Malcolm Bruce talks Sons of Cream, Show at Daryl’s House Club – Thursday, August 15, 2024 and more!!

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Sunshine of Your Love – Cream
Crossroads – Cream
White Room – Cream

Friday, August 9th – I had the pleasure to speak via Zoom with Blues Rocker Malcolm Bruce of Sons of Cream from Northern Ireland pre-show as he and the band are currently on tour. Malcolm along with bandmates Kofi Baker and Rob Johnson will be touring the US with a show at Daryl’s House Club on Thursday, August 15th.
As the band name would indicate, two of the members, Malcom and Kofi, are sons of two of the original members of the legendary Cream – Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker. The third member of this highly talented trio is guitarist Rob Johnson, who is a grandnephew of Ginger. All three members sing as well.
Composer, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Malcolm Bruce has toured, performed, recorded and appeared on records with some of the biggest names in music including Little Richard, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Dr John, Steve Cropper, Joe Satriani, Joe Bonamassa, Bill Ward and Ozzy Osbourne (Black Sabbath), Simon Phillips (Toto, The Who, Jeff Beck), Leslie West and Corky Laing (Mountain), Tony Butler and Mark Brzezicki (Big Country) and his father the late Jack Bruce of Cream.

Malcolm curated a tribute to his father in October 2016 alongside Pete Brown (Cream lyricist) at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire and performed with legends such as Lulu, Eddi Reader, Maggie Reilly, Paul Young, Mick Taylor (Rolling Stones), Dennis Chambers (Santana, Parliament / Funkadelic), Gary Husband (Level 42, John McLaughlin), David Sancious (Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Stanley Clarke) and Ginger Baker.
He released his album Salvation in 2017, a collection of 10 songs recorded at Kevin McKendree’s (Delbert McClinton, Brian Setzer) The Rock House Studio in Franklin TN and mixed by Steve Orchard (Paul McCartney, Chris Cornell) and toured the UK and USA in support.

Between 2017 and 2019 Malcolm played around 100 shows in the UK, US, Australia and New Zealand with ‘The Music of Cream’, a tribute to his father’s band, alongside Kofi Baker. Some of the shows featured special guests Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple, Black Sabbath) and Robben Ford (Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell).

In 2018 and 2019 Malcolm was co-executive producer, arranger and performer for Heavenly Cream, a project headed by Cream lyricist Pete Brown and recorded at Abbey Road Studios, which featured performances by Ginger Baker, Joe Bonamassa, Bobby Rush, Paul Rodgers, Deborah Bonham, Bernie Marsden (Whitesnake), Pee-Wee Ellis (James Brown), Abass Dodoo and many more. Produced by Rob Cass. The album along with a documentary, The Cream Acoustic Sessions was released to critical acclaim by Quarto Valley Records in November 2023. He’s currently working on a new album, Fake Humans and Real Dolls, to be released in 2024.

They are not a tribute band, although they pay tribute to Cream’s music. Sons of Cream is a celebration of Cream’s iconic music.

The band members have a strange multidimensional pedigree. It is purely second nature as they dive inside the music, bringing it alive, like a living organism, like a second skin, all constantly morphing into something new. They have big shoes to fill. And through some kind of genetic imprint, and intuitive sense, they arrive at the true heart of what Cream’s music stands for and are truly making it their own. Together they are bringing to light the spirit and pure energy and audacity of the music of their fathers.
Kofi’s first live performance was with his father on the cult UK tv music show The Old Grey Whistle Test – at just six years of age he proved he had inherited more than just his father’s name. In the early ’80s, Kofi and his father played drum duets throughout Europe, amazing audiences with complex African polyrhythms. Later, Kofi toured with John Ethridge (Soft Machine) and gigged in London with Steve Waller (Manfred Mann) and Randy California (Spirit). He also toured Europe with Steve Marriot’s Humble Pie.

Between 2017 and 2022 he was invited to become an integral part of The Music of Cream 50th Anniversary Tour, which began in Australia & New Zealand and has subsequently played hundreds of shows across Australasia, the U.S.A and the U.K.

Website: https://www.malcolmbrucemusic.com

Band’s site – https://www.sonsofcream.com

Band’s Facebook page – www.facebook.com/sonsofcreamofficial