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Walter Trout & The Radicals Gets Wild Live in Concert at the Waterfront Norwich England

Artist: Walter Trout & The Radicals
Title: Full Circle Live Concert
Genre: Blues
Label: Independent

The time hit 9.15pm in the city of Norwich at the venue called The Water Front, many hundreds of Blues fans waiting patently in an air that was totally buzzing pure excitement of what was yet to come. For those people who had never experienced the Walter Trout Blues was about to have minds altered for life within the walls of this totally packed sell-out UK tour. When I say for those people I am referring to myself, as so for you that is reading this review you will reading a first hand experience of an artist and band that blew the roof of the waterfront with chants of audience wanting more.