FORMBY: The Gild Hall

Saturday 31st August, 2024

7:30pm

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Blues band the Hexmen were a product of the post-punk creative maelstrom of Liverpool in the early 1980s. George Hexman(aka George Wickstead): singer, session blues-harp player and frontman, founded the band, joining forces with major movers and shakers of the scouse music scene. The Hexmen line-up was a shifting collaboration of local luminaries including members of The Stairs, Edgar Jones Charley Whitney/Los Racketeeros( Family), Electrofixion( Echo&TheBunnymen) Afraid of Mice, Psychedelic Furs the Las, the Boo Radleys, Elvis Costello, Stairs, Cast, Dr Phibes amongst others
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Although always known as a blues band, the Hexmen’s material is not that easy to categorise. The band’s backbone is blues based certainly, but one of the defining qualities of the Hexmen has alway been energy. The quality of blues played tends to have an agressive edge which owes a lot to punk – not surprisingly as many of the players involved in the band cut their teeth on punk in the late seventies and early eighties. However, the genre of the music is in many ways a reprise of the amphetamine-fuelled rhythm and blues that came out of London’s pub circuit in the seventies.