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Photograohy - Joe Singh - SnapRockandPopPREVIEW - Jinney Ring at Hanbury - August 9th to 11thAnother Local Blues and Beer festival on your doorstep.This is a ticketed event with fine beers and cidersaccompanying good food and some very goodentertainment. Friday evening sees a gentler start withMumbo Jumbo, some excellent ales and food, and specialoffers for CAMRA members.Saturday is a full on music fest with Dave Onions; jumpjiving Boperator; The wonderful voice of Sarah warrenand her band; The funk and jazz grooves of RobertHokum and the Guvnors; New Orleans style of Stomp &Holler; and Dr Teeth with larger than life front man,Steve Steinhaus. Sounds an unmissable day out.Sunday, starting at noon, local bands, a blues rockingRetrovibe; who are followed by the W factor winners,selected from 25 entries of Worcestershire bands. Toclose the proceedings The Reflections, who playFor about the last nine months there's been SHOUTEDcommuniqués emanating, it transpires, from the Tower(studios) in Pershore by HEY YOU GUYS! Amongst theno-nonsense nonsense and dubious pictures of latrines,there's some serious musicianship going on. It took justtwo rehearsals to get nine songs together!No surprises though when you know the line upconsists of Pete Adams, Dave Draper, Oly Edkins andBen Pemberton - four seasoned local musicians notcontent to trade on former glories but working hard tocraft an exciting future.10favourites from the 60's to date, Stones to the Killers,Beatles to Coldplay.Tickets are £13.50 for Saturday, and £21 for theweekend, check out the website for more details.www.jinneyring.co.ukWords:Graham MunnPREVIEW - HEY YOU GUYS! - Album Launch - August 17thHYG! have already released one single, Keston Villers'Investment Club, on white vinyl that garnered a ton ofradio play and put in some brilliant live shows all overBritain. Latest news is that they will be the officialsupport for [spunge] on their nationwide tour inNovember. (Wouldn't mind being a fly on the tour buswindow for that one!)Closer to home, the guys havean album in the bag and it's moreCaps Lock and exclamation marks.GASP! SHOCK! HORROR! (surely agreat title for a long player) is "13sonic shots to the scrotum thatyou’ll be begging to receive againlike a musical masochist". Withthe 'go to' producer Draper in theband it's a no brainer to have himat the controls and they've thecontacts to rope in some specialguests too - cameos includingvocals from Kerbdog, Dodgy, LesCarter ('Fruitbat' from CarterUSM), Stillbust, Fights & Firesand many more!The album is to be released on17 August so there's going to be abig GASP! SHOCK! HORROR!launch party at the Marrs Bar thatvery night! Entrance is free if youjoin the Facebook event (£3 on the door) and the albumwill be available at a very special price of £3 all night;support from This Wicked Tongue and Erica.For a laugh, get further info at: www.hygofficial.comGlazz