The Witching Hour Sessions – 23/04/2018 Canned Heat A hard-luck blues band of the ’60s, was founded by blues historians and record collectors Alan Wilson and Bob Hite. They seemed to be on the right track and played all the right festivals (including Monterey and Woodstock, making it very prominently into the documentaries about both) …
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The Witching Hours Session – 23/04/2018 Donovan. Started to watch the new(ish) Sky mini-series ‘Britannia’ last week and Lo and Behold Donovan’s ‘Hurdy Gurdy Man was the theme tune so I said it must be a sign from The Druids so Witching Hour it is 😎. Donovan Leitch (born 1946), better known as Donovan, is …
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The Witching Hours Session – 22/04/2018 Joe Cocker. John Robert “Joe” Cocker, OBE (1944 – 2014) was an English singer and musician. He was known for his gritty voice, spasmodic body movement in performance and definitive versions of popular songs of varying genre. Cocker’s cover of the Beatles’ “With a Little Help from My Friends” …
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The Witching Hours Session – 20/04/2018 Laura Nyro. Born in The Bronx, New York in 1947, Laura Nyro first came to prominence as a songwriter with her first two albums ‘More a Than A New Discovery’ (1966) and ‘Eli And The Thirteenth Cinfession’ (1968) yielding enormous US hits such as ‘Stoned Soul Picnic’, ‘Wedding Bell …
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The Witching Hours Session – 20/04/2018 System Of A Down System of a Down, are an Armenian-American heavy metal band from Glendale, California, formed in 1994. The band currently consists of Serj Tankian (lead vocals, keyboards), Daron Malakian (vocals, guitar), Shavo Odadjian (bass, backing vocals) and John Dolmayan (drums). The band achieved commercial success with …
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The Witching Hour Sessions. Cypress Hill. Due to some crap medical conditions The Witching Hour Session timings will probably be very erratic. Here’s tomorrow’s! The Witching Hours Session – 18/04/2018 Cypress Hill are an American hip hop music group from South Gate, California. Cypress Hill was the first Latino American hip hop recording group to …
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Due to my IPad acting up there be no Witching Hour tonight. Facebook Comments
The Witching Hours Session – 14/04/2014 The Kilkenny Roots Festival The Kilkenny Roots Festival has brought some fantastic quality music to music lovers doorstep (Jim Jones, Drive By Truckers, Angel Olsen, Hiss Golden Messenger, Richmond Fontaine, David Corley, Guy Clark, amongst numerous others) and these 3 acts for tonight’s WH Session were just picked at …
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The Witching Hour Sessions – 13/04/2018. Def Leppard. Early WH Session tonight :- In many ways, Def Leppard were the definitive hard rock band of the ’80s. There were many bands that rocked harder (and were more dangerous) than the Sheffield-based quintet, but few others captured the spirit of the times quite as well. Emerging …
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The Witching Hours Session – 08/04/2018. Foo Fighters Foo Fighters are an American rock band, formed in Seattle in 1994. It was founded by Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl as a one-man project following the dissolution of Nirvana after the death of Kurt Cobain. Stepping out from behind his battered kit, Grohl writes, plays guitar and …
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