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Love Music Hate Racism, Huddersfield Blues Club and Sunday Blues Train presents a SUNDAY AFTERNOON of BLUES MUSIC raising funds for MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians). Confirmed acts include: KYLA BROX BLUES TRAIN
PAT FULGONI BLUES EXPERIENCE
GRAFFART FROM FRESH KIDS
+ supports
1 pm start. Tickets £10 advance. More info and ticket link soon
14+ (under 18’s must be accompanied by a parent / guardian)
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KYLA BROX BLUES TRAIN
Kyla Brox - vocals
Danny Blomeley - bass
Paul Farr - guitar
Luke Flowers - drums
+ guests
Winner of the European Blues Challenge & the UK Blues Challenge, crowned Best Female Vocalist in the European Blues Awards and daughter of cult blues figure, Victor Brox, her latest album, Pain & Glory is also available as a high quality, double, gatefold-sleeved LP. She represented Britain at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis
“Manchester’s answer to Aretha Franklin.” Tony Wilson, Factory Records
“Kyla Brox knows how to handle the gears… the Mancunian vocalist lets songs percolate, raising the temperature by degrees, then giving it both barrels in the final stretch. It’s a thrilling tactic.” Henry Yates, The Blues Magazine
“An authentic soul diva… sensitive, sexy, and with infinite reserves of sassiness” City Life
“Surely one of thefinest voices Britain has ever had”Pete Clack, Blues In Britain“
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Kyla Brox‘s scintillating, multi-faceted album, Pain & Glory marks her ascendancy to the very first rank of British singers.
Kyla has been a professional musician since the age of twelve – first in her father, Victor Brox‘s band, then striking out on her own – and Pain & Glory represents the culmination of a quarter of a century’s experience on the road and in the studio. The variety and depth of her vocal performances have grown year on year and are given a superb setting in this album’s sweeping landscape of soul, blues, urban R&B, blues-rock, and singer-songwriter pop of the highest class.
The collection opens with the joyous ‘For The Many’, replete with Stevie Wonder-style clavinet sounds from keyboardist John Ellis, and a politically progressive lyrical sentiment which is emblematic of Kyla’s generosity, humanity and proud optimism throughout this collection.
Highlights abound: the retro-soul, slow-burn balladry and melodic momentum of the title track; the jubilant R&B of ‘Choose Life’; ‘In The Morning’ is a swaggering, sensual blues shuffle; ‘Manchester Milan’, unfurls as a wistful, sophisticated meditation on a cosmopolitan affaire d’amour; Lover’s Lake has the gentle, inviting pulse of a Fleetwood Mac b-side; while the hot funk of ‘Let You Go’ flames with righteous Girl Power brio.
Two tracks perhaps deserve extra-special mention. Firstly, the swingin’, jivin’, ‘Bluesman’s Child’ which documents Kyla’s teenage years of singing with her father’s band. A bit of background: in the early ’60s her dad, Victor Brox formed the Victor Brox Blues Train with singer Annette Reis, who would become Kyla’s mother. They were, perhaps, the first interracial band on the scene, Annette having been born in Stockport of African-Canadian, English and Nigerian heritage. Victor went on to the influential Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation drawing the admiration of Jimi Hendrix,who dubbed Victor his “favourite white voice”. Robert Plant was also a teenage fan. Victor also played iconic Rock Against Racism gigs
Kyla Brox is one of the very best soul-blues singers the British Isles has ever produced, and with the arrival of this beautifully composed cornucopia of an album, her time has come.
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PAT FULGONI BLUES EXPERIENCE
The debut 2024 Pat Fulgoni Blues Experience album has received considerable acclaim, a no 3 in the UK blues airplay charts and a nomination in the UK Blues Awards. Already with European dates under their belts “Blues in Britain” writes ‘its a blues set to cherish… Pat and co just do them so well” Reviewing 2024’s Tenby Blues Festival in Wales, Blues Matters Mag said: “There then followed an entirely different style and set of full throttle funky electric blues led by Pat Fulgoni and his Blues Experience. With a full on five piece band Fulgoni’s powerful vocal delivery worked wonders as he pushed the boat out with a confidence that highlighted this band’s importance in the growing blues world in the UK.”
In his time Pat has sung across many genres and worked with festival headlining producers from Zion Train to Camo & Krooked, London Electricity to Murdock to Coldcut and a range of weird and wonderful sounds including with Jeff Buckley / Capt Beefheart guitarist Gary Lucas (NYC) as well as touring the world as a live artist and as part of legendary Huddersfield band Kava Kava. But it’s truly magical when he sings the blues especially when backed by the stunning musicianship of this band featuring talented musicians including Jacob Beckwith on guitar, Rory Wells on bass, Sam Bolt on keys and Zebedee Sylvester on drums. Billboard Magazine “Fulgoni could sing a pearl from its oyster”. They ain’t wrong and Blues Matters adds “completely blown away because he can sing, I mean really sing, ridiculously well”
album link https://open.spotify.com/album/7Gogzwu5zALopGXhnAqbrv?si=GSvrpKczSP24hrP4hdi_Mw
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Amped, 12 Zetland Street, Huddersfield, HD1 2RA, United Kingdom
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