Bobby Womack and his full American entourage at Blackburn June 25th 2011

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Wow!!! Mega news indeed, Bobby has managed to stay relevant musically and as far as the Northernsoul Scene is concerned he is one of the few artists who seem to appeal to all of the genres including oldies and modern!

I can't wait!!!

Bobby will always be part of my Northernsoul journey for me with "So many sides of you" and that superb album from "So Many Rivers"!

Sorry to be negative but wheres his head at currently? I was one of the many disappointed folk at the Birmingham Hilton a few years ago when he stropped on sang three tracks and cleared off. Not value for money at £35 a head for tickets!

I d love to see him when he s in the mood tho!

Why bring a major star over for one gig only? The potential for selling gigs out is there for all to see,same scenario with the impressions,legends but only 2 dates.By the way,saw bobby at the manchester apollo a couple of years ago,he was very much in the mood that night and delivered!

Apparently he's also playing four nights at The Jazz Cafe in London.

Pity he's not doing more shows around the country.

Also playing the Hague Jazz Festival 17/6 and a free open air set the night before in the Hague. Then hes off to Stokholm I believe before the UK gigs

Cheers Paul

What a pity this clashes with the Brid weekender!

Hundreds who would otherwise have gone will miss this gig

Can you move it back a week Kev? ........

Sorry to be negative but wheres his head at currently? I was one of the many disappointed folk at the Birmingham Hilton a few years ago when he stropped on sang three tracks and cleared off. Not value for money at £35 a head for tickets!

I d love to see him when he s in the mood tho!

Saw him in '84 during 'The Poet' tour, lots of folk type stuff mixed in wth his 60's solo stuff and lots of his Poet album (which i personally love & still have).

hopefully as Kev says, if he hits the audience with HIWTHI etc etc, then a good night will be on the cards .

When it was first mentioned I quickly got my tickets for Monday night at the Jazz Cafe, booked the train and hotel and sat back and looked forward to it.

Now all of a sudden it is

- 'this is Bobby's first appearance for quite some time we are proud to bring him to the UKs number one soul night' - he's doing FOUR nights at the Jazz Cafe first!!,

- he was ''crap' last time!,

- it clashes with something else!,

- he's not doing enough dates!

I was so looking forward to it

Sorry to be negative but wheres his head at currently? I was one of the many disappointed folk at the Birmingham Hilton a few years ago when he stropped on sang three tracks and cleared off. Not value for money at £35 a head for tickets!

I d love to see him when he s in the mood tho!

Yeah, I was in Birmingham too that night and it wasn't good.

In fact one of the girls with us (a big fan) , it took her about three years before she bring herself round to playing his records at home again.

Sorry Mike, I m really not trying to be a prophet of doom but I ve been stung before and would like a bit of reassurance that BW is in the mood for a tour. Looks like a fair number of dates but I m not going to buy tickets, book a room and book time off work without a bit more information. I really hope that he is totally up for putting on great shows this time.

do us a favour

if going to post links then take the time to put up what it actually links to....

its a a warm up event plug

Well he's here folks!

After 4 great nights at the Jazz Cafe in London, this is the final leg of his tour.... and its gonna be tremendous!

Look forward to seeing you there.

Sean

Blackburn's Soul Night Out

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Free admission / 3pm until 8pm

Saturday 25th June 2011

Woodlands Hotel

361-363 Preston New Road,

Blackburn BB2 7AA.

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