Joe bonamassa. Hammersmith p. a. r. t y.... cause I gotta!

hopefully the guest is Jeff Beck.

Anyone know if tonight's supposed to start at 8pm again?

Yes, but if you ring up the venue (02085633800), it states that the show starts at 8 and runs til approx. 10.30.

You'd think so indeed. However when i got through to The Shepherds Bush Empire yesterday, in order to find out stage times, so could plan route home (can take 2 different routes by train depending on how much time I have to make the relevant connection), I was told that stage times would be 8-10.30, hence why i was surprised when the show ended at 9.45. However they were correct about the start of the show. Whatever the running times I can't wait for this evening, even though i fear it will be hard for the next 2 nights to beat last nights performance, but then again Blues Night (for me anyway) was always going to be hard to top, even for Joe, whatever its order in the sequence of shows. However i know that Joe won't disappoint.

No doubt will be an awesome show, his last shows at the Apollo have blown me away. Bring on tonight, then RAH on saturday, what a way to top off the week!

The show was amazing. The band were really on fire tonight. The set started out with an acoustic section with songs such as seagull, jellyroll, richmond, athens to athens and woke up dreaming. The electric section kicked in with cradle rock, When the Fire hits the sea, dustbowl. Doug Henthorn sang back up vocals on driving towards the daylight and my personal highlight of the night, Dislocated boy. He did sing on some others which escape me at the moment. He then ofcourse sang main vocals on Tea for One. Joe also performed who's been talking and the ballad of john henry. He then encored with sloe gin and finally Just got paid. Im sure there were a number of songs ive forgotten.

To sum up it was an amazing night and a great performance from Joe and the band.