A gig held at The Croft on Friday 9th January. The event starts at 20:00.
After a huuuuge launch party, FAT HAT is back to kick off 2015 with a bang!! This month's episode comes with a heavy twist of gypsy to help you dance off that second helping of christmas pudding!
This time it's hats off to......
**** USHTI BABA ****
Beatbox-powered acoustic folk. From Morris-dance moshing to Rajasthani reggae, Ushti Baba stuck out their sore thumbs to make a right scene in 2014...
...quaint hippy fields and 3am raves drank in the lovingly hammering sound of Ushti Baba. After a second heavy season of eighteen festivals the group's nailed its intricate sound, tightened up for dance-band punch and maintained intensive stage energy - they sweat, crowds sweat.
The eight musicians bring a cosmic rainbow of influence, served with skill and panache: Balkan to Drum'n' Bass, Klezmer to Gypsy-core - original and traditional songs and stories are uniquely inspired and exuberantly delivered.
Group-harmony vocals lead soaring fiddle and trumpet; beatbox lays the solid foundation of the super-heavy rhythm section as guitar, accordion, banjo and darbouka lock in; cello and double bass forge a powerful low-end. Their sheer enjoyment of the audience and each other is born of the call to entertain. Ushti Baba is consistently proven to get audiences up and dancing.
http://www.ushti-baba.bandcamp.com/releases
**** SHAMBOLIQUE ****
A super hi energy electro Gypsyfunk quartet with a twist of high chaos. Cooked at 400C for 9 months and served on a bed of harmonic tomfoolery. (Contains nuts)
Borne from a desire to make people dance uncontrollably, they recorded their first two demos with drummers - Clive Deamer (Portishead/Roni Size), Maff Scott (The Egg) and award winning violinist Gina Griffin. Having made a very welcome disturbance on the Bristol circuit, Shambolique's first summer has also seen Small World Festival, Glastonbury, Secret Garden Party and Bestival.
http://www.soundcloud.com/shambolique-1
**** MAMA JERK AND THE LADY FINGERS ****
Mama Jerk and the Lady Fingers have spent a year mixing all the music they love into a Reggae Dub Gypsy Chanson Blues Funk implosion .dense, fun, good to dance to and good to drink to.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mama-Jerk-and-the-Lady-Fingers/1396958947216198?fref=ts
**** WAGGLES ****
Waggles is a long term Bristol resident, who has been funking up the club and festival scene with his global and vintage style breaks, glitch and basslines for the last four years. With multiple releases and official remixes, in the UK and abroad and, with many more to come, Waggles will be pioneering his unique style of dancefloor friendly global funk into your ears and minds at any opportunity available!
http://www.soundcloud.com/waggles
Entry requirements:
This time it's hats off to......
**** USHTI BABA ****
Beatbox-powered acoustic folk. From Morris-dance moshing to Rajasthani reggae, Ushti Baba stuck out their sore thumbs to make a right scene in 2014...
...quaint hippy fields and 3am raves drank in the lovingly hammering sound of Ushti Baba. After a second heavy season of eighteen festivals the group's nailed its intricate sound, tightened up for dance-band punch and maintained intensive stage energy - they sweat, crowds sweat.
The eight musicians bring a cosmic rainbow of influence, served with skill and panache: Balkan to Drum'n' Bass, Klezmer to Gypsy-core - original and traditional songs and stories are uniquely inspired and exuberantly delivered.
Group-harmony vocals lead soaring fiddle and trumpet; beatbox lays the solid foundation of the super-heavy rhythm section as guitar, accordion, banjo and darbouka lock in; cello and double bass forge a powerful low-end. Their sheer enjoyment of the audience and each other is born of the call to entertain. Ushti Baba is consistently proven to get audiences up and dancing.
http://www.ushti-baba.bandcamp.com/releases
**** SHAMBOLIQUE ****
A super hi energy electro Gypsyfunk quartet with a twist of high chaos. Cooked at 400C for 9 months and served on a bed of harmonic tomfoolery. (Contains nuts)
Borne from a desire to make people dance uncontrollably, they recorded their first two demos with drummers - Clive Deamer (Portishead/Roni Size), Maff Scott (The Egg) and award winning violinist Gina Griffin. Having made a very welcome disturbance on the Bristol circuit, Shambolique's first summer has also seen Small World Festival, Glastonbury, Secret Garden Party and Bestival.
http://www.soundcloud.com/shambolique-1
**** MAMA JERK AND THE LADY FINGERS ****
Mama Jerk and the Lady Fingers have spent a year mixing all the music they love into a Reggae Dub Gypsy Chanson Blues Funk implosion .dense, fun, good to dance to and good to drink to.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mama-Jerk-and-the-Lady-Fingers/1396958947216198?fref=ts
**** WAGGLES ****
Waggles is a long term Bristol resident, who has been funking up the club and festival scene with his global and vintage style breaks, glitch and basslines for the last four years. With multiple releases and official remixes, in the UK and abroad and, with many more to come, Waggles will be pioneering his unique style of dancefloor friendly global funk into your ears and minds at any opportunity available!
http://www.soundcloud.com/waggles
Entry requirements: