Soundcrash LIVE presents a TRIPLE headliner in one of the live club events of 2009… DUB PISTOLS live / THE HERBALISER live band / TROJAN SOUND SYSTEM live plus Lazy Habits + Gentleman’s Dub Club @ Koko
The resplendent interior of Koko will be shaking with the bass-lines of a genre based on bass on another late-night of live music, as Soundcrash invite some truly iconic heavyweights in the form the Dub Pistols, The Herbaliser’s live band and The Trojan Sound-System, as well as some of the finest young live talent around along to show us what it is about reggae, dub and beats that makes us all go crazy. Barry Ashworth and Jason O’Bryan AKA the Dub Pistols have spent the best part of a decade at the forefront of Beats culture. From their early singles for Concrete Records to their genre defying ‘Six Million Ways To Live’ long player, from intimate venues to festival headline-sets and inclusions on video-game and movie soundtracks, with commissioned remixes from the likes of Lily Allen, Moby, Limp Bizkit and Korn, chewing up hip-hop, dub, techno, ska and punk and spitting them out in a renegade futuristic skank they have consistently defied categorisation and exceeded the highest of expectations. Currently riding high on the success of the recent ‘Speakers and Tweeters’ album (featuring Rodney P, Blade and Terry Hall, out now on Sunday Best) the future looks good for this pair of producers who have always added a much needed Rock n Roll swagger to the UK’s dance scene, having mutated from a studio based duo into a fully fledged live act featuring guest vocalists and Sugardaddy horn-blower Tim Hutton and scratch maestro DJ Stix.
www.myspace.com/thedubpistols
It’s not every day that you come across a duo like Jake Wherry and Ollie Teeba, aka the Herbaliser. They’ve been working together for over a decade and continue to progress improve and excel in the competitive world of hip hop production and beyond. Jake Wherry grew up in South West London. A diet of jazz and James Brown provided the soundtrack of his childhood and teenage years. He naturally found himself getting into rare groove and old school hip-hop and played guitar and bass in many jazz, funk and rock bands. Ollie Teeba, meanwhile, was strictly about the hip hop, and after some jam sessions in Jake’s now legendary studio, Traintrax, The Herbaliser as we know and live was born just at the time of the mid-nineties explosion of hip hop jazz breaks. Their first album, the classic “Remedies” was released by Ninja in October ’95, a sharp hit of hard breaks, jazz sampledelia and funk, a record that could only have come out of the UK. Since then they have given us six more gems, right up to last year’s live-driven ‘Same as it Never Was’, continuing on from their first full live-band recording ‘Session One’ (2000, Dept. H). And that is how we will find them in Koko: as a full, live 5 piece band. ‘Our instrumental style was born of a necessity to produce hip hop music, but without access to rappers we had to develop a new approach’. And the new approach has worked. A perfect aspect of a perfect line-up of live musical talent, and a very rare opportunity to see this amazing band.
www.myspace.com/theherbz
Formed in 2004 from London Sound System legends, The Trojan Sound System has already had hugely successful shows as a single entity and with the greatest names in reggae, representing the label that has been the home of British Reggae, Ska and Roots since 1968. The Sound System comprises selectors Earl Gateshead and Daddy Ad, and Vocalists Superfour and Chucky Banton. Earl Gateshead began DJ’ing in Brixton in 1979.He is well known in London for his 20 year residency at The Dive Bar in London’s Chinatown and his Saturday residency at the legendary Blue Note club. His reggae nights at Plastic People received Worldwide recognition. Daddy Ad comes from Roots and Reality Soundsystem and, like Earl, always pushed for new sounds and acts. his background as a full time drummer and audiohead means he is responsible for the sound system’s FX, mixdowns and sound, as well as co selecting with Earl. The System’s vocalists have twenty years experience as members of the great South London Sound Systems: Taurus, Sir Coxsone and Saxon. They have been chosen as the absolute cream of London’s Reggae entertainers for our skank-pie tonight.
www.myspace.com/trojansoundsystem
Bringing all the energy you can handle, wrapped in a smooth funk-filled audio-blanket are Lazy Habits, sharp- dressed, horn-driven live hip-hop with a twist of, well, just about everything cool. Quickly gaining a formidable reputation after touring the festivals last year these guys truly know how to rock a party of any size, exploding onto the soundsystem and remaining the focus of your attention while they remain on stage – Lazy? No. Habit-forming? Quite possibly!
www.myspace.com/lazyhabits
Ultra-cool live-stylings from the Gentleman’s Dub Club, Leeds’ heavyweight live 11 piece dub collective, will wetten appetites more than suitably bringing pure fire to the dancefloor. Bass-heavy, brass-tinted percussion-fuelled dubs as timeless as the genre itself to leave you satisfied yet hungry for more. www.myspace.com/gentlemansdubclub
Soundcrash LIVE presents… DUB PISTOLS live / THE HERBALISER live band / TROJAN SOUND SYSTEM live plus Lazy Habits + Gentleman’s Dub Club Saturday 2nd May 2009 9pm – 3am
£14.50 adv www.ticketweb.co.uk
