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The Aaron Keylock Blues Band

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When: 
Friday 3 February 2012
Where: 
The Half Moon, Putney
Comments: 
We were here to see Nine Below Zero, but thought we might as well check out the support act. While we were chatting, a trio of teenagers (we’re talking pre-GCSE here) had mounted the stage and ripped into a hard’n’heavy instrumental blues. All around us, jaws dropped. Diminutive and fresh-faced, with straggly hair and wearing a check shirt and jeans, Aaron Keylock looks like a young Rory Gallagher – except that I doubt that Gallagher was as good as this at the age of 14. Boy, can that boy play blues guitar; fast and intricate, slow and heavy, the works. He’s mastered the slide, too, and he even makes a decent stab at a “blues face” when soloing. Oh, and he writes his own songs, introducing one with the deathless line, “This is about the music industry”. I repeat: he’s 14. He’s only let down by his voice, which is unfortunately in the process of breaking, and thus not best suited to singing right now. Other than that, though: wow.
The Audience: 
The usual Half Moon crowd: mostly male, mostly middle-aged. All blown away.
Food & Drink: 
Locally brewed Wandle bitter at £3.50 a pint. Lovely.
It Made Me Think...: 
It’s testimony to the enduring appeal of the blues that, in 2012, a 14-year-old boy growing up in England wants to emulate Clapton, Beck, Page and co., and the bluesmen that they in turn grew up wanting to emulate.
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who knows

in a few years time, this could be the first review to recognise someone great

enjoyed it

cheers

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Junior Wells | 11 February 2012 - 11:34pm

and here he is

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Junior Wells | 11 February 2012 - 11:44pm
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