If you like your cumbia, mambo, afrobeat, blues and funk in a big brass band style, then tonight at Rich Mix you were in for a big happy, vibesy, energetic treat. Voodoo Love Orchestra were kicking off their new album, Inglorious Technicolor, tour, bringing the full power of their brassed-up...
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They just released a new album, are ready for a new tour with a brand new show, choreography and tricks, but they still preserve the same old Carnival attitude, which characterised their career since their debut. As a matter of fact, you can be dead sure that with Voodoo Love Orchestra...
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Following their highly celebrated debut album in 2015, the eclectic 12-piece band from Leeds, Nubiyan Twist, is back with their new EP, Siren Song. And what an apt name for this second album, which allures and entices its listeners in many unexpected ways, from its dance-inducing funk groves and intoxicating...
The last Bank Holiday of the year will be in glory of smooth vibes and upbeat rhythms. On Clapham Common, the influential British ska and 2 tone ensemble Madness will curate the 2016 edition of House of Common Festival and it will inevitably be a day in the band’s own...
One of the most exciting names on the UK music scene is also one of its most indefinable and difficult to pigeonhole. That’s because the musical ‘dirty’ dozen Nubiyan Twist (in honour of its front woman) dislikes definitions, labels or borders. The band, originally from Leeds, London, Oxford and Dublin...
The historical Electric Ballroom in the heart of Camden Town, was indeed a ballroom on April 27th. Few bands are able to make the audience dance from the beginning until the very end, but Chico Trujillo is definitely one of them, with their music making it physically impossible to stay...
This ticket is for a trip back in time, to the roots of one of the most popular upbeat music styles: ska. The origins of the genre date back to the late 1950s, when Jamaican music producers like Prince Buster, Clement “Sir Coxsone” Dodd and Duke Reid formed the first...