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Red Snapper bring their explosive and passionate live show back to Ramsgate on March 19th!The band are on the road again, celebrating new releases on Lo Recordings and also 30 years of ‘Reeled and Skinned’, their first album on the legendary Warp Records. Their live shows embrace euphoric Afro-Jazz, Future Funk, Dub, dark Hip-Hop, all peppered with trademark fragile soundscapes.
“Red Snapper never appear to run out of ideas or energy” – AllMusic
Formed in 1994, drummer – Rich Thair, double bassist – Ali Friend and guitarist – David Ayers, released three EPs on Rich Thair and Dean Thatcher’s label Flaw Recordings, with the first EP ‘Snapper’ featuring Beth Orton on vocals.
During the initial years the band released the sonically pioneering albums ‘Reeled and Skinned’, ‘Prince Blimey’, ‘Making Bones’ and ‘Our Aim Is To Satisfy’ (Warp records), touring globally and supporting the likes of Massive Attack, Bjork, The Prodigy, De La Soul and The Fugees. They also acquired a reputation for innovative and expansive remixing – reworking tunes by Trouble Funk, David Holmes, Sabres of Paradise, Garbage, Lamb, S-Express, and Edwyn Collins amongst others.
In 2013 Red Snapper composed a new soundtrack to the 1970’s Senegalese, psychedelic road movie ‘Touki Bouki’ which had been restored by Martin Scorsese. The band toured Europe performing the soundtrack live to the film, culminating in the celebrated sell-out show at The Queen Elizabeth Hall on London’s Southbank. In 2014 the album ‘Hyena’ was released on Lo Recordings featuring all the music from their original film score.
In 2016 Red Snapper toured a performance of the full 1996 album ‘Prince Blimey’ for the first time ever to mark its 20th anniversary. It was incredibly well received as the album was recognized as being ground-breaking at the time but is still very musically relevant today.
In 2019 their track ‘Spikey’, from the V2 released album ‘Key’ was featured on the soundtrack for ‘El Camino’, the Netflix ‘Breaking Bad’ film directed by Vince Gilligan. The long awaited album ‘Everybody Is Somebody’, released in 2022, was considered by many as Red Snapper’s best work since the 90s, featuring a wealth of guests and notably MC Natty Wylah, who featured on the single ‘The Warp and The Weft’.
“A force to be reckoned with” – AllMusic
“Red Snapper are the kind of band who worry about ‘selling out’. They’re also, fortunately, the kind of band who’ll follow their instincts even when it makes no commercial sense at all” – The Guardian
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
13 Turner Street, CT11 8NJ Ramsgate, United Kingdom, 13 Turner Street, Ramsgate, CT11 8NJ, United Kingdom,Ramsgate
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