Showing posts with label Ronnie Maxwell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ronnie Maxwell. Show all posts

Thursday, 10 October 2019

The Scorpios - A World in London

Mimi Kobayashi

The Scorpios
Adam Bulweski
Mimi Kobayashi
Regia Ishag
Osman Babo
Ronnie Maxwell
Dawid Frydryk
Sue Lynch
Will Roberts
Osman Mohammed

2nd October 2019

Adam Bulweski

No foot stayed still when The Scorpios played live on A World in London! Their infectious Sudanese grooves, funky b-lines & horn section, plus Arabic rhythms had us all bursting to dance, sway, and swing! Lead vocals by Regia Ishag and Osman Babo were mesmerising & spot on, singing mostly uplifting heritage songs from their roots in Sudan. They may have been forced to flee their homeland but in their quest to find safety and freedom they landed in London to colllect an equally talented & international team around them that includes Mimi Kobayashi from Japan on keys, Jamaican bass don Ronnie Maxwell, Polish trumpeter Dawid Frydryk, saxophone from improv pioneer Sue Lynch, Adam Bulewski on guitar, IyatraQuartet's Will Roberts on drums, and fellow Sudanese musician Osman Mohammed on darbuka!


Ronnie Maxwell
EVERYONE loves The Scorpios!!. A new album is scheduled for release in early 2020 and it’ll be debuted on AWIL. Meanwhile, catch them at The Post Bar in Seven Sisters, live on November 23rd alongside Stunflower, Slow Rebelling, and our very own Sophie Darling on the dex, for Same Waves Musicians Series!!


Will Roberts

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Dawid Frydryk

Osman Babo

Regia Ishag

Sue Lynch


Thursday, 3 March 2016

Firefay - The King Must Die

Carole Bulewski
Adam Bulewski
Firefay
Carole Bulewski - Vocals, piano/keyboards
Adam Bulewski - Guitar and related instruments
Ronnie Maxwell - Bass
Matt Grabham - Violin
James Conner - Drums

James Conner
Date - 12th February 2016
Venue -  Cavendish Arms, Stockwell, London
Current Album - The King Must Die

Review by Grey Malkin on The Active Listener

Conspiratorial album launch of Firefay's The King Must Die at the dark cornered Cavendish Arms in Stockwell, London.

It's not just because Carole Bulewski sings lead vocals and takes centre stage that your eyes are constantly caught in her gaze. She is the geological ArĂȘte you tread, the knife edge ridge that plummets to either side with no possibility of escape. You do not know whether to keep your attention permanently on her for fear of what lurks to right and left or to turn back, breaking the spell. You are complicit in this game of enchantments. 

Matt Grabham
 
If The King Must Die then Matt Grabham is the cleaver, the man who must do the fateful deed. He keeps his eyes lowered because he knows he has the power. You can feel it in the crowd, in his pose, in his music.

AL.
Ronnie Maxwell