A photo of Chaz Jankel and Michael Messer stood in the doorway to a house, both wearing coats and looking down the street left of the camera

Michael Messer & Chaz Jankel

Global/Folk Sat 2 Nov 2024, 8:15pm The Forge

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Tickets:

£21. Under 25s and f/t students £19 (includes £4 booking fee)

Slide guitar supremo Michael Messer with multi-instrumentalist Chaz Jankel (Ian Dury & the Blockheads). It doesn’t get better than this!

The pair have known each other for 45 years, but it wasn’t until a chat and jam session four years ago that it all came together.

These two artists wear decades of combined musical experience lightly, as their music displays a freshness of approach and adds new twists to their foundational influences in blues, funk, new wave, and rock. The exhilarating and accessible music Michael and Chaz make together bears comparison with the finest work in either of their garlanded careers.

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Reviews

The quality of the playing is exceptional – they are both masters at their crafts
music-news.com
A gem of an album. Copious servings of blues and a healthy chunk of Blockheads-like funk
At The Barrier
An exhilarating album of original songs with mesmerising grooves
Rough Trade

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