Kayley Weller - Singer Songwriter from Deal has released her first solo album "Chasing Dreams". 3 years in the making, it contains 10 rousing songs sung with guitar accompaniment. Kayley is rehearsing her live show and looking for gigs. sixstringzmusic@hotmail.com

Jack Castle of Mirkwood has brought his solo album to us, it will be available in August at his concerts (he lives in Wales now) through our shop and on-line at the best download sites worldwide around end of Sept.

Chris Ashman is again presenting the Local Band Show on the radio. He will do a series of 8 x 2hour shows during 2008 for Romney Marsh FM owned by Allied Broadcasting.

Red Admiral Records LLP
2008 - Congratulations to our friends Red Admiral Records who have incorporated at last. The company will take under it's wing the Red Admiral Records Label, Cringe Music (publishing), Kent & E Sussex Gig Guide and its other idents www.kentgigs.com, Kent Musicians Web and Kent MusicBiz.
First established in 1979 Red Admiral has supported Kent artists and songwriters, initially launching the international career of Arthur Kay and the Originals.
Latest release on CD is the classic rock album Mirkwood by Dover band Mirkwood Their 1973 collectors album has not been available on CD before. Downloads first available worldwide late June 2008.
The label released albums by the Rhythm Of Blues, The Sharpee's and recorded pop idol's Rik Waller's second album as all of the musicians were Kent based.
2005 non-Kent artists were added to the roster as the company became involved as a worldwide digital distributor including Hardly Mozart, Carmen Wiltshire and ZOO.
2007 Red Admiral signed international swing singer Peter DInsley, launched the Keith Harwood Memorial Album and created album deals with The Silent Kingdom and Belgian Folk/Classical composer Wim Hautekeit.
2008?? Day to day management of the new company is the responsibility of Chris and Sandi Ashman.
Chris said,
"It will take a little while to establish our absolute direction for 2008 as we shuffle the cards in hand, there are wildcards and jokers in every pack. We have never seen the music and leisure business so disorientated as it is now. Many of our associates are saying that the smoking ban has killed the pubs and music scene and in some sectors I agree there are going to be tears. But once the weak businesses have closed the strong ones will become stronger. I think we are going to see some great new venues rise from the ashes. In the recorded music part of our business, it has been tough globally with CD sales still dropping and downloaded music on the increase but we are feeling confident that we will be around a few years yet. One thing that's for sure is, we have some wonderful writers and performers working out there and we are signing more as we speak, the next album is only weeks away. We will just create the various products in different proportions to match our market whether it be CD's or chips for home or mobile use or supplying music to the 100's of download sites as we do now.

I think we will probably see products produced on the fly as clients order them rather than risking the over production scenario that exists now.

There will always be a demand for physical forms of music such as live performances by musicians. Kent has always had a very lively music scene and this will not change. But, it will without doubt be different and challenging. There are signs that musicians are not going to be put down by the difficulty of holding it together. One of our most visited pages on www.kentgigs.com is 'Musicians Wanted'.

Friday 4th April 2008
Round House Theatre (Dover Discovery Centre Market Square Dover ) Somebodys Music Presents an evening with Louise Orfila + Plus Special Guests 7.30pm £6 Album Launch

New Rhythm Of Blues and Gummy Babies videos on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/redadmiralrecords

Anglo-Belgian Writer Wim Hautekeit has launched his Folk - Classic album on Red Admiral Records who are also digitally distributing the product across the world for February download release.

Shameful Behaviour EP review on Lucifer Speaks

The Silent Kingdom Album "The Glory Days" is released locally on Red Admiral Records on 26th October followed by worldwide downloads from the end of November. The team of Kent Musicians hade been at the top of www.indiestore.com for the 10 months since their Christmas song was accepted so readily by the world in 2006

ZOO - won the category Best Jazz Artists at the 2007 New Music Awards Greenhouse - Their New Jazz album is avialable now by downloadsand mail order

Keith Harwood - My Sad Guitar - Memorial Album available now on Red Admiral Records all tracks will be available for download accross the world from the end of August onwards. Download early from eMusic

Shameful Behaviour Live Album release party 1st July

Peter Dinsley - has completed recording his new Big Band and Swing album for Red Admiral Records it wil be launched at his open air concerts in June. Available from gigs ,our shop or Sainsburys, New Romney.
15th June - Ghyll Manor - Gates open from 5:30pm. Performance from 7:30pm. High Street Rusper Horsham West Sussex RH12 4PX
23rd June - Westenhanger Castle - Gates open from 5:30pm. Performance from 7:30pm (adjacent to Folkestone Racecourse) Stone Street, Westenhanger, Hythe Kent. CT21 4HX Stream Album Sampler

7th May - ZOO Album 'Greenhouse" released today

Buy the Album Here

Shameful Behaviour at 4 and 30 in the Charts at Revolution Radio New Shameful Behaviour pics from video shoot at Ashford Rocks

Rhythm of Blues - "Unsung Heroes" Release!

Unsung Heroes will shortly be available from www.eastcentralone.com We are exceptionally pleased to once again be involved with the team at East Central One having worked with them in another life many moons ago. As you will see from the site, this is a quality company run by successful people who have been responsible for some of the best in the business for a long time. Thanks guys! Also, from this company, watch out for Messenger ...... you will be hearing more from them.

Wye Blues
Believe me........if this all works as it is looking to, then this is going to be one hell of a show! Dial into the Wye Blues site www.wyeblues.co.uk for up the minute details. Could be some very interesting headline acts here!!

Jon Strong
Jon has, for a long time, been a fave of ours, is currently singing some vocals for "Unsung Heroes" and is a most talented guy, take a look at this...

as a solo performer has toured with Ry Cooder, Van Morrison, Robert Palmer, Talk Talk, Danny Thompson, Clannad, Has done numerous major festivals including Cambridge, Cropredy, San Bernardino Folk Festival. His band have toured consistently over the passed 11 years throughout the UK and Europe building a loyal fan base and achieving much critical acclaim as one of the tightest three piece bands on the scene and instigating comments like...

The Tower Arts Centre Winchester “No apologies! The return of one of the
best bands in the UK this time packing the long awaited CD Honest Soldier.
Top quality music played with total conviction”.

Bob Harris Radio 1 “Brilliant”

Johnny Walker Radio 1 live session “I don't believe you were playing live”

Tower Arts Centre Winchester “Kill to get tickets”

Fibbers York “Mind blowing acoustic guitar work.

Oxford Curfew “Highly evocative slabs of industrial folk rock.

After 11 years with the band Jon is now back to the roots of it all, playing solo.

Irish Centre Leeds review
“Jon Strong a living version of the real local blues that every poor neighbourhood generates.
Jon is a phenomenally good guitar player, with blues and R&B mixed in with much more English ideas from the likes of Martin Carthy and Nic Jones, producing a unique booming and ringing three handed style all of his own. His bitter-sweet songs steal the show from the funky covers of Jim Croce and Lowell George that he also does. His mordant wit cracks up the audience and reminds us bluntly of tonight's legends and ghosts theme. “Jim Croce has gone …
” Exactly timed pause … “Des O’Connor’s still with us.” And straight on with the song. Death, despair and fear of flying, all conquered through music and some tablets”.

Tom Robinson review Honest Soldier CD
“If this came out with the name Peter Gabriel on the cover you can bet it would be hailed as a major artistic renaissance for a world class songwriter. If it came out with an unknown band name and a picture of a bunch of distrait-looking youths from Bristol on the sleeve, it'd probably win the Mercury Prize. Listening to music as good as this on an Own Label CD-R makes me want to weep with frustration at sheer idiocy of the business we're in”. Tom Robinson

If I can convince him......I do hope to see him on vocals at some shows!

Little Theatres
After the success of the little theatres shows, we are working on a tour of the little theatres in UK with Messenger and our old pal Jim Covington and Del Newman, the last show was 100% fun and we really hope we can do it again......

Thats it for now folks, keep up with www.myspace.com/rhythmofblues for dates and
http://www.kentgigs.com/Rhythm%20of%20Blues.htm to buy Moving On and read band history.

Cringe Music has launched its fourth Production Library product in it's Universal Themes series.

Rhythm of Blues have a showcase at the South London Theatre Jan 12th & 13th 2007 Live reveiw

Rhythm of Blues are also to present a guitar Workshop on at the South London Theatre Sat 13th Jan 2007, 18:00hrs.
The workshop will deal with guitar tone from fingers to amp and will include an in depth look at the Motherload Speaker Emulator www.motherload.co.uk and a demonstration by Rick Cawley, the motherload man himself.

Students of The Guitar Institute, The Bass Institute, The Drum Institute and The Vocal Institute, now united under a single name, The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance (ICMP) will be able to obtain concessionary tickets at £5.00 which will give them entry to not only the workshop, but also the rest of the evening show which includes Rhythm of Blues www.myspace.com/rhythmofblues and Jim Covington's musical show which is a story of rock and blues www.southlondontheatre.co.uk which runs 10/11/12/13th January. Acts on the 10/11th Janury include Messenger .

Rhythm of Blues will be playing the Clyde Bar in Glasgow and Isle of Eigg next year as part of a short UK tour dates to be confirmed. European tour dates still pending.

The Silent Kingdom a team of Songwriters from the marsh (The Romney Marshians) have created our Christmas song for this year. Stations reporting playlist inclusion include BRFM 95.6fm Isle of Sheppey - Wythenshawe FM - All FM in Manchester - Isles FM - City Vibe Radio - Carillon Radio - Box Radio - ABC Australia - BBC Kent - Castledown Radio - Cullin FM in Scotland - Forest FM Bournemouth - BBC Three Counties Radio, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire - BBC Radio Merseyside - BBC South - BBC East - Northampton, Norfolk, Cambridge, Suffolk, Essex - BBC Radio Wiltshire - Radio Swindon - Radio Verulam in Hertfordshire - Isles FM in Scotland - All FM in Manchester - Morayfirth Radio in Inverness - Skyline Radio - Radio Six International in Glasgow - Morayfirth - Kinnaird FM - BCB FM in Bradford - Maximum FM in Skipton - ICR FM in Ipswich

Terry Daniels is completing the final touches to his new album

Christopher Ashman of the OneKent organisation joins Digimix Records heading up as Managing Director of the international media / PR and licensing team.

Rhythm of Blues

Nov 24 2006
Rhythm of Blues featured on Radio Caroline tonight.
Imagination is a prog rock show between 9pm and midnight each Thursday.
Nov 25 2006
Classic Rock Society , Herringthorpe Leisure Centre, Rotherham, Supporting Martin Turner's Wishbone Ash
Nov 26 2006 White Hart in Whitechapel, full band including Mike Parlett on sax! Not to be missed.

Hardly Mozart Album now on top world download sites.

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