After forty years of almost continuous gigging and
recording, the CLIMAX BLUES BAND remains one of the most consistently entertaining of all the
outfits to emerge from the British blues boom of
the late sixties. Founded, and still led, by singer and multiinstrumentalist Colin Cooper, the band has survived the vagaries of fashion in the popular music business, largely because despite the occasional highly successful foray into the charts, the most successful being the classic world-wide hit "Couldn't Get It Right", sung and co-written by Colin, the band has always kept an eye firmly on its roots, namely blues and jazz.
The current live show spans material from the
entire forty years of the band's existence, and their place in blues history is marked by a detailed entry in the "Guinness Who's Who Of The Blues". It should be noted that the "Virgin Encyclopaedia of Popular Music" rated the live CD, "Blues From The Attic", recorded by the current line-up, as superior to any of the previous albums apart from the second, "Plays On", which equalled it.

Website: www.climaxbluesband.co.uk

GILES HEDLEY has been singing and playing blues across the UK and Europe since the sixties, on harmonica - his trademark is simultaneous nose and- mouth harmonica playing, and bottleneck and lap steel guitars both acoustic and electric. A regular on the blues festival and club circuits both solo and with The Aviators, he has appeared on national radio in England and France - truly, in the words of top UK blues magazine Blues in Britain, a "mainstay of British blues".
His solo work recreates the passion, grit and fire of the delta blues greats - Son House (with whom
Giles appeared in the Seventies), Kokomo Arnold, Robert Johnson, Fred McDowell.

Website: www.gileshedley.com