Tag: The Missing Persians

Working during lockdown…

It looks like many (if not all) of our gigs are being postponed for this year due to the old virus situation, but we’re trying to keep some sort of activity going. We began work on our third album just before all this craziness started, and we’re continuing to record (remotely, in isolation) as much……


Album Review – Missing Persians (by Dave Franklin)

The Missing Persians (Reviewed by Dave Franklin)

Words such as ‘timeless’ and ‘classic’ are banded around all too freely these days but when a band is working with the very generic building blocks of contemporary music it isn’t too much of a stretch to describe their sound this.

Opening salvo, On Concrete, offers up some hot-to-trot, solid……


Album Review – Hot Cats (by Dave Franklin)

The Missing Persians (Reviewed by Dave Franklin)

Words such as ‘timeless’ and ‘classic’ are banded around all too freely these days but when a band is working with the very generic building blocks of contemporary music it isn’t too much of a stretch to describe their sound this.

Opening salvo, On Concrete, offers up some hot-to-trot, solid……


Gigging again!

Now the Netherlands tour has worn off a little(!) we’re looking forward to our new album launch gig in the UK.

This will be on Friday Jan 27th back at the James St Tavern in Oxford where we will have the wonderful Tom Ivey Band playing with us in support. This promises to be a great……


Netherlands tour debrief

A few days after we returned from the Netherlands we did a final reckoning of the accounts, and found we actually made some money!  While last year’s tour netted us a luxury fish supper each, this year we made enough money to keep ourselves in fish suppers until Christmas (probably!)


Off to the Netherlands!

Up early this morning to start our 2016 Netherlands tour – the van has been loaded and the sandwiches made. We had a lovely stay in the Netherlands last time, and are really looking forward to these four gigs this week!


NEW CD! Hot Cats is now available

The fruits of our recent labour are now available to buy – our second album Hot Cats has come back from the duplicators just in time for a short Netherlands Tour (5th-9th October 2016) – as soon as we get back we’ll make the album available to purchase through the website.

*Update* – Click the image to……


CD Review – Lancashire Blues Archive

Review for ‘The Missing Persians’ – CD – ‘The Missing Persians’ – 2014 [Self release]

The first full album from ‘The Missing Persians’ is a refreshing change. It is not steeped in one style of music which keeps the interest going, with an eclectic mix of blues, country blues, Americana, rock, jazz, soul, funk, reggae and……


Review – The Missing Persians at the The Harcourt Arms – 6/12/2014

Now for the main band of the evening ‘The Missing Persians’. They hail from the Oxford area and are fronted on main vocals and acoustic guitar by Chris Cox, who also writes most of the material. On lead guitar and vocals is John Keston-Hole, with Chas Maguire on electric and stick bass and vocals, with……


The Missing Persians – First album released!

The Missing Persians released their first album on 22nd July 2014. Recorded at John Jacob (JJ)’s house, and mixed by Chas and The Missing Persians.

Mastered by the wonderful Tim Turan at Turan Audio
The Missing Persians by The Missing Persians