Band of Friends - A Celebration of Rory Gallagher

Band of Friends are playing the Wrecking Ball Arts Centre on Saturday 16 January, a night dedicated to the music of Rory Gallagher. The band is led by Gerry McAvoy, who played with Gallagher for twenty years and performed on every record he made between 1971 and 1991. He also wrote the biography Riding Shotgun, published in 2005, so the connection here is as direct as it gets.

McAvoy formed Band of Friends in 2012, and for this show he's joined by Brendan ONeill on drums and Davy Knowles on guitar. Together they work through Gallagher's blues-rock, and critics have called them something more than a tribute band, with reviews praising the atmosphere and the power of the playing. It's a set built around that same blues-rock sound Gallagher spent his career refining.

The venue is the Wrecking Ball Arts Centre, on the first floor above Wrecking Ball Music and Books at 15 Whitefriargate, HU1 2ER. The music runs from 8:00pm to 10:00pm, and tickets are £38.