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22-09-2006

MARTIN LONGLEY'S OCTOBER GIG GUIDE

Lovers of world music, jazz and the fruitier end of the rock, it's time to dust down your diaries. Independent music critic Martin Longley offers you the gig guide to end all gig guides for October.

1: Earth'n'Beat [Recital Hall, Conservatoire]
1: Steve Ajao Quartet [The Green Room]
1: Black Voices & Soweto Kinch [The Drum]
1: Kosyne [The Live Box]
2: James Hunter [Academy]
2: Jean Toussaint & Liam Noble [Patrick Kavanagh's, Moseley]
3: Sparks [Wolverhampton Civic Hall]
4: Missy Elliott [NIA]
4: Bugz In The Attic [The Jam House]
4: The Jazz Connection All-Stars [The Sports Connexion,
Ryton-on-Dunsmore]
5: Bobby Wellins [Corks Club, Bearwood]
5: Baby Dee [Taylor John's House, Coventry]
5: Paul Rodgers [Symphony Hall]
5: Paul Rutherford [The Hibernian, Stirchley]
6: Sugar Beats [Symphony Hall Bar]
6: Tony Kofi Quartet [Lichfield Guildhall]
6: Psychic TV/Pram [Barfly]
6: The Gipsy Kings [NIA]
7: Perdido Street Band [Waterworks Jazz Club]
7: Zaum [Taylor John's House, Coventry]
8: The Fat Chops Big Band [Tasco's Club, Stirchley]
8: Soweto Kinch [Hockley Flyover]
8: Femi Temowo [The Live Box]
8: Susanna & The Magical Orchestra/Tys Tys [The Glee Club]
8: Alan Barnes [The Green Room]
9: Wunmi [The Drum]
9: Polar Bear [WAC]
9: Fidelio Trio [Recital Hall, Conservatoire]
10: The Handsome Family [The Glee Club]
10: Nightingales [The Jug Of Ale, Moseley]
11: Davy Graham [Taylor John's House, Coventry]
11: John Otway [The Robin 2, Bilston]
12: James Yorkston [The Glee Club]
12: Summary [The Rainbow]
12: Misterlee/The Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir [Taylor John's House, Coventry]
13: Pete Saberton Trio [Symphony Hall Bar]
13: Harare [The Bull's Head, Moseley]
13-15: Carl Davis/CBSO silent comedies weekender [Symphony Hall]
14: Ashwini Bhide Deshpande [Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton]
14: Bryan Corbett Quartet [Taylor John's House, Coventry]
14: Humphrey Lyttelton [Levi Fox Hall, Stratford-upon-Avon]
15: Denys Baptiste [The Live Box]
15: Bobby Woods Group [The Green Room]
16: Red Sparowes [Medicine Bar]
17: Billy Cobham/Asere [Civic Hall, Stratford-upon-Avon]
18: Lizzy Parks [The Glee Club]
18: Eric Bibb [The Robin 2, Bilston]
18: Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers [MAC]
19: Yasmin Levy [The Glee Club]
19: Sir Richard Bishop [Taylor John's House, Coventry]
19: Eric Bibb [WAC]
19: Chartwell Dutiro [MAC]
20: Ben Markland Quintet [Symphony Hall Bar]
20: Sammy Rimington's International Band [Hanley Castle High School]
20: Tunde Jegede [WAC]
21: K'naan [The Drum]
21: Cleo Laine & John Dankworth [Civic Hall, Stratford-upon-Avon]
21: Sammy Rimington's International Band [Waterworks Jazz Club]
21: Pedro Luis Ferrer [WAC]
21: Dennis Rollins' Badbone & Co. [Warwick University SU]
22: Catfish Keith [Lichfield Guildhall]
22: Tunng/Brightblack Morning Light [The Glee Club]
22: Mike Burney Quartet [The Green Room]
22: Crippled Black Phoenix [The Cusard Factory]
24: Mick Beck & The Tree Fellers [The Lamp Tavern]
24: Gusztav Fenyo [Adrian Boult Hall]
25: Joanne Shaw Taylor [The Jam House]
25: Liam Noble & Phil Robson Quartet/Julian Arguelles Trio [MAC]
26: Del Camino [The Jam House]
26: Son Of Dave [The Glee Club]
26: Tim Richards' Great Spirit [WAC]
26: Mike Adlington Sextet [The Rainbow]
26: Thomas Truax [Taylor John's House, Coventry]
26: Church Of Misery [The Jug Of Ale, Moseley]
27: Moutin Reunion Quartet [Symphony Hall Bar]
27: Antonio Forcione Quartet [Huntingdon Hall, Worcester]
28: The Photophonic Experiment [MAC]
29: Hawkwind [Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton]
30: Decibel [Recital Hall, Conservatoire]
30: Adrian Byron Burns [The Jam House]

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