One of the UK’s most exciting blues/rock artists to record live album at The Apex

Chantel McGregor stuns The Apex’s audience with her guitar virtuosity, every time she plays the venue.

And she’s back in town at the end of this month to showcase her own style of contemporary rock-blues and recording her show to release as a live album.

Imagine the tone and inspiration of Jimi Hendrix, the energy of Royal Blood plus the intensity of Black Keys, contrasting with haunting vocal of Stevie Nicks all rolled into one… Chantel McGregor has been hailed as one of the UK’s most exciting blues-rock artists.

She won five British Blues Awards in four consecutive years: ‘Young Artist of the Year’ 2011; ‘Female Vocalist of the Year’ 2012; ‘Female Vocalist of the Year’ and ‘Guitarist of the Year’ 2013; and ‘Guitarist of the Year’ 2014.

When Chantel was eight years old, she was the youngest person in the UK to pass a Rock school exam. 

At 14, she was told by major labels that she had a “great voice, but girls don’t play guitar like that.” 

Wisely ignoring the comments, she enrolled at the Leeds College of Music and became the first student in the college’s history, to achieve a 100% pass mark, with 18 distinctions. 

When she released her 2011 debut album, ‘Like No Other’, one critic said: “Chantel McGregor deserves to be held up as a messiah of blues-rock and given her own mountain. She doesn’t strum or pick her guitar but almost bends and distorts it, as if she’s channeling the ghost of Hendrix through her fingers”

Paul Jones has always championed Chantel, saying: “Not only is she a very fine singer indeed, but a quite stunning guitarist “.

Her sessions for him have resulting in her holding the record for the longest song ever played on Radio 2 (from a live session at Maida Vale) and for the longest live session in a one-hour show.

Chantel’s latest album ‘Lose Control’ saw an exciting pantheon of rock crescendos and riffs that pleased her devout blues rock fan base, but also displayed a bigger and bolder rock sound with progressive influences.

She plays at The Apex in Bury St Edmunds on Friday, March 29, at 8pm. Tickets are £15 advance, £17 on the door, ring the box office on 01284 758000 or see www.theapex.co.uk for more details.