Low on gig info this week but the first thing i can point you towards is Sunday, March 14, when SWEET BABY JAMES & ROB EYERS will be playing at the Semaphore Worker’s Club, featuring songs from their new album - Double Voodoo. Live music kicks off around 5.30 pm.

 Also on Sunday March 14, you can catch Rhumboogie in a special Fringe Event at the Coopers 1862 Bar - the Wine Undergound - Pirie Streeet, the city. LIve music wafts out the door around 5.00 pm. Seems like we're doubling up on the bluesy rootsy gigs on a Sunday but that's what we're here for.

Now, speaking of doubling - 'Dublin' up, that is -  Panic, the boys that couldn't be stopped with a horse's handbrake, will be doing a 'Dubble-in' shift at the Daniel O'Connell Hotel on March 17!  Yes, Saint Fekken Pady's day, where the earlier band called stumps before time! So.... 0pan!c gets to doa double shift. Come along and buy the pan!c boys a Guinness for feck's sake, they'll fekkin' need it after five.... count them...  F-I-V-E fekkin' hours of music that will make you understand why the guy that sang It's a Long way to Tipper-fekkin-rary wasn't in much of a hurry to get there.

 Now...if you love yer blues and roots music - and who doesn't?? Eh??? well, the big arsehole next door doesn't, he chucked a brick on my roof the other night when I was playing my George Thorogood recordings through a concert P.A. in the shed. But he, as i said, is prolapsed colon. Normal arseholes - like you and me, however - should get down to the Gilbert Street Hotel on Thursday night, March 18, to be with SWEET BABY JAMES & ROB EYERS as they mown and whale through three - count them one -two-three - sets of hot blues. Bring your own bricks to chuck on the roof; I found some old breeze bricks that will do the job admirably but I'm not sharing.

 Some news:  Dave Maton's new single “earth hour” is on you tube, you should have a look, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTF2HasbEXU
The single is available for download on itunes.

And his short film “Spas Like Us”  got one of 10 Highly Commended gongs at the Indie short Film Festival in the USA. Go here: http://www.indieshortfilms.net/2009winners.html

And, here: www.blueringrecords.wordpress.com for information on Earth Hour.

 And, if you have ten minutes, read the item below. Because I want you to.