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live: VV
Brown, Akayzia Parker, Cowboy Killers, Beatie Wolfe (pic)
decks: DJ Derek, Adam Callan, Tom Murray
Sweet
Memory Sounds is back with another of its high
quality, eclectic line ups, making each event its own small festival.
VV
Brown is the sum of her idiosyncratic listening habits: old rock'n'roll
and doo wop, novelty soul and incidental music from Nintendo games and
Disney movies. One of her songs, Quick Fix, is a dead ringer for Toni
Basil's Mickey, fast becoming the most influential piece of music of the
modern era.
Akayzia
Parker is a silky soulstress who grabs the thoughtful, relaxing
and heartfelt pop mantle from Tracy Chapman and to a lesser extent; Faithful
Hill and gives it a coating of alluring dreaminess.
In a time when acoustic music means anything played on acoustic instruments,
it's refreshing to find a band, such as the Cowboy
Killers, who is consciously trying to bring the music back to
the roots, without yielding the tendency to contemporize, or, at the very
least, to bury their other influences in the name of perceived authenticity.
Beatie
Wolfe plays folk influenced souly guitar music.
This
is a stellar line up made even better by our legendary headline DJ - oldtimer
DJ Derek. Now in his late 60's Derek is still rocking his original
London residency that has grown to include a monthly
Saturday night and spawned a Trojan Records released album of the same
name as the night - Sweet Memory Sounds. In amongst a Summer of festival
appearances and big club bills, catch him here at his home from home,
the Nottinghill Arts Club. Adam Callan and Tom Murray will
be fitting between all the action their soulful blends of blues, reggae,
ska and new orleans funk.
6pm
- 2am; free before 8pm, £6 after
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