Crawdaddy Blues Band
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Crawdaddy Blues Band try to recapture the sounds and atmosphere of the Briitish Blues and R and B clubs of the 1960's. They were formed in 1984 as a reunion of four Chiswick friends who first met in the 1960s, and witnessed those early gigs at R&B clubs like the Crawdaddy in Richmond, Jazz and Blues at Eel Pie Island in Twickenham and all around the West London scene. They also played themselves in covers bands in West London's clubs and pubs right through the 1960's and 1970's,
A couple of personnel changes and more than 30 years on they are still true to the old British R and B sound, either as a straight Blues band or with their "party set " which mixes blues and R and B standards with pop covers of the bands that all started in the clubs. Bands like the early Rolling Stones, Yardbirds, Kinks, Animals, Them, Spencer Davis, mid 60's Blues Boom sounds like Fleetwood Mac, Jon Mayall and Eric Clapton, and also just a taste of the late 60's Blues Rock of Cream, Free and Led Zeppelin ...
Latest News ... March 2025 with Barley Mow and Hounslow S&S, and full calendar now confirmed.
John Writes: Thanks to all our friends old and new who came to see us at our first visit to The Pelican in Addlestone for great fun filled night of good old 1960s R&B.
As I mentioned before, we have reduced our gigs this year and tried to space them out to save our old bones and sadly due to band members planned operations and treatments due this year and their family commitments we have now closed our bookings list. In addition to that we have had to cancel our gig at The George on May 30th, apologies to all and we will see you there in July. We hope we may fit in one or two more new gig requests later in 2026 if we possibly can.
Next up is a return to our "home" pub the famous Barley Mow in Shepperton, a legendary live music venue. Cliff our drummer is on a rest and recovery day so we welcome Geoff Coxon from 60s West London legends The Others and many more big name bands depping on the night. The Band, our host John and his staff look forward to seeing all our Crawdaddy friends again, do join us and bring your friends too !
March 2025 has another gig in store on Saturday 29th March at Hounslow Sports & Social Club ...... watch this space.
Gig List 2025
Hounslow Sports and Social Club,
Saturdays 29th March, 29th November
The George Inn, Walton-On-Thames
Fridays 21st Feb, 18th July, 5th September, 24th October
The Barley Mow, Shepperton,
Fridays 9th May, 19th September,
14th November
Saturdays 22nd March, 5th July
The Pelican, Addlestone
Saturday 8th March
Walton Comrades Club, Walton-On-Thames
Wednesday 31st December NEW YEARS EVE PARTY.
(Ticket Only , details to follow)
The Crawdaddy Club Richmond
Crawdaddy Club Christmas Party
December venue and date to be announced
In Pictures: Crawdaddy Blues Band's journey through 60 years of the West London Music Scene
