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BLUEBELLY
Bluebelly are Dougie Burns and Bobby McDonald. This musical partnership
was founded in 2003 when Dougie and Bobby decided that is was time to
inflict their own blues based songs on an unsuspecting (and largely indifferent)
public.
After performing a few support slots around Inverness without provoking
either open conflict or physical violence they decided they were ready
to play in their own right.
Following a successful stint at the 2004 Orkney Blues Festival and now
backed up with their newly recorded and splendid CD, the Band has kept
gigging regularly into 2006. Dougie and Bobby have also co-written and
recorded a new song, "Always Right Baby Blues", for the Inverness
Market Bar CD to be released in May of 2006.
On
6 May 2006 they play as support for ALBERT LEE & HOGANS HEROES at
The Raigmore Hotel, Inverness and on 20 August 25006 as support for LIGHTNING
WILLIE & THE POOR BOYS at The Ironworks, Inverness. They are also
due for a welcome return, in July, to the Dundee Blues Bonanza for the
third year running, Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival for a second year,and
their first slot in August at Arbroath in the Smokie Blues Festival, so
watch this space.
Dougie, playing acoustic guitar, sings songs of lust, drink and hangovers,
betrayal, loneliness and broken guitar strings. While Bobby alternating
between double bass and delta (Moray Firth) slide guitar lightens the
mood with his cheerful tunes about dead poets, industrial wasteland and
nuclear holocaust.
Now that's what I call the Blues.
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