'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,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 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.
'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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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...!
Hiya. Just saying hello... half term and all those boring jobs I never have time for still aren't getting done, coz girls just wanna have fun! See ya soon.
Shauna x
