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French singer-songwriter and much-acclaimed guitar prodigy Félix Rabin is delighted to be returning to the UK, bringing his 11-date Pogboy November 2021 Tour to the country, with dates in England and Scotland.
Starting in Southampton, at the 1865 venue, on 11th November, Félix will play 9 dates south of the border, then 2 dates north of it. This includes 4 solo headlining appearances, 5 co-headlining with Italian blues-rocker Eliana Cargnelutti, plus 2 festivals (HRH Blues at Great Yarmouth on Friday 12th November and The Lincoln Blues Rhythm and Rock Festival on Saturday 20th November).
This is the first time Félix It’s supposed to carry on and say This is the first time Félix will be back in the UK since touring with Samantha Fish last year.
Félix Rabin has wowed audiences and critics alike with his self-taught guitar virtuosity. He has toured France and played several times at the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. He toured the USA then, as his biog notes “Having been accepted by the American scene, Félix then looked for the blessing of the British. In the country of Pink Floyd and Michael Kiwanuka, he first played in a few small clubs, then step by step progressed to bigger stages. The band Wishbone Ash (50 years of career and services rendered to the guitar) invited Félix to join them on their UK tour.”
Félix names musicians like John Mayer, Jimi Hendrix, and Stevie Ray Vaughan as inspirations and influences, as well as bands like Pink Floyd. His idols’ influences can be heard in his style, which is nevertheless original, praised for adding inventive riffs and moody melodies to contemporary rock.
“As a French guy,” says Felix, “I really can feel that music is much more into the culture of British people – I mean you can feel that Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Wishbone Ash and all the other great ones come from here.”
“For more than a year,” continues Félix, “I wasn’t able to perform in the UK, so I’m now more excited than ever to finally be back and perform my latest work, ‘Pogboy’, live on stage. I’m looking forward so much to meeting again with British audiences and to sharing moments and experiences with them once again!”
After touring, Félix plans to start writing and recording again; probably a full album. He also notes that “I’ll be back for a one-week tour at the end of January next year, in South England, when we will play Giants of Rock, among other gigs, as we won the contest there in 2020.”
Fans of high-quality rock and blues guitar, with jazz-influenced extras, should definitely check out this young Frenchman, his ‘Pogboy’ EP, and his forthcoming UK tour dates.
“If you want someone who is ploughing his own progressively tinged blues, rock, pop and soul furrow, Félix Rabin may well be your man. Vive la France; Vive le Pogboy.” – FabricationsHQ
Tour Dates
11/11 1865, Southampton
12/11 HRH Blues, Great Yarmouth
14/11 Mama Liz’s, Stamford – – afternoon show
15/11 The Cluny 2, Newcastle Upon Tyne
16/11 Robin 2, Bilston
17/11 Yardbirds Club, Grimsby
18/11 Arts Club (Loft), Liverpool
19/11 Studio 5, Keighley
20/11 Lincoln Blues Rhythm and Rock Festival, Lincoln: headliner
21/11 The Green Hotel, Kinross
22/11 Bannermans, Edinburgh
Félix Rabin, the blues guitar and the rest
He knows Los Angeles inside-out, and has played in almost every club in the UK. Félix Rabin will be touring Europe very soon. Félix Rabin is like those painters who need to master the most sophisticated techniques and then to come back to simplicity and its inherent purity. The only difference is that Félix Rabin is a guitarist and singer. Since the age of fifteen, he has been exploring the thousand and one things we can do with a guitar, then inventing a thousand and one more.
It started with some blues, and a fascination for the feline playing of Stevie Ray Vaughan. Is that a coincidence? In 2015, Félix monopolized the jam-sessions of the Montreux Jazz Festival. In the same place, 25 years ago, Stevie Ray had impressed David Bowie, who ended up hiring him. When his turn came, and Félix let his guitar ring out in Montreux, it was the legendary Quincy Jones who invited him to his table, to offer him compliments and encouragement.
After that he took off for the United States, the country where the fierce competition gives no chance to second-rate players. Over there, he has just made his first real record with the help of Ross Hogarth, a Californian producer who has worked with Van Halen, Ziggy Marley, REM and… Félix Rabin.
Having been accepted by the American scene, Félix then looked for the blessing of the British. In the country of Pink Floyd and Michael Kiwanuka, he first played in a few small clubs, then step by step progressed to bigger stages. The band Wishbone Ash (50 years of career and services rendered to the guitar) invited Félix to join them on their UK tour.
At the beginning of this decade, Félix Rabin packed his bags again. Before the Covid happened, he was on tour, supporting Samantha Fish across Europe. He then released his first record, an EP of six titles built around his titanic guitar playing, in which he takes his inspiration from the masters, while at the same time affirming his independence from them.
After a long break from touring, Félix is finally back in the UK for the release of his latest piece: « Pogboy »
Blues has become Blues-Rock, and Félix still has electricity in his fingertips. When he’s not on tour, in London or Los Angeles, Félix Rabin comes home for a rest … and he’s just 26 years old.
Adrian Hextall of Powerplay proclaimed, “Félix’s six-track EP gushes forth some of the sweetest jazz-infused blues rock I’ve heard in a long time… There’s … something magical about the sounds that Félix is capable of generating… Roll on the live shows!”
