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Transglobal Underground – A band of cosmic mutant rebels representing the living, beating heart of multicultural Britain, a living rebuttal of race-hate politics

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All booking enquiries please email Peter Conway Tel: 44 (0)20 8378 1012 / 07885 288512 “…a band of cosmic mutant rebels” — BBC Follow Transglobal Underground on SongKick There are few acts in the UK with as strong an influence and as complex a legacy as Transglobal Underground. For over 25 years it’s been a DJ/musical collective, one of the founders of global fusion, a working band famous for it’s scorching live shows, a techno soundsystem, a folk festival rabble rouser, a pop group, a club night, a Middle Eastern hit production team, an improvised study group for Indian classical music, an Albanian brass band, a duo..or was it an octet?…a…

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Transglobal Underground – A band of cosmic mutant rebels representing the living, beating heart of multicultural Britain, a living rebuttal of race-hate politics – Tour Dates 2023

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“…a band of cosmic mutant rebels” — BBC Listen to more than 27 Transglobal Underground Releases here: https://transglobalunderground.bandcamp.com/music June 23rd - The Forum, Tunbridge Wells July 20th - Pizza Express, Holborn July 22nd - Festival of the Edge July 30th - Landed Festival, Powys, Wales August 26th - Solfest, Cumbria Transglobal Underground will be touring as a five piece band featuring original members Tim Whelan, drummer Hamid Mantu and storyteller TUUP alongside percussionist Rav Nieyyar and sitar player Sheema Mukherjee. “Representing the living, beating heart of multicultural Britain”
 HMV “They drag the world music scene into a seething global disco. TGU are a living rebuttal of race-hate politics…” 
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Transglobal Underground…..a band of cosmic mutant rebels representing the living, beating heart of multicultural Britain, a living rebuttal of race-hate politics – Touring Availability for 2023

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“…a band of cosmic mutant rebels” — BBC Transglobal Underground will be touring as a five piece band featuring original members Tim Whelan, drummer Hamid Mantu and storyteller TUUP alongside percussionist Rav Nieyyar and sitar player Sheema Mukherjee. “Representing the living, beating heart of multicultural Britain”
 HMV “They drag the world music scene into a seething global disco. TGU are a living rebuttal of race-hate politics…” 
NME All booking enquiries please email Peter Conway Tel: 44 (0)20 8378 1012 / 07885 288512 There are few acts in the UK with as strong an influence and as complex a legacy as Transglobal Underground. For over 25 years it’s been a DJ/musical collective,…

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Sinead O’Brien – European Tour 2022

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“You have seen nothing yet”, asserts Sinead O’Brien in single Girlkind – and you are inclined to believe her. Building on her arresting releases since 2018, the multifaceted Irish poet, songwriter and performer is ascending into new territory with her debut LP, Time Bend and Break the Bower, released via Chess Club Records. Demanding a visceral response from her audiences, O’Brien issues a challenge to those who would box her music inside a notion of tradition. Instead, the artist’s poetry – a constant, active absorption of how people speak, communicate and clash in the era we are living through – is an essential clarion call heard in the future. Communing at…

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Mipso – European Tour Dates June 2022

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In the springtime of 2019, Mipso headed out on several writing retreats around their home state, with a mission of laying down the framework for their self-titled sixth album. In a particularly charmed outing for the North Carolina-bred four-piece—fiddle player Libby Rodenbough, mandolinist Jacob Sharp, guitarist Joseph Terrell, and bassist Wood Robinson—Mipso holed up on a farm near Chapel Hill in the middle of May, teasing songs out in a barn whose tin roof rattled wildly during the near-daily downpours. As with all their writing sessions for Mipso, the band brought in instruments outside their usual repertoire (analog synths, lap steel guitars, a toy piano), slipping into a prolonged period of…

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Mipso

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In the springtime of 2019, Mipso headed out on several writing retreats around their home state, with a mission of laying down the framework for their self-titled sixth album. In a particularly charmed outing for the North Carolina-bred four-piece—fiddle player Libby Rodenbough, mandolinist Jacob Sharp, guitarist Joseph Terrell, and bassist Wood Robinson—Mipso holed up on a farm near Chapel Hill in the middle of May, teasing songs out in a barn whose tin roof rattled wildly during the near-daily downpours. As with all their writing sessions for Mipso, the band brought in instruments outside their usual repertoire (analog synths, lap steel guitars, a toy piano), slipping into a prolonged period of…

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Natacha Atlas on Sputnik E305 & George Galloway – The Mother Of All Talkshows – Episode 21

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Watch Natacha Atlas talking to Adam Garrie and Gayatri Galloway on Sputnik 305 - Never-ending conflict and fusion music (E305) — RT Sputnik https://buff.ly/36VvYW3 (Natacha Atlas begins around 12 minutes in)  The Middle East continues to burn with the kindling of further conflict transpiring in Iraq, Syria and Libya. It seems like a never-ending war of occupation and terror for the people of those countries. But could there possibly be a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel?  To find out just what the current developments are in the region, we invited lecturer and journalist Sami Ramadani into the Sputnik studio to help unravel the knotted tangle of current…

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