After five years of hard work, Lightnin’ Guy has revealed himself as Belgium's new blues pride. He's released five longplayers, in just as many years, while touring non-stop nationally and internationally, as solo act or with his Mighty Gators.
So he's played more than 200 shows in 2012, represented Belgium at the European Blues Challenge in Berlin, played at Blues Peer for the second time in his career and released the albums “Plays Hound Dog Taylor” & ‘Blood For Kali” .
Aside from that you'll find him in both Flemish and Walloon schools with his “Blues In Schools” project. Twice a month he organises a blues jam for young blues talent too, in his home town Ghent.
Even though it sounds like a stuffy cliché, Lightnin' Guy is surely “the hardest working” blues & roots musician in Belgium at the moment.

In October 2012 he gave a memorable concert as a part of Broodje Brussel. He transformed a packed Music Village into a sultry Juke Joint in no time. Read these reviews again: (NL): www.reviewtheblues.com/musicvillage.html or (FR): http://concerts-review.over-blog.com/article-lightnin-guy-au-music-village-bruxelles-le-25-octobre-20122-111713674.html

After that dizzying passage, a Lightnin’ Guy show on an AB stage is the logical next step.
His sixth longplayer “Inhale My World” will be released in the spring of 2013. This will also involve a big European tour.
Lightnin' Guy will round this tour off with a special “Home Coming Concert” in the AB, one in which light is thrown upon both his electric and acoustic sides, and a number of special guests will be making appearances.

This concert is a must for all Lightnin’ Guy fans and for everyone with a heart for Belgian blues & roots music.
This will definitely be a unique concert, with an unannounced line-up and playlist.
Basically the climax to five years of Lightnin’ Guy & the Mighty Gators.
Let the good times roll!

Line Up:
Guy Verlinde: vocals, slide guitar & harmonica
Toon Vlerick: guitar & cello
Karl Zosel: bass guitar
Thierry Stiévenart: Drums
Patrick Cuyvers: Hammond
+ Special Guests

Support-act: Tiny Legs Tim
Tiny Legs Tim has pretty much travelled the entire European continent with his One Man Blues Band in recent years, played support-act for the likes of Peter Doherty and appeared at many a blues festival.
Today the Lightnin’ Guy's blues brother from Ghent will get the evening going with his original fingerpickin’ & slidin’ Deltablues.
Or be sure to read what Roland van Campenhout hads to say about this young blues man: “Ever since dah blues crawled out of the southern muddy waters, the men spreading the word had special names. We had a Blind Lemon, a Sleepy John, there was a giant human being called Leadbelly, and many more…. Their 78 rpm disk recordings went all over the globe, influencing popular music and young musicians from London to Singapore, From India to Africa… So now we have from Belgium a young man who names himself Tiny Legs Tim, and just with his six strings and a stomping foottapboard he brings back the ghost and magic from Bukka White and Robert Johnson. Sit back and let the ol’ magic take hold. Those tiny legs shure take a lot o’ burning blues around!”