It’s party time for the festival closer: powerhouse entertainment with a whole lotta finesse from the Hamsters, the U.K.’s premier blues-rock attraction.
Where: Festival Pavilion
When: Monday 3rd May
Time: 9.15–11.30pm (following Big Mamma’s Door, 7.30–8.45pm)
Closing the sixth Admiral Mumbles Mostly Blues & Jazz Festival are the Hamsters, who in 2007 stunned a packed-out Festival Pavilion with two knockout high-octane sets of driving music.
Now in their 20th year together, having performed more than 3,750 concerts and with a national mailing list exceeding 20,000, the Hamsters have been voted one of the
U.K.'s best unsigned bands by
“Kerrang” magazine. Although primarily performing their own brand of material, they are widely regarded as leading interpreters of the music of Jimi Hendrix and, more recently, ZZ Top.
Originally formed for their own amusement (and taking their name from the Sex Pistols, who once used it as a pseudonym to outwit hostile councils), the Hamsters enjoy the irony of being an aggressive band with a cuddly name. Although serious about what they do, they don’t take themselves too seriously.
The members of the band have performed with artists such as Eric Clapton, Alison Moyet, Doctor Feelgood, Walter Trout and the late, great gentleman of British blues, Alexis Korner.
Slim was voted one of the top 100 guitarists of all time in a radio poll on LBC.
Slim – guitar, singer
Rev. Otis – drums, sings a bit
Zsa Zsa – bass, sings a bit
“A guitar virtuoso performance you’ll rarely see matched anywhere and the tightest rhythm section in the business.” Blueprint
“A rhythm section most bands would sell their mothers for, and a guitarist who gives you a whole history of rock and blues in two hours.” Kerrang
“As close to Jimi Hendrix as you’ll get.” Raw
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