Bo'weevil Brothers/Karen McLeod

BO'WEEVIL BORTHERS/KAREN MACLEOD

IMV 12th October 2025 

Back to the The The International Music Venue Sunday afternoon... there may be fewer gigs this year but this was the 4th fabulous gig in a week!!... today hosted by the The Bo'weevil brothers for their album launch.

First things first... opening up was the excellent Karen Karen Macleod, a superb finger-picking blues guitar player and singer. Her set today covered a range of blues pieces, some familiar others less so, but all great pieces, and every one played and sung beautifully by Karen. Her playing is all finger picking, which I love to hear, and her playing is intricate and fluent, beautiful to hear and a perfect accompaniment to her lovely soft relaxed singing... beautiful set to open the afternoon

As the band were already set up there was only a minimal gap between Karen and the The Bo'weevil brothers starting.. .and the game plan was to be two sets, the first a run through of the album. I'm sure we all know and love the band by now, so you will, i am sure, know just how good they are

The scene was set with a pounding version of "My Babe"... as far as I can recall the bulk of the songs were new to me, though "Storm Warning" stands out as a familiar piece...

The band play uncompromising rocking blues... even on the country based songs and as ever the brilliant musicianship was allied to real fire and conviction in the playing, and laced with humour.. I haven;t had a chance to play the album yet, but based on what we heard this afternoon "Blues Done Different" looks like a magnificent piece of work.

Once they'd finished playing the album the band took a short break before coming back to play a batch of songs... some regular features of the set, such as "Bring me back my Wig" and other less familiar pieces... by the time they reached their superb powerhouse last song, their version "Who do you Love", this is the one vocal of the day from Nick, and with both he and Al standing up (and Al hatless!) the dancers were doing their thing and the audience at large bouncing in their seats... there was always going to be an encore... and as ever it was "Lets Work Together", made famous by Canned Heat... and a fine sentiment to round off a breathtaking performance by a superb band.

Al, Jimmy and Nick are beyond question great musicians who blend together into a seamless whole, with clearly a lot of love and telepathy among ther musicians, and indeed the audience...

Absolutely superb.. .two totally brilliant , though at opposite poles stylistically, blues acts delivering superb sets...

My, it's been a hell of a week for great gigs!!

Keep music live... keep music real... support your local venues and artists

Back to the The The International Music Venue Sunday afternoon... there may be fewer gigs this year but this was the 4th fabulous gig in a week!!... today hosted by the The Bo'weevil brothers for their album launch.

First things first... opening up was the excellent Karen Karen Macleod, a superb finger-picking blues guitar player and singer. Her set today covered a range of blues pieces, some familiar others less so, but all great pieces, and every one played and sung beautifully by Karen. Her playing is all finger picking, which I love to hear, and her playing is intricate and fluent, beautiful to hear and a perfect accompaniment to her lovely soft relaxed singing... beautiful set to open the afternoon

As the band were already set up there was only a minimal gap between Karen and the The Bo'weevil brothers starting.. .and the game plan was to be two sets, the first a run through of the album. I'm sure we all know and love the band by now, so you will, i am sure, know just how good they are

The scene was set with a pounding version of "My Babe"... as far as I can recall the bulk of the songs were new to me, though "Storm Warning" stands out as a familiar piece...

The band play uncompromising rocking blues... even on the country based songs and as ever the brilliant musicianship was allied to real fire and conviction in the playing, and laced with humour.. I haven;t had a chance to play the album yet, but based on what we heard this afternoon "Blues Done Different" looks like a magnificent piece of work.

Once they'd finished playing the album the band took a short break before coming back to play a batch of songs... some regular features of the set, such as "Bring me back my Wig" and other less familiar pieces... by the time they reached their superb powerhouse last song, their version "Who do you Love", this is the one vocal of the day from Nick, and with both he and Al standing up (and Al hatless!) the dancers were doing their thing and the audience at large bouncing in their seats... there was always going to be an encore... and as ever it was "Lets Work Together", made famous by Canned Heat... and a fine sentiment to round off a breathtaking performance by a superb band.

Al, Jimmy and Nick are beyond question great musicians who blend together into a seamless whole, with clearly a lot of love and telepathy among ther musicians, and indeed the audience...

Absolutely superb.. .two totally brilliant , though at opposite poles stylistically, blues acts delivering superb sets...

My, it's been a hell of a week for great gigs!!

Keep music live... keep music real... support your local venues and artists