Inside: Issue 8, The Vault
Good Times are back! With Norman Jay
A local West London pub is not the place where you’d expect to meet a DJ who has received a MBE from the Queen and played for Will Smith, Prince or Bruce Springsteen. And yet, after a few minutes chatting with Norman Jay, the choice of place for this interview becomes obvious. For the pioneering DJ, music needs no pretense, glitz nor glamour. His Good Times NYE party will be a celebration to music and old school partying; a trip to back to the roots of Djing, where anything goes. Read on.
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Alternative beats with Put Me On It
On a Wednesday afternoon, I meet fresh-faced Amelia Ideh at Market Place, a bar where the young woman holds regular events. Ideh is that rare breed: a female event organiser
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Dine and dance with Progressive Entertainment
If you ever get a chance to talk with Irvin Smith, of Progressive Entertainment, don’t ask him about his parties. Progressive Entertainment (PE) do not organise parties, they put together lifestyle events: packages structured to entertain you, either with a live performance (as with Poetry n Motion) or dinner (Spanish Harlem) always followed by a [...]
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Afrobeats at the Africa Centre with Dudu Sarr
Over the past few years, African music has become mainstream, with African stars such as Amadou and Mariam from Mali doing gigs with the likes of Damon Albarn - the infamous Africa Express gigs in 2008 that started out in Bamako, Mali and stopped at Koko in London. We also fondly remember the Double Cub, [...]
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Caribbean vibes with Kizomba UK
Kizomba, is “the first dance” two time UK Salsa champion Iris de Brito has learned: “Kizomba is originally from Angola and it is danced with a partner. It’s a mix between semba from Angola and French zouk.
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Club Candy
R&b, bashment, hip hop, funky house, afro beats, ol skool classics from DJ’s on rotation: Abrantee (Choice FM), Twin B (1Xtra), Aldoria (Mos FM), Big L, Ruff and Tuff, Sparkie Devious, Nevada.
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Stacked
London’s best DJ’s play the very best upfront hip hop, r&b, bashment and funky house. Free every Saturday in Angel. Dj’s include Excalibah, Spin Doctor, DJ Lok, Bruce Wayne, Rhodri, Big Twist, GETO & more.
The Elbow Room is a Pool Bar & restaurant in Angel.
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Groove Lineage: Weekly Friday Night Soul
Keep The Faith’s Paul Aaaron takes Hobgoblin in Angel N1 on a weekly Friday night Soul journey migrating through different era’s, tempo’s, sub genres & regional styles of soul & roots music. Live instruments & occasional live appearances & launch parties from visiting USA Neo Soul acts also.
It really is a simple equation:
*SOUL MUSIC
**GOOD PEOPLE
****FREE [...]
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The Soul Family Soul-D-Out
There was only one place soul fans should have been on Friday 20 Feb night and that was The Cobden Club in Ladbroke Grove. The event: Soul-D-Out, a night – founded and hosted by D-Nyce of Rampage – that brings to the forefront the unique talents of some of the UK’s finest soul artists. To [...]
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