support from Drinks

(Wed 9th / 8pm / £8 adv)

This is what is needed... a Kenyan and American cooperative effort where African benga music and some fine tuned American rock (Thrill Jockey style) meet in sun kissed union. Both traditions crank up electric guitars and singing melodic songs over propulsive rhythms...Extra Golden make the connection. The band songs veer from stand up delightful rockers to honeyed melancholic swayers.

This band have an extraordinary history with trips to Nairobi, visa problems, the death of the orginal lead singer, meeting by lakes to record, the assistance from Senator Obama. This, we guess, is what it takes to make cross cultural fusion as effortless as they make it. Their album title Ok-Oyot is derived from a Luo phrase that means, "it's not easy." The band of course are agile, gifted and make a inventive and interlocked sound with a thrilling sense of camaraderie. Easy like a Wednesday evening.

Support from Drinks. Featuring members of Soeza and You & The Atom Bomb as well as Ali Chant, Bristol’s safest pair of studio hands, Drinks are a bona fide local supergroup. Musically they clang and coo a la The Sea & Cake, and pull off that subtle clean guitar swell like latter-era Sonic Youth on a jolly to Chicago - albeit via Lagos and Dusseldorf.

http://www.extragolden.com/
http://www.myspace.com/extragolden

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