Friday @ Quayside StageAugust 17, 2011Friday 2nd September 2011 FENECH SOLER 10:05pm
Pop began for Fenech-Soler in Kings Cliffe, a village of a thousand people in the hinterlands of Northamptonshire. It began with two brothers, Ben and Ross Duffy, who made music as teenagers with their friend Daniel Soler, whose surname would later play a bigger part in their lives. Their burgeoning love affairs with dance and club music – with The Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk, Soulwax, and SMD – suddenly gained sharper edges and became fully-formed. They wrote electronic tracks together on their laptops and synthesisers, infusing them with the spirits of these artists they loved, but also other diverse artists like George Benson, N.E.R.D, R&B vocal group The Whispers, Michael Jackson and Queens Of The Stone Age. They aimed to write songs that would be club and festival anthems – songs that would have a crowd rising as one, singing their words back to them – with enough experimental edges to push them in new, bold directions. Then came the glowing press, and the clamour for the band to do remixes, with Marina and The Diamonds, Everything Everything, Example and Sunday Girl all wanting a shard of their brilliant light. In the spring of 2010 a new single Stop And Stare released on independent label Moda Music – and featured on Kitsune Vol.9 – would go all the way to the Radio 1 playlist, and the Top Ten of both the Dance and Indie singles charts. Fenech-Soler are ready to take over your mind, turn the dial up on your radio, and beam the light of the sun to the dancefloor. Pop is this. THE BAGHDADDIES 8:15pm Touring the world for 14 years, the Baghdaddies’ music is world music with strong Balkan tendencies alongside Caribbean grooves, Middle Eastern rhythms and even some Geordie [native Newcastle] touches, all awash with influences such as ska, jazz, punk and metal, delivered with theatre and exuberance. Uplifting and infectiously danceable, full of blistering brass, rousing 5 part vocal harmonies and a rhythm section that you can’t keep still to. Songs to listen to and party! ‘The band have a particular flair for the Balkans and capture its frenetic energy and flamboyance wonderfully. There is also a fair share of klezmer, jazz, ska and punk – an anarchic fusion where Ivo Papasov meets The Clash meets The Beat’ – Songlines Magazine WHITE PILOTS 7:25pm White Pilots are a five piece alternative band from Kingston Upon Hull. For the last twelve months White Pilots have been playing across the U.K supporting artists such as Good Shoes, The Sunshine Underground, Detroit Social Club, Little Comets and played alongside White Lies, Magnetic Man and Ed Sheeran at this years Beach Break Festival in Wales. Recently signed to MC9 Records the next year for White Pilots will be very exciting releasing a number of singles accompanied with videos and a U.K tour. PUNJABI AKHARA 6:35pm Punjabi Akhara are a nine piece band based in and around Hertfordshire in the South East of England. As their name would suggest their music is predominately of the Punjabi dance music genre known as Bhangra. The band also use western instrument such as electric guitars and drum kit. They are known for their high energy performance and are guaranteed to get any party going. HUMBA RUMBA 5:45 Humba Rumba formed July 2010, from a group of experienced and proficient musicians who continue to gig regularly in a variety of other bands. The motivation was to play music to dance to, specifically Congolese Soukous music, which the band find hugely rewarding and stimulating. The Adelphi in Hull, showcased many original soukous bands from the Congo in the 90′s which influenced the humba’s style. What is the style? Well its good time party/dance music, which makes you smile. Technically the style is quite challenging, especially for musicians brought up on blues derived rock/pop music. The guitar patterns are rhythmically precise and fast, the bass plays syncopated patterns that mimic congolese hand percussion and the drums hold everything together and signal the changes. All timings are approximate. With thanks to:
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Fenech-Soler are a band who have overcome everything to be here, and have done so in their own way. They have honed and shined their sparkling songs, entirely by themselves, in their tiny bedrooms. They have taken their dreams to the disco and the Radio 1 playlist on their own terms. They even captivated legendary bands and DJs long before the record companies came knocking. Now signed to B-Unique, their debut album is here to lift and inspire us in the final days of summer, to spin its golden web of sound, to hold us in its glittering threads.
