Jamie Perry

Okay… so what do thimbles, a wash board, teenage oaps, cotteridge and pints of Guiness have in common?

Well they all featured highly on an amazing night out at The Crossroads Blues Club last night.

Celebrating one year of opening the tiny venue was packed with a niche audience of real blues lovers to see this special gig involving the one and only, down right masterful Perry Foster and the quirky irky Robert Johnson in a cardigan gal Abie Budgen complete with washboard, nasal trumpet, beatboxing and general tomphoooooolery to go with her eliquent country blues.

Tickets were a bargain at £5 and the night was filled full of head nodding, foot tapping, laughing, crying, screaming, pleading Blues of the highest order.

I’d strongly reccommend getting down there and sampling the unique atmosphere but don’t tell too many people – this is something that should be savoured by the adoring few on a regular basis.