East Auckland’s blues-boogie rockers, Tony Painting and Blues Power, are revved up to play their driving tracks again in Howick this Friday night.
In what’ll be an excellent way to get November off to a roaring start and finish the working week, Painting – on vocals and lead and rhythm guitar, Mark Dunasemant on bass, and Ollie Abeln on drums, are performing their powerful six-monthly show in Bosuns Bar, at The Good Home / The Prospect of Howick, on Friday, from 8.30pm.
Painting, originally of Birmingham, England, is regarded as Howick’s statesman of rhythm n’ blues music, after a long and consistently high-quality run of concerts since arriving in New Zealand in the late 1990s.
“Hey! It’s Friday, work done, time to relax with a ‘cold one’ and listen to the groovy sounds or better still ‘git up n’ dance’ to some great boogie blues, rock n’ roll, and classic rock songs,” Painting says, of his friendly instructions to the crowd who’ll head along.
Painting is one of the finest all-round guitarists Howick has ever laid claim to.
He’s a master soloist and the cleanest and tightest rhythm player, well-known for his tribute shows to the music of Texans, the late-great Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, and British hard-rock legends, Deep Purple.
The repertoire also includes Painting’s high-class originals, and their versions of tracks by all the greats – BB King, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Muddy Waters, Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Guy, Peter Green, Dire Straits, Rory Gallagher, Robin Trower, JJ Cale, Gary Moore and the Allmann Brothers, to name a few.
Every show Tony Painting and Blues Power has played at Bosuns Bar in recent years has been a blinder and very well supported.
As this writer always says about them: “One thing’s guaranteed, they’ll play all night, and they’ll play late. And everything you need to hear.”
If you get advanced tickets, they’re $20, or they’ll be available on the door: https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2024/tony-painting-with-blues-power2/auckland/howick
