Live in London-100 Club Oxford Street London - Tuesday 29th December

Little Bob - Vocals

Gilles Mallet - Guitar

Bertrand Couloume - Bass

Mikey Blow - Harmonica

Jeremiah Piazza - Drums

After enacting his own role in the Aki Kaurismäki movie Le Havre, Little Bob is back with a blues project that takes him back to his beginnings. Little Bob gives free rein to his passion for the blues, because everyone knows that the real bluesmen do not play the blues, they have it.

Imagine a 12 year old coming off the train at Le Havre directly from Alessandria, Italy, near Turin city and discovering the pavement slippery with rain. Just as he put his foot down, he felt the Blues, and after several decades of spreading the good word of rock, here he is, with his side-project: Little Bob Blues Bastards.

The breath of the Delta, quirky and original, pushes Bob and his musicians in this direction. With his own compositions and some standards, the album is composed of Blues and Little Bob" covers by "Howling Wolf, Skip James, Tom Waits and JB Lenoir.

“I’ve always loved blues as much as rock’n’roll. The first LP I bought (alongside a record by the Animals) was a Howlin’ Wolf album. His vocals literally blew me away and I was hooked on the blues for life. To this day, I feel thankful to all of these great pioneers for their inspiration and feeling.”

Break Down the Walls is a collection of blues classics revisited by Little Bob, interspersed with personal songs written in a similar vein. The result sounds like a wild British Blues album from the sixties, with a handful of heart-wrenching ballads that hint at Roberto’s Italian roots.

Little Bob has been a rock ‘n’ roll legend in France for the past thirty years. His city of origin, Le Havre, located on the Channel a stone’s throw from England, is the French equivalent of Liverpool with its oil terminals, supertankers, container ships, chemical plants, sailors and roustabouts. Bob crisscrossed the British Isles abundantly in the seventies at the head of his Little Bob Story, performing no-holds-barred rock on university campuses and festivals grounds, Irish pubs and Hell’s Angels hangouts.

The greatest have always considered Bob one of their own. He has recorded with Steve Hunter (Mitch Ryder, Lou Reed, Alice Cooper ...), Charlie Sexton (the Texas Boy Wonder), Kenny Margolis (of Mink Deville and Cracker), Dave Alvin (The Blasters) and performed with Maria McKee & Benmont Tench in Hollywood, Dr Feelgood, Beverly Joe Scott & Southside Johnny in Paris, and Willy DeVille & Johnny Thunder in England.