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Barry Reeves[Acoustic Blues, Folk & Rock, Solo Artist]
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Barry Reeves plays acoustic blues bottleneck style, acoustic rock and acoustic folk styles. He is a very good guitarist.
He sings with a fine and versatile voice and writes most of his own songs. His voice is the perfect foil for his songs which are stirring, sensitive, satirical or poignant. They linger in the mind like classics to challenge the listener or free their emotion.
Also he plays his own versions of Robert Johnson and other blues classics with the feel and energy that they deserve.
With very few exceptions he does not play covers. He writes his own excellent songs.
Forthcoming gigs (4 of 5 total): Thu 29th May: Pinner Village Hall Lounge, Pinner... Sun 1st Jun: Harrow Heritage Centre, Harrow... Thu 3rd Jul: Pinner Village Hall Lounge, Pinner... Thu 17th Jul: Pinner Village Hall Lounge, Pinner
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| Fri 16 May |  mobile »
| | Barry Reeves at O'Flaherty's Free House, Harrow An Acoustic Corner gig in this friendly pub at 25 Broadwalk, North Harrow.
I play for an hour and pass the hat round for you to show your appreciation.
As usual I play acoustic bottleneck blues, some 'folk' style songs and some rock songs. No Covers, no requests for other people's songs please. I write most of the songs I play. 12.30pm - 1.30pm CANCELLED - BAND/ARTIST RE-BOOKING (regular: every Friday) Free acoustic music in North Harrow on Friday lunchtime. |
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| Fri 23 May | mobile »
| | Barry Reeves at O'Flaherty's Free House, Harrow An Acoustic Corner gig in this friendly pub at 25 Broadwalk, North Harrow.
I play for an hour and pass the hat round for you to show your appreciation.
As usual I play acoustic bottleneck blues, some 'folk' style songs and some rock songs. No Covers, no requests for other people's songs please. I write most of the songs I play. 12.30pm - 1.30pm CANCELLED - BAND/ARTIST RE-BOOKING (regular: every Friday) Free acoustic music in North Harrow on Friday lunchtime. |
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| Thu 29 May | mobile »
| | Barry Reeves at Pinner Village Hall Lounge, Pinner 8pm - 10.15pm £4 |
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| Fri 30 May | mobile »
| | Barry Reeves at O'Flaherty's Free House, Harrow An Acoustic Corner gig in this friendly pub at 25 Broadwalk, North Harrow.
I play for an hour and pass the hat round for you to show your appreciation.
As usual I play acoustic bottleneck blues, some 'folk' style songs and some rock songs. No Covers, no requests for other people's songs please. I write most of the songs I play. 12.30pm - 1.30pm CANCELLED - BAND/ARTIST RE-BOOKING (regular: every Friday) Free acoustic music in North Harrow on Friday lunchtime. |
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| Sun 1 Jun | mobile »
| | Barry Reeves at Harrow Heritage Centre, Harrow 12 noon - 1.30pm |
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| Fri 6 Jun | mobile »
| | Barry Reeves at O'Flaherty's Free House, Harrow An Acoustic Corner gig in this friendly pub at 25 Broadwalk, North Harrow.
I play for an hour and pass the hat round for you to show your appreciation.
As usual I play acoustic bottleneck blues, some 'folk' style songs and some rock songs. No Covers, no requests for other people's songs please. I write most of the songs I play. 12.30pm - 1.30pm CANCELLED - BAND/ARTIST RE-BOOKING (regular: every Friday) Free acoustic music in North Harrow on Friday lunchtime. |
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| Fri 13 Jun | mobile »
| | Barry Reeves at O'Flaherty's Free House, Harrow An Acoustic Corner gig in this friendly pub at 25 Broadwalk, North Harrow.
I play for an hour and pass the hat round for you to show your appreciation.
As usual I play acoustic bottleneck blues, some 'folk' style songs and some rock songs. No Covers, no requests for other people's songs please. I write most of the songs I play. 12.30pm - 1.30pm CANCELLED - BAND/ARTIST RE-BOOKING (regular: every Friday) Free acoustic music in North Harrow on Friday lunchtime. |
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| Fri 20 Jun | mobile »
| | Barry Reeves at O'Flaherty's Free House, Harrow An Acoustic Corner gig in this friendly pub at 25 Broadwalk, North Harrow.
I play for an hour and pass the hat round for you to show your appreciation.
As usual I play acoustic bottleneck blues, some 'folk' style songs and some rock songs. No Covers, no requests for other people's songs please. I write most of the songs I play. 12.30pm - 1.30pm CANCELLED - BAND/ARTIST RE-BOOKING (regular: every Friday) Free acoustic music in North Harrow on Friday lunchtime. |
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| Fri 27 Jun | mobile »
| | Barry Reeves at O'Flaherty's Free House, Harrow An Acoustic Corner gig in this friendly pub at 25 Broadwalk, North Harrow.
I play for an hour and pass the hat round for you to show your appreciation.
As usual I play acoustic bottleneck blues, some 'folk' style songs and some rock songs. No Covers, no requests for other people's songs please. I write most of the songs I play. 12.30pm - 1.30pm CANCELLED - BAND/ARTIST RE-BOOKING (regular: every Friday) Free acoustic music in North Harrow on Friday lunchtime. |
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| Thu 3 Jul | mobile »
| | Barry Reeves at Pinner Village Hall Lounge, Pinner 8pm - 10.15pm £4 members £5 guests |
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| Fri 4 Jul | mobile »
| | Barry Reeves at O'Flaherty's Free House, Harrow An Acoustic Corner gig in this friendly pub at 25 Broadwalk, North Harrow.
I play for an hour and pass the hat round for you to show your appreciation.
As usual I play acoustic bottleneck blues, some 'folk' style songs and some rock songs. No Covers, no requests for other people's songs please. I write most of the songs I play. 12.30pm - 1.30pm CANCELLED - BAND/ARTIST RE-BOOKING (regular: every Friday) Free acoustic music in North Harrow on Friday lunchtime. |
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| Fri 11 Jul | mobile »
| | Barry Reeves at O'Flaherty's Free House, Harrow An Acoustic Corner gig in this friendly pub at 25 Broadwalk, North Harrow.
I play for an hour and pass the hat round for you to show your appreciation.
As usual I play acoustic bottleneck blues, some 'folk' style songs and some rock songs. No Covers, no requests for other people's songs please. I write most of the songs I play. 12.30pm - 1.30pm CANCELLED - BAND/ARTIST RE-BOOKING (regular: every Friday) Free acoustic music in North Harrow on Friday lunchtime. |
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Original Demo 1 : South Ham Blues [Acoustic Blues]12345678910 7 votes  average 7.00 Notes from Barry Reeves: "A 12 bar blues about wandering around the South Hams area of Devon with the lady you love. South Hams, west of Exeter and East of Brixham was once poor but now the home of the wealthy.
Simple, yet gently erotic and suggests a secluded summer evening by the warm sea.
Played in Open D on a Fylde Goodfellow with a brass bottleneck and recorded live."Get the Flash Player (and enable JavaScript) to listen to this MP3.
Original Demo 2 : Natalie [Acoustic Rock]12345678910 3 votes  average 8.00 Notes from Barry Reeves: "A song about being let down by a lover. Works best as an acoustic rock song, played in Dm with a very good show stopping solo between verses 3 and 4 and at the end. Goes down very well in a pub setting. The lyrics let me sing with all the anger of a frustrated man with the music being a perfect match."Get the Flash Player (and enable JavaScript) to listen to this MP3.
Original Demo 3 : Please Take Care [Acoustic Guitar]12345678910 3 votes  average 6.67 Notes from Barry Reeves: "We love people in different ways. This song is about that. Lovers, children, friends and the deceased all feature in a song that is thoughtful and poignant. Skillful guitar playing meets lyrics that caress the soul sung with a lovers touch." | |
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| 1. Playing the Natalie solo part at The Horns Watford 2. Live for You CD cover see website 3. The South Hams, Devon. UK. 4. Barry Reeves 5. One side of Barry Reeves 6. The other side of Barry Reeves 7. Steamside walk between Horth Harrow and Pinner in UK |
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| Previous Gigs / Events | |
Barry Reeves at Pinner Village Hall Lounge, Pinner on Thu 10th Apr 08  write a gig review for Barry Reeves » | |
| Barry Reeves at Harrow Heritage Centre, Harrow on Sun 6th Apr 08 write a gig review for Barry Reeves » | |
| Barry Reeves at Pinner Village Hall Lounge, Pinner on Thu 27th Mar 08 write a gig review for Barry Reeves » | |
| Barry Reeves at Friday Folk Orpington, Orpington on Fri 7th Mar 08 write a gig review for Barry Reeves » | |
| Barry Reeves at Harrow Heritage Centre, Harrow on Sun 16th Dec 07 write a gig review for Barry Reeves » | |
| Barry Reeves at Harrow Heritage Centre, Harrow on Sun 28th Oct 07 write a gig review for Barry Reeves » | |
| Barry Reeves at Wealdstone Methodist Church, Wealdstone on Mon 1st Oct 07 write a gig review for Barry Reeves » | |
| Barry Reeves at Harrow Heritage Centre, Harrow on Sun 5th Aug 07 write a gig review for Barry Reeves » | |
| Barry Reeves at The PumpHouse Arts Centre, Watford on Tue 31st Jul 07 write a gig review for Barry Reeves » | |
| Barry Reeves at Harrow Heritage Centre, Harrow on Sun 27th May 07 write a gig review for Barry Reeves » | |
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 Great music, odd place The PumpHouse Arts Centre, Watford on Tue 31st Jul 07 | |
  Barry played the Pumphouse as his first visit there. He brought his new partner and a single guitar, a very nice Fylde cutaway acoustic.
He played all sorts of styles: Bottleneck blues in both open D and open G, rock songs in conventional tuning and folk songs in conventional tuning often I noticed with a dropped 'D'.
This showed his total intimacy with his guitar, tuning between songs and playing a traditional English Folk song straight after the Robert Johnson bottleneck classic 'Crossroad Blues'. And he can sing. The voice fitted the song: angry for 'Natalie', mellow for 'Martyrs Bay' and insistent for 'Sweet Home Chicago'.
He really is very very good, and as we discussed afterwards on a cold Watford High Station, his only problem is that he is too creative. He writes his own songs and many venues want only people who play covers.
But the venue. Friendly indeed but the quality control of the floor spots was non existent and Barry's partner, who has asked not to be named here, was harassed by some men every time she visited the ladies'. She never wants to go there again. And the audience at the Pumphouse talk a great deal.
So Barry Reeves was good in every way, playing to an audience who talked through his songs then applauded wildly after each one. And all this for free... he even had to buy his own beer. | |
| A music fan, Mon 29th Oct 07 | |
| Reply from Barry Reeves: True about my lady and the strange men hanging about the ladies' loo. No way to treat a lady, nor indeed any woman. Thanks for the kind comments. | |
| The very versatile Barry Reeves Wealdstone Methodist Church, Wealdstone on Mon 19th Mar 07 | |
 Wealdstone Womens Fellowship is a small group of women, mostly of advanced years. They were very friendly and old enough to remember the blues and a classic Beatles track ('I Will'). Having heard Barry bring the house down several times at The Horns in Watford I wondered how he would fare in this very different atmosphere.
He was brilliant. Superb in all ways. The small audience loved how he introduced each song with honest wit and humour. There was an intimacy which allowed us to hear the full power and quality of his fine voice; to enjoy the complicated fingerstyle playing, or the stunning bottleneck blues playing. New to me was the fine harp playing on the very catchy 'Can't Get Enough of You': a song about finding love in old age.
The lyrics of Barry's songs are so good. 'Please Take Care' is a poignant song about different aspects of love. 'Let's fall in love' is a song about being lonely while hoping for love to come your way. 'The River Flows' reflects on the mystery of the natural world.
Barry loves playing, and is at home to an audience of a few hundred as he was here to an audience of a few. He plays and sings very well. If you can get him to play, do so. If you can get to hear him then make the journey. | |
| A music fan, Tue 20th Mar 07 | |
| Reply from Barry Reeves: Thank you Music Fan. It was a good gig to do, with more emphasis on folk than rock but I am delighted that you enjoyed it. | |
 Rain rain go away Harrow Heritage Centre, Harrow on Sun 26th Nov 06 | |
 On a wet Sunday lunchtime I wandered into the park in Harrow where sits the restored barn. As I got closer to the entrance hoping to buy a cup of coffee inside I heard the sound of Robert Johnson's 'Sweet Home Chicago' played with soaring bottleneck guitar and sung with an invitational voice which was almost seductive. This at lunch time too! Thus I first heard Barry Reeves.
Considering the total lack of advertising of events at the Heritage Centre at this time, 15 people on a soggy Sunday was no more than could be expected for his 90 minute set. But nobody left, a few people wandered in out of the rain and stayed, and when he asked if he could continue a little after the official 2pm closing time the staff readily agreed! By this time there were 20 people listening.
He writes most of his own songs which go from the angry hurt lover 'Natalie' which is pure rock and roll; Sleep in Peace and Beauty, a folk style love song (or adult lullaby as he calls it) and What Do You Think We Get Elected For? which he played as a folk blues with a bottleneck solo. The suggestion that people today get elected to fight wars seems fair enough to me.
We had a friendly chat at the end of the gig and I've used my notes for this review. A charming man who deserves better than a wet November lunchtime to play his music. | |
| A music fan, Mon 7th May 07 | |
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[Sat 5th Apr 08] The second meeting of the Pinn... The second meeting of the Pinner Acoustic Folk and Blues Club is on 10th April at the Pinner Village Hall lounge from 8pm.
This is in Chapel Lane Pinner , easily reached from the Met line station and the H11, H12, H13 and 183 bus routes which run through Pinner. There is also a big car park: free at that time of evening.
The first meeting was a total success. 15 or so people turned up, about half sang while the others listened. It was a very good 2 1/4 hours.
Do come along if you can.
Barry | [Sun 23rd Mar 08] I am playing 3 gigs in as many... I am playing 3 gigs in as many months at the Harrow Museum Sunday lunchtime concerts. I am looking for someone who can come and digitally film/record one of these shows so I can get some videos on YouTube.
If you can help please email onmywayhomesoon@hotmail.co.uk
or ring me on 07784 847 912 or 020 8357 7547.
many thanks
Barry | [Wed 19th Mar 08] Well, the Headstone Blues Band... Well, the Headstone Blues Band have let me down but interest is growing well and I hope to see lots of people at the Pinner Acoustic Folk and Blues Club at Pinner Village hall Lounge, Chapel Lane, Pinner. Tel me on 020 8357 7547.
Barry | [Tue 11th Mar 08] The 1st meeting of the Pinner ... The 1st meeting of the Pinner Acoustic Folk and Blues Club is on THURSDAY 27th March 2008 in the lounge at the Pinner Village Hall, Chapel Lane, Pinner. Singing starts at 8pm and we end around 10pm.
The aim is to sing and play songs and music in the wide spread that embraces folk and blues music. Expected are Mark Riley, a folk singer from South London and the Headstone Blues Band.
I play both styles!
Musicians, new and experienced, young and old are welcome. The local press are aware of this and might be there and the event is going to be VERY well advertised locally.
The bar will be OPEN FOR US, and I hope to see you there.
Barry | |
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A collection of songs I play in pubs. Acoustic bottleneck blues in D and G, acoustic rock and acoustic folk styles.
Recorded early in 2007, available from me £5 plus £1 p& p.
see www.BarryReevesMusic.co.uk for full details. |
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A collection of folk style songs, all composed by me. The ever popular "Please Take Care," the political "What do you think we get elected for?" and the geographically confusing "Martyrs Bay"
£5 plus £1 p& p.
See www.BarryReevesMusic.co.uk for full details. |
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8 songs recorded with the excellent Stuart McGuffey on drums, this is a studio type band CD. Styles are blues, rock, folk-rock and ends with a punk-blues version of Think for Yourself.
I sing and play all acoustic, electric and electric bass guitars
as well as arranging and producing the Cd.
£5 plus £1 p& p.
See www.BarryReevesMusic.co.uk for details. |
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| Page last updated 5 April 08, gig/event details last updated 10 May 08. |
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