Category Archives: Interviews

Firegirl – Layla Zoe Interview

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I met Layla Zoe for the first time in April 2011.  It wasn’t until later that year that I first heard her incredible voice singing live, but  I got to witness first hand just how important music was to the girl labelled affectionately ‘Canadas Darling of the Blues’.   She had come down to Koblenz for a concert by Ana Popovic and her journey down had been a bad one for reasons I won’t go into, but what I will always remember from that day is Layla suggesting that maybe she could sing a song that evening – as a way to get the bad experience out of her system.

For Layla Zoe music was, and as you will find in my interview still is, the best medicine.  Her last release ‘The Lily’ was one of my favourite discs of last year, so when I heard that Layla would be supporting Henrik Freischlader for his show at the Harmonie Bonn on March 19 I took the chance to try and find out why making music is so important to her.

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Band of Friends Interview

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“Three or four years ago I just started listening to the music again.  All the old albums I’d played on… and thought: ‘This is great!'”

– Gerry McAvoy

It’s a funny thing.  One man’s favourite musician is another man’s signal to head for the bar.  One man’s great guitar solo is another man’s ‘too many notes too loud’ and one man’s hero is another man’s villain.  With one notable exception: Rory Gallagher.  I’ve yet to find anyone with a bad word to say about the Irish Bluesrock icon.  So why, when longtime Gallagher bassist Gerry McAvoy came to write about his life on the great man’s road, did Gallagher’s brother try to stop publication?  In an exclusive interview, 3Songsbonn asked McAvoy, former Gallagher drummer Ted McKenna and the man they both believe is the closest thing to Rory Gallaghers sound this side of the celestial Blues Chorus – Marcel Scherpenzeel for their views on the man and his magic.

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Alan Nimmo (King King) Interview

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Winners of ‘Best Band’ & ‘Best Album’ –
The British Blues Awards 2012

Winners of ‘Best Band’ & ‘Best Album’ –
Blues Matters Writers Poll 2011

So now you’ve seen the review and hopefully heard the music,  but what’s with the name King King?  Who is Alan Nimmo?  and why does he want to sing the Blues?   3Songsbonn asked the talented Scot to introduce himself to the German public during the bands first ever tour here.  Read on…

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Interview with Wayne Proctor – Wayne’s World

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A regular nominee (and winner) in British Blues polls Wayne Proctor has established himself as not just a drummer in demand, but also as producer –  with a CD for Oli Brown (‘Here I Am’) already under his belt behind the mixing desk and others in the pipe-line.   I managed to get a few minutes to find out about how he got to where he is, and where he plans to be going in future. Here’s the interview.

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Denis Palatin – The Caravan Man Interview

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DP3My first memories of Denis Palatin come from a review I did of Ana Popovic at Cafe Hahn in Koblenz some years ago.  I remember he was at the bar with Ana’s then bassist Fabrice Ach after doing the early evening soundcheck and it struck me that he was still tapping his fingers on the bar counter in between sips of coffee.  Even taking a break he seemed in search of rhythm it seemed.   I’d jokingly asked if his neighbor’s were relieved whenever he went off on Tour – living next-door to a drummer must be Hell I suggested, unless you’re deaf, and even then it must be unpleasant when the plaster jumps from the ceiling.   Maybe, I pondered,it was one of those neighbors who  in a search for peace and quiet  gave Thomas Ruf a call and suggested Denis would make an excellent Road drummer for RUF’s Touring Show the Blues Caravan?   Or quite possibly Mr Ruf  saw Palatin, with his congenial temperament and adaptable drum technique, as the perfect man for the job.  After asking my first question in 2006 it seemed time for another, and following the Show at Bonn Harmonie I asked it, and another…

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Jack Moore Interview

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“If people want to compare me they can. 
But for me, no one will ever compare to him.
Not me, not anyone” – Jack Moore on his father Gary

Jack MooreThe face may not be familiar, but for lovers of electric guitar the surname certainly will be.  Jack Moore, son of  the late, great, Thin Lizzy Bluesrock legend Gary Moore, took time after his show with Cassie Taylor at the Yardclub in Cologne to talk with 3SONGSBONN  about carrying on the family trade of ‘Guitarman’.

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Ian Parker Interview

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“I’ve got interested in other things in life and that’s really important. Before it was waking up to write and play music, and booking the tours and that. It was nothing – just music, music, music…”

Following his barnstorming appearance at Bonn’s Harmonie, Ian Parker gave 3songsbonn.com an honest and forthright interview.  It describes his journey through the pressures of success and learning the hard way that  there’s more to life than making music.

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