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Halfway through his debut UK tour - we were at The Bulls Head in Barnes, London, last night to catch Toronto based Blues guitarist, singer and songwriter Chris Antonik. Following his self-titled debut album, he was nominated for Best New Artist in 2011 at Canada's Maple Blues Awards and in 2013, his critically acclaimed second album 'Better For You' reached number 1 in the Canadian charts. Anyway, on a beautiful Summer's evening, by the Thames, Antonik delved into his back catalogue - plus material from his forthcoming new album - in a stand-out set. Check out today's Vid Of The Day - plus watch out for further pics, a review and an interview (in that order) over the coming days!

Exactly a week ago we featured Power Blues band Zamba - winners of the 5th Croatian Blues Challenge - as our Vid Of The Day! So it was nice for us to receive the other day a very kind message from Boris (Zamba) himself! "I wish to thank you so much for making my song 'Love' a video of the day. It means so much to me. It's written for the people and now they could listen to it. I have a new song 'I'll Never Be Your Man' out. Probably gonna make a video for it in the end of the summer. Anyway, I really appreciate everything you did." You're more than welcome Boris - and just to let your music do the talking - today's Track Of The Day is a video of his latest single 'Goin' Home'!

Blending Funk, Blues, Metal and good old-fashioned Rock 'n' Roll into a howling vortex of dirty groove Rock, Crobot specialise in endless good time Rock hooks that sound as inspired today as they would have on AOR radio in 1974! Anyway, the O2 Academy Islington punters last night cast off their 'Referendum Blues' with a massive "yes" vote on an evening which also saw impressive support from both The Bad Flowers and Dirty Thrills. With a review and more pics to come - check out today's Vid Of The Day!

Continuing to bring the Rock back to Friday nights is Nicky Horne on Vintage TV with episode 4 of The Friday Night Rock Show tonight at 10pm with music and chat from Scott Gorham (pictured) and Dirty Thrills who we saw at the O2 Academy last night! Vintage TV is available on Sky 369, Freeview 242, Virgin 343 and Freesat 505.

Thanks to all of you that have already taken the time to vote in our 2015 WRC Awards. Today we focus our attention on best support with The Rainbreakers (Vid Of The Day), Born Healer (pictured) and The Replicants. If you have not voted yet, then simply choose your favourite from each of the eleven categories provided here and hit the vote button. You have until midnight 31st December to make your choice and only one vote per category per e-mail address is allowed - so there. So what are you waiting for? Spread the good news and make sure your favourite band gets the votes it deserves!

Aussie sci-fi shredders Aversions Crown are back touring in January after a busy 2015 that saw them tour the UK with the likes of Thy Art Is Murder and Within The Ruins. Aversions Crown's Nuclear Blast debut Tyrant, was released in late 2014; it was created in the oppressive heat of Brisbane’s summer with Thy Art Is Murder’s Andy Marsh producing and Mark Lewis (Whitechapel, Carnifex) of Audio Hammer mixing. 2016 will see Aversions Crown play to UK audiences for their first ever headline run on British soil: Jan 11th – Bournemouth, Anvil - Jan 12th – Glasgow, Ivory Blacks - Jan 13th – Birmingham, Rainbow - Jan 14th – Plymouth, Hub - Jan 15th – London, Boston Music Rooms.

And talking of 'Corky Laing Plays Mountain' - one of our biggest regrets of the night was not videoing Born Healer's (pictured) monster cover of Zep's 'Since I've Been Loving You' which made one young lady's evening - i.e. the fact Born Healer covered it - not that we didn't record it! Anyway it's that particular WRC Member's **th birthday today so our Vid Of The Day is dedicated to her - taken from the awesome 'The Song Remains The Same'. Happy Birthday!

That's right - all the bids are now in and The Replicants Wrinklystock IV Classic Covers setlist has now been finalised here - raising a stonking £265 in aid of our nominated charities! Also as expected the gig headlined by T.Rextasy at the Mick Jagger Centre, Dartford, on Saturday 21st November has now sold out! Further good news is that The Replicants will be rounding off their set with Billy Idol's (pictured at the Royal Albert Hall in July) Rebel Yell which is today's Vid Of The Day!

The pace doesn't slacken as the WRC are heading to the O2 Arena, London, tonight to see Irish Rockers U2 on the latest leg of their innocence and experience tour. To be fair - a band not always on the WRC radar - but a 'bucket list' band that we feel we need to witness once. Formed back in 1976 in Dublin they have since released 13 studio albums and are one of the world's best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 170 million records worldwide. And the good news is that the guys are playing in 'the round' tonight plus the possibility of another special guest following Noel Gallagher's appearance via the Jubilee Line on Monday night (see our Vid Of The Day). Anyway, we hope to meet some of you in the Sky Backstage lounge beforehand!

2014 WRC Award WinnersFlying Colors (our Track Of The Day) will be releasing the electrifying ‘Second Flight: Live At The Z7’ on 13th November via Music Theories Recordings/Mascot Label Group on multiple formats. On only the eighth show of their 2014 fall tour, they took to the stage at Switzerland’s storied Z7 venue and captured on film a breathtaking live performance. With their critically acclaimed second album album 'Second Nature' out for only a week, the concert recorded an exceptional rarity: band and audience, together, discovering an album for the first time. That freshness is palpable in every frame of this Ultra-HD/Blu-ray/DVD release!

And still with Shooter's awesome album launch party still fresh in our minds (review and pics to come) - time to remind you all that the equally awesome support band Southbound will be supporting BluesRockfest's Albany Down (our Vid Of The Day) at the WRC Xmas Party at The Horn Reborn in St Albans on Wednesday 2nd December. Yes - once again - two quality bands for just £7 in advance (including admin fees) here - £9 on the door and only £5 for WRC Members - just e-mail wrcpromotions@aol.com to reserve your members ticket.

If you're aiming to go to Aynsley Lister's 100 Club gig on Tuesday 27th January - and you want discounted £11 WRC tickets - then please e-mail us at wrinklyrockers11@aol.com by this Friday at the latest. With great support from WRC award winners Little Devils plus Stark - it's bound to be a cracking start to 2015!