30 JUNE – 11 JULY 2010

200+ OUTSTANDING WORLD ARTISTS FROM LONDON BLAZE A CREATIVE TRAIL ACROSS THE CAPITAL WITH 75 PRESENTATIONS OVER 12  DAYS AT 8 VENUES

FESTIVAL WEEKENDS
FESTIVAL CLUB
EVENING CONCERTS
SCHOOLS PROGRAMME
LIVE RADIO BROADCAST
FAMILY SUNDAY

FREE ADMISSION TO ALL EVENTS
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FESTIVAL WEEKENDS 1 – 9 pm daily
8 PERFORMANCES EVERY DAY
CHILL TO THE RHYTMS OF THE WORLD IN TWO OF LONDON’S BEST LOVED OUTDOOR SETTINGS.
IDEAL FOR A LAZY ALL DAY PICNIC WITH FAMILY & FRIENDS.

VICTORIA PARK Sat 3 & Sun 4 July
East London’s “People’s Park” hosts the Music Village for the first time ever, in preparation for the 2012 London Olympics.
Directions: Back Walk (between northside of Fishing Lake & Shelter. Enter by Bonner Gate or Crown Gate West/Pavilion Cafe) Tube: Mile End; Bethnal Green.
SATURDAY 3*
TERENCE O’FLAHERTY Charismatic Irish singer storyteller
ADEL ELBRARYNO Stirring sacred vocals from Sudan
ROMANY DIAMONDS Gutsy gypsy strings from Poland
GOURI CHOUDHURY Bangladeshi folk diva sings Tagore & Nazrul
MOSI CONDE & KAIRA KORA AFRIKA Master singers and instrumentalists from Guinea-Conakry
YUSUF MAHMOUD Afghani tabla maestro delves into Sufi vocals
HARARE Zimbabwean modern jit-jive with traditional mbira
CHACON Y SU TIMBA Big band driving Cuba’s newest dance craze
SUNDAY 4*
ANTHAR KHARANA & KHANTARA Colombian, Arabic & Gypsy music
LOS DESTERRADOS Ladino Jewish soul, jazz & flamenco
POETIC PILGRIMAGE Female Muslim rappers from Jamaica
LOKITO YA CONGO Congolese 6-piece blends soukous and Latin rhythms
CONJUNTO SABROSO Traditional Colombian salsa big band
AMEER KHAN Intense Sufi music by London’s top Qawaali singer
MUKKA Vigorous Balkan & Middle Eastern dance music
KASAï MASAï Festival favourites with energetic dances from Congo

HYDE PARK Sat 10 & Sun 11 July
The event returns to Hyde Park, the capital’s most popular green space, for the festival’s thrilling finale.
Directions: The Cockpit, near West Carriage Drive & north side of Serpentine lake; Enter by Speakers Corner and follow the orange dots Tube: Marble Arch
SATURDAY 10*
OZI OZAA Pulsating Ghanaian Afro-beat
SEEDS OF CREATION Berber jazz meets Saharan blues
SHE’KOYOKH Exhilarating Judeo-Balkan dance music
FUERZA VALLENATA Lively Colombian folk accordions
MAVRIKA 1920’s Greek Underground with a London vibe
ANATOLIA Uniting Kurdish, Anatolian & Turkish musics
ZONG ZING Infectious hi-energy Congolese dance music
BOUJEMAA BOUBOUL & GNAWA UK Rootsy Moroccan trance rituals
SUNDAY 11*
PANACHE STEELBAND Soca, calypso, salsa & merengue
DUNAJSKA KAPELYE Balkan, Tango and Klezmer mix
GRUPO LOKITO Irresistible Congolese Latin dance rhythms
JYOTSNA SRIKANTH Virtuoso South Indian violinist
GUILLERMO ROZENTHULER & RIOPLATENSES Soulful Argentine vocalist plus star musicians
WAEIL & THE RIVER NILE BAND Egypt’s finest classical violinist
G.E.A.T.A Intoxicating Ethiopian music meets bass-heavy dub & jazz
DELE SOSIMI QUINTET Legendary Afro-beat pioneer
*Performances start on the hour every hour from 1-8pm. Running order subject to change. Please check CC website for updates.

FESTIVAL CLUB @ OCTOBER GALLERY
Wed 30 June- Fri 9 July 12-2pm (excl Sat, Sun & Mon)
24 Old Gloucester St, WC1 | Tube: Holborn
Nestling in the intellectual heartland of Bloomsbury, the October Gallery is an intimate hub of artistic innovation. It’s sumptuous Club room, Mediterranean courtyard and vibrant gallery with café hosts the festival’s lunchtime storytelling and musical performances, an exhibition by Paris-based Sufi artist Rashid Koraichi, and World City talks & discussions led by experts.
SPEAKERS include: Professor Doreen massey ‘World City in a world setting’; Ranjit Sondhi CBE ‘The importance of intercultural engagement’; and other leading commentators.
PERFORMERS: El Andaluz Duet; Ensamble Criollo; Vayu Naidu; mr Gee; Kathy Hall; zahra Rezaei Afsah & Arash moradi; and Tuup.

EVENING CONCERTS
Extended sets by outstanding world musicians at 3 welcoming London venues
Nehru Centre, Tue 6 July 7pm
8 South Audley St, W1 | Tube: Green Park
THE TEAK PROJECT Mellow indo-jazz compositions on sitar, tabla and guitar
Museum of London, Wed 7 July 7pm
150 London Wall, EC2 | Tube: Barbican
ADEL ELBRARY SPELLBINDING Sudanese vocalist
ALCAZABA Flamenco-Arabic fusion
Goodenough College, Thu 8 July 8pm
William Goodenough House, Mecklenburgh Sq, WC1| Tube: Russell Sq; Kings Cross
SIMO LAGNAWI Traditional Morrocan Gnawa music

SCHOOLS PROGRAMME
Museum of London & London Transport Museum
Thu 1 & 8, Fri 2 & 9 July
Immersive learning in arts & citizenship skills for 21 school groups from across London. Artist-led workshops in performance, storytelling & design explore Journeys, Histories & Futures. With “show & tell”, matinee concerts & museum discovery trails.
STOP PRESS: FULLY BOOKED: Register for 2012 MUSIC VILLAGE SCHOOLS PROGRAMME and CC’s year round Education Programme scheduled for 2011 onwards.

LIVE RADIO BROADCASTS
30 June & 5 – 9 July
Festival broadcasts on pioneering community arts station Resonance 104.4Fm. Featuring festival performers and leading lights from London’s world cultural scene. www.resonancefm.com

FAMILY SUNDAY @ HORNIMAN MUSEUM
Sun 4 July 1-6pm
100 London Road, SE23 | Tube / Overground: Forest Hill
Enjoy a wonderful day out for the whole family, exploring the unique collections of this hugely popular Museum, set in idyllic gardens. Featuring 8 World City music Village performances on the Bandstand and in the Conservatory.
Featuring Puppeteer Jose Navarro, Romanian gypsy swing with Hai La Drum, Andean and Afro-Cuban music from mauricio Velasierra. Plus Peruvian folk dance ensemble baila Peru, Indian dance company beeja, a fresh take on flamenco by La Tipica, Caribbean dance with live drumming from Debora Alleyne-De Gazon and high energy Zimbabwean dance from Harare.

So what do we know about them so far?

Clock Opera is very familiar to those in the know. With White Noise they have shown just how it is possible to make music that’s good to listen to and which stimulates the minds whilst also being entertaining and they are a fave on this site as you probably already know.

They have a slight change in the line up with Dan (formerly one of the Rushes) taking over from Nick and, of course, Guy’s beard is getting biblical by now so we wait and see if he can part the waters or turn at least turn them into wine.

Fenech Soler – well they sound French and their first single cam,e out on a French label so they must be French? No, they are from King’s Cliffe in Northamptonshire and they do Electro Pop very very well. They have a Marina and the Diamonds remix under their belt and little thing going on with Groove Armada (see them at the Forum later this year with GA) and they have an energy that is quite a sight on stage.

Marina and Diamonds – ’nuff said. There would be pictures here from yours truly but you will have to make do with a quote ‘you cant take pictures of Marina, we have to protect her image’ – courtesy of someone from their management who clearly cant see the difference between me and the dozens of Marina fans up against the front of the stage all with their camera out and snapping away to do what? Put them on their facebook pages and let the world see the protected image of Marina.

Ah well, maybe I should use a smaller camera like the Ricoh Capillo – does raw images and looks like a domestic fun camera so doesnt attract officious management jobsworths. That’s the rant over.

If you like Kate Bush then you’ll like Marina. If you like the eighties then you’ll like Marina. If you like lyrics that are not going to stretch you or your intellect then you’ll like Marina.

Apart from that she’s quite mundane. (I will await comments and flames very soon  for being so heretical but hey I cant help that).

So, here are some pictures for you.

Clock Opera

Fenech Soler

Marina and the Diamonds

Sadly someone had seen fit to make the inside even cooler by switching the air con to ‘ice age’ setting but fortunately a quiet word from a gentlemen in authority led to a b bit more heat.

So it was that Clock Opera played their first London gig of the year (that I have been to at least). They were just back from Bournemouth  and they have been busy. A quick look at their myspace page and you see that they are going to be supporting the band de nos jours ‘Marina and the Diamonds’ across the UK.

Mr Clock Opera, Guy Connelly, has done a fresh remix that is to die for and the line up has changed. Nick has gone on to other pastures to be replaced by former ‘Rushes’ keyboards/vocals  dude Dan Armstrong.

The change has occurred seamlessly, even though there has been some rearranging of the tracks to accommodate Dan’s keyboard and vocal skills and we look forward to seeing more of him in future shows as he beds down.

Following Clock Opera came Samuel and the Dragon. Those of you that know the band will need no introduction whilst those of you that don’t will have to rely other, more cogent, reviewers on the internetty to tell you what they were like since they didn’t go down too well over in this corner of the room. Nice show, nice voice but the music is not quite my cup of tea so I will say no more.

Sadly, the headline act, Lone Lady, were trumped by a pressing appointment with the tax-mans personal website and so I didn’t get a chance to see how it went but rest assured Adventures In The Beetroot Field was a great night to be out on a cold January and Lone Lady’s album, Nerve Up, which is out on February 22nd, will by all accounts be brilliant.

Sitting by the keyboard as I type is the first physical release of Clock Opera’s music.

Those of you who have followed Clock Opera as they have wowed the audience will already know that there’s many a digital tune to be had from their myspace page and they have been drip feeding the industry with their nuggets of pure creativity for some time now.

But this is not digits, not ones and zeroes, not a emailable packet of pure information, no, not at all. This is a seven inch vinyl release of White Noise (and with the hauntingly melodic Alouette on the B side you have twice the pleasure).

With Clock Opera’s trademark circular motif on the cover the only other things you get are the track titles, some copyright information, Clock Opera’s myspace address and Pure Groove the company that has released this seven incher.

Pure Groove was also the venue for last nigth’s launch of the single and Clock Opera played a set to celebrate it.

Here are the pictures, now go out and buy the single, and if you cant go out and buy it, then go online and buy it from Pure Groove

Clock Opera on Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/clockopera

Clock Opera are playing a number of gigs this week to coincide with the launch of the single, some are sold out but you still have a chance with some of the others so check out their myspace page for details.

Here is the video for White Noise too:

An evening of entertainment featuring a host of acts from Luke Wirght compering through performance poetry from Josh Idehen, live DJ sets, comedy and theatre. But most impressive was set by Clock Opera which intertwined with the world premiere of Showtime by Tangled Feet.

Now when these two get together you know something amazing is going to happen and so it did. Tangled Feet performers on ropes going up and down the walls against video projections of drowning bankers, Clock Oper’s music not just accompanying the performance but being an equal partner in it, gogo dancers appearing from nowhere, a flash mob, super sized hadn fans and much much more.

Theres a video of the event ot be put up but for now here are the pictures.

There are others to be found over on the Nabokov flickr site, those ones have been taken byLudovic Des Cognets , a photographer who I would highly recommend.

The acts featured were as follows (from the Oh Inverted World Facebook page):

GAGGLE
Headlining for us are the incredible 22-piece, all female, alternative choir known as Gaggle. This will be amazing and probably the most mindblowing spectacle ever at an OIW, although expect La Shark to have a few things to say about that!

“The most extraordinary band I’ve heard in a long time… With a name like Gaggle they’re going to be good, right? They are. They’re brilliant” HUW STEPHENS (BBC – Radio 1)

“Gaggle – the most exciting, innovative and genuinely imaginative force at large in music right now” REBECCA ROBINSON (NME)

CLOCK OPERA
receding Gaggle we are delighted to announce Clock Opera will be playing their special brand of “chop-pop” that we’ve been harping on about on our blog ever since we first saw them perform at Neon Gold’s night at Notting Hill Arts Centre. The music is experimental and totally wonderful. Prepare to be bowled over. – These pictures have their own page on the site – see them here

SO SAY SO
Second on the bill are So Say So, a five piece from London who enjoy a bit of keys led indie-pop. They’re twee and charming in a wonderful way, and thankfully not twee in a way that makes you want to listen to death metal and scream at the band to grow some balls. Nope, So Say So are far more likely to make your heart swoon.

LA SHARK
Opening for us are our Oh, Inverted World favourites La Shark. Making this their third full band performance with us, not to mention the countless other La Shark spawned side-projects we’ve had gracing our stage, La Shark definitely hold a special place in our hearts and are responsible for some of our most memorable moments at Oh, Inverted World. Their ramshackle wonderfulness, insane attire and general remarkableness of their ‘riddle pop’ makes them one of a kind, but a kind you should definitely see and then see again and again.

There are pictures of all the bands to be put up here but for the moment here’s our favourite up and coming, should be signed already, band – Clock Opera.

Take one great festival, take one 40th anniversary celebration and take one great mashup artist and mix them together.

What you get is Bootstock a concept album put together by DJ Zebra for the 40th anniversary celebrations of the grand daddy of all festivals, Woodstock.

Using a mix of studio recordings, live festival recordings and the Woodstock movie, DJ Zebra has put together what is probably one best mashup concept albums of the year, and a close contender with The Kleptones’ 24 Hours for my personal favourite mashup concept of all time.

And it’s good to see that the album got airplay on Virgin Radio France, bringing the mashup ever closer to being a creative art from that no longer needs to hide in the shadows.

>> DOWNLOAD << ( +Alternative Link)
(zip, 85 Mo – 16 tracks + cover)

- Introduction
- DJ ZEBRA “Fuck The Hippies”
- Canned Heat introduction
- DJ ZEBRA “Solaar In The Country”
- It’s A Free Concert
- DJ ZEBRA “Freedom For The Hobo”
- DJ ZEBRA “Rock Show And Soul Freak”
- Bad Acid
- DJ ZEBRA “Freaks Into Los Angeles”
- Stephen Stills introduction
- DJ ZEBRA “Wooden Ships On The Moon”
- Yoga Teacher
- THE WHO “See Me, Feel Me” (Zebra Remix)
- ELECTROSOUND “Who’s Zooming The Who”
- Good Night + Joe Cocker introduction
- DJ ZEBRA “With A Little Help From Soulwax”
- Rainstorm and Announcements + “No Rain”
- DJ ZEBRA “Daft Rain Chant”
- MIGHTY MIKE “Soul Control”
- The Body Is Beautiful
- DJ ZEBRA “I’m Kissing At Home”
- Good Morning
- TOTOM “Street Sweeper Social Volunteers”
- Max Yasgur
- DJ ZEBRA “Fucking Higher”
- Jimi Hendrix introduction
- DJ ZEBRA “Voodoo Shot”
- JIMI HENDRIX “Star Spangled Banner” (Zebra “Dub” Edit)
- DJ ZEBRA “Stereohendrix”
- Thank You So Much

Welcome to YOYO, venue for some pretty high profile acts in the past, from Lilly Allen through to La Roux, and now venue for Clock Opera, not once but twice in ten days. Last week on the 21st of July they were with Marina and the Diamonds and last night they were with GhostCat who headlined the evening with some raucous rock that had the audience joining in.

Clock Opera premiered a new song, which was untitled until last night until lead singer Guy Conelly asked the audience for a suggested title – the outcome? – welcome to ‘Copenhagen’ the latest in Clock Opera’s repertoire of music that you have never heard before but will want to try again and again.

Below some pictures of the evening, I think it will be easy to tell the Clock Operans from the GhostCatians.

It’s a chance to see some great music from country and western to pop.

Its also the venue where Clock Opera have played their latest gig.

They were preceded by BRASSNECK + LONESOME COWBOYS FROM HELL + CLAPTON FOX

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