Zun Zun Egui + AJ Holmes & Hackney Empire + Arctic Circle + The Fingerless Hoodlum
with AJ Holmes: The New Electric Hi-Life + Randek + The Janitor + Young Master + lots of special guests
at The Croft
(Sat 1st Aug 2009 / 8pm / £5 adv)
A gig turn club for dancin' turn live rockin' freak out turn into what ever happens...how come?
How Come...
Three, maybe four live acts + DJs.
Zun Zun Egui will pleasure you once again with a witching hour set of cracking rock n roll n roll via the balmy regions of East African guitar frenzy, furious drums of dance, flipped Japanese prog and underground bassline disco. Warm up now!
AJ HOLMES & The Hackney Empire come to play, get all warm. The dance-allnigh- long PARTY BAND arrive in Bristol for their first show.
"Africa and Europe meet again with such an original freshness; my tip for album of the year“ : DE:BUG
Hackney Empire are currently resident band at monthly London Tropical party Secousse (started by Radioclit in 2007) and have recently played with David Byrne.
"Putting African music in the network with western club electronics; music that is presently produced in equator proximity and up-to-dating the local Dancefloors: Kuduro, Coupé Decale or Kwaito now goes just as easily over the lips of the global Fashionistas at Berlin"
Out towner DJ man AJ HOLMES plays a distinctive blend Kwaito, Kuduro, Coupe Decale, Funana, Afro Grime, Afro Indie, Tropical Dance, Old school Palm Wine, Jive, Arabesk, Turkish pop, Afro pop, Rumba, Soukus, Kavacha, Tradimodern, High Life.. AJ is in league with Radioclit and the Secousse club night in London
Arctic Circle do it in a big but humble/jumble blaze of glory. They refresh the spirit with their cultish brand of DIY. A pan-euro-indie-sound-sitting-room-jam-band. They have a box of tricks that includes characterFULL vocal, accordion, clarinet, glockenspiel, effects pedals, pan lids, melodica, analogue electronics and all the rest.
The Fingerless Hoodlum
At live gigs the stage often resembles a jumble sale, echoing their love of homespun aesthetics and languid afternoons.
Plus a breadth of DJS playing out slinky rockers, lo-fi gems and some dirty urban cuts through to banging inter (and outer) national floor fillers to percussive dub-house take overs.
Last one was busy...this one is the for HEAT.
How come....
They all veer from different global positions but sound like the same time zone.
How come....
They all want to make you crackle.
How come...
“ Yo / As the universe expands / I contemplate whether it was God / or the Big Bang that made man / Sometimes I wonder..how come..”
Canibus / Youssou N'Dour - 'How Come'
How come...
How Come...
Three, maybe four live acts + DJs.
Zun Zun Egui will pleasure you once again with a witching hour set of cracking rock n roll n roll via the balmy regions of East African guitar frenzy, furious drums of dance, flipped Japanese prog and underground bassline disco. Warm up now!
AJ HOLMES & The Hackney Empire come to play, get all warm. The dance-allnigh- long PARTY BAND arrive in Bristol for their first show.
"Africa and Europe meet again with such an original freshness; my tip for album of the year“ : DE:BUG
Hackney Empire are currently resident band at monthly London Tropical party Secousse (started by Radioclit in 2007) and have recently played with David Byrne.
"Putting African music in the network with western club electronics; music that is presently produced in equator proximity and up-to-dating the local Dancefloors: Kuduro, Coupé Decale or Kwaito now goes just as easily over the lips of the global Fashionistas at Berlin"
Out towner DJ man AJ HOLMES plays a distinctive blend Kwaito, Kuduro, Coupe Decale, Funana, Afro Grime, Afro Indie, Tropical Dance, Old school Palm Wine, Jive, Arabesk, Turkish pop, Afro pop, Rumba, Soukus, Kavacha, Tradimodern, High Life.. AJ is in league with Radioclit and the Secousse club night in London
Arctic Circle do it in a big but humble/jumble blaze of glory. They refresh the spirit with their cultish brand of DIY. A pan-euro-indie-sound-sitting-room-jam-band. They have a box of tricks that includes characterFULL vocal, accordion, clarinet, glockenspiel, effects pedals, pan lids, melodica, analogue electronics and all the rest.
The Fingerless Hoodlum
"..I have long fingers on both hands, and long nails on my right hand. The fingers on my right hand pluck the strings whilst the ones on the left press the frets in various random shapes. The right hand looks like a spider (with a few legs missing) scurrying very fast but not actually moving, like in an old fashioned cartoon. The left hand looks like an octopus (with a few legs missing) doing an expressive kind of modern dance or performance art to try and impress a potential mate. I sing about all kinds of things; stray dogs, ruins, tidal waves, many things that live or drown in the sea, heartbreak, ghosts." FH
At live gigs the stage often resembles a jumble sale, echoing their love of homespun aesthetics and languid afternoons.
Plus a breadth of DJS playing out slinky rockers, lo-fi gems and some dirty urban cuts through to banging inter (and outer) national floor fillers to percussive dub-house take overs.
Last one was busy...this one is the for HEAT.
How come....
They all veer from different global positions but sound like the same time zone.
How come....
They all want to make you crackle.
How come...
“ Yo / As the universe expands / I contemplate whether it was God / or the Big Bang that made man / Sometimes I wonder..how come..”
Canibus / Youssou N'Dour - 'How Come'
How come...