8 BALL AITKEN & GWYN ASHTON (UK) are teaming up for a run of gigs to celebrate the launch their new guitar driven, hip-swinging, blues and boogie single SUGAR RUSH featuring Aussie rock icon Ross Wilson (Daddy Cool / Mondo Rock).

Catch them at Brisbane's popular live music spot The Cave Inn (Woolloongabba) on Thursday September 17. Doors 6pm, music 7pm.

ABOUT GWYN ASHTON (UK)

Gwyn Ashton, one of the hardest working and powerful one-man bands, is back touring a new solo album titled Mojosoul and a brand new single Get Outta Town with Guns N’ Roses guitarist Richard Fortus and members of Australian bands Cold Chisel and Superjesus.

In 2023 Ashton smashed stages across The Netherlands and Belgium with prog rockers Wishbone Ash, co-headlined the Adelaide Guitar Festival in Australia and relentlessly blazed his way across Wales, England, Serbia, Bosnia, Germany, Czechia, Slovakia and Poland. 2024 dates include an Australian tour and he’s booked for a mainstage performance at the prestigious Great British R&B Festival.

Ashton is on the top of the list of the new wave of modern blues rock artists, as spearheaded by The Black Keys, Jack White, Seasick Steve et al. A first class entertainer he oozes stagecraft and showmanship, combining songs and stories from a road well-travelled with dextrous guitar playing, blasting out drum beats on Bill Ward’s old Black Sabbath drum kit, grinding fuzz bass lines with his thumb while he viciously attacks his guitar with a bottleneck slide, singing and blowing blues harp into a lofi radio microphone.

Inspired by the likes of Hendrix and David Lindley, his “guit-arsenal” includes a rack full of electric and acoustic instruments including lap slide, resonator, 12-string and old pawn shop guitars.

Ashton has had multiple Tracks of The Week in the UK’s prestigious Classic Rock Magazine from 10 of his commercially released albums on which he’s collaborated with Don Airey (Deep Purple), Neil Murray (Whitesnake), Robbie Blunt (Robert Plant) and Rory Gallagher’s band.

“The most versatile performer we’ve had” - Deep Ellum Blues Club, Dallas, Texas. “The king of feel” - Robert Plant. “A true bluesman” - Johnny Winter. “A real player” - David Crosby. With these accolades and every recording garnishing numerous Albums of The Week/Month/Year from UK and European guitar and rock press Ashton’s incredible live show keeps growing stronger and he’s bringing it to a town near you soon!

Formerly with Virgin Records, France, Gwyn Ashton was lead guitarist in Europe with Band of Friends (Rory Gallagher’s band) and in Australia with Stevie Wright (Easybeats) and Jim Keays (Master’s Apprentices). He has shared stages with BB King, Buddy Guy, Ray Charles, Peter Green, Van Morrison, Hubert Sumlin (Howlin’ Wolf), Mick Taylor, Status Quo, The Yardbirds, Slade, Robin Trower, Steve Hackett, Wishbone Ash, The Troggs and more. He has been invited onstage to jam with Mick Fleetwood, Canned Heat, Walter Trout, Elliot Randall (Steely Dan) and many others.

ABOUT 8 BALL AITKEN

8 Ball Aitken has toured twenty countries performing his blues, soul, swamp-rock and slide-guitar. He’s earned a loyal fanbase from his live shows and internet videos, while paying his dues as a guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer.

8 Ball Aitken represented the Blues Association of South East Queensland at the 2026 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee, USA with his band ‘8 Ball Aitken & Taya Chani’. The event was held over several nights on Beale Street and attracted 130 acts from around the world. 8 Ball Aitken & Taya Chani made the semifinals.

8 Ball Aitken won second place in the 2021 International New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival. He has also taken home two Queensland Song Awards for blues and country album of the year from his album ‘Rebel With A Cause’.

8 Ball has lived on the Sunshine Coast for the last five years where he runs a recording studio in the Glass House Mountains. 8 Ball regularly tours Australia and USA. He moved to Nashville, Tennessee, USA between the years of 2012 to 2020 and worked with many of the best in the blues music business today.

8 Ball is back with a brand-new collaboration album ‘Nightbird’. He wrote and produced the recording with soul singer Taya Chani. The title-track ‘Nightbird’ immediately hit #1 on the Australian AMRAP Regional Charts in March 2025 for two weeks in a row as did their second single ‘Miss You The Most’ in May. 8 Ball & Taya’s signature harmonies and groovy guitars have proved to be a winning combination making them festival favorites.

8 Ball’s previous two self-produced albums ‘Ice Cream Man’ & ‘Ice Cream Man 2’ both hit #1 on the Australian Blues & Roots Charts.

Tour dates, tickets, videos, merchandise and more are all available from 8ballaitken.com

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