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Friday night brought us a celebration of all things jazz and funk, with The Red Brick Jazz Sextet, The Donut Kings and Rough Edge Brass Band offering up an eclectic mix of jazz standards, pop arrangements and timeless classics. First off, The Red Brick Jazz Sextet brought us some upbeat numbers which featured two saxes, […]
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What got you together as a band? So weirdly, James the singer, he and I met at a live band karaoke night. So I play in a live karaoke thing which is quite fun where you have a song book of sort of two hundred tunes from like Dancing Queen to like I Believe in […]
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There is no denying 2016 was the grim reaper of years for the world of rock and pop music. According to research by BBC Radio 4’s More or Less Programme, the number of obituaries for celebrity deaths showed a shocking five-fold increase compared to the statistics from 2012. The Daily Telegraph gallery of notable deaths […]
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that people are born, and people die. Stars are born, and they too, must eventually die. On 6th January 2016, a star whose light has been shining since he launched his music career back in 1967 died aged 69, after an 18-month long struggle with cancer. That star, of […]
Continue ReadingHi Garfunkel! Are you named in honour of a British restaurant chain or one half of a folky 60s duo? We actually used to play under the name ‘Funk Trunk’, which originated from the name of the Facebook group we used to communicate. However, we came to the decision that that name was immature and, […]
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