Festival History

The Linton Festival was started in 2001 when some of the regulars of The Alma Inn realised it would be cheaper to get The Producers to come to Linton, rather than hire a mini bus and drive all the way to Poole in Dorset. So instead of having one band, we thought "what the hell?" and so we booked the weekend and got the beer in...

Bands 2009

Friday
Smokin’ Hogs
Dr Feelgood
Nine Below Zero
Saturday
Dirty Robbers
Vulnerable Things
Connie Lush & Blues Shouter
Key Frances (USA)
Juke Joints (NL)
Mike Sanchez Big Band
Sunday
Matthew Lee (I)
Otis Grand featuring Jimmy Thomas
Gandalf Murphy & the Slambovian Circus of Dreams (USA)
The Magic of Motown

Bands 2008

Friday
The Revolutionaires
Slowburner (late replacement for The Revelator Band)
The Blockheads
Saturday
Joann Shaw Taylor
NuBlues
Big Blind (NL)
RJ Mischo (USA) with The Red Hot Blues Band (replaced Climax Blues Band)
The Stumble
King Pleasure & the Biscuit Boys
Sunday
Ramon Goose Band
DC Fontana
British Blues Quintet
The Animals

Bands 2007

Friday
The Stumble
Dave Finnegan’s Commitments
Saturday
Slowburner
Funkydory
Ian Siegal Band
Phil Bee and the Buzz Tone (NL)
Nine Below Zero
Sunday
The Barflys
Doctor Teeth Big Band
The Manfreds

Bands 2006

Friday
Giles
Sweet Home Chicago
Saturday
Traffiker
mOOndogs
Marcus Malone Band
Dr Feelgood
Sunday
Storm Warning
Cadillac Kings
Jimmy Carl Black Band featuring Mick Pini

Bands 2005

Friday
Clique
Rumours of Fleetwood Mac
Saturday
Matt Schofield Trio
Big Joe Louis and The Blues Kings
Dana Gillespie and The London Blues Band
Sherman Robertson and Blues Move
Sunday
Out Go The Lights
Ricochet
Lightnin' Willie and the Poorboys

Bands 2004

Friday
Clive John
Talon
Saturday
Blue Pig
Bad Town Blues
Ricky Milton and the Low Down
Otis Grand and His Big Blues Band
Sunday
The Deadbeats
The Bob Hall Show
Spooky Blues
Eugene 'Hideaway' Bridges and
the Little Big Horns

Bands 2003

Friday
Talon
Saturday
John Smith Band
TS Blues Band
Simon 'Honeyboy' Hickling
Nimmo Brothers
Connie Lush and Blues Shouter
Sunday
Monmouth Swing Band
Jook Joint
Banshee Celtic Music
Miriam and Friends

Bands 2002

Friday
The Action
The Harrisons
Saturday
TS Blues Band ( yet again! )
Reconsider
Dave Kelly Band
Ode and the Bebops
Sunday
Jon Benns
Ode and The Bebops
Jook Joint

Bands 2001

Friday
Round the Horn
River Gypsies
Saturday
Ode and The Bebops
TS Blues Band
Stan Webb's Chicken Shack
John Smith Band
The Producers

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