

Rock legends Iron Maiden continue their hugely successful 'The Book of Souls' World Tour into 2017 with a series of European arena shows opening in Antwerp, Belgium on Saturday 22nd April, before heading into the UK and Ireland for an extensive series of concerts in May including The O2 Arena London on Saturday 27th May - and we will be there. 'The Book Of Souls' World Tour opened in Florida, U.S.A. in February 2016 visiting 36 countries using their new 747 jumbo jet Ed Force One (pictured here at Download) piloted by frontman Bruce Dickinson which flew band, crew and 22 tonnes of equipment over 61,500 miles across six continents during the 72 date leg playing to around 1.5 million fans. 'The Book Of Souls' is Maiden’s first ever double studio album and their most successful chart-wise to date, debuting at the #1 spot in over 40 countries around the globe.

"The blues? Yo' mean Sat'day night music played by no-good folks who don' wan' work in the fields? Preachers, they calls it the devil's music." Those words are spoken by a character in Fat Man Blues, a new novel by Richard Wall, and are typical of Richard's attempt to get under the skin of the Blues. He uses a lot of colloquial language like this in doing so, and pretty successfully. Since a review copy came in, which is also being curated into what is becoming the British Blues Exhibition, the book has been around, getting itself seen on the British Blues scene. To read more - go to Blog Of The Blues here.

The WRC introduced you to Idlewar, a three piece Rock band in the best tradition of a power trio - formed in 2014 hailing from Orange County, California! So were recently delighted to hear from our mate and Idlewar drummer Pete Pagonis about their new video from their debut LP 'Impulse' (Vid Of The Day) which will be released this Friday 30th September. Not only that, but the band including James Blake (bass and vocals) and Rick Graham (guitar) are touring the UK in late November/early December!

The fallout from BluesRockFest continues with more brilliant pics here from John Bull in addition to our photo gallery here - plus praise from Jack J Hutchinson (pictured) for our Vid of 'Get It Back' - "Thanks for the footage dude." It was also good to hear from Gary Seager from LastMinuteBandzBad Pennies - "Congratulations you guys - looks like yesterday's blues rock fest was a huge success with a great line up and a fantastic turn out. I'm glad all the hard work paid off." We also had cheeky best wishes from the Cornish Delta from Tim Chapple of The Movers enquiring about next year's line up - consequently they are our Track Of The Day!

UK Rock trio RavenEye have unleashed a new video for the song 'Madeline' - which is the third track they’ve made available from their debut album NOVA released last Friday via Frontiers srl. By the time he was 25 singer/guitarist Oli Brown had been hailed by Mojo as “the hottest young pistol in British Blues”, released four solo albums and toured the world for 10 years with legends such as Jeff Beck and Buddy Guy. Two years ago he gave all that up for the love of Rock and RavenEye was born! Now boasting Aaron Spiers on bass and with a new drummer in place – 21 year old Adam Breeze - the band are set to take 2016 by storm. The band also embark on a UK tour next month including Leos Red Lion, Gravesend on Friday 18th November.

That was the message from Route 66 host Rory Auskerry ahead of Sunday night's show. As we know - Rory is a man of his word as today's Track Of The Day testifies! Check out new tracks from the Jimmy Bez Blues Band, Mollys Daggers and Jared James Nichols (pictured) plus classic rock hits from Steve Miller Band, Deep Purple (1968-1976) and Van Halen.