Nine Below Zero in Newbury on Thursday
UK-based rhythm ‘n’ blues stars Nine Below Zero celebrate their acclaimed second LP’s 40th anniversary at Arlington Arts on Thursday (8pm).
After the critical and public acclaim of their Live at the Marquee (1980) debut LP, the band kept the momentum going with 1981’s Don’t Point Your Finger.
Produced by Glyn Johns, it was the band’s first studio LP and featured the singles Three Times Enough, Helen and Ain’t Comin’ Back, along with covers of Roy Head’s Treat Her Right, Howlin’ Wolf’s Sugar Mama and Bobby Day’s Rockin’ Robin.
Nine Below Zero toured with The Who and The Kinks around the time of this LP and also appeared on The Old Grey Whistle Test, The Young Ones and The South Bank Show and are still going strong.
The band is supported by Tom Webber, 21, is a young singer songwriter from Oxfordshire who plays guitar and counts songwriting greats like Nick Lowe and Richard Hawley as influences. Growing up with his grandfather as musical mentor, Tom loved listening to anyone from The Everly Brothers to Sam Cooke to Hank Williams and his unique voice and nostalgic production on his first self-produced EP Stop and Think About it (available to download on Spotify) has already caught the attention of BBC Introducing, who described him as “Nobody really does 50s and 60s music – really cool”.
