BLUE LAB BEATS

23rd November 2024

Featuring special guests TC & The Groove Family + DoomCannon

Blue Lab Beats will be performing with a full live band featuring the likes of Isobella Burnham (Bass), Kaidi Akinnibi (Sax), LOX (Drums), Grifton Forbes-Amos (Trumpet) and Orla Rae (Vocals) plus some very special guests!

GRAMMY Award winners Blue Lab Beats are one of the fastest-rising production duos in the world right now, expertly and fluidly fusing jazztronica, hip-hop, Afrobeat, soul and electronica, whilst representing a hungry and endlessly talented generation inspired by the forebears of jazz and the pioneers of hip-hop’s golden age, where musicality was a primary principle. Blue Lab Beats consists of the formidable multi-instrumentalist Mr DM and groundbreaking producer NK-OK.

DoomCannonis a London-based composer, producer & multi-instrumentalist spearheadinga plethora of forward-thinking, improvised jazz-inspired outfits. Exhibiting free jazzcompositions with a new contemporary flair, unveils DoomCannon’strailblazingsensibilities. Signed to Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood Recordings, he released his debutalbum ‘Renaissance’ this year.

Originally formed in Leeds, TC & The Groove Family’s sound reflects the diverse musical and culturalbackgrounds at the core of the project, with songs exploring grooves and genres including afrobeat,broken beat, jungle, jazz and grime. Their music has drawn widespread acclaim, supported bytastemakers including Jamz Supernova and Craig Charles on BBC Radio 6, BBC Introducing WestYorkshire, Jazz FM, Rinse FM, Radio FIP and more. The group have performed at the likes ofGlastonbury, We Out Here, Greenman and Boomtown.