March 2025
The Ealing Club CIC Go Fund Me Campaign
GO SUPPORT RUNNING COSTS HERE: The Ealing Club Club GoFundMe Campaign
The Ealing Club Community Interest Company was formed in 2011 in order to highlight the music heritage of Ealing and inspire new opportunities for live music.
Commemorative plaque events, exhibitions, countless gigs with more than 30,000 ticketed attendees, collaborations with local festivals and theatre productions have all been brought to life since December 2011.
As a Community Interest Company (CIC) we backed & guided the production of the highly acclaimed film Suburban Steps To Rockland – The Story of the Ealing Club, the definitive documentary about West London’s contribution to blues rock. And we published The A-Z of Ealing Rock to show the scale of Ealing’s contribution to the development of popular music.
Several exhibitions have been held in collaboration with venues such as Pitzhanger Museum & Gallery, University of West London, The Musical Museum and visitors can still view the Rock ‘n’ Roll Alley in St Saviour’s Walk in Ealing Broadway Shopping Centre.
The Ealing Club CIC has contributed archive content to the exhibition at The Townshend Studio in the University of West London which was opened in October 2024 by musician Pete Townshend to provide access to the vintage synthesisers he used on some of The Who’s classic recordings.
In Autumn 2024, this facility was formally launched by Pete Townshend & UWL in order to provide access to a keyboard collection used on some of the Who’s classic recordings.
Over in the US, The US Rock Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio requested advice from us on content that was used in the induction ceremony by Keith Richards for British Blues pioneer Alexis Korner.
The Ealing Club Exhibition at Pitshanger Manor Gallery (July 2012)
The Rock ‘n’ Roll Alley Exhibition @ Ealing Broadway Shopping Centre (2022-2025)
The Community Interest Company is led by volunteers while championing recompense for performing musicians and sound engineers who all make top-class performances possible.
In 2025 we hope to organise more live music events in West London but to do so we need your support to cover the cost of running the CIC: website, online newsletters, authorised software, accountancy fees, promo materials, booking bands & venues and more.
With our basic costs covered, our group will be set up to chase grant applications that continue to help boost local initiatives/festivals while reaching out to the growing base of Ealing Club followers around the world.
So please give generously via this campaign but also come along and support live music on the 4th April as we spread the word on West London’s music with five bands, great food & drink in a venue eager to showcase its live music potential.
Book a ticket for the live event fundraiser being held on the 4th April 2025. Full details at The Ealing Club Fundraiser
Find out more »April 2025
The Ealing Club Fundraiser Gig
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- The Ealing Club Fundraiser
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- The PowerJam Band Project & Bluezd
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- Rich Evro Reid & The Dead Flowers
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- The Geoff Garbow Blues Band
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- The PowerJam Band Project – Madtalk
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- The Kings of Wonderland
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POWERJAM BAND PROJECT presents ‘BLUEZD’ &’ MADTALK’
2 young bands, ‘Bluezd’ & ‘MadTalk’ from @PowerjamBandProject, the local not-for-profit band academy and record label, will be blowing minds with talent and swag beyond their years!
“Bluezd’ ages 13-16, blues-rock prodigies who recently headlined at The Royal Albert Hall, have been part of @PowerjamBandProject for 3 years since they were ages 10-13. They’ve released their debut single, ‘Mean Mean Man’ through the Powerjam label, which allows all young musicians to retain full copyrights of their songs, and are due to record their 2nd single soon!
‘MadTalk’ are a newly formed 6 member R&B band at Powerjam and will be opening the show with some showstopping favourites!
For more details: www.powerjambands.com
RICH EVRO REID & THE DEAD FLOWERS
They are a retro folk-rock outfit that thrives on the live circuit, delivering a jamboree of original music with raw energy and soul. Following last year’s EP release, Live @ The Sound Consortium—a stunning live session that bottled their magic—the five-piece is now recording a new album. Their music takes listeners on a sonic journey, like a long ride toward the eternal horizon, with vibrant sounds that rise, sway, and immerse. A brilliant and diverse act, they’re a must-have on any festival lineup. For more details: https://richevroreid.com
KINGS OF WONDERLAND
Kings of Wonderland return after a short hiatus with new member in the form of double bass. The new songs in this set slide towards organic beats with a diverse dynamic charm still based around Guitars and melodies with a bluesy country vibe . A rousing live set complete with a few choice covers for your entertainment
THE GEOFF GARBOW BAND
A regular fixture on the West London circuit, The GGB are much loved for their unpretentious, good time attitude to gigs They are getting a lot of interest for their original song writing abilities. Band members have played with many seasoned players and are regulars at Blues/ Rock festivals around the country including the Swanage Blues Festival, The Ealing Club and the Crawdaddy. Blues in Britain Magazine describes their live performances as “An energetic and eclectic set mixing straight blues with dirty southern rock, funk and a splash of AOR…. “
Geoffgarbowband.com
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Joe Boyd @ The Ealing Book Festival 2025
Overview
‘I doubt I’ll ever read a better account of the history and sociology of popular music than this one.’ Brian Eno
Legendary music producer, writer and record label boss Joe Boyd was there when Dylan went electric at the Newport Folk Festival, when Pink Floyd was born and when Paul Simon’s Graceland was released. Working with bands from Toots and the Maytals to R.E.M., Pink Floyd to Taj Mahal, he has spent a lifetime travelling the globe and immersing himself in music. He has witnessed first-hand the growing popularity of music from Africa, India, Latin America, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe since the 1960s and was one of the protagonists of the ‘world music’ movement of the 1980s. Boyd’s magisterial new book offers a fascinating insight into the enormous influence of global music and music’s vital role in fighting oppression, while uncovering extraordinary backstories, including how Afrobeat began with a subscription to an American jazz magazine and why Frank Sinatra owed his career to a French tango singer from Buenos Aires.
Joe Boyd will be in conversation with Mark Cooper, co-creator and founding producer of Later . . . With Jools Holland, and executive producer of over 250 BBC music documentaries. He is the author of Later . . . with Jools Holland, 30 years of Music, Magic and Mayhem.
About Joe Boyd
Joe Boyd is a record producer, writer and film producer. Over the course of his 60 year career he has produced Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, ¡Cubanismo!, R.E.M., Toots and the Maytals, Toumani Diabete and Taj Mahal among many others. As a film producer, his credits include the Aretha Franklin documentary Amazing Grace, Scandal and Jimi Hendrix.
About Ealing Book Festival
The aim of Ealing Book Festival is to celebrate the joy of reading and to advance engagement and education around literature and reading. Through our events we hope to bring people and communities together; grow audiences for literature; inspire writers and readers of all ages; showcase well-known authors and promote local writers.
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