JFK Blue Live Gig Review- Blues At The Woodlands Gillingam Kent '18

We welcomed this new band to the club where our audience are pretty knowledgeable and appreciate really good music .

JFK Blue thoroughly entertained and delighted us all with 2 full sets of high intensity music either side of an interval. On this night they were down to a 4 piece as their keyboard player had to fly home to Latvia urgently.

They played for the best part of the gig their own original music taken from Rough Round The Edges their last album and some new tracks from their forthcoming EP release Out Of The Blue ( release date 30th November ) which was a mixture of what they refer to as “ a style of blues and rock with freedom of expression to not get hung up on genres but to play music that we create and believe in. With three principle songwriters our influences are many and varied, this reflects in our music which has been described as shapeshifting” 

JFK Blue are no doubt a force to be reckoned with exciting music played with both gusto and professionalism , it was great to see how they interacted with each other and kept things fresh especially when the more than talented Sol Ezra on drums kept the guys on their toes with the colourful patterns he played, Iago Barnet on lead guitar sprinkled magic to everything he played, Lead singer and Guitarist Chris Elliott , what a great voice with a style of his own which brings that extra you need in a front man ,on bass guitar Leslie Fleischman produced outstanding bass lines and depth to the JFK Blue performance . 

All in all a fabulous band who I know we all really enjoyed and want to see back and are indeed booked for a return to the club !!

Derek Wells ‘Blues at the Woodlands’