Entertainment For Lively Minds
The Aaron Keylock Blues Band
Posted by Tim Turner on 4 February 2012 - 1:25pm.
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.










who knows
in a few years time, this could be the first review to recognise someone great
enjoyed it
cheers
and here he is