After thirty years of virtually continuous gigging and recording, the Climax Blues Band remains one of the most consistently entertaining of all the outfits to emerge from the British blues boom of the late sixties.

Founded, and still led by singer, sax and harp man Colin Cooper, the band has survived various personnel changes, and the vagaries of fashion in the popular music business. This is probably because despite occasional highly successful forays into the charts, the best known being the classic world-wide hit Couldn`t Get It Right, sung and co-written by Colin, the band has always kept an eye firmly on its roots, namely blues and jazz.

For the past fourteen years or so the band has had a more stable line-up, considered by many to be its best ever, and besides making records has concentrated its efforts on Europe, with any number of festivals as well as countless club dates, including regular appearances at Birmingham`s Ronnie Scott`s Club, and the Dankworth`s Stables Theatre. They recently recorded a one-hour T.V. special for W.D.R. in Germany.

The current live repertoire consists of material spanning the entire thirty years, culled from some sixteen albums, and their place in blues history is marked by a detailed entry in the 'Guinness Who`s Who Of The Blues'. In the 'Virgin Encyclopaedia of Popular Music' the last album, 'Blues From The Attic', recorded live by the current line-up, was rated higher than any of the previous releases apart from the second album, 'Plays On' which received an equal rating.