Laurence Jones, Red Butler

Laurence Jones

A buzz rapidly started to build around Laurence, well before the release of his debut album in 2012 “Thunder In The Sky”, and he soon began making a big name for himself. BBC Radio 2 was sufficiently impressed to state that ‘Laurence is like a young Robin Trower, exciting and full of energy.’

Laurence recorded his second album “Temptation” at the infamous Dockside Studio in Louisiana, where the likes of the legendary B.B King and contemporary giant, Derek Trucks have recorded. A catalogue of big names appear on the album including Walter Trout, Aynsley Lister, Yonrico Scott, Charlie Wooton and producer Mike Zito.

Of “Temptation” Classic Rock – Blues Magazine said, ‘British band leader Laurence Jones has turned his hot-tip potential into fully formed brilliance, and officially graduated from boy wonder to main man. The future of British blues? On the strength of this album, don’t bet against it.’

Laurence was voted “Young Artist of the Year” in the British Blues Awards 2014 and in the same year won the final of the first UK European Blues Challenge. This year Laurence will be representing the UK in the Brussels European Blues Challenge… so best watch this space!
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Red Butler

Once in a while a young new band comes along that makes you stop, look and listen… Red Butler is such a band!

At the age of 18 with a burning desire to entertain and pursue a serious music career, Alex Butler decided to form a band and April 2012 saw the beginning of the blues/rock band emerge as Red Butler.

From the outset, the band developed their own style of writing and began producing thoughtful, light hearted and melodic compositions, culminating in the release of their debut album ‘Freedom Bound’ in summer 2014; reviewed in glowing terms by a number of leading publications in the music business.

Not long after this, the band got the winning vote for ‘Best Newcomer’ in the UK results of the Writers’ Poll for Blues Matters Magazine and in January 2015, this success was crowned with a sensational performance at The Great British R&B Festival in Skegness. Since then, the demand for Red Butlers presence at festivals and high profile support slots throughout the country has been escalating!

The band has been busy working on new material for a follow up album and the good news is, that it should come to fruition towards the latter part of this year…

Red Butler: Alex Butler (guitar), Charlie Simpson (drums), Jane Pearce (vocals) and Mike Topp (bass)

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