Derek & The Checkmates - Sunday 12 October 2025 at The Brasshouse, Birmingham

Derek & The Checkmates
Derek & The Checkmates are a band made up of top Birmingham musicians Featuring Derek Wood who played for Delegation, a leading British soul band who toured extensively in Europe and Africa before he joined the Steve Gibbons Band, recording the Saints & Sinners album and touring extensively in Europe.

Phil Brittle on drums, Dan Wood and Maz Mitrenko occasionally on guitars. The music embraces classic covers such as by Neil Young, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Band, Tom Petty and many more ………

The Brasshouse
Sunday Afternoons is blues/rock though the venue still call it their jazz afternoon. Many of the best local, and sometimes visiting, bands on. Always fun, a friendly crowd and very busy.
A prelude to going on somewhere else in the evening.