The Magic Band listings

The Continental is proud to present the one and only Magic Band.

Thats right - THE Magic Band.

Sharing the vision of celebrating the music of the late Don Van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart, original members Denny Feelers Rebo Walley, Mark Rockette MortonBoston, and John Drumbo French share the stage with guitarist Eric Klerks and drummer Craig Bunch to re-visit the classic Beefheart tunes with renewed fervor. This band is the best batch yet and the chemistry has been duly noted with rave reviews from their November / December visit to theUKin 2011.

ATP founder Barry Hogan was the first to bring the vision to reality in 2003 with two appearances in theUK. Since then, the band has re-assembled several times in altered incarnations to accept various invitations including ATP at the Queen Mary Ship inLong Beach,CAUSA, The Royal Festive Hall inLondon, Glastonbury 2004, and ATP Minehead 2009. A sellout show atLondons Scala in late 2011 proves that the band still has the right stuff, and in fact righter than ever according to both the audience and the critics reactions.

Releasing such recordings as Back to the Front ( ATP Records), 21st Century Mirror Men ( Proper Records), and Live at Oxford (Sundazed Records), the group has proven to stay true to the original music, re-visiting the original recordings with both technical and soulful accuracy much to the joy of Beefheart Fans everywhere.

If you have not heard this band, you are in for a treat, as the music is a mixture of avante-garde jazz and delta blues that has to be heard to be appreciated. The intertwining complexity of the rhythms and melodies can seem a bit unnerving at first listen, but if you are like many, you will quickly become a fan of this quirky deviation from the norm.

The Magic Band which will play here on 13th March will feature Drumbo (vocals and drums on the instrumental tracks), Rockette Morton (bass) and Denny Walley (guitar) who all featured in various line-ups of the original Magic Band, together with new members Eric Klerks (guitar) and Craig Bunch (drums) who both played on Drumbos recent solo album City ofRefuge. Drumbo believes this line up of the Magic Band is the best batch yet since they reformed.

This is the first Magic Band appearance in Preston since their show at the Guild Hall on 27th April 1973!

Tickets £17.50 // The Continental Bar 01772 499 425 // Action Records 01772 884 772 // Online from wegottickets and seetickets

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