Katie Fitzgerald's, 187 Enville Street, Wollaston, Stourbridge,
West Midlands, DY8 3TB
Welcome to Katie Fitzgerald's website. There is a full programme of events and live music throughout the year - Song Writers, Roots, Irish, Folk & Blues and Rock - of which this site will keep you informed.
Telephone or email for enquiries.
01384 374410
enquiries@katiefitzgeralds.co.uk
DON'T FORGET all of our Thursday, Saturday and Sunday night music events are completely FREE of charge.
Oh yes, and we're still the best venue in town!!!
Hope to see you soon!
Trina & Eddy
Beers generally available
Three Tuns XXX
Three Tuns Clerics Cure
Three Tuns Scrooge
Wye Valley Butty Bach
Wye Valley HPA
Pictish Alchemist
Pictish Little Gem
Woods Shropshire Lad
Woods Wonderful
woods Fireside
Hobsons Mild
Hobsons Town Crier
Hobsons Old Henry
Sadlers
Enville Ale
Enville Ginger
Abbydale Absolution
kelham Island Easy Rider
Bazens Blue Bullet
Beer Works Demon Drink
Now available in bottles we have
Three Tuns Clerics Cure
Westmalle
Chimay
Leffe
Hoegardden
Erdinger
we now have a great wine list
SINGLE SERVE WHITE
Blossom Hill ( Californian)
Millstream (South african)
Ponte Pinot Grigio (Italy)
J.P. Chenet (France)
Full Bottles
Ochre Mountain (Chile)
Millstream ( South Africa)
Ponte Pinot Grigio ( Italy)
J.P. Chenet ( France).
SINGLE SERVE RED
Ochre Mountain ( Chile)
Aimery Merlot ( France)
J.P.Chenet Cabernet Syrah
Campo Viejo ( Spanish Rioja)
Blossom Hill ( californian)
LARGE BOTTLES
Ochre Mountain ( Chile)
Yellow Tail Merlot ( South African)
J.P. Chenet ( France)
SINGLE SERVE ROSE
Mateus Rose ( Portugal)
Blossom Hill ( California)
J.P. Chenet
LARGE BOTTLES
Sartori Pinot Griogio Blush ( Italy)
Froze ( south African )
Ochre Mountain Merlot Rose ) chile)
Blossom Hill White Zinfandel ( Californian)
CHAMPAGNE/ SPARKLING WINE
Moet & Chandon NV Brut Imperial
Lanson Black Label
Heidsieck Monopole Blue Top
Prosecco
Opening Times
We open Monday to Friday at 4.00 p.m
Saturday at 12.30 p.m
Sunday 6.30 p.m
tel 01384 374410
KRIS DOLLIMORE: Thursday, 11th February 2010
For those of you with short attention spans, here are the important details: 02/01/1978 is the debut solo album by Kris Dollimore. It is also the first release on Sun Pier Recordings. It may well fall into the category of blues, for those who like to pigeon-hole things, but more than that, it is a truly human record.
You see the Mississipi isn’t the only river, or the only delta. Cotton isn’t the only crop. For that matter Chicago isn’t the only urban space. The late, great Eddie ‘Son’ House once said that there is only one kind of blues, that that occurs between a man and a woman. While this is debatable, it is certainly true that the blues has always contained universal truths.
Kris Dollimore isn’t from Missisipi, Chicago, Detroit, Georgia, Tenesse, or even Texas. But the haunting drive of his country blues, driven by the insistent stomp of his left foot is no less ‘authentic’. This music is real.
Kris was born to the swampy marshes of the Medway delta, and the rural isolation of the Isle Of Sheppey on the estuary, growing up in the late 60’s and early 70’s listening to the sounds of the British blues revival. Clapton, Beck, Page, and Richards, and so back to Muddy, John Lee and the ever present figure of Robert Johnson. A professional musician his whole adult life, Kris’s career used to be one of sideman. As a session guitarist, a gun for hire, he saw the world standing alongside musicians as diverse as del Amitri, The Godfathers, Eileen Rose, The Dammed and even Adam Ant. But you can only play for others so long before you have to step up and play for yourself. And that’s just what Kris has done. Combining all the music he has always loved with the abilities hard learnt on the road for so many years, he slowly evolved a self possessed repetoir. His live shows incorporate the great and the good of the past, (Charlie Patton, Bukka White, Rev. Gary Davis, etc.), together with his own evolving songwriting. It’s in him and it’s got to come out!
For those who care about these things, the whole album was recorded live with very few overdubs. Mostly just Kris, in a room, with a bunch of microphones. Three tracks feature Wolf Howard, (The Buff Medway’s, The Solarflares, The Chatham Singers) on drums and percussion. No rehersal, no click track, just two guys in a room feeling their way through the music. The album also features the virtuosity of engineer Jim Riley on harp and vocal harmony. Also a spontaneous rip through one of producer Stuart Turner’s songs,The North Kent Post Industrial Blues also to feature Stuart on back up guitar and vocals. But perhaps the key song to the album is the second track, ‘Brother Ray’. A driving and insistent piece, haunted by the death of an old friend, but walking away from the past, incorporating Indian figures in the play out solo, this is the music of his surroundings.
02/01/1978 is the mark of where Kris stands now. Predominately his own material, this is his attempt to take the music he loves past where he found it. A blues record for now, and for here.
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Playing the Bar Stage Upstairs
Thursday, 11th February 2010