Emerging Fervour

What have they done I hear you wonder? What they always do, blown away the audience!

Rob, our photographer has never seen them but we think, they’ve converted him as in his own words he described them as:

“Well Gabby was unbelievably charismatic… A real performer. Playing and entertaining at the same time.  The other animals were very good, they were tight and most of all they were all having lots of fun.

The venue, the Jazz Cafe, is so intimate that they easily fill it whiled connecting with everyone there. they took us on a journey, it was first class travel and we all felt refreshed when we got to our destination ”

From the gigs we went to, this sounds exactly how we felt! Rob, of course, has not only listened but snapped away on his fancy camera!! (If you want to see all images, make sure you check them out on Flickr)

www.gabbyyoungandotheranimals.com

All photography by Rob Mann (www.robmann.co.uk) – we love to share but make sure you credit him and us if you do.

I am back in London for the next three weeks, don’t worry I didn’t expect you to realise I was gone. In these modern times where everything is digital, were we’re living in an augmented reality and become friends via facebook on our iPhone, it’s all the more important to seize this short time and do something extraordinary and exciting (I’m not really sure, if these two words mean the same, but who cares, it’s all about rock and roll, hell ya!).

And I hope that you lovely people would like to join here and there. There are infinite opportunities, so here we go:

On wednesday the 7th you should take a look at the Dingwalls in Camden. For only 15£ you will live to see Gabby Young (usually with The Other Animals, but I think she’s playing a solo set) a singer with a voice as remarkable as her style. To describe her music I will just quote a quotation from her myspace site: “if Ani DiFranco had sex with Jeff Buckley in 1920 while on acid listening to Ella Fitzgerald…that would be the wonderful music of Gabby Young…” I agree.

And then there is Vieux Farke Touré a singer and guitar player from Mali, South Africa. He’s the son of Ali Farke Touré, also a guitar player and singer, highly respected in his home country and worldwide. He was often called the African John Lee Hooker, because he merged traditional African styles and the African language with American Blues elements. But for all that, he didn’t want his son to be a musician as well. Because he had suffered so much within the music industry he decided his son should become a soldier instead. Vieux Farke Touré defied his father’s wishes, studied guitar and released his debut album Fondo in 2007 (a year after his father died). And like his father he embraces all cultural influences from rock to blues to reggae always combined with his African roots. Pretty interesting.