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30 12 09 • Blogs, Live Reviews

I’ve Got A Crush On You…

He may be a little old for me (I was 8 when he released his first album), but I've got a little crush... Last night I went with Hub and friends to see Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes at the Ram's Head Tavern and Music Hall in Annapolis, MD. And I was absolutely BLOWN AWAY. I've always liked SSJ's music. I've owned several of their albums for years, but never really followed them closely. They've always been part of my "Jersey Shore" rotation, though, along with The Boss and you-know-who.
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21 11 09 • Blogs, Live Reviews

The Best Bar Band in the World at the Buxton Opera House (2009)

20 November, 2009 – 6:03 pm | by Allan Mckay | When someone has had serious praise (and a sackload of songs) from Bruce Springsteen and he’s described by Jon Bon Jovi as the reason he got into music, you know there has to be a story there. The man in question is John Lyon, or Southside Johnny, and he’s aided and abetted by the Asbury Jukes...
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07 11 09 • Blogs, Live Reviews

The Globe, Cardiff, Wales, UK (2009)

By Paul S from Cardiff - November 2, 2009, The Globe, Cardiff Either I'd forgotten just how good a Southside Johnny gig can be or he got even better! There were a few changes from the last time I saw Southside: a little more facial hair, the trademark shades being discarded early on, and the ever changing line up of the Asbury Jukes. But much remained the same, including great musicianship from the eight strong backing band, featuring a strong horns section...
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31 10 09 • Live Reviews, Picture Galleries

The Paard Van Troje, Den Haag, Netherlands (2009)

ASBURYJUKES.NET - 31.OCTOBER 2009 - The trip from Amsterdam's IBIS Hotel to Den Haag's IBIS Hotel was as smooth as it could be. Empty Dutch motorways are a real treat for somebody who's used to the Autobahn... and the rush hour as such. Den Haag, is a place where Johnny has been the last time more than 10 years ago, playing the Koniginnen Naach Festival in 1999 on his comeback semi-acoustic tour.
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31 10 09 • Blogs, Live Reviews

Happy Halloween at the Paard van Troje, Den Haag, NL (2009)

REALROOTSCAFE.COM - On the night of the Hague show, all the Hague's people who were dressed in Halloween attire went to see Southside Johnny to play at the Horse for the first time. The rock singer from New Jersey, on the road since 1975 with his band The Asbury Jukes...
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30 10 09 • Live Reviews, Picture Galleries

The Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2009)

ASBURYJUKES.NET - 30. October, 2009 - So, you don't expect us to post setlists, do you? Since I've never been any good in keeping my mind together enough to write down what's happening on stage, I decided to use the camera instead.
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29 10 09 • Live Reviews, Picture Galleries

Honerkamps Ballsaal, Melle, Germany (2009)

MAGGIEPOWELL.NET – 29. October 2009 – So what is it about the Jukes that can entice several hundred people from the coziness of their homes to a dot-on-the-map (albeit a very nice dot) on a foggy, almost Halloween night, in lower, Lower Saxony, Germany, huh?
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20 07 09 • Live Reviews, Picture Galleries

Rythm & Blues Festival, Peer, Belgium (2009)

ASBURYJUKES.NET - July 19, 2009 - Allright... this gallery is big - as the show was - please be patient until it is loaded completely! Think Blues, think Belgium, think Peer, think John Mayall and then... Southside Johnny's best and da Jukes...
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20 06 09 • Blogs, Live Reviews

Gary U.S. Bonds – Swingin’ Daddy G.

Holly Cara Price reports from the 70th birthday show of the great Garry U.S. Bonds at B.B.King’s Nightclub in New York City for the HUFFINGTON POST. Starting with “Jole Blon,” a Cajun nugget that Van Zandt and Springsteen dug up for the Dedication album, the show was off to a rollicking start. Dipping into the early [...]
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10 03 09 • Blogs, Live Reviews

The Human Pogo Stick At B.B.King’s

Greetings from the human Dominican pogo stick that usually hangs out in front of Kazee…:-wink. Though most of my friends are rock & rollers, I’m really the only one in my circle of friends that loves SSJ & the AJ’s and whenever I tell them that I’m going to see them they bascially say “Again?”. [...]
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10 03 09 • Blogs, Live Reviews

Jukes at B.B.King’s in NYC, NY

The shows of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes at BB KING’S Nightclub in Manhattan, NYC are always somewhat special since some years already. Two shows, back to back at the same venue, with almost the same audience both nights usually means that Southside and the Jukes put some extra attention in making each night [...]
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25 02 09 • Blogs, Live Reviews, Videos

Blame It On The Love!

There obviously must be a never ending source of musical talent in New Jersey. Lee from Down Under (Australia!) reports of some more new, fresh and exiting newcomers demonstrating just this fact during a private show at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, New Jersey on February 23rd… I don’t know about the lead singer here, the [...]
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24 12 08 • Live Reviews, Press

Back at the Basie

BACK AT THE BASIE WITH BANDIERA, BONDS, BON JOVI, & MR. GRINCH – DEC. 22. 2008: Springsteen drops in to wish Red Bank crowd a Merry Christmas, Baby! It’s all cold down along the beach… the wind’s whipping down the boardwalk… and it’s freezing in Red Bank, where Bruce showed up tonight to bring some [...]
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23 12 08 • Live Reviews, Press

Bonjovi and Bruce keep Hope alive

RED BANK – There already was star power a-plenty on the stage of Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank Monday night, and then Jon Bon Jovi introduced Bruce Springsteen. BY KELLY JANE COTTER – Music Writer – December 23, 2008 “It ain’t Santa Claus,” Bon Jovi said, announcing a special guest. “We got something better.” Like [...]
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23 12 08 • Live Reviews, Videos

The IV. HOPE Benefit Concert

Bobby Bandiera’s IV. HOPE Christmas Bash is over since just a few hours… and here’re already the first videos to come in via YouTube of what has been, as it seems like, another marvelous night at the Count Basie Theater in Red Bank, NJ. THIS TIME IT’S FOR REAL WE’RE HAVING A PARTY Note: La Bamba, although on [...]
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28 10 08 • Live Reviews, Press

Southside Johnny and the La Bamba Big Band

A review by PHIL GALLO Posted: Sun., Oct. 26, 2008, 12:23pm PT The premiere of Southside Johnny’s big band project with trombonist Richard “La Bamba” Rosenberg was executed impressively in moments of power or playfulness, although the two-hour show was a bit out of sync early on and slightly drowsy at the end. The program, like [...]
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26 10 08 • Features, Live Reviews, Press

Big Band Amps Up Evening Of Tom Waits

By Jay Lustig, The Star-Ledger Sunday October 26, 2008, 9:16 PM NEW YORK — There has never been a Southside Johnny concert like the evening of Tom Waits songs he presented at the Nokia Theatre on Friday. There has never been a Waits show like it, either. On his September album “Grapefruit Moon,” John “Southside Johnny” Lyon [...]
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05 12 05 • Live Reviews, Roadblogs

Here we go (Amsterdam, The Paradiso)

After (finally) a quiet night in at Marjan’s (thank you Marjan!) we arose feeling resasonably rested for a change and headed into Amsterdam, collecting Maurice, Doug, Karin, Carina and Guido on the way, and set off to see some sights. We visited a photography exhibition with great pics of C Berry, F Domino, J [...]
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03 12 05 • Live Reviews, Roadblogs

Here we go again (Osnabrück, X-Mas)

Well, I got out of bed in London at 5.30 am, got the plane to Amsterdam, met Marjan, who then – thanks, Marjan!’ – drove us to into Germany, where we met Doug, Steve, Carina, two Johns, Glasgow and Watford, Maggie, Marc, Richard, Ender, Ulla and so many other friends old and new, had a [...]
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01 12 05 • Live Reviews, Roadblogs

Here we go (Bristol, The Fleece)

I’m now feeling a little drained after another great show, and a rather emotional one, given we were saying goodbye to some of our tour companions. Brian and Mickey B get this year’s Trains, Boats & Planes award for Hard Touring after spending most of the day in strike-bound captivity the wrong side of [...]
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29 11 05 • Live Reviews, Roadblogs

Here we go (Southampton, The Brook)

So all the English, US and Dutch people slowly (though far too early) rose this morning from where they had strewn themselves about my house and we sorted ourselves into train schedules and carloads. Many thanks to Steve, of this board, who ended up driving us to Southampton and all the way home, a [...]
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28 11 05 • Live Reviews, Roadblogs

Here we go (Milton Keynes, The Stables)

Hi all from your slightly worn and wearying reporter. Sorry I don’t have time, with a house full of guests and Southampton to get to, to do any proper blogging today. But here’s a pretty full account of the show (though I don’t guarantee, given my current rate of progress towards brain death, that [...]
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26 11 05 • Live Reviews, Roadblogs

Here we go (Deal, Astor Theatre)

I have to be quick today as our guests are waiting for a tour of old London town but will try to convey another most lovely show: this incarnation of da Jukes is really starting to gel; the wonderful sound guys are letting us hear them all; the crowds in hitherto unvisited regions are [...]
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26 11 05 • Live Reviews, Roadblogs

Here we go (London, Astoria)

We spent the day walking London: Buckingham Palace, the Tate Gallery and the River, Piccadilly Circus, the Xmas lights in Regent Street, Libety’s store, Carnaby Street and though Soho to the Dog and Duck pub. There, and at the show, we met so many great old and new friends: Brian B and [...]
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23 11 05 • Live Reviews, Roadblogs

Here we go (Liverpool, Pacific Road Arts)

Liverpool, when we arrived, was covered in very damp mist, but, nothing deterred, Deborah and I did a quick tour: the magnificent neo-Classical St George’s Hall, the Walker art Gallery (which had an exhibit of miniature famous artworks made out of Lego), the street that the cavern was in, and the Pier Head, where [...]
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22 11 05 • Live Reviews, Roadblogs

Here we go (Bilston, Robin)

I’m a little bleary, due to being evacuated from the hotel in the middle of last night as some idiots had left their taps running and shorted the electricity. (We got back in, but sleep was more than somewhat disrupted). But I’m getting ahead of myself again. Wolverhampton, when I arrived at 4pm, was [...]
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21 11 05 • Live Reviews, Roadblogs

Here we go (Home!)

Left Swansea at 10 am on a train which crawled out of Wales and then got slower and slower as it went down through England to London. After that, two tubes, a suburban train and a mile-long walk, uphill, lugging my case, till I finally reached home about 4. Did three loads of laundry, ate, [...]
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21 11 05 • Live Reviews, Roadblogs

Here we go (Swansea, Patti Pavilion)

Left Newcastle 8 am, arrived in Swansea about 3 pm and promptly got lost in this maze of pedestrianised shopping streets. They had a German Market going on, with oompah bands and stalls selling sausage, which was even more disorienting – had to check I hadn’t turned up in Osnabruck early. Finally got on track and [...]
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19 11 05 • Live Reviews, Roadblogs

Here we go (Newcastle, Academy)

BY JEAN WATTS – November 19th 2005 – Met up before the show with Deborah, Dave, Mike, Mick, Norma and friends for an early dinner in a nice Italian (thanks, Deborah) where I not only got some nice food, for a change from railway sandwiches, but a chnace to listen to Mike Saunder’s great stories. [...]
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18 11 05 • Live Reviews, Roadblogs

Here we go (Newcastle, off)

BY JEAN WATTS – November 18th 2005 - AActually, it’s really Saturday, as on getting to Newcastle yesterday evening I was in no fit state to do anything but collapse in my little room up in the eaves of the ornate Victorian Royal Station hotel – more wedding cake and chandelier decor; it seems to be [...]
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