Nick Etwell - Trumpet /
Mark Brown - Saxophone /
Rob Taggart - Hammond Organ /
Nigel Price - Guitar /
Dave Chamberlain - Bass /
Graham Fox - Drums
Influences
Lou Donaldson, Jimmy McGriff, Grant Green, Jack McDuff, Donald Byrd, Eddie Harris, Rueben Wilson, Jimmy Smith, Lee Morgan, Dr Lonnie Smith, Big John Patton, George Benson, Leo Morris, Gene Harris, Melvin Sparks, Stanley Turrentine, Blue Mitchell, Bernard Perdie, Herbie Hancock, The Meters... hang on, i think i left the gas on...
* BEST NEWCOMER NOMINEES - MARLBOROUGH JAZZ FEST 2009.... * "THESE GUYS HAVE GOT ALL THE LICKS. SOUL JAZZ HOW WE LIKE IT, ROUGH, RUGGED AND PLAYED BY GUYS TOTALLY ON TOP OF THEIR GAME. A VERY EXCITING ADDITION TO THE UK SCENE" - The Craig Charles Funk And Soul Show, BBC 6Music //
The Filthy Six are the most exciting, authentic soul jazz outfit in the country today and are fast establishing themselves as one of the finest live acts around. A London based group, they play a hip-shakingly powerful mixture of soul jazz, funk and boogaloo in the finest traditions of late 60's Blue Note artists such as Lou Donaldson, Grant Green, Jimmy McGriff and Donald Byrd. Equally at home in the sweat drenched dancehalls of club land or the more traditional jazz room setting, their music appeals to move-busting dance floor groovers and potent chin-scratching jazz heads alike. //
"THEIR HEADY MIX OF SOUL JAZZ FLAVOURS AND BAD ASS BOOGALOO...WRAPPED UP WITH A VIBRANT ENERGY AND SENSE OF HUMOUR...KEEPS THE CROWD HOOKED FROM THE MOMENT THEY WALK ON STAGE...A SURE FIRE BET EVERY TIME" - Dom Servini (Wah Wah 45s / Shook) - London Jazz Festival 2008 //
2008 was a great year for the filth which saw them host a six month residency at the world famous Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, London; headline the Jazz Lounge with a roof raising (well, tent tearing if you're being pedantic) humdinger of a set at the legendary Glastonbury Festival; as well as opening the London Jazz Festival with barn-storming effect at Cargo - oh, sweet dreams are indeed made of this... They have been invited to burn up venues (on a strictly cash only, no questions asked basis) and dancefloors all across the UK and Europe, including shows in Stockholm, Paris, Geneva, Isle of Wight International Jazz Festival, London Jazz Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (receiving several 5 * reviews in the process). //
"AN OUTSTANDING GROUP... MAKING YOU WISH THEY WERE BACK NEXT WEEK, AND THE WEEK AFTER, AND THE WEEK AFTER... IF THESE GUYS DON'T BLOW YOU AWAY - YOU'RE DEAD!" - Mill Hill Jazz Club, London //
The sextet is comprised of some of London’s hottest young musicians (that's hot to listen too aswell as look at people) who lend their talents to a variety of top artists from home and abroad including Tom Jones, Jill Scott, Amy Winehouse, Mark Ronson, Basement Jaxx, David Axelrod, 4Hero, JTQ, Bobby Wellins, Hard-Fi, Richard Ashcroft, Ed Harcourt, Natalie Williams, Stacey Kent, The Heritage Orchestra, and Nostalgia77. //
"A MUTHA OF A SOULFOOD SAMPLER PLATE. KILLER HORNS AND COOKED JUST RIGHT ORGAN... LOVE 'EM AND YOU'LL NEVER LEAVE 'EM" - Hammondbeat Records //
The Filthy Six are currently writing some new material and hope to be in the studio to get something out by mid 2009... watch this space... in the meantime we have available our debut album ‘Knockout’ – an energetic collection of horn led, organ fuelled original material including the gospel inflected title track, soul jazz grooves and highly danceable deep funk... It's available on a limited run, contact us here for your very own copy. nice //
Here are some more kind things people have said about us... at least i think it was us... anyway... //
"UNCOMPLICATED, UNEQUIVOCALLY ENTERTAINING MUSIC" - Vortex Jazz Club, London //
"BEST BAND AT THE FESTIVAL!" - Ealing Jazz Festival //
"*****" - 3 Weeks Magazine - Edinburgh Festival
The Rubber Room presents a Night of Crazed, Derranged, Psychotic and downright Degenerate Halloween Spookiness.
We will be dressing the room up and projecting vintage monster edits through the night as well as spinning some of the strangest and most disturbed 45s in our collections. Alongside the usual mix of blues stompers, rockabilly, sixties garage and frat, surf instros and rock'n'roll.
Hope you can make it!
The Maze, Forest Tavern, Mansfield Road, Nottingham.
THE DIARY Volume 1.5 (20 Years of the Remix) now available for free download at WWW.MUSICOFSUBSTANCE.COM!
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