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Gig - Deep Mamboo
Playing a mix of upbeat modern and traditional dance music
- drawn from Afro-Latin, ska, salsa, reggae, highlife, calypso,
jazz and funk - it is easy to see how Deep Mamboo fulfils
its aim to 'get people dancing.' It would be difficult to
sit down, never mind sit still with all that going on. Which
is just as well because it is hoped that their gig at the
All Saints centre on Saturday night will help resurrect a
regular club night slot in Lewes, filling the hole that the
demise of Chasin' the Blues created when it closed in 2001.
As Danny Cooklin of Turbosound explains: “Chasin the
Blues was a monthly live music night which ran for eight years…
It featured many different types of music and was usually
a fairly cheap and relaxed night with good dancing to be had.
There have been many requests to try and resurrect the evening
so we have decided to do a trial event to see what sort of
response we get.”
Based in Brighton, Deep Mamboo have been playing festivals,
clubs and parties for the last ten years and have, in that
time, released three albums. Their dance-led set, with its
cacophony of drums, trumpets and trombones, is very impressive
and their music infectious. As their guitarist Jem explains:
“We haven’t played in Lewes for over two years
and are really looking forward to it. Our set will appeal
to everybody, young and old.” Deep Mamboo “cook
up an irresistibly dancey fusion of good-time party beats”
according to Time Out magazine and are well worth checking
out. KA |
