The first episode of Band on the Wall TV's coverage of the We Face Forward Festival is now on the The Space - the new digital arts platform created by Arts Council England and the BBC as an innovative new way of accessing arts & culture.
Covering the music highlights of this summer's We Face Forward season of West African Art & Music, this first programme covers Cuban/Malian supergroup AfroCubism. Featuring concert footage and a rare interview with the main members of the band, presenter Ellie Pollock unearths how the band was born out of the multi-million selling Buena Vista Social Club.
Watch Band on the Wall Concerts For Free At Home!
Enjoy Band on the Wall concerts for free from the comfort of your armchair. As part of our ambitions to make our live music programme as accessible as possible we now have official YouTube and Vimeo Channels. All performances on the channels have been filmed in hi def using our own state-of-the-art cameras and sound studio. Plug in and enjoy!
Completely free to subscribe if you have either YouTube or Vimeo accounts (also free), you can now enjoy Band on the Wall concerts in hi definition from the comfort of your home or office.
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Band on the Wall TV Coming Soon - Watch This Space!
Band on the Wall aims to provide live music content for the new Internet TV platform which is anticipated to available on your TV or mobile device very soon. Join our free mailing list here and we'll let you know about this and other developments at the venue as they happen.
Band on the Wall Archive
These online platforms are an addition to Band on the Wall's acclaimed online archive - accessed via our website by clicking here where you can already access and enjoy this footage.
Band on the wall is currently celebrating 80 years since its first recorded music license was granted in 1932. To coincide with this Band on the Wall is asking for your help to contribute your memories, pictures, print, audio and film to its growing archive.
If you have any pictures, film audio or memories of Band on the Wall - especially any from before the mid-1970s when it traded as the George & Dragon pub - please let us know as you will be contributing, expanding and preserving this important building's history.
If you feel you have anything to contribute, please get in touch with Ian Croal, Band on the Wall's Archive Manager (and CEO 1981 - 2009), by emailing him at ian@bandonthewall.org
You can access our full archive and find out more about the venue's incredible history by clicking here
Band on the Wall 80th Birthday Party
Saturday 7th July, 8pm - Late
FREE ENTRY
Feat.
DENIS JONES
HOT BOTZ BRASS BAND
THE BREADWINNERS
+ VERY SPECIAL GUESTS
Band on the Wall celebrates 80 years since the granting of the building's (back then the George & Dragon pub) first recorded music licence with a free entry evening of live music and DJs from our favourite artists and friends of the venue.
Performing live will be Denis Jones, the Mancunian artist who blends beautiful acoustic guitar playing with cutting edge electronic elements, utilising loop stations, samplers and effects units to create a signature sound that is instantly recognisable as his own. Denis has performed live at Band on the Wall on a number of occasions and we're really excited to have him back for this special night.
Also on the bill is Hot Botz Brass Band - a band described as a live mix of drum & bass and "filth brass", they take the New Orleans school of brass band jazz, crank up the volume and give it some Mancunian attitude.
Special guests are The Breadwinners (Bakery Studios, Manchester) whose pure roots, heavy Jamaican vibe, vintage analogue sound harks back to Lee Scratch Perry's golden period at the Black Ark Studio in Kingston, Jamaica.
We'll also be inviting some of our favourite DJs to bring a selection of their choice tunes to spin late into the night.
Thats not all of course, as in our Picturehouse bar we'll be running a series of intimate acoustic performances, with live sets from some of our favoruite acoustic singer/songwriters, including Stefan Melbourne, Tim & Robi and Taylor & the Mason.
Come along and celebrate with us this historical moment in the story of Manchester's iconic venue.
Due to an accident the Junior Murvin tour has been cancelled. We will let you know if this is rescheduled in the future.
Sir Joe Quarterman and The Jezebel Sextet
Thursday 28th June, 8pm
Band on the Wall is delighted to welcome Sir Joe Quarterman, one of the true originals of funk and soul, performing and exclusive Manchester concert with the incredible funk powerhouse that is the Jezebel Sextet.
Sir Joe Quarterman is one of the USA’s most acclaimed Funk and Soul vocalists and with his band, Free Soul, released their single “(I Got) So Much Trouble on My Mind,” in 1973, a hard hitting groove with a social message which reached the R&B Top 30. Other chart hits include 'In My Mind', 'The Way They Do My Life', 'Trouble With Trouble', 'Find Yourself' and 'Give Me Back My Freedom'.
Back in Europe by popular demand, Band on the Wall plays host to the Washington DC based singer for an exclusive Manchester date. It's the real deal, characterised by social commentary lyrics, fat bass lines, soaring horns and relentless funky beats.
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Win Tickets!
Simply answer the easy question below and send your answer to simon.webbon@bandonthewall.org by noon Monday 25th June with 'Sir Joe Competition' in subject line to win a pair of tickets to this great concert. Winners will be notified via email.
Question
In what year did Sir Joe Quarterman release '(I Got) So Much Trouble on My Mind'?
