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3PLAY is a band comprising three musicians with both history and pedigree. What is remarkable is that they have not until now played as the power trio which they are set to become.

 Albert Mills needs no introduction to those with a love of classic rock and blues. The bassist/vocalist was a stalwart of the now legendary ‘Light’ in the seventies, further combining with Jim Armstrong and John Wilson in the fondly remembered and respected ‘Jim Armstrong Band’. His impressive CV also reveals a period with Eric Bell and other luminaries of the rock pantheon.

 Eddie McKee’s place in Northern Ireland’s impressive musical inheritance was assured as drummer with ‘Richmond Hill’ and ‘Zip Code’, also periodically sitting in with the Jim Armstrong Band. More recently, Eddie has been a regular with the evergreen ‘Otis and the Elevators’.

 Belfast man Peter Spratt played guitar for two other legendary bluesmen, sadly no longer with us. Jim Daly was a demanding leader of his own hugely respected blues ensemble, within which a number of musicians were lucky enough to cut their early musical teeth. But it was with the sorely missed and much loved Jim Gilchrist that Peter is most obviously associated, with whom he shared the stage for several years in the eighties. Indeed, it was the tragic death of Jim which planted the seeds for 3PLAY, as the tribute gigs of three years ago reunited Peter with Albert after a period of over twenty years.

 Expect blues with a feeling and the influences of Cream, Peter Green and Rory Gallagher as 3PLAY return to Maddens Bar Antrim on Friday 30th January.