Innes Sibun

His first band the "Blues explosion" recorded the album "Thats what the blues can do" with legendary producer Mike Vernon (Eric Clapton,Peter Greens Fleetwood mac) in the producers seat. The album gained critical acclaim and was voted best blues album in Ireland that year. The band toured throughout the UK and Europe on their own and also toured with "Wild child" Butler, Jay Owens, Jesse "guitar" Taylor and Johnny Adams as well as opening up for Joe Louis Walker, Ronnie Earl, the Fabulous thunderbirds, Walter Trout,the Blues band, Boy George, nine below zero and Moody Marsden band and playing all the major blues festivals throughout the UK.

In 1993 Innes was asked to join Robert Plants band for his "Fate of nations" tour. The tour took in America, Europe and South America where they played the Rock in Rio festivals in Sao Paulo and Rio as well as playing in Argentina, Chile, Venezuela and Mexico. During the U.S dates Innes was able to meet and play with many of his blues heroes like Buddy Guy and James Cotton in Chicago, he also jammed at Antones blues club in Austin Texas with Tommy Shannon, Chris Layton, Chris Duarte and many other legends of the Austin blues scene. His guitar playing can be heard on Roberts "66 to Timbuktu" and "Nine lives" albums.

Following the tour with Robert Plant Innes made several albums for Viceroy records, "Superstitious" and "Honeypot" with his new band, they toured throughout Europe and opened up for Peter Green in New York as well as touring Europe with Roger Chapman and Chris Farlowe.

Two albums followed for Provogue records and the critically acclaimed "East Monroe" came out on Ulftone records in 2001. After many years of touring the band decided to rest and went their own ways.

In 2004 Innes put together a new band who were asked to play at the Gloucester blues festival and Trowbridge village pump festival. The band soon found themselves in the studio and recorded "Farmhouse blues" which was released on ZYX records.

Several tours of Germany followed with appearances at Colne, Gloucester, Cambridge and Bristol blues festivals in the UK as well as Mostar blues festival in Bosnia and others in Belgium, Austria, Germany and Slovenia.

2007 saw the release of "Tail dragger" on ZYX records to much critical acclaim (reaching number 6 in the German blues charts) as well as playing shows in Africa, U.S.A, Germany, Holland and the UK.

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2008 started with more European shows and support slots with Johnny Winter, Taj Mahal, Steve Cropper and Al Kooper as well as appearances at the London blues festival and the Windsor blues festival in Ontario Canada.

Recently the band has played tours of Germany, France, the UK and the Netherlands as well as festivals in France, Spain and the UK and in April

2009 embarked on a tour of the U.S.A as headliners. Innes also released a solo acoustic album on mp3 called "Snake wine".

In 2010 the band released a live album on ZYX records entitled "The box set", they also played at the Rory Gallagher festival in Ballyshannon Ireland by special request of Rorys brother Donal Gallagher.

2011 saw the band record "Cant slow down" for 2012 release on ZYX records in 2012 as well as playing dates throughout Europe. Innes was invited to play in New york city for the Rory Gallagher show at the Iridium club to celebrate the release of the "Notes from San Fransisco" album.

2012 has seen shows in Latvia and the UK with dates coming up in Lithuania, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands in the summer. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.