Music
Sponsor a Swede - a night of blonde ambition
Stroud House (by the station), Stroud
Join the Stand & Stare Collective this Saturday for:
SPONSOR A SWEDE - a night of blond ambition.
Eurovision Song Contest meets Bisley Village Fete in this never-before attempted extravaganza of Euro-pop, live video link-ups, curvaceous vegetables and tasty Swedish nibbles.
Starring:
Svenska Flicken (Sweden) and the infamous dead Elvis dancer, Masa, (Slovenia) both performing via live video link ups!
Hot Feet
Tim Telling
Proceeds will pay for the Swedish girls and Masa to come to England in the flesh to perform at SS Arcadia, Stand & Stare Collective’s upcoming show at Mayfest Bristol. See our website for more details and get in touch if you are interested in getting involved.
Resound presents Sound Clash at SVA, Stroud
Friday 16th April 8pm -12pm
£4 tickets on the door
Step inside the sonic collider and witness long-cherished musical divisions put asunder! Trampled underfoot!
Left torn and frayed! Hosted by crash-happy DJs Pavoid (Mockers) and Rbot (Resound) – plus a selection of hand-picked guests – previous altercations have included rock’n’roll versus electro, teenagers versus old timers, mp3 versus vinyl.
No previous musical experience necessary. Come listen as the sparks fly…
Groove Lounge at SVA
9pm till 3am
Tickets on the door £4.00 before 10pm and £5.00 after 10pm
Groove Lounge was established, by artist and dj Richard Ballinger, as a regular night at the Arts Club in Penzance in spring 2003. Word of mouth spread fast, establishing it as the best night for black music connoisseurs and dance junkies in Cornwall.
Resident djs Richard Ballinger and Philly la Bowles are uncompromising in their choice of music and along with a host of invited international DJs, play the very best rare funk, soul, jazz and latin at selected venues around Cornwall.
Reggae Dub & Ska - live percussion at SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud
The Uplifter
Saturday 24th 8pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud
Tickets on the door £4.00 before 10pm and £5.00 after 10pm
The Uplifter has been playing out Roots Reggae, Dub and Traditional Jamaican Ska music in venues, festivals and out door events all over the UK to New York City and many roads in between since 2003.
Shows in the past have involved playing out alongside Macka B, Vibronics, Channel One Sound System (UK), The Slackers (USA), Westbound Train (USA), Zion Train, Groundation (USA), The Aggrolites (USA), Rebelation, as well as working in the studio with UK reggae artists Brother Culture & Paul Fox.
Experience Roots Reggae, Digital Steppas UK style, Traditional Jamaican Ska and Reggae originating from New Zealand to Morocco all with the persuasion of positive Upliftment ...
Expect a musical repertoire of positive vibrations and high energy, with the live percussion side of things bringing a refreshing and freely expressive element to the performance.
For more information, tour dates, videos and sounds visit:
Jason Carter: Harp Guitar, World Guitar at SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud
The inspirational Jason Carter brings his prodigious talent and the sounds of his fabulous 18-stringed harp guitar to
Stroud Valleys Artspace on Thursday 29th April.
Jason is an extraordinary performer who combines proficiency and emotional depth to produce music which will captivate you and transport you to another place. Whether you’re a musician intrigued by technique or just someone who likes listening to nice sounds, this is definitely a must-hear gig. Truly a world musician, Jason has performed in over 80 countries from Afghanistan to North Korea. His compositions are a unique blend of styles and influences absorbed on the road and through studies and collaborations with artists as diverse as John Williams, Vishnu Sanju Sahai, Nigel Kennedy, Paco Peña, Marjan & Mahsa Vahdat, and the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. He has won awards both for his musicianship and for his efforts to build bridges between cultures, and is currently a peace ambassador for Singapore-based social enterprise Café Diplo.
'A Cross Cultural Triumph' - HMV Music Magazine
'A Heavenly Meeting of East and West' - Mumbai Times
'One of the most promising guitarists of his generation' - Folk Roots
'Jason Carter builds extraordinary bridges between cultures. We are proud to have Jason with us' - Sir Sherard Cowper Coles, British Ambassador, Afghanistan
Admission £10; tickets available from kate@fabandgroovyltd..co.uk or Kane's, Sub Rooms, Star Anise, World Guitars (Stonehouse) and Intersound Guitars (Dursley)
In Situ with Greg Wilson at SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud
9pm till 3am
Tickets in advance £8.00 and £10.00 on the door
Greg began DJing in 1975 and is regarded as one of the most important figures on the UK dance scene. He enjoyed hugely popular residencies in the early eighties at Wigan Pier and Manchester's majorly influential Legend. He was a pioneer of mixing in the UK and in 1983 he became the first ‘dance music’ DJ hired for a regular weekly session at Manchester's now legendary Hacienda club. Greg was instrumental in breaking the new electronic, post-disco records coming out of New York, a sound he has dubbed ‘Electro-Funk’.
Greg returned to spinning tunes two decades later, receiving plaudits for his red-hot appearances at renowned nights including Electric Chair, Horse Meat Disco, Fabric, Back To Basics, Ministry Of Sound, Asylum, Melting Pot and the Sub Club, to name but a few. Before long he was picking up an ever increasing amount of bookings throughout Europe and, more recently, worldwide. 2008 saw Greg go truly global, embarking on an end of year tour that literally took him right around the world, with dates in Japan, Australia and Brazil, following-on from a series of gigs in the US (a return to New York and his San Francisco and LA debuts). Now a firm favourite on the festival circuit in both the UK and Europe, he also played Ibiza for the first time in the summer of 08, including a terrace appearance at the famous We Love Sundays session at Space.
Nominated by DJ magazine for outstanding contribution, and also named amongst their top twenty remixers of all-time, Greg’s edits and mixes continue to feature on the playlists of DJ’s in every continent. In January 2009 Greg’s reputation was further enhanced when his Essential Mix on BBC Radio 1 became something of an instant classic, receiving almost universal acclaim and, in the process, providing the perfect way to commemorate the 5th anniversary of a remarkable renaissance.
Now after a string of releases on various imprints & following the release of ‘Credit to the Edits – Vol 2’ last November, Greg has just come back from yet another successful world tour.
Eco-Carnivalesque club nights - Bollywood and Beyond
Bar Nine
9 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA 9pm
Book now through our online booking site
Featuring pysch sitar funk, twisted analogue moog, strings, wah wah, groovy disco rhythms and stunnning strings
blended by Bollywood and Beyond plus special guests Groove Lounge.
£4/£5 Tickets from SVA
01453 751440 or visit www.sva.org.uk
The Uplifter
Bar Nine
9 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA 9pm
Book now through our online booking site
Experience Roots Reggae, Digital Steppas
UK style, Traditional Jamaican Ska and
Reggae originating from New Zealand to
Morocco all with the persuasion of
positive Upliftment... Expect a musical
repertoire of positive vibrations and high
energy, with the live percussion side of
things bringing a refreshing and freely
expressive element to the performance.
£5/£6 Tickets from SVA
01453 751440 or visit www.sva.org.uk
Tequila Bossa Nova with Luxury Condo
Bar Nine
9 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA 9pm
Book now through our online booking site
A night of dancing delicacies from the far corners of planet earth laced with lashings of Tequila.
Exotic Rock ’n’ roll. Leopard lounge grooves. Crime jazz.
Voodoo drums. Latin crunch beats.
Stompin blues. Bossa nova twist. Rumble rock. Psychedelic bangra. Daddy-o rockabilly.
Mambo strip and a pinch of Cha cha cha.
The lights go down, the movie starts, a downtown bar illuminated only by the neon from a giant cactus, smoke obscuring
all but a fleeting glimpse of the band, seated, intense, hunched over their instruments, breathing a life time of bum deals, regrets, lost loves and low life observations into a powerful soup of noir blues.
You can’t take your eyes off them lest you recognise your own demons.
Ladies and Gentlemen I give you…..
Luxury Condo. ..
Warning! This club could seriously
improve your taste. Salt will be provided...
£6/£7 Tickets from SVA
01453 751440 or visit www.sva.org.uk
Disco Sucks
Bar Nine
9 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA 8pm
Book now through our online booking site
Disco Sucks returns for another night of underground sounds from around the cosmos - disco, funk, house and beyond...
music from the sweatboxes of New York via the second hand shops and car boot sales of the West Country.
This is its first excursion into the cavernous Bar Nine, taking with it the legendary Black Box soundsystem, lights, smoke and whatnot for a proper summer shindig.
DJs to include full Disco Sucks crew plus guests
£5 on the door £4 Tickets in advance on-line
01453 751440 or visit www.sva.org.uk
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