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Just 4 days to go in our countdown to BluesRockfest at The Red Lion, Gravesend, this Saturday 4th July. The third band on stage at 5.35pm precisely and sponsored by the Blackfen TRADER are the Troy Redfern Band (our Vid Of The Day). Hailing from Herefordshire, the band are fronted on vocals and guitar by Troy Redfern, with Stuart McDonald on bass and Phil Greenhouse on drums - a powerhouse of a band to get the adrenaline pumping! All the tracks on their latest album of great raw rockin’ Blues with super slide were self penned. Go here for ticket information on all the bands that are playing at this year's BluesRockfest and remember if you are a WRC member just go here where you can get a £3 discount on your ticket!

Joining Richard Dunning in the Croydon Radio studio for Blues On The Radio last Tuesday evening was Giles Hedley ahead of his gig with his band The Aviators at The Tuesday Night Music Club. As well as some live music and chatting with the band, our Track Of The Day includes the usual mix of brand new releases and a few you may know including the late B.B. King and Little Devils (pictured).

He's a busy man that Mr. Beale. Just a night after he was partying away at Little Devils' launch gig he was hosting another edition of Blues On The Marsh! Our Track Of The Day features special guests the fabulous Mississippi MacDonald and The Cottonmouth Kings (pictured)! Yihaaa!

It's the first of the month which again heralds our latest WRC Summary Bulletin with all the links you need re: the current goings on at Wrinkly Towers! Whether it's Ramblin' Man, Wrinklystock, BluesRockfest, Merchandise, Gig Reviews, FREE Membership, New Bands, CD Reviews, Our Gig Calendar or Other WRC Gigs - look out for our e-mail which wiill be despatched later. And if you are not currently on our e-mail circulation list then please send us your details in the contact box below!

Christmas is drawing near and Tobias Sammet has got his "Nutcracker suit" on already! If you listen to the Tobias Sammet Rockshow on Radio Bob here on Wednesday 9th December at 21.00 German Time you will get a world-exclusive pre-listening of the new Avantasia tune! It will also be available officially on Friday 11th December digitally from i-Tunes and other platforms.

A band that you will never see at the MJC (it's a long story) but billed as "The Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Tribute Band in the World" will be will be performing at Twickenham's famous Eel Pie Club at The Patch, 67 London Road TW1 3SZ tonight. Yes you can 'Get Stoned' on two hours of nostalgia as The Rollin' Stoned play the best of '64 to '69 with Jumping Jack Flash, Brown Sugar, Paint It Black, Not Fade Away, Get Off My Cloud, It’s All Over Now, Under My Thumb, Mothers Little Helper, Ruby Tuesday, You Can’t Always Get What you Want, Two Thousand Light Years From Home, Let’s Spend The Night Together, Street Fighting Man, Satisfaction and those almost forgotten eclectic classics. Endorsed by Keith Richards’ mother as "outstanding and suitably fit stand-ins for the Stones", The Rollin' Stoned will be on stage at 9pm.

Well our Wrinklystock IV t-shirts have arrived and they will be exclusively available on Saturday night from our merchandise stall at the Mick Jagger Centre, Dartford. We can't promise that they will all be as sparkly as this customised model though! Meanwhile 'Substitute' has been sponsored by AJ's Dad as one of the song's in The ReplicantsCharity setlist which has already raised £265 - and it is his 82nd birthday today! Happy Birthday Des - consequently The Who are our Vid Of The Day!

We promised you some of the most eclectic Bloooze out there and the award winning Marshman duly delivered last Friday night! So today's Blues On The Marsh Track Of The Day includes tracks from Dove and Boweevil, Jessey Davey & Friends, Anthony Geraci & Boston All-Stars Band, The Texas Horns, Dennis Herrera, Bert Deivert and Copperhead Run, Blues Element, Clarence Turner, Diane Durrett, D'Mar and Gill, Joe Louis Walker, Les Copeland, Tommy McCoy, Dan Burnett, The Stolen Hearts and Tanya Piche & Robert Lucas!

The WRC introduced you to Broken Witt Rebels just over a month ago - a four-piece band from Birmingham who combine the power and intensity of Classic Rock with the finesse and delicacy of soulful blues. Putting their own original stamp on the Birmingham music scene, their latest EP, ‘Howlin’, was released in the Summer of 2014 and they are definitely on the rise. Previously supporting The View and playing up and down the country, the Rebels played the Zigfrid Von Underbelly in London on Saturday night and the whole gig (check it out at around 2 hours 38 minutes) is our Vid Of The Day!

Glenn Frey, who has died aged 67 from stomach problems, was a founding member, singer, guitarist and driving force of the 1970's Californian country-rock band the Eagles, co-writing most of their biggest hits and taking part in a journey which saw a group of smiling young troubadours morph into drug-addled superstar burn-outs, before reuniting in later life as seasoned old pros. The Eagles were founded in Los Angeles in 1971 by Frey and his songwriting partner, the drummer and singer Don Henley. Over the next decade they became the most popular group in the world, Frey and Henley turning out hits, often with Frey as lead singer, including 'Tequila Sunrise', 'Lyin’ Eyes', 'Heartache Tonight' and of course 'Hotel California'. Their 'Greatest Hits' became the biggest-selling album of all time (29 million units in its original 1975 form plus 11 million when it was repackaged in 1982 to include later hits), above even Michael Jackson’s 'Thriller'. Altogether the Eagles sold more than 120 million albums worldwide while Frey won six Grammy Awards and five American Music Awards. The band’s success was built on recording techniques which smoothed out any grit, producing a sort of shiny, all-American homogeneity. Even their darkest material was full of easy-on-the-ear harmonies, leading critics to accuse them of killing Rock and Roll with synthetic kitsch and creating a template for singer-songwriters such as Elton John. Behind the scenes, however, the Eagles conformed to a more traditional Rock and Roll stereotype. The title track of their classic 1976 album, 'Hotel California', evoked a musty, claustrophobic decadence: “Last thing I remember I was running for the door / I had to find the passage back to the place I was before / 'Relax’, said the night man, 'We are programmed to receive / You can check out any time you like but you can never leave’. ” Frey once described their career in the 1970's as “got crazy, got drunk, got high, had girls, played music and made money’’. He might have added “fought like cats and dogs”. “The Eagles talked about breaking up from the day I met them,” as their manager, Irving Azoff, recalled. Of their original four-man line-up, guitarist Bernie Leadon and bassist Randy Meisner departed, in 1975 and 1977 respectively, after disagreements with Frey, Leadon famously announcing his departure by pouring a can of beer over Frey’s head. Relations among the replacement line up of Frey and Henley, with Don Felder, Timothy Schmit and Joe Walsh, deteriorated during the making of their 1979 album, 'The Long Run', which took 18 months to produce. In 1978 Walsh caused $20,000 worth of damage to a Chicago hotel room with a chain saw. The following year Henley was arrested after a naked 16-year-old prostitute suffered a drug overdose during a party at his home in Los Angeles. Police seized cocaine, marijuana and quaaludes and Henley was subsequently charged for contributing to the delinquency of a minor, fined and put on probation. The last straw came at their final concert, a Democratic Party fundraiser in July 1980 at the Long Beach Arena. During an evening later referred to as “Long Night at Wrong Beach”, the Eagles broke up in drug-fuelled rancour, with band members threatening to beat each other up. Although Frey played his part in the hellraising, he was always the most businesslike of the group. After the break-up, he went on to forge a successful solo career, his debut solo album, 'No Fun Aloud' (1982, in part a collaboration with the songwriter Jack Tempchin), going gold and spawning several hit singles, including 'The One You Love'. His single 'The Heat Is On' went and reached No. 2 in the Billboard charts (No. 12 in Britain) after it featured as a soundtrack in the 1984 film Beverly Hills Cop. Frey also embarked on a career as an actor, becoming the first rock star to appear (as a drug dealer) on Miami Vice (for which he wrote and performed the song 'You Belong to the City', which reached No. 2 in the US charts), doing a Pepsi commercial, starring with Robert Duvall and Gary Busey in the film Let’s Get Harry (1986) and taking a small role in the 1996 film Jerry Maguire. In the mid-1980's he embarked on a self-administered “detox” programme, which was so successful that in 1989 the Health and Tennis Corporation of America signed him up as a spokesman. After the Eagles’ break-up Frey ruled out the possibility of reuniting “for a Lost Youth and Greed tour”, while Don Henley claimed that the group would only get back together again “when hell freezes over”!! Fourteen years later, however, in 1994 they came together for a massively successful “Hell Freezes Over” tour, and they continued to perform together until last year, drawing big crowds and earning big bucks, and releasing five compilation albums, a live album and, in 2007, 'Long Road Out of Eden', the first Eagles album of new material since 'The Long Run' in 1979. The following year they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Mrs. WTS and myself saw the Eagles for the only time at the 02 Arena in London in June 2014 and for me, few bands were better at distilling the vibe of Los Angeles in the 1970's than the Eagles, and as its singer and guitarist, Glenn Frey served as a sort of mellow ambassador of LA. Just as Liverpool is forever associated with the Beatles, Seattle claims Nirvana and Bruce Springsteen owns New Jersey, the Eagles embodied the bell-bottomed, feather-haired flair of Southern California. Frey may be gone, but those sun-baked, Southern California ballads, many sung with exquisite tenderness, will endure forever... He is a fallen Eagle whose legacy will last for the long run... Wrinkly the Silver

It's day 3 of our 2015 WRC Award announcements and we are delighted to reveal that King Crimson have won our Best Prog Performance award! KC beat off the strong challenge of both Steven Wilson (who the WRC are off to see again on Wednesday 27th January) and The Pineapple Thief who we saw at Ramblin' Man in July. Fully deserved after their Hackney Empire gig in September - please check out our King Crimson Vid Of The Day!

Not a great start to 2016 for WRC member Chris Painter who resides in Chaniá, Greece! "Disaster! Hey guys, my membership card went badly through the wash, can you pop another in the post please? Cheers, Chris." Of a course a replacement card will shortly be winging its way to Greece - but in the meantime if you have still not joined the WRC FREE for life - then why not a make a New Year's resolution and join up here. We'll consequently send you a WRC members card (kindly modelled by Keith Howe of Blacktop Deluxe) which you can use to benefit from the current members offers which we also hope to add to in the future.