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Big Boss Man

  • Stroud Valleys Artspace 4 John Street Stroud United Kingdom (map)

The UK’s premier punks of funk make their long-awaited return to SVA!

Their phenomenal debut album Humanize and follow up Winner provides a fine mix of funk, soul, heavy beats, jazz, indie in a 60s Hammond groove

In 2010 ‘Full English Beat Breakfast’ (Blow Up) was released. Recorded by the band and mixed by Nick Terry at the Premises Studio B Hackney London. The highly acclaimed third album received many outstanding reviews with it being cited at the time as their best album to date. They extensively toured the album in UK & Europe including an appearance at the Latitude Festival (UK) and with various radio sessions including one for BBC Radio 2 Mark Lamarr’s God’s Jukebox show.

Big Boss Man‘s fourth album ‘Last Man On Earth‘ was released in 2014.  The band supporting the release with numerous European live dates, the album was subsequently given an additional limited pressing on 180g red vinyl in 2015. The album received strong UK radio support particularly from BBC 6 Music and BBC Radio 2 presenters that included Craig Charles, Cerys Matthews, Huey Morgan, Gideon Coe, Nemone, Chris Hawkins & Lisa Tarbuck and others.

A solo project from BBM band leader Nasser Bouzida as The Bongolian has released six albums to date on Blow Up Records The Bongolian, Blueprint, Outer Bongolia Bongos For Beatniks, Moog Maximus and Harlem Hipshake and a collaboration with Fay Hallam was released in 2011 (Fay Hallam & The Bongolian ‘Lost In  Sound).

Big Boss Man have remixed several artists including for Paul Weller ‘The Bottle’ (v2 Records), 

Big Boss Man performed at the Blow Up 25 concert in October 2019 at the 100 Club London.  They are currently working on tracks for their 5th album. 


Tickets:

Under 25s adv: £10

General adv: £12

OTD: £12 -£15


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