Friday 30th August
Heavenly Recordings & The Trades Club present:
HALO MAUD + REVIVAL SEASON
£10 | £12 [+10% booking fee]
Doors open 8pm – tickets available on the door
18+ show
Following her dazzling guest vocal turns on The Chemical Brothers’ recent album, French singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Halo Maud released her new album Celebrate in March via Heavenly Recordings. The album more than lives up to its name. The opening title track sounds like a lo-fi broadcast from a nearby radio before opening out into a glorious cacophony of bass and discordant guitar. By the time the track reaches its middle section, it’s as if curtains have been pulled back to reveal a psychedelic party kicking off in your back garden.
Revival Season, the Atlanta-based duo of rapper Brandon ‘Bez’ Evans and Mattiel’s Jonah Swilley, released their debut album, Golden Age Of Self Snitching, in February via Heavenly Recordings.
The duo cite Prince Paul & Dan The Automator’s Handsome Boy Modelling School project and The Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique, along with Southern hip hop, as inspirations on the album
Rather than go with the flow, Revival Season have chosen to be bastions of the pioneering culture and sound which evolved around them in the mid-to-late nineties in the Southern States. ‘What I came up listening to turned out to be so pivotal” says Evans. “I was in Georgia during the time of Dungeon Family coming up, and that turned out to be a big shifting point in hip-hop. We heard a lot of this stuff before the world, the way of thinking, the way of dress, the movement, the sound, we were there for it…Prior to that the South was really gated out, and as time has progressed it’s become more of a dominant sound, where almost everything in the genre comes from that time period and the sound and the attitude that was built there. All that stuff was on the back of really strong principles, on the back of the home-cooked, country-fied, soulful background that was added into the hip-hop formula from the South.’
‘Dungeon Family, OutKast, CeeLo, Organized Noize’, concurs Swilley, ‘…they kind of allowed for us to exist. We feel comfortable to do what we do now because of people like that, and I think we’re just trying to carry that torch.’ Evans counters: ‘We are the torch!’
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