Mitch Laddie (guitar &
vocals), Rhian Wilkinson (electric bass) & Matt Connor (drums)
(Review by Russell)
Sunday afternoons at the Tyne Bar
are invariably busy with regulars eager to hear some blues. This week the Maling Street hostelry
almost burst at the seams. Three deep at the bar (Wylam beers occupying every
hand pull), they had come to hear Mitch Laddie. The man from out Consett way
plays gigs in pubs, clubs, concert halls (Sage Gateshead) and on the blues
festival circuit. Laddie, five string bassist Rhian Wilkinson and drummer Matt
Connor make for the tightest of units rampaging across a blues rock landscape,
the big bonus being they avoid the mind-numbing, sledgehammer approach.
Laddie’s Fender Strat touched
base with Stevie Ray, Rory Gallagher, Jimi and Mr BB King along the way.
Bassist Wilkinson, the unperturbable one, always on the money, surveyed the
scene with detached amusement as drummer Matt Connor exuded enthusiasm,
possessing nu-school, tutored technique. Laddie originals from the CDs This Time Around and Burning Bridges made it onto the set
list along with covers of Stevie Wonder and that man Hendrix, Foxy Lady and all. The trio’s new CD
(the ‘live’ recording at the
Russell.
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