Wednesday September 07, 2005
Raison D'Etre Mini Festival
Sunday 28th August 2005 at Cargo
reported by Mullah, photos Jam Gorilla
It's never easy getting people to attend events on Sundays. Especially when it's a Bank Holiday but it's even worse when it's the end of August and there's this little event called Notting Hill Carnival taking place.
Which is why the organisers of the Raison D'Etre Mini-Festival should feel pride at managing to get a young and enthusiastic crowd into Cargo on such a challenging day.
Perhaps their reputation helps, as this crew have been putting on live music events in London for a few years -mainly in the Shoreditch area. They specialise in putting on a weird and wonderful selection of live musicians and DJs.
Weird and wonderful is a good description of the first act on -- a curious combo called Kanako & The Numbskulls, playing what they call 'Folk-Punk'.
The absence of an electric guitar made it more Folk than Punk, but the charismatic and enthusiastic Kanako is an energetic frontwoman for the band.
To follow them in the outdoor garden were several classy acts including truly extraordinaire singer and song writer Jo Griffith from Liverpool, soul and RnB duo Anoraklight and mesmerising and stimulating Carl Smith aka Casa Electro Novo described as a spawn of a car crash involving Vegas-era Elvis and artist Marcel Duchamp.
The rest of the line-up for the event conducted in comfortable lodgins inside was similarly eclectic, taking in such genres as Acoustic Folk, Bossa Nova, Jazz, Soul and RnB and Funk. A choice selection of DJs managed to keep the vibe alive between acts -- all in all, a chilled way to enjoy a laidback Sunday.
Mullah
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