'Swing DeVille' has a floating population that includes some of the finest Hot Club Jazz players in the South of England. These include Brian Powell Gtr, Richard Spong violin,Sam Arts Gtr,Brian Bull Gtr,Nils Solberg Gtr, Andy Maslin Double Bass,Steve Thompson Double Bass, Frank Taylor Gtr,Mike Piggott Violin. The band usually play as a Quartet,Trio or Duo made up from these musicians.
Influences
A comfortable reference point is the music of Django Reinhardt and Stephan Grapelli's 'Hot Club De Paris', but this is no tribute band. 'Swing DeVille' take the music of this genre and spin it around adding a hard rhythmic edge to timeless melodies.
Sounds Like
Happy Jazz with a Tune played by Wicked Musicians.
'Swing DeVille' play an exciting blend of Swinging Gypsy Jazz, the roots of which are in American Swing and the dancehalls of 1930's Paris. Their music is exuberant, instrumental and largely improvised around familiar songs from the era. Myspace Backgrounds
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hey brian, missed you after the eilen jewell show last night, i got your money, can give it to sam arts if your gigging w him; think i may buy a gretsch and drop this gypsy malarky!
AKL every THURSDAY @ THE QUADRANT in central Brighton 8pm
AKL - Brightons premiere open mic night sponsored by
www.discountpahire.co.uk, invites you to an evenings entertainment @
the quadrant this and every THURSDAY 8pm !!!!FREE ENTRY!!!!
Beautiful venue, perfect setting, waiter service, awesome real
ales, professional pa system, !free gift for performers!, all this and
so much more
Fancy performing? you can use AKL to audition for showcase events and paid gigs at the bar!!!!
SDV "One small step for man, one giant leap for musickind" say the GYPSYBILLY-MAN Yep a new genre of music:Gypsybilly And let's add Gypsybilly rules o.k!! Keep Shredding. Thnaks for the add. The Vignatis
Syd Arthur return to Brighton and The Latest Music Bar as part of their January Tour of the South on the 16th, with support from Lee Westwood... Great to see you all there
Syd x
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Needleandthread presents... {yet another series of} dirty great big nights out.. @ JAMM bar, 261 Brixton road.. {nearest tube : oval / brixton} {buses: 159,N59,333,133,N3} running 8pm-4am, £4 before 9pm, (afterwards its £6 / £5 with flyer, or NUS)..
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its the night out you've been waiting for! so far, on friday march 14th, we have experimental lectronics, live bands, hiphop crews, artists, bizarre performances, live visuals, singer/songwriters, dj's playing funk, hiphop, reggae, soul, rock n roll, gypsy breaks, ragga, dubstep, breakbeat, jungle, drum n bass, dancehall, glitchcore, and generally good stuffness..
LIVE ROOM
DJ TENDRAW {gluerooms} VS. INFINITE LIVEZ {bigdada} -twisted toycore with vocal oddities.. FRAZER KING - Mancunian psych-rock, harmonic rebels.. QUEENS ENGLISH -lyrical hiphop, bouncing bass.. BUNTY - self-looping vocal beats.. GREETINGS - new lancastrian cross curiosities..
DJ’s
D-CYFER - junglist classics, and vintage drum and bass.. SUNMONKEY - eclectic party blend..
with appearances from the tealeaf collective, surreal musings of a goliath frog, decor by cafe cairo, an animated depa, and the ink-stained scratchings of illegal guff.. beleive me, it all makes sense on www.needleandthread.org
Forget Christmas - just swing the night away! We want you to join us for a "vintage" evening of fab Jazz, Swing and Gypsy music with live band The Magic Number. Let the champagne flow as you dance the night away to the mad rhythms of a golden age...!
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hope you can make it!
