I’ve uploaded some photos of Chantel McGregor at The Bullingdon Club in Oxford a couple of weeks ago. As is always the case with Chantel, it was an great gig, her two-hour set mixing original songs from her album “Like No Other” with incendiary takes on blues standards, and covers ranging from Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide” to the “Würm” section of Yes’ “Starship Trooper”.
If you haven’t seen Chantel live, you really should get yourself to one of her gigs. She’s a phenominal guitarist as well as a great singer-songwriter, with music that goes from blues to pop to hard rock. Not many people can cover Hendrix’s “Voodoo Chile” and have the audience forget that it’s a cover. And her own songs are impressive too, by no means overshadowed by the standards in the set.
Haven’t seen Chantel do Landslide for a long time, its perfect for her voice while she does the Lindsay Buckingham style picking. But the solo acoustic part of the shows normally turn into an audience requests section where anything goes. I’d really like her to do an acoustic album sometime in the next couple of years, live or studio. Looking forward to seeing Chantel again, hopefully next month, and maybe armed with her new guitar as well.
We saw her last year, on a whim, and left the gig confirmed fans. Go see hr if you can, as her and her band are superb. She also has a great rapport with the audience.