HORACE ANDY [KOMEDIA, BRIGHTON, JULY 19] The Komedia on Gardner Street is in the centre of Brighton, just a few minutes from the seafront, train station and main shopping areas, including The Lanes and North Laines. It’s the perfect location for a music venue, although Komedia also houses a cinema and sidewalk café, as well as several performance rooms. Downstairs […]

Commemorating Usain Bolt’s last competitive races at the IAAF games, promoter Robomagic is hosting Jamaica House 2017 at London’s Indigo O2 between Aug 5-13. Produced on behalf of the Jamaican Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the event will showcase Jamaican artists old and new, as well as UK artists of Jamaican descent, along with acts from far and […]

By Kevin Le Gendre Scene after scene of Neneh Cherry ghosting through the cityscapes of an iconic European city might well sound like an extended pop video. But nothing could be further from the truth in documentary maker Mark Cousins’ first stab at a major feature. Cherry does contribute to the soundtrack but what counts is her acting. This is the […]

Beyoncé fans who are beloved of Lemonade would do well to get themselves along to an arthouse cinema to see the critically acclaimed 1991 movie that greatly influenced it, Daughters Of The Dust. Julie Dash’s story of the Gullah community, former slaves who uphold Yoruba traditions in South Carolina’s Sea islands, is an absolute visual feast, and is noted for […]

  The organisers of Salute Music Makers, the new songwriters talent online/TV competition, have extended the deadline for entries to July 14 in order to better accommodate the incoming rush of entries. What is Salute? Salute Music Makers is a brand new online talent search designed to locate our finest young, unsigned songwriters. It costs £20 per track to enter […]

There are still not enough venues in London to accommodate all of the capital’s jazz artists. While long established venues such as Ronnie Scott’s, the Vortex, 606, Café Oto and Pizza Express, to name but some, are stalwart institutions, both musicians – and audiences, for that matter – need more options. While Soho and Dalston are recognized as places where […]

This summer Tate Modern will present Soul Of A Nation: Art In The Age Of Black Power, a landmark exhibition exploring what it meant to be a black artist in the USA during the Civil Rights movement and at the birth of Black Power. Seeking also to explain that art’s purpose, it will additionally consider the art’s target audience and […]

The Bernie Grant Arts Centre in Tottenham continues its adventurous film programming with a short season dedicated to female freedom fighters who took the fight to a sexist, racist, capitalist establishment. Women In Activism is curated by Charmaine Simpson, and kicks off tonight with The Supreme Price, a documentary on the struggle for women’s rights in Nigeria before presenting three […]

About to drop his new album My Love Divine Degree as well as appear on the cover of the May issue of Echoes, indie music man Cody Chesnutt has lined up a live date at London’s Bush Hall on June 8. Visit http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/Cody-ChesnuTT-tickets/artist/862934 for more details and to book.

UK Afrobeat star StunnahGee has teamed with Nigeria’s King of R&B Kymo Kingin for a new breast cancer awareness EP, entitled Nipples. Fusing R&B, afrobeats, pop and trap, the pair has come up with a genre-crossing record, produced by T-Izze, and with a powerful purpose. Lead single I Need An Answer is an R&B ballad, led by delicate piano and […]