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TROPICAL BEATS AND SUMMER SOUNDS AT HARE AND HOUNDS BIRMINGHAM
| Published: 10th July 2011 15:48 |
DADDY G (MASSIVE ATTACK) AND ALTERNATIVE DUBSTEP ORCHESTRA
Hare & Hounds, B14 7JZ
9pm - 3am, Friday 22 July
£8.00 adv. / MOTD
ROY AYERS & PETE ROCK PLUS SUPPORT FROM A FEW GOOD MEN
Hare & Hounds, B14 7JZ
8pm - 11pm, Sunday 24 July
£15 adv. / MOTD
QUANTIC AND HIS COMBO BARBARO PLUS SUPPORT FROM LEFTFOOT & SOUL FOOD SOUNDSYSTEM
Hare & Hounds, B14 7JZ
9pm - 2am, Friday 5 August
£15 adv. / MOTD
EASY STAR ALL-STARS PLUS SUPPORT FROM BRIAN TRAVERS (UB40) AND DUBBER
Hare & Hounds, B14 7JZ
8pm - 11pm, Wednesday 10 August
£15 adv. / MOTD
Venue: http://hareandhoundskingsheath.co.uk / www.twitter.com/hareandhounds / 0121 444 2081
Tickets: www.theticketsellers.co.uk / 0844 870 0000
A selection of global music stars will help raise the temperature to scorching at Birmingham's Hare and Hounds this July and August, promising summer sounds, tropical beats, feel-good live experiences and plenty of funk, reggae, soul, jazz, hip-hop, disco, Afrobeat, Latin and Caribbean music on the menu.
Massive Attack co-founder and trip-hop pioneer Daddy G headlines a show with Birmingham's rising Alternative Dubstep Orchestra, US hip-hop producer Pete Rock joins 'Everybody Loves the Sunshine' star Roy Ayers, Latin funkster and musicologist Quantic and his Combo Barbaro, and premier reggae collective Easy Star All-Stars will all perform at the independent music venue this coming July and August.
Grant 'Daddy G' Marshall, co-founder of influential UK group Massive Attack was partly responsible for shaping the distinct, atmospheric and beat heavy sound of trip-hop in the early 1990's, drawing inspiration from Jamaican sound-system culture whilst pushing the boundaries of vocals, instrumentation and music technology. Following the success of Massive Attack's fifth and well received studio album Heligoland, the producer and musician returns to the Hare & Hounds on Friday 22 July for a live show featuring local collective the Alternative Dubstep Orchestra who mesh dub, dhol drumming, ska, tabla, brass and much more, showcasing the very best of musical styles Birmingham has to offer.
"Daddy G and Massive Attack have been a massive inspiration for us over the years as individuals and we are all really hyped to be playing alongside such a legendary artist". - Karl Jones, Alternative Dub Orchestra
On 24 July, US soulful hip-hop producer Pete Rock, will join legendary vibraphonist Roy Ayers and his band for a ground-breaking band, DJ and MC experience that will feature live sampling, beats and rhymes alongside performances of tracks from Ayers' celebrated back catalogue.
Bronx-born soulful hip-hop producer and DJ Pete Rock has racked up 25 million record sales, worked with Kanye West, Lady Gaga, Run DMC, Madonna and KRS-One amongst other artists and has seen his music used in hit TV show The Wire as well as in cult film Menace to Society. Roy Ayers, a long-time funk, jazz and soul star, is widely recognised as one of the prophets of acid-jazz and has led R & B bands, collaborated with African superstar Fela Kuti, ventured into house music and penned classic rhythmic tracks like 'Everybody Loves The Sunshine' and 'We Live In Brooklyn, Baby'.
"I guess that the true beauty of music is that it connects people in that it carries a message and we, the musicians, are the messengers. I am versatile because I want my message to reach all people. I have always played soul music." - Roy Ayers
Will Holland, aka Quantic, who plays at the Hare & Hounds with his Columbian jazz band Combo Barbaro on Friday 5 August, is one of the world's foremost proponents of Latin, Caribbean and African flavoured dance music. The group's recent album Transition in Tradition is a multi-cultural patchwork of cumbia, deep funk, tropical dub and many styles in between. In 2007 Holland moved to Cali, Colombia's third largest city, to pursue his passion for both unearthing lost treasures from Colombia's musical past and making new music with the golden array of talent available today. Now in 2011, in partnership with the city's Soul Food Project Soundsystem, Quantic brings his heady mix of good time grooves to Birmingham, promising a night of rare sounds and infectious rhythms at the height of summer.
Pink Floyd, Radiohead and Beatles fans may already be familiar with the reggae collective Easy Star All-Stars, following the release of their best selling and critically acclaimed albums Dub Side of the Moon (2003), Radiodread (2006) and Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band (2009), the latter being the first reggae album to break the Billboard top 200 twice in twenty years. The New York based band, who have a rotating roster of musicians, released their first album
of original material earlier this year. Support for their appearance at the Hare & Hounds on 10 August comes from Brian Travers (UB40) and Dubber.
Fresh from working with Mostly Jazz and hosting three festival after parties featuring BBC R1 DJ Gilles Peterson, musician Matthew Herbert and BBC 6 Music presenter Craig Charles, Leftfoot continue to do what they do best in the city, following their 2010 celebration of 10 years presenting the best live global beat experiences in Birmingham.
"Music with soul - jazz, disco, funk, house, reggae, hip-hop, Latin & Afrobeat and so on - has been part of the make-up of Birmingham's music scene for decades and is at the heart of everything we do at Leftfoot. By bringing some of the best live artists to Birmingham over the summer months, we hope to help contribute to the city's great and thriving music and creative community" - Adam Regan, Leftfoot
Adam's commitment to showcasing new and established music in Birmingham led him to take on management of the Hare & Hounds in Kings Heath, now regarded as the best independent venue in the city and home to a thriving creative community.
"Having hosted gigs from successive generations of über cool bands and DJ's, if walls could talk the Hare & Hounds would chew your ears off. An institution as much as a venue it's a magnet for clued up music fans and promoters alike, drawing the kind of ‘up for it' crowds that most places dream of." - Daron Billings, The Hearing Aid
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