Colette Bennett

Local band The Needletones play The Watermark

A band now enjoying their fifth year of intensive gigging around the South West, The Needletones have well and truly put their stamp on the music of Jimi Hendrix. As a three piece (or ‘power trio’ as they’d have been labelled in the 60′s) they excel in bringing Hendrix to life on stage, with all of the energy and vigor such music deserves.

The Needletones comprises of Chris Babbage on bass and lead vocals; a man with a Plant-esque shriek who tears through his basses like a young Jack Bruce plugged into the mains. Owen Burgess picks up the lead guitar duties, both doing true justice...