Tag Archives: Funk
#176 – Escort
This the band Escort, originally a production duo that has grown into a seventeen piece live band, who make some awesome ‘nu-disco’. Except it’s all done live, by such a large group that their tour bus is probably a double-decker … Continue reading
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#155 – Turn The Lights Down Low
This song oozes funk from its every pore. It’s American in its nature, with some extra African flavouring added thanks to the band living in an area of Paris that was largely an African immigrant one.
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#134 – New Belleruche Single ‘Stormbird’
I was tottering about on the internet today and all of a sudden this song appeared on my Soundcloud. I’m a big fan of Belleruche (I wrote this a little while ago) and thoroughly enjoyed their last album 270 Stories.
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#115 – Songs About Athletes
This is a little bit of light writing, if I’m going to be honest. I was listening to Mother’s Milk yesterday and I heard the song Magic Johnson and thought to myself “I wonder how many song there are that … Continue reading
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#70 – Charlie Blacksmoke
Actually, it’s Charlie Blacksmoke and The Swamp Energy Mass Choir, but that looked a bit messy as a title. It’s the latest project of Memphis-ian Mr Blacksmoke and the single he’s put out off his soon-to-arrive EP is a cracker. … Continue reading
Review: The Asteroids Galaxy Tour – Fruit
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour were on TV today. It turns out their song ‘Golden Age’ is on the new Heineken advert. It made me look up because, as good as this song is (and as advert-friendly as it is), I’ve … Continue reading
#62 – What’s That You Say… Summer?
It seems like we can rightly go and start talking about how amazing the summer is going to be about now. After all, where I am we’ve had three days in a row of glorious(ish) sun and in my book … Continue reading
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