Rythm & Blues Festival, Peer, Belgium (2009)

Posted on July 20, 2009 by

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…

Well… This won’t be anything close to a review, and please don’t expect a setlist either, ’cause we really had a B_L_A_S_T! And then some!

What has probably been the most unusual Jukes show in Europe since Southside’s semi-accoustic return 1999, has really been one of the best I have ever witnessed. It’s been a short (just 98 minutes) but heavy blues show with some of the highest density, sheer power and also the spirit and the will of all on stage and their frontman to really win this massive crowd of a couple of thousand Belgians and the little myself.

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Help Me (Peer, Belgium, 2009)

Posted on July 20, 2009 by

ASBURYJUKES.NET – July 19, 2009 – Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes play the Belgian Rythm & Blues Festival (BRBF) 2009 in Peer, Belgium. An enthusiastic crowd of more than 8.000 European blues fans got treated with Johnny’s and the Jukes’ finest and probably best Blues Hour in this decade.

This video is all shaky and doesn’t sound HiFi at all. Nevertheless, taken with a Nikon Digital Camera, it’s a document of the night which we will propably not be able to be part of again too soon…

In the Neighborhood: PEER BLUES, Belgium, July 19, 2009

Posted on July 15, 2009 by

The first festival stop of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes in Europe since Ospel, Netherlands in 1999 will be happening this weekend in the City of Peer in Belgium.

Under the – more than appropriate – title: “25 Years of Kings and Legends”, Southside will share the bill on next Sunday with John Mayall, Roger McGuinn and Jeff Beck…

Johnny and the band will play Sunday 20:00 – 21:30.

Other artists on the festival schedule include (among others): Joe Bonamassa, Mike Sanchez, Steve Winwood and John Fogerty.

The weather forecast seems to be great for Sunday and – if you don’t want to go home on Sunday and stay for Fogerty on Monday night, the camp facilities are just ready!

Day / Weekend / Festival tickets are available at the box office.

This is definitely going to be a line-up right out of my Rock & Roll book of dreams!

Find all festival information at: http://www.brbf.be/