Fish Fry

Fish Fry

For funk, soul and Latin, Fish Fry is always a good bet, featuring live bands in the intimate surrounds of the Jazz Bar every week. Keeping things mixed up this fortnight, it features the reggae-tinged sounds of Bob Hillary (pictured, 9 Jan), who was…

Sneaky

Fish Fry is always one of the best stops in the capital for a dose of serious funk, but this fortnight they have very special live guest Sneaky for some deeply danceable bass. Best known as the bass half of double bass and turntables duo Fingathing…

King Kong Crew

It’s always a hotbed of jazz sounds, funk and rare groove down at Fish Fry and this week is just one of many highlights as they welcome the King Kong Crew for a live show. Mixing up urban soul, seriously deep grooves with a funky psychedelic edge, this…

Hitlist - The Best Festival Clubs

Climax Cracking double bill of live local techno with Stephen Brown and the Wee DJs. Jackhammer Quality techno to keeping things moving as Ben Sims takes on the Surgeon for a three hour set of punishing acid grooves and harsh electronic beats. Bass…

Hitlist - the best Festival music

Thomas Truax and Paul Vickers & The Leg American eccentric Truax, who does his own one man pop thing, is unequal parts Syd Barrett, Aphex Twin, Frank Sidebottom and Frank Zappa. A real trip. Underbelly, 0870 745 3083, 22 Aug, 9pm, £8. Tom Tom Club…

Joe Acheson Quartet

Mark Edmundson

1 They’ve got the credentials All young multi-instrumentalists, three members of this quartet are classically trained while the fourth has been playing professionally since the age of 13. Joe himself also has a FourTet-like ear for intriguing vocal…