Upcoming Gigs

Bristol based post-jazz rockers The Blessing play an amazing free gig at the Southbank Centre’s Ballroom on Friday 21st December at 6pm. Formed by drummer Clive Deamer and bassist Jim Barr of ‘90s trip-hop superstars Portishead, The Blessing are storming onto the new jazz scene, taking riffs and rhythms from rock and dance music and artfully welding them onto fearsomely inventive improvisation. With trumpeter Pete Judge and saxophonist Jake McMurchie completing the line up, The Blessing’s catchy, rocking tunes and snappy arrangements create a genre-bending blend of sounds that is all their own. The band will be previewing material from their forthcoming debut album All Is Yes, to be released in early 2008 on Candid Records.