Hopefully the sun will be shining, so we can all enjoy the extra day off! Subtone has a cracking line up for your Bank Holiday Sunday so get yourselves down here pronto!
Host of BBC Radio Ones Dance Anthems returns to Subtone for his infamous Sexyhouse DJ Set on the Saturday 8th June. Not just a DJ & Radio presenter, Danny also gets busy in the studio and has had releases out on some of the worlds biggest dance music record labels including Spinnin Records, Black hole, [...]
FRIDAYS – Fat N Funky PREMIUM RAP SKILLS DUO ********** ‘TOO MANY T’S’ ********** ‘THE UK’S ANWER TO THE ‘THE BEASTIE BOYS’ The Huffington Post. A unique funky style of full fat beats, stirred in with two heaps of sugary fresh raps, comical swagger and the distinct fragrance of golden era hip hop. And your favourite [...]
“shares the same swagger as Bruce Springsteen, Jesse Malin and Gaslight Anthem” The Fly
PASSION IS A WORD SADLY DEVALUED BY AD SLOGANS, YET DANNY & THE CHAMPS OFFER A PURE PASSION REVUE” - Q MAGAZINE
7pm – 11pm
Tickets only £8 available now from www.badlands.co.uk
THePETEBOX one of the world’s finest human Beatboxers, he has spent the past two years crafting a whole new approach to using his vocal dexterity to create music….His performances are more similar to that of a full band as he builds each layer of his tracks live using a loop pedal to construct fully crafted songs before the amazed audience. They are taken on a journey of real time music production which builds up and delivers a full frequency spectrum of sound, from deep bass, to high pitched trumpets and multiple vocal harmonies – all made with his mouth!
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Fresh from headlining the BBC Introducing stage at Wychwood festival Gloucester based Black Canvas are a pair of dub-reggae vocalists. Their debut album Rise has been described as an ambitious collection of dub, spoken word, ballads and drum ‘n’ bass.
Band Members MR MELODY, RIDER SHAFIQUE, JON MASTERS, NICK EAKETTS ALEX MCINTOSH
James Morton was born in Bristol in 1982. James has English, Russian and Polish heratidge and started learning saxophone age 9. He played his first gig at age 12 and grew up performing in groups in the South of England playing with established musicians on the scene. James often performed in venues where he was too young to enter and sometimes had to pretend to be a relative of a club owner or manager. James left school at age 16 to persue his career in music and at age 21 won a place on a Masters degree course at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he completed his masters degree in jazz one year later. James has developed his unique voice through direct influences from funk, soul, jazz, gospel, latin and urban music. He has the abilty to communicate to an audience through his saxophone and directly project deep emotion across to the listener in a lyrical style. James has two key mentors in the form of Andy Shepperd and Pee Wee Ellis which he continually works with in a variety of projects. Performances At age 16 James performed on the Jazz/World stage at Glastonbury festival and has continued to appear on large festival stages across Europe and as far as Texas U.S.A. James first played with Pee Wee Ellis age 17 and continues to draw inspiration and advice from Pee Wee. James is now a core member of Pee Wee Ellis’ Still Black Still Proud an African tribute to James Brown which has toured main stages at festivals all over Europe and has involved guest artists including: Fred Wesley, Cheik Lo, Martha High, Angelique Kidjo and Tony Allen to names a few. Andy Sheppard is also a mentor to James. This relationship has developed over the last few years after Andy saw James playing with his jazz qurtet in a club in Bristol. This quartet developed into James Morton and Lunatics and featured Andy in a number of gigs across the U.k. Andy also composed a suite of music “The Hotel Suite” for the group which knocked out crowds across the country. James is now an integral soloist in Andy Sheppards Sax Massive who opened the London Jazz Festival in 2007 and have also performed at Coutance Jazz festival. James appears on Pendulum’s platinum selling Drum ‘n’ Bass album SLAM and has also performed with Fred Wesley, Winton Marsailes, Billy Cobham, Jason Rubello, Abrham Wilson, Beth Rowley, Snowboy and Tomorrow’s Warriors to name a few. James was nominated for Serious music’s Take five award in 2007 and The PRS promoters choice award in 2008 James’s Latest creation Porkchop Ft. James Morton is comprised the impressive personel of Dan “Pinstipe” Moore (Hammond organ), Ian Mathews (drums) and Deny Illet (guitar). Influenced by funk, soul-jazz, soul and gospel. The concept behind “Porkchop” is to eliminate the introspective and self indulgent elements that some “jazz” music can often adhere to with the intent to bring the music back to the people.
…. Nearly 25 years since playing at Live Aid to an audience of billions, Boomtown Rats guitarist Garry Roberts and drummer Simon C
rowe have returned to the music scene with their highly rated new band, with Peter Barton on bass and lead vocals and Darren Beale on guitar, playing all their massive Boomtown Rats hits including Rat Trap, She’s So Modern, Diamond Smiles, Like Clockwork, Someone’s Looking At You, Looking After Number 1, Mary of the 4th Form, their brilliant new version of I Don’t Like Mondays, and many more.
Since the very beginning of the band, Garry & Simon have been the driving force behind the Boomtown Rats sound. They have put their powerful alliance together once again to play their music as it should be heard, with its essential driving rhythms and meaty guitar
In April, Jaymo & Andy became two of the youngest people to ever record a live Essential Mix for Radio 1 – quickly catching the attention of the stations bosses.
Fast forward four months and the duo have their very own show on Radio 1, and prepare to take their sound global! Crafted with the sole intention of fronting the world’s coolest music, the show promises to be as fun and unpredictable as their rumbustious DJ sets!
As producers Jaymo & Andy have been responsible for some massive dance-floor bombs! Andy’s ‘Big Dipper’ was one of 2008’s most popular jump-up Electro tracks, prompting a flurry of remixes for scene-leaders Lord Skywave, Toddla T & Jokers Of The Scene. Read the rest of this entry »