Easter Bank Holiday Monday saw the debut performance of a show at the Burnley Blues Festival that Mike had been planning for the last few months. The show featured 12 of the finest rockin' artists from the UK R'n'B world.
Mike opened up the show with his 7 piece band and stormed through a selection of Sanchez favourites before announcing on stage the fabulous London doo wop trio the Extraordinaires who knocked everyone out with their versions of Rockbottom and Rock'em 'n' Roll 'em. Then Mike introduced the beautiful blues songstress Imelda Clabby for renditions of tunes such as Let the good times roll and Till the well runs dry. Following this, it was the turn of the great Paul Ansell (of Blue Rhythm Boys and Number Nine fame) who sang I'll go crazy and Clyde Mcphatter's Lover Please. The show continued for 2 hours in a vintage Johnny Otis/Alan Freed style revue with artists coming and going on stage.
Mike's band featured the legendary Chicken Shack/Savoy Brown bassist Andy Silvester on guitar, ex Biscuit Boys bassist Al Gare, Mark Morgan on drums, Al Nicholls on tenor, Dave Priseman on trumpet and the Extraordinaires saxman Olly Wilby on baritone.
It was a night to remember for everyone involved and will most definitely become a highlight on a lot of European festival stages in the future. Look out!!

Review of show - from Rockin' Robbin'
Bopping at Burnley
The 13th Burnley National Blues Festival came to a rousing climax when the charismatic Mike
Sanchez brought his twelve-piece Rhythm & Blues Revue to the main stage of Burnley Mechanics.

After his old mates the Big Town Playboys made their Saturday evening showing, it was down to their former frontman to bring the curtain down in style on Easter Monday, with cameo appearances from a number of surprise guests.
Accompanied by guitarist Andy Silvester, bassist Al Gare, drummer Mark Morgan and a honking three-piece horn section, Mike delivered the goods in frenetic fashion, pumping powerful boogie-woogie from the piano in his trademark baggy red suit.
Much of the material was taken from his brand new album Blue Boy, a return to his rocking
roots after the experimentalism of Just Can't Afford It.
Joined after a few numbers by the Extraordinaires, the young black doo wop trio from London, moved the show up a gear with a jumping Rock Bottom.
As if that wasn’t enough, the appearance of raven-haired songbird Imelda Clabby raised the temperature even further.
The gorgeous 24 year-old Dubliner was a sight for sore eyes and what’s more, she sings up a storm. Imelda dueted with Mike on For You My Love before they were joined by another stalwart of the vintage rock ‘n’ roll scene, former Blue Rhythm Boy Paul Ansell, resplendent in ten-gallon titfer, who tootled James Brown’s I’ll Go Crazy.
Mike’s Baby Please allowed Andy Silvester to wield his Fender for a couple of choruses, until finally the whole ensemble teamed up for a rocking rendition of Chuck Berry’s Almost Grown.