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LAST REMINDER!!!!!! THE GARY FLETCHER BAND featuring GARY FLETCHER (The Blues Band) and PICK WITHERS (Dire Straits) at the Bullfrog Blues Club on South Parade Pier Southsea TONIGHT (Thursday 4th February) Tonight at The Bullfrog, Gary Fletcher frontsThe Gary Fletcher Band, which also features theone and only Pick Withers, the former Dire Straits drummer who has alsoplayed on Bob Dylan's albums - amongst others! A founder (and present) member of The Blues Band, which have now been going over 30 years, Gary Fletcher is a principal songwriter for TheBlues Band. Gary metup with Dave Kelly in late 1978, when he played (with Wilgar Campbell,the ex Rory Gallagher drummer) in The Wildcats. Dave asked Gary to join anew band he was putting together - The Blues Band, the other members being Paul Jones &Tom McGuinness (ex Manfred Mann), plus ex John Mayall drummer HughieFlint. Gary also performs and writes for The Dave Kelly Band. "The Official Gary Fletcher Bootleg Album" CD features many of the tracks are songs Gary wrote for The Blues Band, including the 'classic' "Green Stuff", "Bus To Nowhere" and "World Gone Crazy". The Gary Fletcher Band draw on the blues both in terms of Gary's own material but also covers with songs from the likes of Robert Johnson, Louis Jordan, Sleepy John Estes, Ray Charles and even J.J. Cale. This promises to be a night to remember! THE GARY FLETCHER BAND appear at The Albert Bar, South Parade Pier, Southsea, TONIGHT Thursday 4th February 2010. Doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets just £9, available on the door....