New Record to Launch at Ealing Blues Festival
Living The Blues features Terry Marshall and Friends
Ealing Blues Festival founder Robert Hokum (l) on stage with Terry Marshall (r)
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July 25, 2024
A new record label with local connections is timing its launch to coincide with this weekend’s Ealing Blues Festival.
Marshall Records, an offshoot of the Marshall Group, will stage a preview performance of tracks from its latest record release, Living The Blues by Terry Marshall and Friends.
They will be performing on Sunday 28 July on the Festival Main Stage. Later that night will see the highly anticipated Sons of Cream featuring Malcolm Bruce and Kofi Baker whose fathers, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker, cut their teeth as blues players at the Ealing Club.
The Friends include many of Britain’s top blues musicians, including Robert Hokum founder of the Festival along with a number of the other performers at the event including Robin Bibi, Hugh Budden, Geoff Garbow, Emma Wilson and Zoe Schwartz.
Terry Marshall, a regular performer at the Blues Festival said, “Every musician on Living The Blues I've played with on stage, so it was just like meeting with mates. I asked the singers what songs they'd like to sing on the day, and we'd make an arrangement on the spot and then get a take. We recorded all those tracks in four days – I didn't want any rehearsals. I wanted the singer to feel relaxed, and because all the people we had on there were jammers, I knew it would work.”
Robert Hokum added, “It’s fitting that Marshall should launch its latest venture close to where it all started for them at the Ealing Blues Club in 1963. That’s where the classic 'loud' Marshall JTM45 guitar amplifier was first heard in public.”
Marshall at the time was run by the late Jim Marshall and his son Terry and was known as a musical instrument shop in Hanwell. Today, the Marshall Group is a global business with a £290m annual turnover.
Terry Marshall at the 2019 Ealing Blues Festival
The company developed its first guitar amplifier following a request from Pete Townshend of The Who, “Pete wanted something louder,” recalled Terry Marshall “and being a sax player, I had no loyalty to Vox or Fender. I knew what these guys wanted, and it took a sax player's ears to give it to them.”
Living The Blues will be released as a limited edition 180-gram heavyweight double LP set, CD and digitally via Marshall Records on 11 October 2024. It can be pre=ordered here.
The 37th Ealing Blues Festival takes place over the weekend of 27-28 July in Walpole Park, Ealing, W5 5EQ. It is run by The Event Umbrella on behalf of Ealing Council and is part of Ealing Summer Festivals a series of music, comedy, and culture in west London.
The event was started in 1987 by Robert Hokum, the blues musician alter-ego of Bob Salmons. With audiences having reached 10,000 people in Ealing’s Walpole Park, the Festival has grown to become one of the biggest blues events in Britain. In May 2022 Salmons was awarded the Unsung Hero Award by the UK Blues Federation for his work in promoting live music and Ealing’s music heritage.
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