BACK ON THE ROAD!
The original four-piece line-up of KILLING FLOOR - Mick Clarke, Bill Thorndycraft, Stuart (Mac) McDonald, Bazz Smith plus Dave Lennox on keyboards - have played their first concerts for 32 years at selected festivals in Sweden, Belgium, Germany and Italy.
KILLING FLOOR - Mick's first professional band and one of the classic British Blues Rock bands of the 1960s have announced that they are now available once more to perform at major Blues and Rock events around the world.
More details at killingfloor.org
OPEN AIR GROSS LINDOW - "LIVE IN REITWEIN" BLUES ROCK OPEN AIR
Featuring
KILLING FLOOR (UK)
W.I.N.D. (ITA)
THE SEATSNIFFERS (B)
MONOKEL (D)
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small blues-stage:
STEAMROLLER (D)
Full details at Live in Reitwein
Killing Floor was Mick's first professional band, formed during the British "blues boom" of 1968. The original band featured singer and harp player Bill Thorndycraft, bass player Stuart (Mac) McDonald, drummer Bazz Smith and pianist Lou Martin, and was an important part of the early blues rock movement.
Contemporaries included Free, Black Cat Bones, Savoy Brown, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.
The band worked hard on the English club and college scene including dates at London's Marquee club with The Nice and Yes, as well as appearing on all the rock radio and TV shows of the time - for example the original Johnny Walker and John Peel Shows and Alexis Korner's blues show. Killing Floor also backed Texas bluesman Freddie King on two U.K. tours, meeting up with Howlin' Wolf, Arthur Crudup and Otis Spann along the way, and toured extensively in Europe, appearing at the Hamburg Easter Rock Festival (pictured) in 1970.
Two albums were released, "Killing Floor" in 1969 and "Out of Uranus" in 1971. Both have become prized collectors items and have been re-released several times, most recently on the Italian label "Akarma".
A brand new Killing Floor album Zero Tolerance was recorded recently and has just been released on the "Appaloosa" label including the complete original line-up, available from Amazon UK and other outlets. In June 2005 the band announced that they were ready to perform live once again and have since played several great shows around Europe.
PRESS RELEASE - JUNE 2005
After a 33 year lay-off the band is presenting once again its original line-up of
MICK CLARKE
- guitar & vocals - BILL THORNDYCRAFT - vocals /harp - STUART McDONALD (ex PAUL RODGERS' Peace) - bass and BAZZ SMITH - drums.
Lou Martin is currently unavailable but his place at the keyboards will be taken in the meantime by DAVE LENNOX - (MC Band) ex Blodwyn Pig / Ginger Baker.
In the 60s the band toured with blues legend FREDDIE KING and released two classic albums. Recently they released a brand new album ZERO TOLERANCE on the Appaloosa Label and are now ready once again to play selected concerts.
MICK CLARKE continues to tour with the MICK CLARKE BAND playing club and festival dates across Europe.
Full information and contact details for KILLING FLOOR can be found on the official website www.killingfloor.org or email here
