“I could sit in awe of the talent on show here all day long.” – Neil Hodge Louder Than War
The NJE consists of multi-instrumentalist Terry Edwards (Jimi Tenor, Hot Chip, Spiritualized, Franz Ferdinand, Nick Cave, Gallon Drunk), bassist Mark Bedford (Madness, Robert Wyatt, Nightingales, The Blockheads) and drummer Simon Charterton (The Higsons, Alex Harvey, Zook) started out as a basic improvising trio playing a monthly London residency and worked themselves up the ranks via The Roundhouse, Union Chapel and prestigious dates in France and Norway to Daylight Music playing instrumental music rooted in rock and the blues. “It’s just that we use electronics and jazz instruments to do it,» says multi-instrumentalist Terry Edwards. A good example of this is Terry’s trade-mark sound of playing two saxophones at the same time. «I first heard that as a teenager on Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick by Ian Dury and The Blockheads rather than Roland Kirk, the godfather of the technique.»
Drummer Simon Charterton’s influences are Little Feat, The Grateful Dead and Krautrock, and Mark Bedford is the bassist of Madness so there’s a really broad church of inspiration bubbling away here, which is truly not that far away from jazz as the band’s tongue-in-cheek name suggests.
Doors: 20:00 Concert start: 21:00 Cover: 250.- + fee ID: 20
