THU 10 FEB, 8PM
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Solo Peformance

Who has released records on all these labels: the legendary r’n’b label OKeh, the nu-blues stronghold Fat Possum, the key rap originators Sugar Hill, Tommy Boy and 4th & Broadway, Real World Records and the innovative On-U Sound?

Which musician links Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaata, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, James Brown, Robert Plant, Mark Stewart & The Mafia, Sinead O’Connor, and Megadeth?

The answer to both questions is Skip McDonald. Skip made his name as an integral part of the Sugar Hill house band playing on the most influential early rap classics and as part of Adrian Sherwood’s On-U Sound crew he has made some of the most adventurous and praised UK music of the last twenty years.

Little Axe is the return to the blues that Skip grew up with and learned from his father. The sound is raw, stripped down and intense, the message in the lyrics as important as Skips virtuoso musicianship. The acoustic tradition of the blues crashes into the 21st century with Skips use of effects that create his unique brand of Dub Gospel blues.

Book if you like Adrian Sherwood, Howlin Wolf, Fred McDowell.

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