The New Wentus Blues Band album Lucky Strike Mama had received a lot of good reviews and airplay all over Europe.. Especially the song 5 Nights at Freddy´s has received a lot of airplay in Beneleux and France, so we made a video with some live footage from our shows last week in Sweden.. Here…
Wentus Blues Band will be playing as support for ZZ TOP and WILKO JOHNSON in Seinäjoki on Saturday 16th of July. Throughout the years Wentus has been fortuned to play as support or with many of their heroes and this is definitely a dream come true show. In our early years we used to play…
New Video out on Youtube and first single released digitally worldwide: Saints & Sinners! Check it out!
Wentus Blues Band wishes a Happy New Year to everybody all over the world by releasing the Wentus Blues Band / Dick Heckstall-Smith – CD digitally! Please enjoy! What the critics say about Man Of Stone: ”Amazing! ” – Paul Jones, BBC ”Well worth investigation” – Bluesmatters ” Denna skiva är en fullträff ” –…
One of the hardest working European blues bands, Wentus Blues Band, celebrates its 30th anniversary by releasing a new album ”Lucky Strike Mama” on January 15th 2016. The new album consists of 12 new originals written by the band. Some of the songs you could hear on the successful tour in October. The New album…
Wentus goes on the road again with the great Louise Hoffsten and starts the tour in Helsinki on October 15th at the Savoy-Theatre. The past shows with Louise has all been sold out and now we are looking forward to play with her again. We will celebrate her Birthday in Stockholm at the fabulous Södra…
WENTUS BLUES BAND DICK HECKSTALL-SMITH MAN OF STONE Ramasound Records This album is a last hurrah for the late lamented saxophonist DKS who died aged seventy, in two thousand and four. He embarked in two thousand and two upon a tour of Scandinavia with the highly acclaimed Blues outfit The Wentus Blues Band from Kokkola,…
”Amazing” – Paul Jones, BBC , UK ”Well Worth Investigaion” – Bluesmatters, UK Wentus Live recording from 2002 with the legendary DICK HECKSTALL-SMITH ( Colosseum, Graham Bond, John Mayall, Jack Bruce and many more.. )
Our bluessong against Rosatoms plans on building nuclear plant i Pyhäjoki/Finland. ATOMIC BLUES is out on Spotify now. Please join the movement! Atomic Blues Band: ATOMIC BLUES Guitar: Niko Riippa Vocal: Jessica Riippa Bass: Robban Hagnäs Drums/Harmonica: Olli Ontronen Mixed and engineered by Tumba Haldin at House of Dread 4.7.2015.
During the summer we have been working on a new album to be released later this year / or early next year. The record will be contain new original songs written by the Tres Hombres: Juho – Niko – Robban. Recording session has taken place at the great Suprovox Studios located in South Finland. The…
