....after a long, hot stint rockin' K Road's classic haunts Love Square return to the nest, the spiritual circle of twigs and moss that is Freida Margolis! This three-piece will happily be hustled and shooed into a tiny crevice of this legendary corner bar, which now has the alter ego of a packed jazz club. Nowhere else are the audience so close to the action! You can feel the metallic swish and clunk of Finn Scholes' trumpet valves as he readies his fingers for a dazzling cadenza. The clicks and pops from Nick Atkinson's saxophone keys add a percussive layer that you can only sense in such an intimate room. Alistair Deverick has his right heel off the ground, his toes poised on the edge of his bass-drum pedal. Cymbals shimmer and wash before he detonates a booming note from his kick.
The rhythms are exotic, reeled in on fine lines from the Bolivian highlands and the head-waters of the Blue Nile in Ethiopia. Skanks from the Caribbean swim upstream past the jazz of New Orleans toward the soul of the great lakes. The regime of hand percussion alone reads like pirates shopping list. A guiro, three tambourines, four maraca, five golden rings, a silver triangle, christmas bells, woodblocks, a single silver triangle and lastly shakers... two hands full! There will also be three members of the saxophone family involved and you never know how many Scholes' will turn up. These shows routinely sell out so grab your stubs now to save your spot! Turn up early to get a seat. Folks cutting it fine may have to stand.
