Clonakilty pub to unveil never before released Redding & Hendrix photos

Photographs of rock musician Noel Redding — never before released — opening for Jimi Hendrix in a US concert in the 1960s have been donated to a West Cork pub.

The pictures, by US photographer Nate Naismith, were taken at a concert in Seattle in May 1969 of Redding playing with his newly-formed band Fat Mattress. Later that night the bassist also played with the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

The photographs will be displayed in Clonakilty pub De Barra’s from this Thursday as part of a series of events marking the anniversary of Noel Redding’s death 11 years ago.