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Tu-wit-tuh-woo! Ms Charlene Keys flies over to the UK to promote new material, but really we'll all be waiting for her to drop 'Oops (Oh My)'.
I Love The ’80s vs I Love The '90s
Pop and rock, Clubs
- Critics' choice
No guesses here! All the '80s and '90s pop, hair rock, disco, indie and cheese you could wish for. Don't forget to dress up.
Ezra Axelrod & The Motel Band
World, Blues, roots and country, Folk
Sweetly-voiced folk singer-songwriter and pianist showcases tracks from his new album 'American Motel'. Fans of Ben Folds will approve.
Drahmah
Grime
A former member of The Fatal Assassins with P Money, Drahmah sets out solo with synth-led grime. It's not quite up there with Tinchy, but it's not far off.
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
Categories, Jazz and experimental
- Critics' choice
The eight-piece, trumpet-heavy brass outfit from Chicago play their warm, soulful, avant-garde jazz and hip hop. Their high-energy, New Orleans-inspired, bassy live sound is bombastic and funky enough to convert the coldest of jazz-hating cynics.
Mokoomba
World, Blues, roots and country, Folk
- Free
A new-ish Zimbabwean band, Mokoomba fuse classic folk grooves with Congolese, Latin, rap and ska vibes.
Clement Marfo And The Frontline
Categories, Pop and rock
- Critics' choice
Having supported big names like De La Soul and Plan B, the rising, seven-strong, MTV-approved Frontline headline. Led by Wimbledon-raised MC Marfo, they'll be bringing an exciting mix of hip hop, grime, rave and stadium rock to the stage.
Pete Molinari
Categories, Pop and rock
- Critics' choice
Medway's young answer to Woody Guthrie, Molinari, delivers his beautifully understated songcraft – finger-picked guitar with a voice of crystalline clarity that's also intriguingly ambiguous, being both the dead spit of Patsy Cline and Bob Dylan.
Nick Waterhouse
Categories, Pop and rock
Brassy neo-soul from Waterhouse, who comes armed with Dap Kings-style funk and a killer cover of Them's 'I Can Only Give You Everything'.
Jose Feliciano
Categories, Jazz and experimental
- Critics' choice
Blind Nu-Yorican flamenco guitarist, singer and occasional actor Feliciano is best known for his version of 'Light My Fire' and a host of '60s rock standards. An excellent performer, he contrasts a seductive, bluesy tenor with a loose, Latino guitar ...
Sophie Delila
Categories, Pop and rock
The Paris-born nu-soul gal and 'committed bohemian' headlines.
Funmi Olawumi
World, Blues, roots and country, Folk
Olawumi, leader of the Yoruba Women's Choir, steps out for a solo show, albeit backed by a 12-piece band instead.
Antics
Soul, funk and rap, Hip hop, Clubs
- Critics' choice
From the people that bring you the enormous indie bash Buttoned Down Disco around the corner at Koko comes this more intimate night with a new music spin. DJ Antics cracks out the funk and hip hop to basstastic dubstep and breaks for a carefree Camden...
Eric Benét
Pop and rock, Urban music, R&B
MIlwaukee-reared singer Benét is a star of US R&B – drawing upon '60s soul, salsa and hip hop sources and here plugs his latest album 'Lost in Time'.
Omar
Categories, Jazz and experimental
- Critics' choice
South London soul-jazz vocal legend Omar, the man behind the big hit 'There's Nothing Like This' in 1990, has since worked with Stevie Wonder, Ol' Dirty Bastard and a handful of other big names. He's back after a seven-year musical hiatus with a new album,...
Candi Staton
Categories, Pop and rock
- Critics' choice
Before achieving international fame as a disco diva with 'Young Hearts Run Free' and now-ubiquitous deep house anthem 'You Got the Love', Staton recorded a truckload of southern soul classics for Miami's Fame label – as anthologised by Honest Jons and...
Finley Quaye
Categories, Jazz and experimental
After some legal trouble last year, the '90s reggae star (who picked up Mobo and Brit Awards in his day) and his lovely voice return to music. He released a new album last year called '28th February Rd' – a street in Ghana, home of Quaye's paternal a...
Introducing recreate 'Discovery'
Dance, House, techno and electro, Electronica
- Critics' choice
Daft Punk fever is a very real and very serious condition. It’s been spreading since early January, when reports of a new album from the French house duo leaked from their lab. The viral spread of the news has already caused more internet disarray than...
Reel People
Categories, Jazz and experimental
- Critics' choice
The latest incarnation of the London nu-jazz, soul, broken beat and house collective is led by percussionist Oli 'Chilli Funk' Lazarus, and features a seriously heavyweight band. This includes singers Tony Momrelle, Imaani, Katie Leone and Jono McNeil,...
Freddie McGregor
World, Reggae, world and Latin, Ska
With a singing career stretching back to 1963 – when he was seven – McGregor is an enduring Jamaican vocalist. He had a minor UK hit in the late ’80s with 'Just Don't Want To Be Lonely', so that should be a guaranteed part of his setlist, but apart from...
Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Categories, Pop and rock
One of the veterans of the British beat boom, Mann takes to the keys to lead his band, established in 1971. They're best remembered nowadays for a dreadful but massively successful version of Springsteen's 'Blinded by the Light', and for a proggy habit...
Matt Schofield Trio
World, Blues, roots and country, Folk
The highly regarded British guitarist assembles his trio for some jazz-tinged blues and funk.















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