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To finally round off our Ramblin' Man coverage - John Bull has kindly been in touch with another link to his site here which includes more photos of bands covered by him over the weekend. So if you are a fans of No Hot Ashes, Camel, Anathema, Haken, Pendragon, Messenger, Hayseed Dixie, Buck & Evans, Quireboys, Alcest (pictured), Versechorusverse and Jess & The Bandits - then please have a look! Also go here for Sunday's review and here for our Sunday photo gallery.

Route 66 is also literally heading down from Stockport to Wembley tonight for ZZ Top and Thunder as host Rory Auskerry is going to the gig with his brother Hamish. Naturally Rory played tracks from both bands in his latest show on Sunday night including a cool dedication to the WRC! Anyway today's Track Of The Day also includes brand new tracks from veteran music producer Mike Vernon and Orkney based Blues rockers, The Andrew Taylor Group plus birthday tracks for Mick Fleetwood, Jeff Beck, Ray Davies and Joey Kramer of Aerosmith. As Rory says - This is probably the best Rock & Blues show on UK radio. Must be worth a pint in The Blue Check Bar later Rory!

Holidays beckon for Wrinkly Towers this week but despite our reduced service we will stiill be bringing you daily updates! Anyway until Saturday our Track of The Day becomes our Track Of The Week - and what better way to start the week than Jukin Jenn's latest Bucket Of Blues which includes a Malaya Blue track live from last month's Blues On The Farm!

If the answer is yes and you still have not bought your tickets - then give us a shout through the contact box below as the WRC has some weekend tickets going spare! A healthy WRC contingent will be heading towards the Ramblin' Man Festival in Maidstone to see Greg Allman, Marillion, Ian Anderson and Joanne Shaw Taylor to name but a few on Sunday 26th July. And it's still not too late to take advantage of our offer to save WRC members the cost of their booking fee e.g. £5.50 on a £60 daily ticket. Go here for ticket information and then simply contact us below with your ticket requirements and we will get back to you. And it's also not too late to become a WRC member - simply fill out a form here and we'll subsequently send you a WRC members card.

Today we start looking forward to Ramblin' Man and in particular next Sunday when most of the WRC will be attending. As usual it is difficult to choose which one of the seven bands on each of the three stages to see during the day (see itinerary). So playing devil's advocate we are going to go for the Classic Rock Stage first up at 1pm. Blues Pills (our Vid Of The Day) are a Swedish rock band, formed in Örebro in 2011, although they released their first album three years later. In 2011, half-brothers Zack Anderson (bass) and Cory Berry (drums), formerly of Radio Moscow, were in Iowa and met singer Elin Larsson, who was staying in California. Together they recorded two demo tracks and published them on YouTube, after which label 'Crusher Records' offered them a deal. The band toured Spain and France, where they met 16-year-old guitarist Dorian Sorriaux, whom they invited to Örebro and made a member of the band. The name of the band came from their friend, Jens Heide, who had a music blog called BluesPillz with obscure 60's and 70's underground music!

.... and talking of BluesRockfest and in particular The Red Lion, Gravesend - take a look at today's amazing Vid Of The Day. Filmed at the recent Virgil & The Accelerators gig - Steve Borkowski's vid complemented by Vic Wintergreen's audio/mixing plus video editing and graphics by Phil Honley gives you a feel in one hit of a great venue, great sound, great lighting and a great band. Bring on BluesRockfest - with tickets on sale here for £15 in advance (£18 on the door).

Further to our Rolling Stones 'Video Of The Day' yesterday - it reminded us that so far our most watched video on our unofficial WRC YouTube channel is - you've guessed it - The Rolling Stones at Hyde Park in 2013 with just under 7,000 viewings including Japan, Israel and Colombia! We're sure most of you can beat our latest 'Video Of The Day' - so contact us below and share your own YouTube videos with us so that we can also include them on our site as a future VOTD!

As promised - today's Track Of The Day is the latest Black on Blues podcast. Not surprisingly - they're all about the Blues - from the Delta to Dagenham - if there’s Blues to be heard – it's Blues they play. The 'Bob' team consist of Kevin (the Black in 'Bob') plus Jason - and the guys not only cover the entire spectrum of Blues music but also specialise in women Blues artists too and feature them every two weeks. Featured on this week's show are Omar And The Howlers, Theo & The Boogie Sinners, The Rev. Shawn Amos-Brand, Too Slim And The Tail Draggers, Tim Green Band, Tommy McCoy, Zilla Project and last, but not least, John Mayall!

A big shout out to all of you that sent us first birthday wishes yesterday including our friends at the award winning Rock On The Ridge radio show with this very kind message: "Happy Birthday guys keep up the great work, Keep it Live Never too old to Rock and looking forward to another great a year in association with The Wrinkly Rocker Club All the Best Jules n Bob!" Not only that - but on their latest show last night - the guys made a birthday dedication to the WRC! Anyway, watch out for their 'Track Of The Day' later this week but in the meantime our Vid Of The Day is one of our favourite bands they featured last night - Wolfmother!

We promised you some news yesterday after we revealed that The Mentulls had won this year's 2015 WRC 'Best Blues performance' award. Suffice to say that the guys will now be supporting the Stevie Nimmo Trio at BluesRockFest at Leo's Red Lion, Gravesend, on Saturday 24th September. Remember that Earlybird Tickets are on sale now for a limited time here for £15 (instead of £20). Beware - once they've gone - they've gone! There are (so far) 7 top Rock and Blues acts from around the UK planned and of course WRC Members only pay £15 - so why not head off here to sign up for free. Don't forget to check back soon for announcements on the other exciting bands we have lined up!

Following their awesome performance at Wrinklystock IV two weeks ago - The Replicants are again making tracks and are now heading towards The Railway Tavern in Longfield, Kent, tonight. There's also support from The Prenups and it's free entry!

A welcome addition to our new webpage 'LastMinuteBandz' - the WRC Promotions pool for venues of Rock, Blues, Tribute and Covers bands - are Glamstar who are playing at The Railway Tavern, Longfield, Kent, tomorrow night. Meanwhile Run For Cover are a five piece Rock covers band based in Bromley, playing Classic Rock from the sixties up to current music! Glamstar are the alter ego of Run For Cover playing all the Glam Rock hits from the seventies including songs by T. Rex, David Bowie, The Sweet, Suzi Quatro, Queen, Slade and many more! Please go to their dedicated webpage here.