Walter Ego
Well established manx blues core trio with a bit of rock thrown in for good measure.
Walter Ego formed sometime back in the Palaeolithic era just after the retreat of the great ice sheet. They still have fun whenever they play and so it's unlikely that they are going to stop in the near future.
Having said that there have been some major changes over the years and sadly this year (2006) saw the departure of original bassist Derek Baldwin. His solid underpinning of the music was legendary but now former Condition Blue bass player Martin Jones has stepped up to provide those low notes and is settling in very nicely indeed. And then in April 2006 the band made an announcement that "Steve has now left ‘to follow a rockier path’ and is in the process of putting together a new band." and thus Walter Ego reverts to a three piece.
The music has the Blues at it's core but Walter Ego set lists are also likely to reflect the contents of John's record collection (Neil Young, Led Zeppelin, The Lemonheads, Tom Waits, Eels, White Stripes, Richard Thompson, John Martyn, Elvis Costello and Lucinda Williams to name a few) together with a few originals slipped in without anyone noticing.