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Today's Track Of The Day is Jukin Jenn's Bucket of Blues Show number 21 originally broadcast on Sunday 14th June. This latest podcast from Chicago features amongst others: Buddy Guy, Guy King and Rockin Johnny! Enjoy!

No surprises we guess as we continue our pick of the bands over the three Ramblin' Man stages this Sunday. Yes we gave a massive hint yesterday that we would be heading towards the Prog Stage to hopefully catch the end of Knifeworld's set - so the next band on our list has to be WRC favourites The Pineapple Thief (our Vid Of The Day) who are on stage at 3.35pm. The WRC actually saw TPT's very first gig at The Whitchurch Festival twelve years ago but they were actually formed in 1999 by founder and chief songwriter Bruce Soord as an experimental bedroom project! TPT have pursued a distinctive and idiosyncratic path over the years; always evolving, always progressing, but never forgetting that the most potent weapon in any artist’s arsenal is the lovingly crafted song itself. Widely hailed as one of the most powerful and invigorating live rock bands the UK has produced in a long time, TPT have refined and redefined their sound over and over again since those tentative early days. Recent albums like Someone Here Is Missing (2010) All The Wars (2012) and their latest Magnolia (2014) have contributed hugely to their reputation and renown, garnering frothing plaudits from the rock media and drawing in fans from across today’s vast alternative music spectrum.

Recently showcased in one of our 'Introducing ....' features and given that the WRC are proponents of 'Keeping Music Live' - Kaz and her Band O’Men are playing The South Woodchester Convent, Stroud, Gloucestershire at 8pm tonight - and if you can't make it to the venue - then you can still be 'there'. With support gigs under her belt such as Sir Van Morrison, Nanci Griffiths and Chris Farlow - Kaz launched her debut album 'Get Ready' and received a raft of top notch notices. Recently awarded the 2014 Rising Star Award from the world famous Blues & Soul Magazine and being a British Blues Award nominee in 2013 has brought much attention from the music industry in the UK. And you can also be 'there' tonight by booking a live stream here. Enjoy!

If you're looking to chill out tonight before a very busy Bank Holiday weekend then don't forget to tune into Kev Beale's Blues On The Marsh Channel Radio show here between 7pm and 9pm. And if you do manage to miss it - then don't worry - watch out for our Track Of The Day podcast in a few day's time!

Great show from The Rock On The Ridge team last Saturday which included WRC favourites TESLA! As usual there were lots of tweets flying about on the night - one of which was the WRC's "TESLA COMIN' ATCHA" - which was actually favourited by TESLA themselves! We're not worthy! Meanwhile the bad news is that there is no ROTR show tonight ... but the good news is that both Bob & Jules will be bringing their microphones etc. to BluesRockfest to interview all the bands on the day for our special BluesRockfest Wrinklycast! Watch this space!

Yesterday's tweet by The Rainbreakers said it all "Only two days until we support @TheMentulls in @leosredlion Gravesend! Wall to Wall #BluesRock! RB @WRINKLYCLUB". Yes - tomorrow night The Mentulls make a welcome return to The Red Lion in Gravesend after two hugely successful appearances at our annual BluesFest. They don't visit the South of England that often so make sure you don't miss them - tickets here are £6 in advance or £7.50 on the door. The Rainbreakers will also be back again on the 4th July at this years BluesRockfest and tickets will be on sale on Friday night for a special £10 as opposed to the normal advance price of £15. And to give you a taster of what to expect we have made our WRC gigs Wrinklycast our 'Track Of The Day'!

One of the UK's top Blues/rock guitarists Robin Bibi will be playing at The Eel Pie Club, The Patch, 67 London Road, Twickenham TW1 3SZ tonight. Having paid his dues working with such names as Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, Ben E. King, The Pretty Things and Helen Shapiro - Robin launched The Robin Bibi Band in the late 1990's. Doors open at 8.30pm and the band are on stage at 9pm. Robin is our 'Track Of The Day' and WRC members are reminded that they can use their cards to get discounted £8 admission.

Well it can't get any more official than appearing on the t-shirt could it? Yes - our Virgil and The Accelerators Red Lion, Gravesend gig on Friday 1st May is embalazoned across the official tour t-shirt - but the question is have you got your tickets yet? For ticket information go here or for discounted ticket info (if you are a WRC member or want to become a WRC member) go here.

Yes 'One Man Blues Boogie Machine' Andy Twyman is playing the Tuesday Night Music Club at The Comrades Club, 194 Brighton Road, Coulsdon, Greater London, CR5 2NF tonight. The former winner of our 2013 WRC 'Best Acoustic' award for his performance at BluesFest 2013 will hopefully have some clothes on tonight during his set following his Christmas single 'A Naked Noel'!

Eighteen months after John Verity unfortunately had to pull out of BluesFest 2014 because of band illness, JV finally made it to Leos Red Lion last night ... and it was well worth the wait. Supported by The Unknown, an appreciative audience lapped up the ex-Argent Blues Man as he mixed it up with some of his own stuff plus both Blues classics and of course 'Hold Your Head Up'. Anyway, check out our Vid Of The Day with more pics and a review to come.

Yes 'Blues at The Woodlands' at the Woodlands Art Centre, Gillingham ME6 2DU returns tonight with Steve Morrison Blues Abuse (Vid Of The Day). Tickets are £10 and doors open at 7pm. For more information call 0300 065 8210 or e-mail r&abrother@aol.com and don't forget that WRC members get £2 off the normal admission on production of a valid WRC members card.

"With the crowd already warmed up with the first two tracks, “Bono” was quick to latch on to the lyrics of the next track namely 'Even Better Than the Real Thing' by motioning to each member of the band as he repeated the lyric – no one in the crowd appeared to disagree with the sentiment. Next up was 'Mysterious Ways' which AJ had eluded too and the noise from the crowd moved up a notch. The set was moving along nicely before organiser Ciara was invited on to the stage to duet with Bono to the anthem 'I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For' (Vid Of The Day) – to say the roof came off is an understatement and it was thoroughly deserved. With the crowd fully engaged by now they were not going to slacken the pace and three heavyweight tracks followed in 'Vertigo', 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' and 'Beautiful Day' soon to be joined by 'I Will Follow'. If that wasn’t enough we still had 'The Streets Have No Name' and 'With Or Without You' to come. Brilliant evening and not just because of the quality of the band." See our Vid Of The Day and read the rest of Wrinkly's U2-2 review here.