NYE@RFH!

We had a fantastic time playing at the New Years Eve celebrations at the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank to end 2011.

Curated by Gabby Young and her splendid Other Animals, we were delighted to be asked by Gabby to be part of her mix of artists and performers for what was surely London’s best NYE party. With Gabby and her band taking centre stage, also on the bill were some other excellent acts including Eliza Carthy’s Motown Ceilidh, The Destroyers, the Urban Folk Quartet, Bellatrix, Babyhead and many others – please see the news page for more details and some pictures!

Collaboration with DJ Yoda – Bestival and The Roundhouse

We are very pleased to be collaborating with DJ Yoda – one of the world’s best loved and most innovative DJs.  A fearsomely skilled scratch / hip-hop DJ, he’s also known for his amazing AV shows featuring live video scratching and eclectic mixes of pretty much any genre you can think of, so we were proper excited when we got a call asking if we’d collaborate for some live shows over the summer. Our first gig went down a storm at Brixton’s Jamm – a fearsome mix of bass, beats and brass had the crowd going like we’ve never seen. With 80s hip-hop mixed with Albanian wedding music, thunderous dubstep with tubas and turntable vs Trombone duels to the death, it was more fun than you’d ever imagine you could have with a big lump of brass and a DJ.

Having found our feet in Brixton we’ve since done the show again twice, once at  Bestival  to about 4000 people in the all new Roller Disco Tent, and then again the following day at legendary venue The Roundhouse in Camden. Both gigs were fantastic, probably the highlight of TSMB’s musical adventures so far. You can read a review of the Roundhouse gig here, and more about our collaboration in this interview with DJ Yoda on dontstayin.com. Here’s a ‘best of’ edit of our the Roundhouse gig:

Rehearsals with DJ Yoda