Bletchley Blues Club Jam Sessions

30/07/2024

Appearing next at Bletchley Blues Club on Tuesday 6th August will be The Pete Harris Blues Band. I'm really looking forward to their very first visit to Bletchley Blues Club as they will entertain us with Chicago Blues. Ben White and Thomas Lucas, [from Aylesbury], will be providing the support
This is going to be a memorable evening's entertainment in the Concert Room at the BCC Bar and Restaurant MK2 2DN
Doors at 6:30 & the music commences at 7:30
Advance seats only a mere £10 [£12 cash on the door]
Bookings and further info please email [email protected]
Bletchley Blues Club ........Keeping music live

26/07/2024

Exciting news about Terry Marshall's new album

https://www.facebook.com/share/VKRP89N2n51t2KBF/

20/07/2024

Please note that I've moved the date for the August Jam.
It will now be held a week earlier on 7th August instead of 14th
Cheers Mark

08/07/2024

Good afternoon.
We've just received this sad news from Sonia......

Hi all. Just wanted to say that my amazing big brother John, who comes with me to the BBC has recently been diagnosed with Prostrate Cancer.

To help raise funds for the continuing research of Prostrate Cancer UK I have taken up the challenge of cycling 100 miles in August.

https://cyclethemonth.prostatecanceruk.org/fundraising/sonyas-100-mile-cycle-ride-for-prostrate-canc?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR25O7hV0BJ0GJw0D2_WOmgMXUTKOm9DeqJcDrbGEX3fY_5jvsHYE1tfSbg_aem_9HQ7nf5uVaLx2cdawHnCNw

It would be amazing and mean a lot to me if you could donate even the smallest amount to this worthwhile charity. I will follow this post with the Just Giving link.

❤️Thanking you in advance. Sonya ### ❤️

I'm raising money for Prostate Cancer UK by taking part in Cycle the Month.

28/06/2024

Car Parking Issues Update 28 June 2024

I have been informed that all tickets issued in error have now been cancelled by Monster Baywatch

As their admin can be rather "patchy" please send any further correspondence from them to me so we can deal with it for you

Cheers

Mark

26/06/2024

Parking penalty notices update
We have been it contact with Monster Baywatch and they have admitted to an error on their part. They are supposed to be cancelling all those issued in error, and checking for any others.
Please do not pay them
Please contact me immediately if you receive any more nonsense from them
They probably won't issue an apology

24/06/2024

Good evening all.
Parking tickets update
We now know of 3 wrongly issued parking notices
Jonathan, Badger, and Stuart
Please either bring the notice in tomorrow night or send me a photo of it so we can get it quashed
Photo must include your vehicle reg and the time and date and the number of the notice
The BCC Bar and Restaurant apologise for this inconvenience. Unfortunately the parking company, Monster Baywatch, have turned out to be a bunch of cowboys. BCC have had nothing but trouble with them. Useless
Thank you
Mark

26/05/2024

https://www.facebook.com/share/fYi1gKzZAPt781Cm/

01/05/2024

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/2HZbzuATRK8Hp5on/

18/04/2024

PLEASE be aware that any messages " Blues Drummer Wanted" do not originate from me or the Buckinghamshire Blues Society
Do not click on any links. Block or delete as it some kind of scam

05/02/2024

The Next dates:
Wed 14th Feb
Wed 13th March
Wed 10th April
Wed 8th May
Wed 5th June
Wed 17th July
Wed 14th Aug
Wed 11th Sept
Wed 9th Oct
Wed 6th Nov
Wed 4th Dec

Doors at 18:30 and then the Jam starts soon after at 19:30 pm.
We do not have a 'house band' but some Blues Club Regulars will get us going.

Amplifiers and backline will be provided, just bring your sticks, guitars basses, mics or whatever. One of our regulars often brings his keyboard.

Although we will be using songs as a base for each jam, there will be plenty opportunity for musicians to improvise. We should be finished around 10pm.

The first 30 mins will be for beginners to get up and have a go, and build up confidence. We will help and encourage you to take those first steps, before too many folk come in. Timings will be from 19:30 to 20:00. Just turn up between 19:00 and 19:30 and we shall endeavour to assist you

Parking is now charged until 18:00, after which its free
Please do not arrive prior to 18:00

02/02/2024

JAM dates for the rest of 2024.
I may well add more if we continue to grow, and there is a demand for it

Feb 14th
Mar 13th
Apr 10th
May 8th
Jun 5th
Jul 17th
Aug 14th
Sep 11th
Oct 9th
Nov 6th
Dec 4th

30/12/2023

📸 Look at this post on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=392282936519907&id=100072146117002&post_id=100072146117002_392282936519907

28/12/2023

Wanted. A drummer who can play the blues. Ideally based in the Aylesbury area
Mid 20s and have a good feel for the blues

05/12/2023

🤩 WOW 🤩The 2023 Blues Lounge Radio Show Awards are now open, and we are listed in more than one category for this year! Feels soooo good!

Vote here at the link below!
https://www.surveyhero.com/c/biazwa79

01/10/2023

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=637618788481851&id=100067012072827&post_id=100067012072827_637618788481851&sfnsn=scwspmo

16/09/2023

‎Show The Blues Guitar Show, Ep Episode #137 Martyn Roper & Rich Miller Talk Steel Guitars and Slide Playing - 10 Sept 2023

11/06/2023

Harmonica tabs and backing track for the traditional song 'This Little Light of Mine'

13/05/2023

What key harmonicas do you need to play blues? This easy guide will make it easy!

10/05/2023

Good morning. If you intend to attend tonight's jam please note that there are new parking regulations in force in the Car Park.
Parking is now charged until 18:00, after which its free
Please do not arrive prior to 18:00

30/04/2023

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26/04/2023

Preview tour of my Online Harmonica School including step-by-step harmonica lessons, tabs and backing tracks for all levels.

02/01/2023

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15/12/2022

Learn Delta Blues now!

This weeks YouTube is a lesson looking firstly at a ‘one chord’ blues and secondly ‘Death Letter Blues’ by Son House.

Both songs have typical ‘delta blues’ stylings and will give players a small amount of vocabulary to build on or learn other songs by Robert Johnson, Tommy Johnson, Son House, RL Burnside and the rest!

Hopefully this video opens up some players to that more hard driving and ballsy style of playing associated with that region in the 1920s to well… now TBH!!

🎼🎯🎼

01/10/2022

Few Simple Jazz Chords. 😎👇

21/07/2022

http://www.coverbandcentral.com

28/06/2022

Free harmonica lesson and tabs for African-American spiritual/anti-war song Down By The Riverside

27/05/2022

JJ Cale: “We were just trying to play the blues and didn’t know how, so that’s what we came up with.” Just as the Rolling Stones and the Yardbirds were trying to copy American blues records and got it just wrong enough to come up with something new, so did these kids raised amid the empty ranch lands and oil wells of Oklahoma. But instead of filtering the blues through skiffle and music-hall songs, as the Brits did, these cowboys filtered it through country music and gospel—and that made all the difference.

I could never get the playing of whoever I was listening to exactly right. I would miss a few notes here and there or get a chord wrong. Through that, my playing ended up sounding a bit different from the person I was imitating. As the years went by, I deliberately kept letting that happen. That’s where a person’s style comes from. If you play exactly like someone else, you don’t come up with anything original. In a sense you could say my guitar playing is full of mistakes that came from trying to imitate others.

Photographed by Jay Blakesberg for Rolling Stone Magazine on March 4, 1990 in a tiny room at the Phoenix Hotel in San Francisco, CA

03/05/2022

What a fantastic jam last Wednesday!

Lots of players and some great jams, thanks everyone that got up or supported🤘👌😎.

We’re going to take a break as the host band for a while and want to thank everyone that has joined us on stage or supported.

Huge thanks to Mark for all the technical expertise, Carrie for the essential lubrication and Jonathan for the spot.

And big thanks of course to the hardest working blues rhythm section, Robin, Tony and Brian😎👌

See you again soon!

26/04/2022

It's the Bletchley Blues Jam tomorrow night! (Wed 27th April)

Bring your axe, your sticks, your mic and your funky self and let's drink some drink, make some noise and get some blues done!

See ya there 😎👌