A big party celebration for a year of MIX-UP! Check out the line up:
MIX-UP AFROBEAT ORCHESTRA
First we created a big band...this time it's a big afrobeat band! Those of you who saw the debut performance of the MIX-UP Big Band led by Paulo Dias Duarte back in March will know that we don't like to do things by halves. This time The Magic Hat Ensemble will be taking to the stage joined by many musical friends to recreate some of their favourite afrobeat tunes. Expect a large, groovy afrofunk session with ma
ny horns and the one and only inimitable MC Kwasi thrown in for good measure!
HONEYFEET
Quite simply one of the best, most entertaining live bands in Manchester. Honeyfeet first played at the second ever MIX-UP in a trio format and have been firm favourites ever since. The band comes in many different numbers depending on where and when you catch them but this time they're bringing the bigger line up for you lucky people.
A band formed from whiskey drenched writing sessions and smokey, late night jams.
Honeyfeet’s distinctive sound is held together by the inimitable singer and flautist Ríoghnach Connolly and guitarist Ellis Davies. From jazz clubs to underground cellar bars, nowhere is left unmoved when Honeyfeet unite their spiky jazz sensibilities and rhythm & blues energy. Audiences dance themselves into a frenzy to grooves which owe as much to hip-hop as they do to Ethiopian jazz.
PADDY STEER
Paddy is a Zelig-like character along the timeline of Manchester's musical activity. It's a testament to his musicality that he has played with such a wide range of music and artists over the years, be it as a bass player, drummer, Hawaiian guitarist etc. or all these roles at the same time. Paddy’s attic studio is like the magic workshop – not only does he make music in there, but he also makes instruments, mends junk, films animations and constructs robots. Never one to blow his own trumpet, Paddy quietly gets on with developing his craft. There is something of the fairy-tale cobbler working late into the night in order to make the finest shoes in the kingdom, or maybe the musical elves strike up while he's in bed. It’s a sometime cartoon-like music dense with events, new textures and the colours of children’s paintings, sounds like a Swiss cuckoo clock made of egg boxes and horsehair, glued together by an African Moog player in a Vietnamese iron monger's shop.
WHERE?
Held at The Klondyke Club in Levenshulme (1 Burnage Range, third road on the left from Levenshulme Station off Albert Road, walking towards Burnage – call 0161 224 4122)
CONTACT
http://www.mixupmcr.com/
http://www.facebook.com/
https://twitter.com/
HONEYFEET
Quite simply one of the best, most entertaining live bands in Manchester. Honeyfeet first played at the second ever MIX-UP in a trio format and have been firm favourites ever since. The band comes in many different numbers depending on where and when you catch them but this time they're bringing the bigger line up for you lucky people.
A band formed from whiskey drenched writing sessions and smokey, late night jams.
Honeyfeet’s distinctive sound is held together by the inimitable singer and flautist Ríoghnach Connolly and guitarist Ellis Davies. From jazz clubs to underground cellar bars, nowhere is left unmoved when Honeyfeet unite their spiky jazz sensibilities and rhythm & blues energy. Audiences dance themselves into a frenzy to grooves which owe as much to hip-hop as they do to Ethiopian jazz.
PADDY STEER
Paddy is a Zelig-like character along the timeline of Manchester's musical activity. It's a testament to his musicality that he has played with such a wide range of music and artists over the years, be it as a bass player, drummer, Hawaiian guitarist etc. or all these roles at the same time. Paddy’s attic studio is like the magic workshop – not only does he make music in there, but he also makes instruments, mends junk, films animations and constructs robots. Never one to blow his own trumpet, Paddy quietly gets on with developing his craft. There is something of the fairy-tale cobbler working late into the night in order to make the finest shoes in the kingdom, or maybe the musical elves strike up while he's in bed. It’s a sometime cartoon-like music dense with events, new textures and the colours of children’s paintings, sounds like a Swiss cuckoo clock made of egg boxes and horsehair, glued together by an African Moog player in a Vietnamese iron monger's shop.
WHERE?
Held at The Klondyke Club in Levenshulme (1 Burnage Range, third road on the left from Levenshulme Station off Albert Road, walking towards Burnage – call 0161 224 4122)
CONTACT
http://www.mixupmcr.com/
http://www.facebook.com/
https://twitter.com/
