Artist profiles

Ian Siegal

Charismatic and massively talented, Mojo magazine rated Siegal as “the cleverest writer and most magnetic performer of Blues in the UK.”  In 2009, Mojo commended Siegal for recording the blues album of the year.  Last year Siegal won Band of the Year at the 2010 British Blues Awards.

If Siegal had been around in the sixties he would today be accorded the same reverence as artists such as Van Morrison and Joe Cocker.  A child of the seventies, Siegal dropped out of Art College in the late eighties to go busking in Germany.  From the streets of Berlin, Siegal progressed to clubs around Nottingham, and then London, and ultimately to major stages around Europe.

He has a catalogue of highly regarded recordings to his credit.  Siegal’s true forte is playing to an audience.  He takes command of the stage in a way very few artists alive today can match.  Sweat, passion, humour, balls-to-the-wind slide guitar and a soul-infused voice big enough to fell trees!  It has won him an ever-growing following of fans and a horde of female admirers.