With their awesome Wrinklystock IV performance still fresh in our memories - The Replicants return to The Railway Tavern in Longfield, Kent, tonight and it's free! And talking of Wrinklystock, we stumbled across this great review here of the guys when they played Wrinklystock III along with The Bohemians and Stone Blind. Happy days!

"The Half Moon filled up a lot more for Shooter’s set including their good buddy and ex-Bad Company guitarist Dave ‘Bucket’ Colwell - just a pity that most of them missed out on the excellent Southbound. Despite the sad circumstances, but similar to six months ago, there was a definite party mood in the room as the assembled fans and followers waited for the band to take the stage. Shooter literally opened with a ‘Hotline’ to the hearts of all those assembled - their July 2015 single from their ‘Recycled Teenagers’ album and followed it up with ‘Too Much’ also from ‘RT’ with Dr. Feelgood's 'Riot in Cell Block No. 9' sandwiched in between! In addition to vocalist/guitarist Dom O’Riley, Shooter line up with Ian 'Mutt Lang/Farmer Giles' Turner on rythym guitar, Tony 'Fru Fru' Ecclestone on bass and Mike 'Where's My Earplugs' O'Riley on drums. The guys let their hair down covering Free’s ‘Wishing Well’ before delving back to ‘RT’ with ‘Don’t Say Goodbye’ and the title track - which we should really adopt at the WRC!" Read the rest of AJ's Shooter/Southbound review here and see the photo gallery here

The Broadstairs Blues Bash weekend kicks off today and is a FREE Blues music festival which is now into its eighth year. Due to last year's success, 2016 promises to be even bigger and better with more venues and acts coming on board including Jack J Hutchinson (Vid Of The Day), Bad Pennies, Andy Twyman, Troy Redfern and The Rainbreakers. The Kentish town has a vibrant exciting music scene and with small intimate wine-bars, friendly pubs and bars, it is ideal for a Blues festival! The Broadstairs Blues Bash attracts high quality performers, so if you're a fan of old Blues, new Blues, GREAT Blues, this festival is definitely one not to miss!

One half of The Nimmo Brothers, Award-winning Blues Rock guitarist and singer-songwriter, Stevie Nimmo, will release his second solo album 'Sky Won’t Fall' via Manhaton Records on Friday 4th March. This will be Stevie’s second solo release since his 2010’s debut acoustic album 'The Wynds of Life' and today's Route 66 'Track of The Day plays two tracks from 'SWF'. Indeed it is good to have host Rory Auskerry back given he was live on air just a few hours after a 14 hour flight back from Thailand where he has been helping to look after his brother Owen who suffered a brain aneurysm on 13th January. The show also includes new Inglorious and Last In Line tunes, classics from The Rolling Stones, Van Halen, Eagles, and Metalica plus birthday tracks from Mike Campbell, Alice Cooper, Guns N' Roses and Johnny Rotten!

Today's 'Video Of The Day' is The Replicants recent performance of My Hero and Lithium at The Carlton Centre, Sidcup. In their quest for world domination the band have just announced another FREE gig at The Greyhound in Crawley on Saturday 23rd May!

RPWL guitarist Kalle Wallner (aka Blind Ego) has taken seven years to complete his third solo effort 'Liquid' - which was released last Friday and is today's Vid Of The Day. While 2007’s debut 'Mirror' sounded smooth and almost melancholic, the Freising-native Bavarian utilized the figurative steam hammer on 2009’s 'Numb' and served the audience with a tough as nails monster of Hard Rock heavily influenced by Metal. 'Liquid' now fuses the two earlier approaches without merely being a thrown together sum of its parts. In fact the elements were organically merged – and the result contains nine pieces of music that offer everything: from mighty Hard Rock melodies to brutal Heavy Metal riffing action all the way to emotionally charged passages.

Music this week on our Blues Club Podcast Track Of The Day includes Tas Cru, Albert Castiglia Band, The Movers, Devils, The Rolling Stones, Beth Hart, Altered Five Blues Band, Witches, Levee Town, Simon Campbell, Voodoo, Ian Siegal, Broken Witt Rebels (pictured), Vampires, Giles Robson, Larry McCray, Demons, Blues Arcadia, Devon Allman, Spells, The Joey Gilmore Band, Colin James, Ghosts, Jason Elmore and Hoodoo Witch, The McKee Brothers, Spirits, JW Jones, Half Deaf Clatch, Ghouls, Robert Cray, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Black Magic, Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings, Sugarman Sam & The Voodoo Men, Horror, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and more.

This week's Black On Blues Track Of The Day features Lol Goodman, Broken Witt Rebels, Jim McCarty & Friends, Honey Island Swamp Band, Bad Touch, Simo (pictured), Rik Emmett & Resolution 9 (Vid Of The Day), The New Groove, King King and Blue Touch.

And we're talking about just 82 tickets left as our Wrinklystock V countdown continues today with just 39 days to go to our 'Monsters Of Irish Rock' at the Mick Jagger Centre, Dartford on Saturday 26th November which sees headliners Limehouse Lizzy continue to keep the spirit of Thin Lizzy alive. With nearly two thirds of the tickets gone already - make sure you order your tickets now priced £22 here in order that you don't miss out! Also don't forget our U2 Tribe song auction here - with all monies going to our nominated charities - plus our Wrinklystock V t-shirts on sale here.

Is it really over four year's ago that we last saw Cherry Lee Mewis performing at a 100 Club Teenage Cancer Trust gig (pictured)? Well the latest news from Cherry is that she has been overseas on further jazz tours, had a busy UK summer with her band appearing at festivals and guesting with Del Bromham's Blues Devils and Think Floyd and has just returned from a US trip where she visited Muscle Shoals and met legendary songwriter Dan Penn, (Dark End Of The Street, I'm Your Puppet, Do Right Woman, Do Right Man)! Anyway, there are two UK Winter dates that Cherry has with her band - Wednesday 7th December sees Cherry return to Dusty's Blues Club in High Wycombe and the return of Cherry and her band's Christmas Party at Bedford Esquires on Sunday 18th December!

The last time they played at The Tuesday Night Music Club they brought the house down and now, with a new album to promote, they’ve managed to tempt them back. For a night of blistering guitar, some of the best harmonica playing you’ll ever hear and superb songs culled from their three critically praised albums. Mississippi MacDonald has ‘it’ in spades. He is the ‘real deal’. With a gravelly rich authentic blues voice and a kind of guitar style that commands your attention - so make sure that you get down tonight to the Hooley Village Club, St Margaret's Road, Coulsdon, Surrey, CR5 3RB!

On Friday 30th September Last Great Dreamers release 'Transmissions From Oblivion'; their first brand new album since they reformed through their own independent label Ray Records. They’ve turned up the dials to deliver an album chock-full of trademark hook-laden anthems. Spirited, diverse and occasionally dark, it promises to be one of the most talked about albums of the year. To celebrate the release of 'Transmissions From Oblivion' the Last Great Dreamers take their rocket fuelled power pop on the road for 12 headline dates, including London’s Nambucca on Friday 30th September. The opening power pop anthem 'Oblivion Kids' sets the tone as the flamboyant yet urgent album takes the listener through 14 heartfelt songs including the singles 'Glitterball Apocalypse' (today's Vid Of The Day) ,which documents the tragedies of rock 'n roll and the raucous 'Dope School', plus the best 2 minute pop/punk song the Buzzcocks never wrote 'The Way We Collide', before this quintessentially English album concludes with the punktastic clarion call 'Turn It Up'.