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Award-winning American blues rock guitarist Eric Gales returns to the UK this week to perform six concerts. Dates include Leamington Assembly (June 2), Chester Live Rooms (June 4), York Crescent (June 5), Newcastle Cluny (June 6), Bury Met Theatre (June 7) and Basingstoke, The Haymarket (June 8). Tickets priced £25, are available from www.thegigcartel.com. Special guest on the June tour run is Irish blues guitarist and singer songwriter Dom Martin, who’s new album, ‘A Savage Life‘, was Classic Rock Magazine’s Blues […]

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Multi-award winning and multi-nominated Northern Irish blues guitarist Dom Martin is special guest on Eric Gales’ UK tour from June 2-8. Tickets are available from http://www.dommart.in/tour Dom just won two UK Blues Awards including Blues Instrumentalist of the Year and Acoustic Blues Artist of the Year (the latter for the third year in a row thus placing him in the UK Blues Hall of Fame). The tour features two guitarists who have been honoured with instrumental guitarist awards on both sides of the pond. Eric Gales is the proud recipient of Blues Instrumentalist of the Year at the BMAs in Memphis (Blues Music Awards). Dom’s support slot on Eric Gales’ UK tour follows the release of his current album ‘A Savage Life‘ which has received rave reviews including Classic Rock’s “Blues Album of the Month.” Dom is featured on […]

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Multi-award winning and multi-nominated Northern Irish blues guitarist Dom Martin will release his highly anticipated sophomore studio album ‘A Savage Life‘ on Friday 8 April 2022. The album is available to pre-order from www.dommart.in/pre-order. ‘Echoes‘ the second single taken from the new album, will be released Friday 25 March and will be available to stream and download from www.dommart.in/upcoming-single. “‘Echoes‘ is about loss and finding things that used to belong to souls that have passed on,” says Dom. “It’s a song about ghostly things and memories of the past and I guess it was inspired by me returning to Belfast after periods away during difficult times in my life.” Hailed by many as the blues’ biggest Irish export since the iconic guitarist Rory Gallagher, 2022 looks like it’s going to be ripe for the picking for Dom Martin. Dom is the only […]

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Dom Martin, When Rivers Meet, King King and Brave Rival are just a few of the UK’s leading blues artists who have received nominations at the UK Blues Awards 2022. If you haven’t voted yet, cast: here. Voting closes at 23.45 on Tuesday February 15th. Dom Martin is nominated in five categories including “Blues Instrumentalist Of The Year”, “Best Acoustic Blues Act Of The Year”, “Blues Band Of The Year”, “Blues Vocalist Of The Year” and “Blues Album Of The Year”. Based in Belfast, guitarist and singer-songwriter is being hailed as Ireland’s biggest music export since the great Rory Gallagher. His new album ‘A […]