A Huddersfield band that specialises in American blues that’s a joy to play is doing a hometown gig.
Wadcutter Blues are playing The Picturedrome in Holmfirth on Sunday, December 29, and promises dancing blues that’s a big and joyful noise inspired by music from Chicago to the Mississippi Delta.
Drummer Ben Wallbanks said: “A lot of the time when you tell people you’re in a blues band they assume it’s slow, depressing 12-bars. But to us the blues is much more about joy, dancing, sex, drinking and the freedom that the blues originally gave the artists that we’re, hopefully, honouring in our brand of dancing blues.”
Wadcutter Blues is made up of Ben, singer Ross Taylor, guitarist Martin Chung and bassist Andrew Beresford with Steven Beever on piano, organ and percussion.
Band members have toured worldwide with bands such as Jah Wobble’s Invaders of the Heart, Knuckle, Kava Kava and Beggars Bones.
The band was started in Huddersfield in 2022 by Martin and Steven who had previously played in the funk and soul band Nu Popes and wanted to carry on playing together. They were joined by Ross who sang in Popes along with some like-minded blues lovers.
Gig highlights have included Colne Blues Festival, Onwards Festival, The Domino Club in Leeds and Wadstock – a festival the band curated and organised at Magic Rock Tap this summer.
For tickets for the Picturedrome gig go to https://www.picturedrome.net/tickets/Wadcutter-Blues/20241229.htm
To listen to the band go to https://wadcutterblues.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-greenmount-studios
Wadcutter Blues will be supported on the night by a couple of local bands, Soul Pie who play classic soul, funk and blues and young band Anyone Else.
Written by ANDY HIRST who runs his own Yorkshire freelance journalism agency AH! PR (https://ah-pr.com/) specialising in press releases, blogging, website content, copywriting and ghost-writing autobiographies.
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