This year's Reading Festival takes place from Friday 26th August – Sunday 28th August in Richfield Avenue with Foals headling the main stage on Friday, Red Hot Chilli Peppers on Saturday and Biffy Clyro on Sunday. One of our WRC members has two weekend tickets he wants to sell as he now cannot make the gig. Please message us through the contact box below if you are interested and we will put you in touch. In the meantime, it gives us an opportunity to go back in time to the 1981 Festival with today's Track Of The Day (via Youtube) and a certain Bruce Dickinson fronting the much underated Samson.

The latest news from Marshman Towers is that tonight's Blues On The Marsh show is in the bag! So prepare to be lambasted here from 7pm with tunes from Celluloid, Charles Sayles and The Blue Disciples, Diane Durrett, Jared James Nichols, Jesse Davey and Friends, Kern Pratt, Michael Falzarano, Mick Pini, Mighty Sam McClain, Mike Vernon, Mississippi Fever, O'Donel Levy, Pinetop Perkins, Storm Warning, The Juke Hounds, Johnnie Johnson, Universal Blues Band, Wink Burcham, Zkye Blue and another brand new track from The Mighty Mojos!

"It says a lot about Chris Walker that his band were the first band to be snapped up by one our BluesRockfest set sponsors. And Lemonrock were proved right as this larger than life character in his trademark hat kept the punters entertained on and off the stage despite The Rainbreakers throwing down the gauntlet challenging "follow that!" CWB's set opened with this year's single 'Junior's Blues' with Chris's signature guitar solo showing that the band intended to keep the BluesRockfest momentum pumping!" Read the rest of AJ's BluesRockfest Chris Walker Band review here.

If you don't have the sea legs and prefer a gig tonight on terra firma - then just across the Thames the David Sinclair Four will be playing the whole of their new album '4' in sequence at the Borderline. Guests include harmonica maestro Laurence Garman (ex-Yardbirds) and Scottish jazz songbird Lorna Reid who sings a duet with David on 'Coming Out of the Rain', a song which they wrote together. Doors are 7pm with Lorna opening the show at 7.45pm with a brief set of her Celtic country songs, followed at 8.10pm by the amazing harmony duo Morrissey & Marshall - followed by the main event DS4 at 9pm!

Our thanks to new WRC member Saria from London for contacting us after Thursday's gig! "I am Italian and I finally had the chance to see Lynyrd Skynyrd last night! The show was absolutely amazing!!! I sang my heart out! You can tell when an artist is kinda fake on the stage, when they're up there just to show off. Lynyrd Skynyrd is something different, man. It was pure Southern rock + their hearts and souls, no bullshit! And they made me feel one of them. The whole show was a big warm embrace! Hard to put into words. Still have goosebumps! Beyond my wildest dreams. Magic." Couldn't put it better ourselves Saria - will Wrinkly The Silver agree?

When the Scorpions announced their retirement way back in 2010, neither Germany's biggest selling band (100 million records world-wide) or their fans would never have dreamed they would still be here in 2015 celebrating their fiftieth anniversary writes Wrinkly The Silver! Better still was the news of a new nineteenth Scorpions studio album, Return To Forever to be released. It all started with the band planning on re-recording eight songs for a fan only release - but new material was written in the studio so eight songs turned into a whopping nineteen! Twelve songs have made the cut to the standard format and seventeen to the deluxe edition.So much for going for a pension !! Anyway read WTS's informed take on their new CD here!

The fourth Bowness Bay Blues Weekend takes place from Friday 27th March to Sunday 29th March - with the organisers particularly excited about this year’s line-up, which includes some award-winning acts. Sunday headliners David Migden and the Twisted Roots represented the UK at the 2014 European Blues Challenge in Riga. And Laurence Jones, the Saturday headliner, was not only nominated in our 2014 WRC Awards, but actually won ‘Young Artist of the Year’ in the British Blues Awards. He has followed that up by being selected to represent the UK in Brussels in the European Blues Challenge in March 2015, only a couple of weeks before his appearance at Bowness Bay Blues! Tickets are now on sale here from The Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal.

This week's podcast from our old mucker Rory Auskerry features the latest release from Robin Trower -'Something's About To Change' - which is his most recent studio album since 'Roots And Branches' in 2013. Our 'Track Of The Day' also marks the announcement that Chris Slade will replace Phil Rudd on drums for AC/DC on their 2015 tour and of course that ZZ Top, Joe Satriani (pictured) and Joe Bonamassa have all announced UK tour dates for this this year. Enjoy!

Blacktop Deluxe have announced their new bass man - Rob Martin! Rob (pictured) will be 'killing it' on that Fender jazz bass and anchoring the groove alongside Alan and Keith from March 21st. Rob comes into The Blacktop's from the highly acclaimed outfit, 'The Smokin Olives' and he joins in good time to be part of the second Blacktop Album due for recording/release in the summer. News also reaches us that Absolution bass guitarist Ben Gardner left the band at the end of 2014. His replacement is Andy Palmer who already has an established track record of playing with top names the world over. You can see Absolution in action on both our Bluesfest DVD's on sale here.

Since the launch of the new website we have had so many bands contact us re: their music that we have now dedicated a new website page simply called 'Introducing ......'. Enrico Cipollin, lead singer and guitarist of the Italian Blues Rock band Underground Railroad is one of those such bands and we are delighted to feature the excellent 'It Takes The Devil' from their album 'Growing Three' as our 'Track Of The Day'. If you want to feature on 'Introducing ....' like Vega, The Blue Bishops, Yossi Sassi and Underground Railroad - then simply fill in your contact details in the box below.

Don't miss our mate Larry Miller tonight who is playing The Eel Pie Club at The Patch, 67 London Road, Twickenham TW1 3SZ. And if you show your WRC Membership card you can get in for just £10. Doors open at 8.30pm with music from 9pm. Don't forget to get your FREE WRC Membership as we will be announcing more WRC ticket discounts shortly!

Yet another shameless plug - but it's just 4 days to go now till the WRC Xmas Party where Albany Down and Southbound will be getting ready to rock the iconic Horn in St. Albans. So if you want to start your Xmas festivities off with a bang on Wednesday 2nd December - then this is the place to be! Advance tickets are still available here for £7 (including admin fees) and WRC members are reminded that they can purchase tickets for just £5 here.