It's School Kitchen of Rock for the Ealing Club

Fundraiser for its heritage work to be held at new restaurant venue


The Geoff Garbow Band on stage at the Ealing Blues Festival with guest Terry Marshall (sax). Picture: Roger Green.

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March 5, 2025

The Ealing Club has announced plans to hold a gig as part of a campaign to raise funds for its support its heritage and music promotion activities.

It will be a case of School Kitchen of Rock with the venue chosen being a new restaurant called School Kitchen in Chiswick for Friday 4 April starting at 7:30pm.

It has been recently set up in the Cricket Pavilion at the Quintin Hogg Memorial Sports Ground in Hartington Road (W4 3AN).

The line up for the event features, The Geoff Garbow Blues Band, The Kings of Wonderland, Rich Evro Reid & The Dead Flowers and Powerjam Band Project presents Bluezd & MadTalk.

Alistair Young, director of The Ealing Club said, “Our mission is to take music to new venues and to encourage a new generation of players. We’ll be doing both on 4 April when we take some live music mojo to a new venue in Chiswick.

“The acts range from established Ealing Blues Festival favourites to two exciting young bands from the Powerjam Band Project, the not-for-profit band academy for players aged between nine and 18.”


Bluezd, the Powerjam band from Ealing. Picture credit: Powerjam.

Tickets are just £10 and can be bought online here.

The Ealing Club Community Interest Company (CIC) was established in 2011 by Alistair Young and the late Robert Salmons, founder of the Ealing Blues Festival to highlight the music heritage of Ealing, Acton, Hanwell and Southall and to inspire the musicians of the future.

Donations to support the work of the Ealing Club Community Interest Company can be made here.

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