SOLD OUT!!!

Let us party on… can wait for this one after the fun and frolicks of the birthday gig!!!

Jibbering & Leftfoot Present
THE HERBALISER

Plus DJ`s: Cro, Tangawizi and Sam Redmore

Hare & Hounds
106 High St
Kings Heath
B14 7JZ
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More than 15 years into their musical journey, The Herbaliser just keep getting bigger, stronger and better. It all began in the early 1990s when West London duo Jake Wherry and Ollie Teeba discovered a shared passion for hip-hop, rare groove, funk and jazz. James Brown, DJ Premier, Lalo Schifrin, David Axelrod and Serge Gainsbourg were their youthful heroes.The studio became their first instrument. Both avid vinyl collectors, Jake and Ollie began using the freshest sampling techniques, coupled with Jake’s musical knowhow from playing guitar and bass. Later they added quest rappers and vocalists. Later still, a full live line-up of brass, strings and cinematic textures. DJ Malachi plus Easy Access Orchestra players Ralph Lamb and Andy Ross became regular Herbaliser collaborators.

Released in 1995, the first Herbaliser album ‘Remedies’ offered an emphatically London-centric take on funky electronica packed with samples, scratches and chopped-up rhythms. It remains an influential underground classic from the urban flipside of the Britpop boom.

In 1997, the second Herbaliser album ‘Blow Your Headphones’ was a more meaty, increasingly vocal affair. The US rock bible Rolling Stone praised the album’s “smooth, nimble rhythms” and called it “a textured, experimental valentine to US hip-hop”. Most notably the mesmerising talents of underground New York rapper and storyteller Jean Grae, then performing as What What, who remains a frequent Herbaliser guest.

Expanding their live line-up to a nine-piece in the late 1990s, Herbaliser became acclaimed festival favourites around the globe. Playing to increasingly large and appreciative crowds also helped Jake and Ollie broaden their studio working methods.

On their 1999 album ‘Very Mercenary’, they began sampling their own playing partners to produce a more organic, full-bodied sound. Alongside What What, ‘Very Mercenary’ also shone the spotlight on a host of guest vocalists including future Brit-rap titans Blade and Roots Manuva. “While it’s always good to have a really hot young MC from the States, we also think it’s important to represent the UK” says Jake.

Following in 2000, the double-vinyl live album ‘Session One’ showed the world what a rousing and dynamic affair the Herbaliser road show had now become. A party pack of crowd-pleasers in beefed-up live arrangements, The Guardian called the album “sterling proof that this kind of music invariably sounds better played by musicians than by a sampler”.

The arrival of ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’ in 2002 added several new shades of light and dark to the Herbaliser spectrum. A potent cocktail of moody instrumental grooves and funky Brit-hop, it also featured another inpressively forward-thinking gallery of guest vocalists including MF Doom, Phi Life Cypher and Rakaa Iriscience from Dilated Peoples. All Music Guide hailed the album as “colossal and cinematic” while NME praised its “tough, commanding rare grooves”.

Ollie and Jake proved their DJ skills with the acclaimed 2004 mix album ‘Herbal Blend’ and their 2006 mix for fabric. In between they returned to the studio with ‘Take London’, released in 2005.

A multicultural manifesto celebrating the UK capital’s unique mix of soul, funk, hip-hop and reggae, it featured the triumphant return of Roots Manuva alongside Jean Grae, who by now had left her What What alias behind. A rave review on the BBC Urban side described ‘Take London’ as “tailor-made for cruising over Waterloo Bridge at midnight, preferably in a blacked-out mini with a Union Jack painted on the roof”.

Fast forward to 2008 and The Herbaliser hit a dazzling new peak with their richest and most diverse album to date, the archly titled ‘Same As It Never Was’. With a new emphasis on classic soulful songwriting, the main vocal focus this time is on a new recruit, the supremely talented 22 year old Londener Jessica Darling. With Easy Access Orchestra members Ralph Lamb and Andy Ross also on board, Herbaliser noew have a firm five-piece collective at their core. Glossy and gritty, organic and eclectic, ‘Same As It Never Was’ is a timeless soul record for a scrambled musical era. It builds on the band’s hip-hop origins with a rich mix of jazz, funk, R&B, pop and instrumental soundtrack influences. Moving forwards, sideways, and back to the future, The Herbaliser have come full circle. “It’s still a hip-hop inspired record, but at the same time it’s a lot broader because our musical and emotional horizons are broader” says Jake. “It’s all one big family. As teenagers in the 1980s we were into rare groove, hip-hop, early electro and funk, soul and jazz. It’s a big melting pot.”

More than 15 years into their musical journey, ‘Same As It Never Was’ marks the start of a whole new chapter for Ollie and Jake. The Herbaliser have never sounded better.

Yes! It has been an entire decade since Jibbering was conceived.

Since then we have staged over 150 concerts and parties presenting the finest music Birmingham has to offer and hosting some of the most exciting live bands from further afield.

To celebrate this milestone, we have gone to town and booked one of our most exciting line ups ever! Do not miss this celebration- it will be one hell of party!!

Smerins Anti-Social Club (LIVE)
We are delighted to welcome back one of the most exciting and dynamic bands around. Their heady, heavy and hip-shaking cocktail of Latin, ska, funk, and much more has been mashing up dancefloors for years.
www.myspace.com/smerins

The Gentleman’s Dub Club (LIVE)
This Leeds based 9 piece have burst onto the UK circuit, rocking gigs and festivals up and down the country with their heavyweight sound and high energy live shows of dub and roots reggae.
www.myspace.com/gentlemansdubclub

MC Xander (LIVE)
Mc Xander is one of the UK`s most exciting beatboxers and a consummate performer. Armed just with his voice, a mic and a few FX pedals he constructs awesome tracks that have been wowing audiences everywhere.
www.myspace.com/mcxander

DJ Rubbish
And how can we celebrate a birthday without the infamous and inimitable Mr Rubbish. His choice selection of roots, dub-step and jungle will, inevitably rock da party!

Jibbering DJs
Hosting the room with cutting edge & vintage hip hop, funk, reggae, jungle & world music!

Saturday 14 November 2009

Doors- 9pm – 3am

Hare and Hounds, Kings Heath, Birmingham, B14 7JZ

Grab those tickets here

Yet another unmissable Jibbering promotion…

The Black Seeds are a New Zealand based band that have carved out their stunning reputation on the back of two double-platinum selling albums, and a masterful 8-piece live show.

The Black Seeds produce a boundary-crossing fusion of dub, funk, afrobeat and soul, mixed with a vintage reggae foundation. It is The Black Seeds unique style and ability of layering supremely infectious grooves and melodies over raw, undiluted roots music that has set them apart and now sees their music spreading quickly across the globe.

On-stage, The Black Seeds’ ability to connect with their audience has gained them a reputation as one of New Zealand’s finest live acts. Effortlessly gliding between big-beat funk and deep roots-reggae, their dynamic, supremely danceable, live show delivers a freight train of flavour to the people, on time, every time. Whether it’s a summer festival, or club show, the raw energy of The Black Seeds’ live show always hits the mark.

@ The Hare & Hounds, Kings Heath, B14 7JZ

Sat 3^rd October

9pm-2am£10 adv / motd

Tickets From Here

Well then ladies and gentleman the summer is well and truly underway with Glastonbury valiantly kicking off the festival season. In the searing heat of the Shambala office the team have been working their socks off to make this years 10th anniversary the best one yet. If you haven’t already get your tickets they are being snapped up quicker then a pair of cheetahs playing snap!

Less then 7 weeks now till Shambala festival, so to get everyone in the mood, Bobby Lost from the Lost & Found crew and Deanne (Blonde Ambition DJS) take you on a musical journey to wet your appetite. Featuring exclusives from some of the great acts who will be performing at Shambala this year, as well as interviews and insightful background history to the event.

There’s also a competition to WIN 2 TICKETS to the festival so check it out!

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Shambala has teamed up with Sustrans to offer free guided cycle rides to Shambala. The initiative combines our commitment to encouraging low-impact (and fun) ways to travel to the event, and Sustrans unquenchable enthusiasm for cycling! Make the Festival into a longer holiday and raise funds to support the ever-expanding National Cycle Network!

Rides are going from Bristol, Birmingham, Coventry, Leicester and Sheffield. We hope to expand to many more cities next year!

You should find all the info you need in the downloadable info sheets, sign up-form & sponsorship pack on the website including how to get a cheap massage as a reward when you arrive at the festival! All the rides are lead by professional folk. All riders get a free cyclometer too!

This year we decided that more effort should go into the intimate and cosy spaces…so we have personally invited the best crews to curate and host small venues…… From Bristol we have the Compass of Desire crew who will present a smorgasbord of weird and wonderful acts, surreal encounters and libidinous beats in the sumptuously sexy world of their late-night boudoir…………Twist and Spout, Leicester’s groovy intimate music stage and cafe offers live bands like El Goodo, Ambrose Tompkins, Colourama and Mik Artistik to name but a few…………and from Birmingham the return of the mighty Roots Yard massive with more great Caribbean cuisine, another serious line up of ‘toon selectas’ and mc’s, a larger tent and a new later license we can now soak up more of the heavy, conscious, roots vibes!

@ The Hare & Hounds, Kings Heath

It is with huge delight that we present the world’s finest contemporary reggae band, Groundation for their Birmingham debut and only their 4th UK show!

Groundation bring classic roots music into the serious times of the 21st century. Their sound is an awesome organic fusion of Roots Reggae, transcendental Dub and heavy Jazz fusion; their live shows are synonymous with high-energy positive communal vibrations and for delivering a powerful message. With a large and ever growing fan base, and 5 successful albums already under their belt, Groundation have become one of Reggae`s most loved contemporary bands.

We can`t wait to welcome Groundation for their Birmingham debut as they tour their eagerly anticipated 6th Album, “Here I Am.”  Which, back in the good old days, you could have picked up from Jibbering Records.  Alas, those days are gone, so you have to search the internet!

Groundation usually perform in front of crowds of thousands.  So, to have the oppurtunity to catch them live in such an intimate venue as the Hare and Hounds is a treat not to be missed!!

DATE:  Mon 13th July

VENUE:  The Hare and Hounds, Kings Heath, Birmingham B14 7JZ

TIMES:  Doors open at 8pm  Band On Stage at 9pm ish

TICKETS: Adv tickets £10 from the Ticket Sellers: Phone: 0844 870 0000

For those of you that have not yet been enlightened by the music of Groundation, check out TheirSpace and have a wee look at these bits n bobs!!

Groundation “What Could Have Been” (Music Video)

Groundation “Weeping Pirates” (Song with pictures)

A classic Groundation track, “Jah Jah Know” (Song with pictures)

This is going to be special…

The Hot 8’s energy is legendary - regularly playing all day in the sun, then hopping to a club gig and playing through the night. Beyond this, it is the incredible sounds they coax from their well-loved, well-worn horns that makes the Hot 8 Brass Band so special.

The band brings together elements of modern and traditional music to create a unique, new class of brass music drawing on both the new urban culture, and the historical energy in the New Orleans music scene. Still grounded in the grass roots, they are frequently involved in local second-line parades and musical battles [face offs] with local jazz bands on the streets.

It was not until after Hurricane Katrina, that Hot 8’s reputation spread beyond New Orleans. They featured on CNN, in the New York Times and, most notably, in Spike Lee’s Katrina documentary, “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts”. Hot 8’s work with the Finding Our Folk Tour has helped considerably in supporting those displaced by Katrina.

The Hot 8’s version of Marvin Gaye’s Sexual Healing was one of the most eagerly awaited singles there has been on the Tru Thoughts label. This is your chance to join Jibbering and Leftfoot, and catch the finest New Orleans dance band of the moment, live and intimate …

DJs Tangawizi and Adam Regan in support… Limited earlybird tickets available

Our next session at the Hare and Hounds is on Saturday June the 6th. Its going to be a very special party, the last one before we take a sabatical for the summer festival season.

There are two bands performing on this night. 1 EYE launching their debut single “Worries and Troubles”, are creating a buzz in industry circles with their distinctive mix of jazz, reggae, latin and soul. From freeform jazz to skanking beats this band are a unique treat

Sister Henry and the Prescriptions are an off-shoot of the acclaimed Munchbreak collective. Sister Henry’s rich soulful vocals, backed by the super tight funk of the Prescriptions, have launched the band into the UK funk scene.

At only £3 in advance, for two bands and the Jibbering DJs,! this is a gig not to be missed! Come dance the night away…

Tickets available here

Launch Night: Thursday 21st May from 6pm

Jibbering Art are curating a beast of an art exhibition in an old 10,000 sqft warehouse, slap bang in the middle of Birmingham’s creative hub, Digbeth.

With pioneers of UK graffiti, exhibiting alongside the new wave of street artists, this is a show not to be missed!

Artists confirmed are: Aida, Best Ever Crew, Blam, China, Chu, Cyclops, Dave Gaskgarth, Dora, Dscreet, Inkie, Jay Bo, Jinpow, Juice 126, Kem, Kid Acne, Log, LX.ONE, Mac 1, Newso, Part2ism, Plimsoul, Pure Evil, Remi/Rough, Rowdy, Semor & Co, Sickboy, Sweet toof, Timid, The Krah, Vermin & Zoot.

Line Steppers promises to bring together a diverse mix of styles and a broad range of mediums from oil paintings to sculpture, screen prints to large installation pieces.

With an area of the exhibition dedicated to artwork under £75, “Line Steppers” will appeal to many tastes and many pockets…

Jibbering is seriously excited to present a night of pure 7″ pleasure.  A whole heap of DJs are being invited along to the Bull’s Head to spin a set of their seven favourite 7″ singles.  You can expect mashed up selections of funk, hip hop, reggae, soul, beats and all sorts of obscure gems and serioulsy rare treats.

It is only a couple of quid to get in and it promises to be a night of much fun, loadsa surprises and lots of groovin!

Sat 23rd May

9pm-2am

The Bull’s Head, Moseley

$2 tax but free before 10pm!