Huey and the New Yorkers - Take you for a stroll before Ronnie Wood takes to the stage!

November 1st 2013

London, Royal Albert Hall, UK

***1/2

A short cool stroll around the Royal Albert Hall!!!

Huey and the New Yorkers ***1/2 I have always liked Huey and who wouldn't, he is cool and very accessible a very likeable guy who always has time to make friends and influence people. I think Huey has been a big influence in music in general is bland of Funk Rock is known and loved all round the World. Today Huey and the boys play the Bluesfest day roller at the Royal Albert Hall, these day rollers are a kind of warm up for the evening main events.

The evening event after Huey and the New Yorkers have played will consist of Ronnie Wood, Mick Hucknell, Van Morrison and many more special guests... maybe next time Huey plays this venue he will be in the main room with acts like this. Huey comes on to an array of smiling faces in the crowd and gets straight to work by 'Stick it to the Man' a song that talks about not letting people push you around and give them a little bit back. This song goes down really well at Bluesfest because it is kind of one of the themes of Blues. The next song 'Dirty Bird' flutters along and takes flight and let's you drift away to a different place.

While 'Shaniqua' is a song that gains in popularity at every concert and is a song about a girl from Huey's neck of the woods. 'Ripple' goes by like a wave on the sea and is a nice mid interview in the set and one of my favourite songs out of his new material. The New Yorkers are a band that fits in nicely to Huey Morgan's career since the Fun Lovin' Criminals have not been playing any shows and in a way are a slightly more mellow band than Huey's other project, giving you a nice contrast in different abilities and song writing methods that Huey likes to explore when he writes a song.

Ending with the very cool and laid back 'Let the good times Roll' you realise this is a band of legends that can take the crowd under their control with ease, and everyone in the crowd really has enjoyed the show because it seems like the whole crowd has gone to the lobby afterwards to buy or get their own copies of the bands last record 'Say it to my Face' which the band are their waiting to happily sign. If you have not seen Huey and his New York friends before then you would have thought their is no beating this, but this is a band that have already set high standards wherever the go, and for me this wasn't one of their best but it was still cool and enjoyable to watch.