The Eric Bell Trio (Thin Lizzy)
Eric Bell Band
Entry Requirements: 18+ after 7pm
Thin Lizzy founding guitarist, Eric Bell, is thrilled to be setting out on his first UK tour since the pandemic.
The new Eric Bell Trio welcomes two new musicians with Phil Smyth on bass, and Matt Hewer on drums.
The band will be playing early classic Thin Lizzy tracks from the period of Eric's time in the band, along with blues classics and songs from his subsequent, highly acclaimed solo albums.
In 1969 Eric walked into a bar in Dublin, ordered a pint and settled down to watch a band play. Two of the members of that band were Brian Downey and Phil Lynott. He was knocked out by what he saw and he asked them to form a band with him. Both duly obliged and within weeks Thin Lizzy was born.
The three of them worked very hard both in the studio and on the road and three iconic albums were the result. The band also enjoyed hit single success with 'Whiskey In The Jar' and 'The Rocker'. Eric left the band in 1973 for health reasons and forged a solo career, alongside an exciting period playing lead guitar for Jimi Hendrix's legendary bassist, in The Noel Redding Band.
Line Up
Born on September 3, 1947 in Belfast, Ireland, Eric Bell was well-known as the founder and member of legendary Thin Lizzy. He had performed in the first 3 band's albums -- 1971's self-titled debut, 1972's Shades of a Blue Orphanage, and 1973's Vagabonds of the Western World -- the latter of which contained a pair of early Lizzy classics, "Whiskey in the Jar" and "The Rocker." Bell, Lynott, and Downey also issued an additional recording in 1973 under the alias of Funky Junction, the self-explanatory A Tribute to Deep Purple. In 1974, after a brief period fronting his own Eric Bell Band, Bell was recruited by ex-Jimi Hendrix sideman Noel Redding, along with guitarist/singer Dave Clarke and drummer Les Sampson, to form The Noel Redding Band. In 1980, Bell reunited with Thin Lizzy to record a tribute song to Jimi Hendrix, "Song for Jimmy", which was released as an orange flexi disc and given away with Flexipop in August 1981. It was later included on Thin Lizzy's Vagabonds, Kings, Warriors, Angels box set in 2002. Bell has continued to perform and record with the Eric Bell Band throughout the 1990s and 2000s, releasing several albums. Latest release: Exile, 2016.
''Exile'' record Press Reviews: Classic Rock Magazine: goo.gl/gqE3hQ ; Hot Press: goo.gl/O2hKZo.
