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Tag: Punk Funk

Black Grape Live at Camden Electric Ballroom, December 2 2023. Picture by Sam Wells

COME ALL YE FAITHFUL – Black Grape Preach To The Converted At Camden’s Electric Ballroom

December 6, 2023

It’s a freezing Friday night more suited to bobble hats than bucket hats as Camden’s Electric Ballroom gradually fills in anticipation for the arrival of Black…

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BITCHES’ BROOD – Boss Hog Resurface With A Snarling, Nightmare Vision Of Imminent Threat

April 12, 2017

I’ve spent quite a long time in the company of Brood X now and it’s my pleasure to tell you it never gets old. Coolly referencing…

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SAINT OR SINGER? – Fantastic Negrito’s ‘Long Road’ To Redemption

August 30, 2016

From street hustler to pseudo student, illegal nightclub impresario to black roots troubadour – Fantastic Negrito is the ultimate performance artist.

Since leaving home at 12, it could be said that his whole life has been a performance of defiance, reinvention and now perhaps redemption.

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