Thursday 12 December 2024.

Thursday 12 December 2024....6.15pm to 8pm... UNIT GALLERY- private view - , 3 Hanover Square , Mayfair , London W1. Exhibition on from 11 December 2024 - 19 January 2025 Amy Hui Li’s first solo exhibition with Unit intersects painting, sculpture, and installation, exploring the body through an abstract visual language evoking veins and blood vessels as well as the emotional processes of healing and repair. Complimentary wines and and beers. -------------------------------- -------------------------------- Wednesday 11 December 2024. YANNIS & THE YAW live at Shepherds Bush Empire. Foals front man YANNIS and his side project. In 2016, Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis was offered the opportunity of a lifetime: a two-day session working with the great drummer Tony Allen, who he admired intensely for his influential, multi-genre work with the likes of Fela Kuti, Sébastien Tellier and Jeff Mills. Heading into a smoke-filled, ‘70s throwback studio in Paris, Yannis had expected them to make a nostalgic Afrobeat record. Yet something very different emerged. As the pair quickly established an intuitive telepathy, the music germinated from jams and loops, its varied touchpoints – rock, funk, jazz, dub and more – were complemented by a unique atmosphere of two cultures and creatives colliding, their expression liberated by making music in and for the moment itself. Joined by Tony’s regular collaborators Vincent Taeger (percussion, marimba), Vincent Taurelle (keys) and Ludovic Bruni (bass, guitar) that first meeting resulted in a handful of near complete songs, which were further developed during a couple of subsequent sessions. But between scheduling issues and Covid restrictions, the recordings were never completed before Tony passed away in April 2020 at the age of 79. Yannis felt a deep duty to complete the project, not only as a bittersweet way to honour and celebrate his friend, but also because Tony had been so eager to share these songs with the world. The result is the five-track EP, ‘Lagos Paris London’, under the Yannis & The Yaw umbrella – a project that he plans to return to in the future for further collaborations with inspiring musicians from across the globe. I have seen YANNIS main band Foals a couple of times. --------- Level 3 is closed tonight , and Level 2 is half empty , so maybe 1200 folks are here. EBBB arrived on stage at 7.30pm for their 30 mins set. Elusive London trio Ebbb step boldly from the shadows to announce the release of their debut EP 'All At Once', out on Ninja Tune. Alongside the news, the band have also released their first official music in the form of double single 'Himmel' / 'Swarm'. I loved the machine gun style fast hands drummer. MISO EXTRA arrived on stage at 8.15pm for their 30 mins set. Female singer and her backing musician , played tracks that have been released on Transgressive Records , who also release tonights headliners output. YANNIS & THE YAW arrived on stage at 9.15pm for 65 mins. Six musicians on stage. They played all the tracks off their EP , which is mixing rock / afro beats / world music. A short set as there were no Foals tracks played. Lots of head nodding and swaying along in the crowd. They played a tribute to Tony Allen by playing his track ' Afro Disco Beat'. The last track of the main set and the encore song were both over 10 mins long, as they jammed along, as the drummer and percussion and guitar and keyboards had a nice workout. An interesting show , but not that exciting.

Posted 12th December 2024