Teeny Tar and the Lost Goddess show their appreciation of their MC albums from Lake Wales, Florida. Thanks guys.

And from our guestbook, some kind words from Steven Lefebvre in Washington State: "Hello Mick, I just wanted to tell you what an influence you had on my playing. I saw you one time in Olympia Washington at a place called Detroit's. You opened for Johnny Winter there in 1989. I bought your most recent cassette, Steel and Fire, after hearing YOU play slide. Slide is now my forte but I owe it to hearing you play slide. It's hard to explain really...I've listened to so many slide players, seen many and even met a few... but seeing you that night just touched me musically...I guess that says it all. I can't thank you enough for what it did for me as a guitarist. I'll never forget it. SJL"

The Mick Clarke Band play James Cotton's "Love Me or Leave Me" at the 100 Club, Oxford St London, January 16th 2009. Eddie Masters bass, Russell Chaney on drums, Dangerous Dave Newman on the harp. Video by Hazze Sjoberg. Sound editing by Dan Cooper.




















Mick and the band at the Bluesrocking Summerfest in Sala, Sweden, sharing the bill with an international line-up including Gwyn Ashton and Joe Bonamassa. "I'm in the Mood" with Mick on slide along with Dangerous Dave on harp, Eddie Masters bass and Russell Chaney on drums. Thanks to our friend Hazze Sjoberg for the video. Just hit play and be ready to lie on your side for a minute or two in the middle.



More Mick Clarke Youtubes

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Record News


Check out SPOTIFY and listen FOR FREE to "Happy Home" and "New Mountain" - six more MC albums to be added very soon by courtesy of Proper Records - the same six albums also to be soon available on iTunes, eMusic etc..

Two more complete albums are soon to be reissued by BGO Records
"Roll Again" and "Live in Luxembourg" will be issued in a double album package in 2010. More info as it happens..

Mick's American releases on Burnside "Happy Home" and "New Mountain" have been reissued by Allegro Records and are also now available on iTunes and other download outlets

The first Killing Floor album has been re-released on Repertoire Records Germany with new sleeve notes by Chris Welch. The band has now started work on material for a new Killing Floor album, which will be its fourth.

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Press


Read interviews with Mick on the LET IT ROCK website by courtesy of Dmitri Epstein and the ROCKMANDU site from Nepal. More at Reviews & Features

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Tour


Recent highlights - the Viana do Castelo Blues Festival Portugal. The three piece line-up featured Mick with Eddie Masters on bass and Russell Chaney on drums - the festival line-up also featured Popa Chubby. A great night. Also the Trescore British Blues Festival, Italy, Blues at Sea, Sweden and more.
Photo from the 100 Club, London - Details in the TOUR DIARY

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Brief Bio

Since beginning his solo career in the early 80s Mick has become an established name on the European blues scene, touring regularly in every country from Finland down to Italy. Praised for his fiery "straight from the wood" guitar sound, he has appeared on numerous festivals with artists such as Robert Cray, Johnny Winter and the late Rory Gallagher.

Recent tours have included appearances at the Baden Blues Festival in Switzerland, "Rock at Sea" in Stockholm, Sweden, Harelbeke Rock and Blues in Belgium and the Bragdoya Blues Festival in Norway. In 2005 Mick joined the the British Blues All Stars to headline the Saturday night at the Great British R&B Festival in Colne, England .. also featuring Kim Simmonds and Maggie Bell.

Mick has also toured several times in the U.S.A. and appeared with artists such as Johnny Winter,Canned Heat, Big Jay McNeely and C.J.Chenier plus rock shows with Foghat, Savoy Brown and the Paladins. The Southern California Blues Society called him "One of the finest blues players to come out of England".

Mick began his career with Killing Floor, part of the British blues boom of the late 60s. The band backed Texas blues guitar star Freddie King and toured with legends such as Howlin' Wolf and Otis Spann. Recently the original band got together again to record a brand new CD and play new festival dates around Europe. In the mid 70s Mick worked with Stevie Smith in the hard rocking four piece SALT building a great reputation on the British live scene.

Mick is currently planning new festival and club dates with the Mick Clarke Band as well as other projects.

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Some Live Highlights

Alcamo Blues 2000, Sicily

Piazza Blues Festival 2004, Bellinzona, Switzerland

Big Blues 2002, Luxembourg, w/ Bo Diddley

Bluesrocking Summerfest 2007, Sweden w/ Joe Bonnamassa

Belgium R&B Festival, Peer, Belgium, w/ Robert Cray

Bonn Blues Festival, Bonn, Germany, w/ Rory Gallagher

Tanzbrunnen Open Air, Cologne, Germany, w/ Johnny Winter

Waterfront Blues Festival, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A w/ Elvin Bishop

Reading Festival 1977, England (SALT) w/ Thin Lizzy

Great British R&B Festival 2005, Colne, England (British Blues Allstars)

New Victoria Theatre, London 1977, England (SALT) w/ Muddy Waters

Manchester Free Trade Hall 1969, England (Killing Floor) w/ Howlin' Wolf, Freddie King

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Some Live Reviews

ROCKING THE BLUES FESTIVAL, TRING 12/3/2005    (BLUES IN BRITAIN MAGAZINE)

...the Mick Clarke Band took to the stage and things moved up a gear with their have a good time rockin blues, kicking off with Mick Clarke's "Cheap". This is a chugging shuffle with a big riff followed by the swinging "Looking for Trouble" from the recent "Live in Luxembourg" cd. Cooling the tempo for a few minutes with a James Cotton slow blues "Love Me Or Leave Me" and back up with some rockin' slide guitar on "London Town", originally on Mick's last studio cd "New Mountain". Mick Clarke really does put his all into every show and this was no exception. He knows how to have a good time and this is infectious, spreading through the audience and his band of seasoned musicians in the shape of ex Sassafrass drummer Chris Sharley, Dave Rea on bass and Dave (ex Blodwyn Pig, Ginger Baker and loads more) Lennox on keyboards. Mick Clarke showed his appreciation of Rory Gallagher with a Rory style slide guitar version of Muddy Waters "I Wonder Who" (Rory would have definitely approved). Then all hell was let loose as Mick broke a string, changed guitar and his strap came off and his amp temporarily packed up. But you need more than this to put a good guitarist down and the Mick Clarke Band finished with a Willie Dixon fast boogie style "You Need Love" and finally the slide came out for a fast rocking version of Chuck Berry's "!Don't You Lie To Me" Wow


BANK HOLIDAY BLUES SUNDAY @The Stables, Milton Keynes 27/3/2005    (BLUES MATTERS! MAGAZINE)

Featuring: Mick Clarke Band, Ian Siegal, Gwyn Ashton, Marcus Malone. The Stables have come up with a cracking package for this Easter Sunday (should've had Blues at Ten but I think they fell out with each other). I was a bit late and unfortunately missed most of Mick Clarke's set but what I did catch gave me a good indication of what a fine band (drums, bass, keys and guitar) Mick has. Muddy's "Trouble After A While" is the first tune I caught and Muddy's soul was there in Mick's slide playing. The other tune was a fine boogie; "Lie to Me" had Mick again in fine guitaring form. To Mick's credit though he still signed my "Killing Floor" album cover after promising faithfully to catch a full set next time. Al Tait

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