26 August:

 

02 September:

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Sweet Memory Sounds

 

with:
live: VV Brown, Akayzia Parker, Cowboy Killers, Beatie Wolfe
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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