Friday 30 April 2010

Today's idea - WHITE MINK : BLACK COTTON. Electro Swing versus Speakeasy Jazz (and win a free CD!)



Tonight the chaps behind White Mink : Black Cotton are bringing their "electro swing versus speakeasy jazz" to Brighton's Fringe Festival. As a number of one off nights in their own right, they promise "many of the very best electro-swing bands around."

The CD that spawns this birth of the retro rebirth is made up of the Black Cotton and White Cotton disks. One totes "rare and original vinyl 78's as heard at London's legendary Black Cotton Club" and the other "the very best contemporary music influenced by 20s and 30s sounds." Dragging it into the 21st century, combined they make a brilliant album. You can have a listen to it on myspace, and find a review here.


IMPORTANTLY! we've got one copy of the album to give away! If you'd like it, send an email to boredofbrighton@gmail.com telling us so! We'll find some sort of hat to pick from.

Tonight is organised through Freerange (I assume this is the same Freerange that visits London, which makes me a big fan) and opens the Brighton Festival (perhaps unofficially). Alongside local band Swing Zazou, they bring the fantastic Correspondents, who do the best dancehall version of Jungle book's 'Be like you' I've ever heard. You can find them on MySpace and Last.fm - they've definitely worth a listen.




"We also have DJ sets from Nick Hollywood (White Mink) incorporating live VJing with sexy 1920’s black and white silent era movie clips, burlesque, display dancers and our award winning Black Cotton Club partners in crime, El Nino and Lady Kamikaze spinning original 78’s. Plus Carnivaleque DJs and Continental Drifts of Lost Vagueness fame too.
This event will bring together all the prime movers and shakers of the new Electro Swing scene in the UK for the very first time and will be a chance to catch what’s going on before it hits Glastonbury, Big Chill, Bestival etc later this year.

"As we emerge from the freeze of 2010, we have HOT music to stir the adrenalin, and when we say HOT, we mean SCORCHING! Music from the era that defined HOT.” (Tunes)

“Yes this really is a new genre, and an exciting one at last!” TimeOut"

Find more information here and you can get tickets online from brightonfestivalfringe.org.uk.

Time: 7.30pm - 2am.
At: St Peters Church Gardens
Cost: £10, £12 on door.

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