Hot Box Chelmsford, 2 Mar 2025
Blues guitarist who began playing guitar at the age of 12 after hearing B.B. King
Blues guitarist Innes Sibun began playing guitar at the age of 12 after hearing B.B King.
His first band the "Blues explosion" toured with "Wild child" Butler, Jay Owens, Jesse "guitar" Taylor and Johnny Adams as well as opening up for Joe Louis Walker, Ronnie Earl, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Walter Trout, the Blues band, Boy George, Nine Below Zero and Moody Marsden band and playing all the major blues festivals throughout the UK.
In '93 Innes was asked to join Robert Plant's band for his "Fate of nations" tour. The tour took in America, Europe and South America.
Innes' new band then recorded the albums, "Superstitious" and "Honeypot", toured throughout Europe with Roger Chapman and Chris Farlowe and opened up for Peter Green in New York.
**Press:**
Classic rock the blues magazine - "Innes Sibun is the best sort of musician: overflowing with ideas and energy sure, but drawing on a deep wellspring of feeling thats undeniable and immediately infectious"
Total guitar magazine - "Probably the best blues you'll hear all year"
"He's toured the USA in Robert Plant's band, topped major festivals across Europe with his own band, and is one of the finest electric blues guitarists in the UK. So why isn't Innes Sibun famous? Answers on a postcard ..." - Venue magazine
"There are moments of quite exquisite beauty here...should be filed under EXCELLENT " - Paul Lewis, Blueprint magazine review of "East monroe"
"National treasure status awaits" - Classic Rock magazine.
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