Tonight the legendary Pretty Things - with two original Members - will be performing their acoustic set at Twickenham's famous Eel Pie Club at The Patch, 67 London Road TW1 3SZ. This special event is part of the Richmond Music & Drama Festival and takes place in Twickenham during the Rugby World Cup. The Pretty Things are at the heart of Richmond & Twickenham Rhythm & Blues. These legendary 'bad boys of rock' created some of the most exciting and innovative records of the late 60's and early 70's. The band are due on stage at 9.15pm (doors open at 8.30pm) and WRC members are reminded that they can use their cards to get discounted £11 admission. They have just released a brand new CD 'Sweet Pretty Things' and tonight original Pretty Thing, Phil May is on lead vocals, guitar and blues harp, Dick Taylor (original Pretty Things and also an original Rolling Stone) is on acoustic, slide and lead guitar and Frank Holland is on acoustic, slide guitar, backing vocals and harp.

Dirty Thrills, an ambitious, explosion of anthemic goodness, have recently released their ‘Sweetheart of the Slums’ EP featuring classy and original Rock ‘n’ Roll that will grip you from the very first hearing and simply refuse to let go! Consequently our Vid Of The Day is their single ‘HourGlass‘ from the EP - which is hard hitting, energy fuelled and not for the feint-hearted! Having just packed out performances at The Great Escape and Camden Rocks, Dirty Thrills unique, incendiary blend of rocked out rhythms, scorching solos and lung-busting blues laden vocals are churning out crowd belters while making guitar music sexy again!

On the day the WRC celebrated our 600th Twitter follower - it was good to hear from both Kaz Hawkins and Karena K who have both been deservedly nominated in this years British Blues Awards. Kaz - showcased in our 'Introducing...' feature here in April has been nominated in the 'Emerging Artist' category whilst Karena K's song with Willy Bo Walker 'Long Way To Heaven' (our Track Of The Day) has been nominated as 'Best Song'. Voting closes here on August 31st. Don't leave it too late!

Pleased to report that thanks to it being our Track Of The Day last week (of course) last Sunday's Route 66 podcast reached the heady heights of number 9 in the Mixcloud Blues Charts! So we suppose it's only appropriate that Rory Auskerry's broadcast tonight here on Pure Radio 107.8FM at 6pm will be a British Blues Awards special! And don't forget that voting closes here on Monday 31st August so don't leave it too late!

As the saying sort of goes - no Jam today but Jam tomorrow! Yes it's a first for the WRC as we see the 'Modfather' Paul Weller (see Track Of The Day) supporting who else but The Who at BST tomorrow. Widely considered to be one of the UK’s greatest song writers, he has just released his second best of compilation ‘More Modern Classics’ with a new album due in 2015. Weller has had a lifelong relationship with The Who, citing them as an early influence, covering their songs whilst in The Jam and playing with both Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey at Teenage Cancer Trust shows.

"On a hot summers day in the midst of a line-up featuring guitar driven Rock and Blues sat the name ‘Little Devils’. To some who had not previously seen them they may have appeared the odd one out, but then that’s what Little Devils' are all about. Refusing to be slotted into a genre, yet dragging the Blues kicking and shouting onward they actually appeared today to revel in their difference." Read the rest of Mr. 'Blues On The Radio' Richard Dunning's BluesRockfest Little Devils Band review here.

The bad news is that Rock On The Ridge is off the airwaves on Saturday. But the good news is that this is because Bob and Jules will be Rockin' out at BluesRockfest plus interviewing all the superb bands for a future show plus our special forthcoming BluesRockfest Wrinklycast! And the news gets even better as today's Track of the Day is ROTR's storming broadcast from last Saturday featuring amongst others Rainbow, Broken Witt Rebels and Voodoo Sheiks (pictured).

Sadly Wrinkly Towers understands that The Marshman will not be attending BluesRockfest this year! That's the bad news - but the good news is that Kevin Beale's Blues On The Marsh show is on air tonight here at 7pm on Channel Radio! No doubt Kev will also be doing us proud by playing a few BluesRockfest orientated tracks in his playlist!

The Treatment; the critically acclaimed Cambridgeshire Hard Rock band start their 14-date 'Generation Me' UK tour on Wednesday 27th April at The Waterfront in Norwich. The tour which includes special guests The Amorettes, will also see The Treatment play shows in Birmingham, Cardiff, Oxford, Portsmouth, Leeds, Wolverhampton, Stoke-on-Trent, Newcastle, Glasgow, Manchester, Nottingham and Leeds - ending at London's O2 Academy Islington on Friday 13th May. We first caught the guys at High Voltage in 2011 and the tour dovetails the recent release of The Treatment’s third studio album 'Generation Me' (Vid Of The Day) which is the first to feature new lead singer Mitchel Emms and new guitarist Tao Grey.

Today's Blues On The Marsh Track Of The Day - originally broadcast on Friday night - includes a couple of tracks from BluesRockfest's Catfish! Don't forget there are still a few remaining Earlybird Tickets on sale here for £15 (instead of £20) which takes place at Leo's Red Lion, Gravesend, on Saturday 24th September. The Marshman's playlist also includes: They Call Me The Chief, Gerry Jablonski Band, The Blues Bones, Lenny Lawrence, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Kyla Brox, Rebecca Downes, Queen Delphine and the Crown Jewels, Kentucky Headhunters featuring Johnnie Johnson, Chuck Berry, Half Deaf Clatch, Guy King, King Size Slim, Katie Bradley/JetTricks, Kaz Hawkins Band, Mighty Sam McClain, Tommy Castro and Andres Roots.

Just a final reminder that classic Rock Covers band 'The Banned' are playing the Holland Sports Club in Hurst Green tonight. Get yourself down there and 'Keep Music Live'!

We're all still buzzing after the first live music event by the British Blues Exhibition took place at the Proud Camden, London, on Thursday night. With Blues dancers and music from The Laura Holland Band, The Saiichi Sugiyama Band and Pete Brown - co-lyricist with Cream - it turned out to be a highly entertaining and original night. Anyway, please find our photo gallery here with a review waiting in the wings.