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What with Christmas, all our recent gigs and our up and coming awards announcements - we thought another band addition to our LastMinuteBandz service was well overdue! As you probably read, we had the pleasure of Geoff Carne's company recently at Def Leppard - Geoff even given us his take on proceedings here. Well Geoff is the vocals/guitar half of Geoff Carne & The Hatz with drummer/percussionist Mick Armstrong making up the other 50%! Anyway read more about the guys here plus have a gander at our Track of The Day!

With normal service sort of resumed today at Wrinkly Towers after Christmas Day & Boxing Day - we thought we would remind you that you only have five days left to vote in our 2015 WRC Awards! Simply choose your favourite from each of the eleven categories provided here (see our SIMO Vid Of The Day) and hit the vote button. You have until midnight 31st December to make your choice and only one vote per category per e-mail address is allowed - so there. So what are you waiting for? Spread the good news and make sure your favourite band gets the votes it deserves!

We pass the halfway mark in our 2015 WRC Awards today with the news that Paul Turley of Albany Down (pictured on our 2016 WRC Calendar) has won our 'Best Guitar Solo' award. Simply check out today's Vid Of The Day to see why Paul deserved this award beating of esteemed company such as Ramblin' Man's Danny Bryant and BluesRockFest's Troy Redfern! Paul certainly did the WRC proud at both our Christmas Bash plus BluesRockfest and don't forget you can still purchase the official 2015 BluesRockFest DVD/CD here for a bargain £10 + p&p featuring both two video and two audio tracks from each of the six artists that appeared on that Summer's day. WRC Members of course also get 10% off by simply entering their coupon code!

Take the UK Independent Blues Broadcasters Association albums of the month, add some new releases and top it up with artists that are playing at The Tuesday Night Music Club in the coming months and you end up with last Tuesday's Blues On The Radio show Track Of The Day that includes music from Chad Strentz (who played the TNMC last Tuesday), Eddie Martin's Big Red Radio, Tabitha, Thorbjorn Risager, Backwater Roll, Trevor Sewell, Karena K (pictured), Malaya Blue, Jesse Davey, Rosco Levee & The Southern Slide, Matt Woosey, Angela Lewis Brown, Fran McGillivray Band, Bob Malone, Riotous Brothers, Stolen Hearts, Half Deaf Clatch, Hazmat Modine, Catfish, Lily Martin and Kim Simmonds & Savoy Brown.

Thanks to all of you for your messages of support following the publication of our November 2015 WRC Bulletin. It was particularly good to hear from our mate Pete Lovett of Midnight Blues Train who we featured on our 'Introducing ....' page in March. Pete told us that he also saw Joe Bonamassa in Cardiff last week plus the fact that MBT have released a newer track 'Long Time Coming' which is our Track Of The Day!

The Replicants start their year later than usual - but have two gigs in April - they return to The Jolly Farmers in Purley on Saturday 4th April (free entry) and then two weeks later on Saturday 18th April when they play The Carlton Centre in Sidcup. Remember that the doors now open earlier at 7pm for the Sidcup gig with support band The Prenups now on stage at 7.30pm. Don't forget that tickets can be purchased here for £5 - however, if you are a WRC member then you can purchase your tickets here for £4!

As they say "Every cloud has a silver lining". After the cancellation of the Stone Blind Scream Lounge gig, the WRC advertised for a replacement band and we were inundated with bands who wanted to take up the offer - but although the date was finally canned - we have now come across a number of great new bands to promote! One of which is Paradise Underground who are consequently our 'Introducing ...' feature today! They are a four-piece Indie Rock band with influences from The Strokes, The Libertines and Blur to name a few. The band consists of Ant McCallum (vocals and guitar), Rob Scarlett (lead guitar), Josh Longman (bass) and Tom Langstone (drums) - and their 'Nightlife Live' EP is now out on Soundcloud of which 'Jealousy Queen Of Dreams' is our 'TOTD'. Upcoming gigs also include Wednesday 11th March at the Dublin Castle and Sunday 22nd March at the Cavendish Arms.

OK - the translation might not be quite right but congratulations to the Travellin' Brothers from Bilbao who walked away with The European Blues Challenge trophy on Saturday night! Not only are they our 'Video Of The Day' but the guys kindly favourited one of our WRC tweets toasting their success! John Bull of Rockrpix - who as usual took some great pics at the gig in Brussels - said of the winners "Fantastic stuff - they know how to have a good time!" Hard lines also to UK representative Laurence Jones who as expected did us proud!

It's fair to say that it's always manic here at Wrinkly Towers - but ever since the launch of this new website on Friday 16th January things have been taken to another level. Therefore, you can imagine how difficult it has been to encapsulate all the goings on into our February WRC Bulletin! Anyway we had a go and this is the result! Phew!

Following our recent 'Track Of The Day' featuring Rory Auskerry's 'Route 66' - the inevitable tweet from Rory arrived - "Are you guys going to ZZ Top in London on June 24th?" The gig had crossed our minds at Wrinkly Towers but with The Foo Fighters on Saturday 20th and The Who on Friday 26th - was this going to be a gig too far for the Wrinkly Rockers? What the heck - 'Silver' stepped up to the plate with standing tickets so it's going to be a memorable week! See you there Rory - and if any of you out there are going to any of these gigs - then please let us know!

Now that the WRC have completed the line-up for this year's BluesRockfest - WRC member Steve Borkowski has subsequently designed this brand new shiny poster! If you can help out by handing out a few flyers at gigs/record fairs etc. then please e-mail us at wrinklyrockers11@aol.com and we will get some of the original BluesRockfest leaflets in the post to you! Go here for ticket information plus a video low-down on this year's bands.

You couldn't make it up. Just three days after AJ was in Boston, Massachusetts, the WRC received our latest pre-order for our 2015 BluesRockfest DVD/CD from just 11 miles up the road in Dedham! Yes we were delighted to hear from David Riley from the Chantel McGregor US Fans Facebook page here which also coincided with the guitarist-singer-songwriter's release of her new album, 'Lose Control', last Friday on Chantel's' independent boutique label Tis Rock Music! Indeed, her first single from the album, 'Take The Power', is our Vid Of The Day filmed on location in Edinburgh, produced by Sine Wave Media and directed by Richard Weston. Also watch out shortly for an album review from Wrinkly The Silver.