New Event: Hot 8 Brass Band @ Wed 6 Mar 2013 20:00 - 23:00 ( EVENTS)

more details » Hot 8 Brass Band LEFTFOOT AND SOUL FOOD PROJECT PROUDLY PRESENT THE HARE AND HOUNDS // WEDNESDAY MARCH 6TH HOT 8 BRASS BAND (NEW ORLEANS) DJ SUPPORT FROM SAM REDMORE (LEFTFOOT // FREESTYLE) SOUL FOOD SOUNDSYSTEM HOT 8 BRASS BAND http://www.hot8brassband.com/ "Hot 8 music is feel good music…music with a message. It's life music." - Band leader, Bennie Pete New Orleans' Hot 8 Brass Band was founded in 1995 by tuba player Bennie Pete, Jerome "Bay Bay" Jones (trombone) and Harry "Swamp Thang" Cook (bass drum) to play brass band music professionally. Although many of the current members began playing together in high school, over time the line-up has inevitably shifted and changed, and continues to do so. But any incarnation of Hot 8 Brass Band will boast eight or nine players of the highest rate, bringing the passion and noise through a bevy of trombones, saxophones, trumpets, snare and bass drums, all buoyed up by the immense tuba basslines of band leader Bennie Pete. These musicians over the years have been inspired by artists such as Tuba Fats, Leroy Jones, Louis Armstrong, JJ Johnson, Stevie Wonder and Jackie McLean, and have variously recorded and performed with some of those mentioned and more. They also continue to cite each other as influences. The band had previously been signed to the label "Louisiana Red Hot," a label which had been, along with so much else in New Orleans, all but wiped out by Hurricane Katrina, and much of their previous material had been taken with it. Over the next few months Tru Thoughts signed Hot 8, and released "Sexual Healing" as a very limited edition single in summer 2007. All 500 copies were snapped up immediately, making it the fastest-selling single in the label's history. Following a flood of enquiries, the single was then given a wider release on 1st October and the album "Rock with the Hot 8" came out on 15th October 2007 to widespread acclaim. Listen to the elegant jumble of jazz & soul, thrown in a sack with traditional boisterous brass band music and shaken roughly with unmistakable hip hop attitude, and you will know this music could only have come from New Orleans. The band's first ever UK live dates came in February 2008, with a sell-out tour which blew the minds of audiences up and down the country and won an army of dedicated new fans. The second single, "What's My Name? (Rock With The Hot 8)" was released at this time, and this rambunctious cover of the Snoop Dogg track was a huge crowd-pleaser and received rave reviews. Hot 8 Brass Band have always believed in contributing to their culture by playing in traditional Second Line parades, expressions of freedom and community through music and interaction. They have earned a great reputation on the streets, with seemingly boundless work ethic and energy: Hot 8 have been known to pack in nine shows in a single day. Hot 8 band leader Bennie "Big Peter" Pete sums up what their music means to them and the wider world: "Hot 8 music is feel good music…music with a message. It's life music." TICKETS £12 ADV: https://www.theticketsellers.co.uk/tickets/hot-8-brass-band/10024965 **** A ONE OFF MENU WILL BE CRAFTED BY SOUL FOOD PROJECT, TO CO INSIDE WITH THE RETURN OF NEW ORLEANS BEST BRASS BAND -- FIRST COME FIRST SERVED THOUGH! **** MORE ON THE DOOR MORE INFORMATION FROM... http://hareandhoundskingsheath.co.uk/ http://www.hot8brassband.com/ http://www.soulfoodproject.co.uk/ http://www.facebook.com/events/394510183977369/ When Wed 6 Mar 2013 20:00 – 23:00 London Where Hare And Hounds (map) Calendar EVENTS

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