Bman's Blues Report

Our guitarist/singer Slim is featured in a new bookazine from Guitarist magazine which was released on 3rd December 2010, called 'Guitarist's Blues Guitar Heroes'. Slim's been asked to contribute a monthly column in 2011 to Guitar Buyer magazine (available in WHS) on all aspects of forming, rehearsing, performing, marketing and running a band - in order to pass on our 24 years of experience to a new generation of musicians. He also participated in an event at London Olympia in November 2010 called 'Guitar Nation', with Steve Vai (Zappa, Whitesnake, David Lee Roth), Steve Lukather (Toto) and more. Rather than just being a live music event, it gave aspiring musicians the opportunity to attend seminars and discussion panels, in order to give an insight into the performer's professional life. Our guitarist Slim was interviewed again in the 'Seasick Steve' edition of Guitarist magazine. He's also contributing a lesson to Guitar Techniques magazine...

The Hamsters are a band from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England. They performed their first live show at the Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea, on 1 April 1987. They initially played in local pubs with no ambitions to take themselves seriously or to turn professional. As the band ethos is to combine humour with music two members of the original band (now all three) use light-hearted and parodying pseudonyms as stage names. The original line-up was Snail's-Pace Slim on vocals and guitar, Rev Otis Elevator on drums and Andy Farrell on bass. Andy Billups, aka Ms Zsa Zsa Poltergeist, replaced Farrell on bass in 1988. The band's name was based on a pseudonym used by the Sex Pistols Write on our Facebook Wall or post your Photos of great blues events! -  ”LIKE”