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PETE FEENSTRA -My aim is to promote the best in enduring quality music and up and coming bands in the blues-rock / r&b / roots and quality tribute field. Visit the website for forthcoming gigs at assorted venues and also view exclusive videos there.

Aynsley Lister Band -Wingspan Club, Crawley, West Sussex 16.04.10

Sincere Thanks to Aynsley Lister Band for allowing me to film and post the concert footage.

Aynsley Lister - Guitars, vocals
Midus Guarneri -Bass
Simon Small-Drums
Dan Healey- piano/organ

http://www.aynsleylister.co.uk/
http://www.myspace.com/aynsleylister

Aynsley picked up the guitar at eight and played his first gig aged thirteen. A year later on a family trip to San Francisco, he was jamming at 'Lou's Bar' on Pier 49. Brought up on his father's record collection, he had learned to play by ear and would sit for hours in his bedroom playing along to old 45s of Freddie King, John Mayall and Eric Clapton.He spent the next few years honing his craft.He has taken these key elements and mixed them with a more current and melodic lyrical approach.and plays the rocking blues,with passion and vitality, and his fine song writing is soul searching and heartfelt.

By the time he was 18, he had worked his way through various bands and decided to form his own. The band recorded two albums, but it was the second of these two that started things happening. Aynsley had begun writing and it was the three original numbers of this album that attracted the attention of Ruf Records' head Thomas Ruf. In the summer of 1998, they signed a deal.

Aynsley has played alongside blues legends such as Buddy Guy, John Mayall, and Robert Cray aswell as big name pop artists such as Bryan Adams and Fun Lovin Criminals. His recorded work has seen him working with Producers Jim Gaines (Santana, SRV) and Greg Haver (Manic Street Preachers, Catatonia)
2006 saw Lister recording in Clarksdale, Mississippi and Memphis Tennessee where he worked again with Jim Gaines on the Ruf Records collaboration Pilgrimage. With Gaines producing Lister debut for the label in 1999, it was almost 7 years to the month that they had previously worked together. In September of that year his album Everything I Need was released stateside in preparation for his debut tour. Listers fourth studio album UPSIDE DOWN is the first to contain all originals.

Album Equilibrium released March 2009.

Midus Guerreiro
http://www.myspace.com/midusguerreiro
Born in Lisbon, Portugal, based in the UK and living in London, Midus gives herself to any musical style while maintaining her own identity & character as a bass player. As part of a band or independent session work, her rock-solid groove & extensive experience of International Tours, Studio Recordings & Television Promo has led to her to play all over the worldfrom 5 people in a sweaty rock club to a screaming Stadium crowd with artists like Melanie C, Kym Marsh, Hugh Cornwell, Anne Clark and Brian Ferry. Midus began playing bass and formed her first band at the age of twelve.

Simon Small - Drums
http://www.myspace.com/simonsmalldrums
Simon first started playing the drums when he was twelve years old. He began gigging three years later in a blues trio and continued to be heavily influenced by blues and soul music.After graduating from the Academy of Contemporary Music in 2004, Simon was a founding member of Devizes based indie band, Hitchmo.Hitchmo performed around the U.K. and Europe, recorded the World Were Living In video in Los Angeles, appeared at Glastonbury festival and alongside Feeder at the Redbourn festival in 2007.

His next project saw him working with fellow Devizes based artist Jon Amor. Simon toured Europe with Jon and played on the Unknown Soldier album, which also featured Robert Plant and Clive Deamer. In late 2007 Simon played the Shepherds Bush Empire and the Oxford Carling Academy with U.S. pop act The Bastard Fairies as part of Shed 7s support tour. He has also worked with several award winning producers and directors including; Chris Hughes (Adam and the Ants, Tears for Fears), Steve Evans (Robert Plant) and The Davey Brothers (Dave Stewart). He has appeared on festival billings across the UK and Europe alongside Feeder, The Automatic and Dirty Pretty Things.Simon joined the Aynsley Lister band in January 2009 at the start of the Equilibrium album tour.