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Acid Box Promotions & Stay Sick present two very intimate nights with WITCH at The Hope & RuinOn-Sale - Friday 12th April
Friday 9th August
The Hope & Ruin
19:30-23:00
Tickets £25adv / £30otd
https://bit.ly/witchhopedice
https://www.wegottickets.com/event/617413
Saturday 10th August - matinee
The Hope & Ruin
12:00-16:00
Tickets £25adv / £30otd
https://bit.ly/witchhopedicematinee
https://www.wegottickets.com/event/617421
The legacy of WITCH continues and once again they return to the shores of Brighton to cause havoc. It's unlikely you'll ever be able to see this band in such an up close and personal space again!
We Intend To Cause Havoc were the biggest rock band in Zambia in the 1970s and spearheaded a new genre dubbed Zamrock, fusing influences that ranged from the Rolling Stones to Black Sabbath and James Brown and mixing them with traditional African rhythms and bush village songs. At t the peak of their popularity, the band often needed police to keep fans at bay while their lead singer Jagari – whose name is an Africanisation of Mick Jagger’s – riled up crowds by stage diving from balconies and dancing manically as the WITCH’s blend of psychedelic rock and African rhythms permeated the surrounding atmosphere.Jagari is the charismatic sole surviving original member of the band. As Zambia’s economy stagnated and the country buckled under the AIDS crisis, WITCH fell apart. Jagari retreated to a life of quasi-anonymity as a university music professor before being wrongfully arrested during Zambia’s toughest hour. Now a man in his 60s, he spends his time mining gemstones hoping to strike it rich, until very recently the band being just a nostalgic memory of his youth.
"After establishing a following in Zambia as well as in Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Botswana in the 1970s, the band slowly dissolved in the Eighties and eventually stopped playing altogether. Chiseling for amethysts in a dirt pit in Zambia, co-founder Emmanuel “Jagari” Chanda, now 70, thought his days of performing were over." Rolling Stone
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Hope & Ruin, 11-12 Queens Road,Brighton and Hove, Brighton, United Kingdom
