Angela Brown & the Mighty 45s
LIVE - Invention Studio, Bath. Tues 6th Nov 2007. Doors 8pm
Listen on Angela's myspace page
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A clip from a concert at The Gloucester Guildhall, May 2001.
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As a live Sound Engineer, I have been lucky enough to work with Angela Brown and the Mighty 45s about 5 times. The first time was when Angela came over from Chicago to the Gloucester Blues Festival in 1994. She comandeered The Mighty 45s and told them that they were going to be her backing band!!! The gigs were amazing. She had so much charisma, such a big voice and the Mighty 45s were a perfect band to compliment her. I worked with them when they came to Gloucester the next few times.
In 1999 they played on the opening night of the Bath Fringe Festival to a full capacity rapturous audience! I had another gig that night but I gave it up to do the sound for them! I had to be there doing the sound if they were going to play in my home town!
I have been doing live sound now for about 20 years. I've also played bass in a band but one thing I've always wanted to do is put on a gig. I wanted to bring something to Bath that I've seen which will blow people away. The first band I wanted to put on was Angela Brown, and I've managed to catch one day of her, while she is over here for only 7 days in November.
So if you want to be blown away, buy a ticket while they're still available. Either from the Bath Festivals office or email me. ONLY £10 in advance, £12 on the door (if there are any tickets left)
Bath Festivals Box Office,
2 Church Street, Abbey Green, Bath BA1 1NL
T: 01225 463362 F: 01225 310377
E: boxoffice@bathfestivals.org.uk
Payment can be made in cash, by cheque (made payable to Bath Festivals) and by all major credit and debit cards including Maestro.
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Box Office Opening Hours
Open Monday to Saturday 9.30am – 5.30pm
Please note that this is a standing (not seated) event.
Angela Brown's Biog;
Angela Brown is certainly a blues diva - “raucous, raunchy and rumbustious” are just some of the words used to describe this great singer.
Born in Chicago, Illinois. Angela began her musical career by singing gospel music in church and although she was aware of the blues she didn’t sing them until around 1980, when she played the role of Gertrude "Ma" Rainey in a stage musical. Inspired by the music, she worked, honing her craft, in numerous Chicago blues clubs, often accompanied by pianists Little Brother Montgomery or Erwin Helfer. Her debut recordings were released by the Red Beans label in 1983, and the first album under her own name was made in 1987 for the German label Schubert.
She was dubbed "the Bessie Smith of the 80s', a deserved title given her strong renditions of vaudeville blues material. Her powerful voice is also well-suited to more modern blues styles, becoming a popular attraction at blues festivals all over the world not only vocally, but for her onstage presence and oomph!
Past years have seen Angela voted Overseas Female Artist of the Year and her album Thinking out Loud with her English band The Mighty 45s was runner up as the UK album of the Year.
With her favourite four piece band The Mighty 45s, Angela developed her act into one of the ‘hottest live blues, soul and gospel shows seen outside Chicago’ (Time Out) - touring in the UK with GTA on their successful American Festival of The Blues.
Angela Brown is a classy, powerful fusion of musical talent, performing a seamless mix of blues, soul, rock and jazz in her subtle but hard-hitting style. Angela has the ‘.. sort of voice that, fully unleashed, could strip the Ronseal off your floorboards!” (The Sunday Times).
This year sees the release of the band’s new album with Angela In a dangerous mood. Warm, mellow, jazz ballads are mixed in with gospel and raunchy blues tracks. She has a great voice and a really expressive one. “…. All of it pretty close to sensational.” (Surrey Advertiser) She’s a larger than life character who knows how to get an audience eating out of her hand.
PRESS QUOTES :
‘..Angela Brown has the sort of voice that, fully unleashed, could strip the Ronseal
off your floorboards!” The Sunday Times
“…. the hottest blues, soul, jazz, gospel show seen outside of Chicago” Time Out
“… with a voice as deep and hot as the earth’s core, Angela Brown proves beyond doubt
that her ranking alongside Etta James and Koko Taylor is fully justified” Blues & Rhythm
“… they are a classy and powerful live experience. Marks out of ten? Eleven” Time Out
“.. it’s hard to isolate one member from the incredibly tight fusion of musical talent that
makes up The Mighty 45s. They make the hairs on the back of your next stand up” Mail on Sunday
“… raucous, raunchy and rumbustious, the earthy Chicago diva Angela Brown and
the excellent Mighty 45s established an immediate rapport with the capacity crowd” Southern Daily Echo
THE MIGHTY 45s.
THE MIGHTY 45s are a classy, powerful, fusion of musical talent, crossing traditional musical boundaries and playing a seamless mix of blues, soul, rock and jazz in their own subtle, yet hard-hitting style.
The recognition and respect for THE MIGHTY 45s musical integrity, is continually demonstrated by the demand for them to tour and record with American bluesmen Phillip Walker; Bo-Diddley; Sam Taylor; John Primer; Sherman Robertson; Jay Owens; Larry Garner; Lucky Peterson; The Memphis Horns and the irrepressible Chicago blues / gospel diva, Angela Brown.
The highly successful partnership of ANGELA BROWN & THE MIGHTY 45s together with legendary producer Mike Vernon, gained critical acclaim with their first cd ‘Thinking Out Loud’ The album subsequently became ‘runner up’ as the UK album of the Year.
ANGELA & THE 45s have now recorded and released their second album, a stunning new “live” cd entitled, ‘In a Dangerous Mood’.
“Definitely my favourite CD this year” Ashwyn Smyth Digital Blues/ Blues Matters
“… they were crisp, they were tight, they were varied, they were marvellously restrained, they were wonderful” Venue Magazine
THE MIGHTY 45s ARE:
NICK HYDE: Guitars, Vocals. RUSSELL BROWN: Bass, Vocals.
SIMON CALLOW: Keyboards, Vocals. ROGER JONES: Drums.
The Venue; Invention Studio
I chose Invention because I have worked in there many times including a whole Bath Fringe Festival (17 days) in 2004. It has great acoustics, the lighting rig and engineer there are 1st class the atmosphere is intimate & fantastic. So I thought if I were to add Angela Brown & The Mighty 45s to the mix, I'd have the recipe for a perfect gig!
Invention Studios
Lower Borough Walls, Bath, BA1 1QR.
Website: invention.tv (directions etc)
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