Reach for the Bunting London- This Saturday
The Nest Collective presents...
Reach For The Bunting
Saturday 25 February / Saturday 7 April / Saturday 12 May 2012
7.30pm / Tickets £12 from www.thenestcollective.co.uk
Special group offer: 4 tickets for £40
Islington Town Hall Assembly Rooms, Upper Street, London N1 2UD
London's newest dance sensation is about to be born: who needs lasers? Reach For The Bunting! Featuring some of the best dance bands in London alongside the simply outstanding Ceilidh Liberation Front, Reach for the Bunting is a night of high octane abandon situated in Islington’s glorious town hall! Breaking down ceilidh conventions, the Ceilidh Liberation Front will be bringing their wildest of subverted dances and party tunes to get people flinging themselves across the dance floor, into the bar and back on their feet again. Expect carnival recklessness, festival shamelessness and all within Islington Town Hall: one of the finest new rooms (and sound systems) in London. Bring your pumps, bring your mates and this is no ordinary barn dance!
Alongside the Ceilidh Liberation Front these incredible bands will be on hand for further vigorous behaviour:
25 February
A J Holmes & The Hackney Empire
Born in Barking & Dagenham in the industrial far east of London, A.J. Holmes discovered a love of playing African music through a chance meeting with his Hackney neighbour. Folo Graff, a legendary musician from Sierra Leone, taught him to play the pan African guitar styles. While in Berlin A.J. met Les Beaux Gosses de Berlin, one of the Congo's finest African Rhumba bands, who quickly grabbed him to join their 20-strong band. Learning to rock the Afropop guitar style, A.J. became obsessed with the good time sounds of Sierra Leone and the Congo.
Back in his native London he started DJing, soon teaming up with white-hot electro producer duo, Radioclit (M.I.A., The Very Best, Amadou & Mariam). United by their love of African club music and worldwide Ghetto tropical beats, he joined the Secousse Sound System DJ team. Since its birth in 2007, the Secousse club night has become an infamous tropical riot of good times and air horns reviving London’s tired and lifeless club scene. Recruiting a party starting band of Hackney locals all sharing a love of tropical sounds, the success of A.J.’s early shows saw him invited by Radioclit to become Secousse club’s resident house band. Once there, the ensuing chaos on the dance floor left no ass unshaken and month after month saw guests blown off stage.
The band’s special blend of Afropop with a home grown British sensibility has become one of London’s best-kept secrets until now. Support slots with David Byrne have followed along with collaborations with some of London’s finest African musicians from Palm Wine legend, Abdul Tee-Jay to Nigerian grime star, Afrikan Boy. Their single debut ‘Fraudian Slip’, produced by Radioclit release on Ghetto Bassquake, the acclaimed tropical dance music blog, was released Sep 2010.
7 April
Super Best Friends Club
Super Best Friends Club are a friendly beast from London. They say "We wonder if it's possible to transform this cutthroat universe to a loving frequency. And we wonder if it's possible to do this through nudity and frantic dancing. I think it's worth trying."
12 May
Krar Collective
Ethiopian desert band in the same vein as Group Doueh, the Krar Collective bring you dynamic sounds from different parts of Ethiopia and tribal traditions with a contemporary edge.
Krar is the Ethiopian 5 or 6 stringed harp. KRAR COLLECTIVE are led by Temesegen Tareken, a former pupil of veteran Ethiopian vibraphone player Mulatu Astatke, on Krar, with drums, and singer Genet Asefa and drummer Amare. They are sometimes joined by other musicians, singers and full dance show with 4 dancers.
"I never expected to find this Ethiopian music gem hidden…the right balance between the rawness of their roots and the subtleties of their innovative spirit…I was really impressed." Andy Morgan, manager of Tinariwen
Tickets available from www.thenestcollective.co.uk
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