Last night's 'An Evening For Jack' at the newly reopened Shepherd's Bush Empire, marked the two year anniversary of the late Cream bassist's passing in 2014, aged 71. Curated by Bob Harris plus Cream collaborator Pete Brown, and organised by Jack Bruce’s son Malcolm, it commemorated his extraordinary career, walking through the major aspects of Jack's musical life, from the early days touring with bands like the Graham Bond Organisation, through to Cream and beyond. Musicians paying their tributes included of course Ginger Baker plus Steve Hackett, Mick Taylor (pictured), Bernie Marsden and Lulu - to name but a few. All proceeds raised will to be donated to Nordoff Robbins and Jack’s favourite local charity, East Anglian Children’s Hospices. Watch out shortly for a review and some more pics plus check out today's Vid Of The Day.

2015 WRC Award nominees - The Blues Club Podcast - hope to ease you gently into the seasonal spirit today with a few Christmas crackers, along with UK IBBA Presenters Picks for December 2015, new releases, Blues, Rock, Soul Jazz, Acoustic, some of their very favourite tracks and more. Therefore Our Track Of The Day includes music from Brian Setzer, Rory Gallagher, Ian Siegal Berry, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Walter Trout, Eric Bibb, John Mayall, Eric Clapton, Dave Alvin, Buddy Guy, The Knickerbocker All-Stars, Half Deaf Clatch, Bondi Cigars, Brad Wilson, Tanya Piche Blues Band, Crooked Eye Tommy, Russell Morris, Robben Ford, Charlie Musselwhite, Mete's London Bluesion, Fran McGillivray Burke, Tommy Castro, Beige Fish, BluesCorp, Bob Bates, B. B. & The Blues Shacks, Jamie Williams & the Roots Collective, The Damned And Dirty, Connie Lush Band, Richard Townend & The Mighty Boss Cats, Fiona Boyes, Mike Zito and more!

Catfish band members Paul Long and Matt Long recently popped into the Croydon Radio studio for a chat and to introduce all five songs from their new EP 'When B. B. Sings The Blues' ahead of their Official Release Show at the Tuesday Night Music Club this week! Today's Blues On The Radio Track Of The Day also includes music from the Rebecca Downes Band, Wily Bo Walker, Jack J. Hutchinson and our old mucker Andy Twyman!

Just a year after running away with our 2014 WRC 'Best Blues Performance' award - Chantel McGregor (pictured on our 2016 WRC Calendar) has scooped this year's 'Best Acoustic' WRC award. Beating off strong competition from both Ryan Bingham (who we saw at The Borderline in February) and Ben Poole - Chantel's memorable acoustic intro at BluesRockFest in July in the end won the day. So our Vid Of The Day has to be part of that set - and you can still purchase the official 2015 BluesRockFest DVD/CD here for a bargain £10 + p&p featuring both two video and two audio tracks from each of the six artists that appeared on that Summer's day. Don't forget that WRC Members can also get 10% off by simply entering their coupon code!

Tonight is the final gig for this year at the Woodlands Art Centre, Gillingham ME6 2DU, 'home of the Medway Delta Blues' with Katie Bradley Blues featuring Chris Corcoran. It's bound to be a cracking festive night, so get your party gear on and make this a party to remember! Don't forget that WRC members get £2 off the normal admission on production of a valid WRC members card. For more information call 0300 065 8210 or e-mail r&abrother@aol.com

"Well headliners Crobot are an American hard rock band from Pottsville, Pennsylvania, composed of Brandon Yeagley (vocals/harmonica) , Chris Bishop (guitar), Jake Figueroa (bass) and brother Paul Figueroa (drums). Their album 'Something Supernatural' smacks of Creed, Wolfmother and Velvet Revolver - so it was fitting that they launched proceedings with 'The Legend Of The Spaceborne Killer' - testament that there was going to be no let up in the intensity of the evening. Other 'SS' tracks were lapped up by the Crobot faithful particularly the classy 'Skull Of Geronimo', 'Le Mano de Lucifer', 'Nowhere To Hide' and the brilliant 'The Queen Of The Light'. Yeagley's vocals, stage presence (and harmonica on 'The Necromancer') were immense, Jake's antics were reminiscent of Animal from The Muppets playing bass, Bishop is literally huge (and more importantly plays a mean guitar) whilst Paul's driving drums pulled it all together. Go to our Crobot Photo Gallery here, read the rest of AJ's review here plus see our Scorpion Child Vid Of The Day.

After their excursion into Sussex last week The Replicants are back on home ground this Saturday when they play The Lower Bell in Aylesford for the first time. The guys are of course gearing up for Wrinklystock IV where they will support the amazing T.Rextasy at our annual charity gig at The Mick Jagger Centre in Dartford on Saturday 21st November. Watch out for news on their final setlist which has been auctioned off for charity shortly. And why are they the support? Why not find out by turning off the X Factor and get down to the Bell for a rocking evening - entry is free with The Reps due on stage at 9pm!

All roads led to Sussex last Saturday as The Replicants left the comfort of their back yard for Crawley! Why you may ask - well they had agreed to let fourteen year-old Liam O’Kane play drums on a couple of their numbers and that’s where he lives – simples! The Greyhound kindly offered to host the gig (many thanks Caz) and a source close to the WRC said that Liam was so nervous he hadn’t eaten all day! So after The Replicants had suitably more than warmed up the crowd it was all eyes on Liam! And if he was nervous then he certainly didn’t show it as he ripped into 'Smoke On The Water', 'Ace Of Spades' – (our Vid Of The Day that provoked a "f**k yeah" from one punter), 'Lil Devil' and unbelievably The Replicants signature finale 'Rebel Yell' which we understand he hadn’t rehearsed! There was no stopping him now as the crowd called for more and Liam insisted on 'Tush'!!! A great night and many thanks to the guys as usual for entering into the spirit of things!

"They finally let the handbrake off the engine for the encore with a cover of the Stones' 'Rip This Joint', the slide of the awesome Dead Horses 'Sunshine' and finally the stand out acoustic Horses number from his Borderline gig 'Bread and Water'. To be fair the appreciative audience lapped it up but for mine, unexpectedly, it didn't hit the heights of the intimacy and touching personal anecdotes of The Borderline in February nor the first time we saw Ryan and The Dead Horses rock out at Hyde Park over four years ago. Still a great night though." Go to the Ryan Bingham Photo Gallery here and read the rest of AJ's review here!

After the Bank Holiday and as promised - normal service has resumed on the website we hope today. Anyway, another of one of those WRC "You Couldn't Make It Up" moments occurred during AJ's well earned mini-cruise over the weekend. Although he was expecting the West-End show 'We Will Rock You' to be part of the ship's entertaintment - he nearly choked on his cornflakes when he saw that our old muckers The Counterfeit Stones were also performing that night! Despite the fact there was no Brian Jones or Mick Taylor - there was of course Nick Dagger (pictured) and Bill Hymen! Today's Vid Of The Day gives you a flavour of what they are all about and for another one of those WRC "You Couldn't Make It Up" moments just ask us about the possibility of the Counterfeit's playing Wrinklystock at The Mick Jagger Centre!

Today's Track Of The Day is last night's Blues On The Marsh with the amazing Paul Cox live in the studio talking about and playing tracks from his brand new album 'Man Out Of Time'. Also on Kevin Beale's broadcast are Little Milton, Gary Clarke Jnr., Blinddog Smokin', Bert Deivert and Copperhead Run, Guitar Shorty, Harmonica Fats, Long John Baldry, Pete Gage, some early Rod Stewart, Steve Marriott, Professor Bottleneck and The Juke Kings and Otis Redding.

Tune in from 7pm BST here tonight on Blues On The Marsh and grab a load of the amazing Paul Cox (pictured) live in the studio talking about and playing tracks from his brand new album 'Man Out Of Time'. Accompanying Paul will be Little Milton, Gary Clarke Jnr., Blinddog Smokin', Bert Deivert and Copperhead Run, Guitar Shorty, Harmonica Fats, Long John Baldry, Pete Gage, some early Rod Stewart, Steve Marriott, Professor Bottleneck and The Juke Kings and Otis Redding to name but a few!