Official Sticky Fingers Web-Pages, March 3, 1999

Sticky Fingers Merchandising System Goes Live!

You can now buy Genuine Sticky Fingers and Rhythm Kings Merchandise On-Line with our new shopping system. See the Sticky Fingers Merchandise Ordering Pages ( www.stickyfingers.co.uk/)

Lots of restaurants offer T-shirts these days - but nobody does it quite like Sticky Fingers!

At Sticky Fingers, we care just as much about the quality of the souvenirs you take home with you as the quality of the ingredients that go into our best-loved dishes. We want Sticky Fingers clothing toys and accessories to be worn and used with pleasure, to remind you of the good time you've had here, so we make sure that everything we offer from children's T-shirts to our sumptuous, must-have soft leather jackets are made to a standard - not a price. Well-designed and sensibly priced, our merchandise is in a class of its own, and many of the items shown make wonderful gifts. Come and see it for yourself at any time in the restaurants, or order directly now with your credit card.

Sticky Fingers Restaurants stock a wide range of official merchandise products - from a stylish 75p pen to a fabulous leather jacket at £195.00. All products in our merchandise range are carefully sourced and are of the highest quality. They are not for sale anywhere else and have all been personally approved by Bill Wyman.

Wolverhampton Evening Mail, June 9, 1999

New Setting Fits The Bill

Bill Wyman and the Rhythm Kings, Civic Hall, Wolverhampton

If a rock concert can be judged by the sheer pleasure of the band in their performance, last night s show by Bill Wyman and the Rhythm Kings was a stunning success.

The Wolverhampton show was a triumph for real musicians, with the ex-Stone, Georgie Fame, Gary Brooker and the rest proving that class acts never grow old.

It s not that many years ago that Wyman was playing to hundreds of thousands with the Stones, but the transition to small venues seating mere hundreds hasn t done him any harm.

There were some fabulous reworkings of blues and jazz style standards, greeted with increasing acclaim by the audience as the night wore on.

The band tore into Mystery Train, the funkiest version I ve come across since Paul Butterfield entranced the crowd at the Band s famous Last Waltz concert, while Credence s Green River was 24-carat gold swamp rock.

And there was even an airing for the little-known Jagger-Richards blues number Melody; the only prolonged musical nod to the Stones all night.

Bill Wyman s old band are still rolling strong judging from Sunday s Sheffield gig. But their ex-bassman is also doing fine, with a little help from his friends.

JON GRIFFIN