Whammy Bar Pocket Jazz Festival

Hopetoun Brown and Love Square bring special guests to Whammy for a unique night of rhythm, soul and jazz. African and Andean beats propel Love Square's sound while Hopetoun Brown bring the stomp and bass woodwind parp to a Friday night on K Road!

8pm Love Square

9.15pm Hopetoun Brown

We're bringing all the horns! Ever the drummer has trombone. Come to think of it.... everyone's got a trombone now! There will be soulful blats, howls and parping shrieks from trumpets, every flavour of sax and a bass clarinet.

Nod to the peerless drumming of Alistair Deverick, frown-smile at the sound of Tim Stewart's honeyed tonsils, gape in wonder at the stratospheric brass from Finn Scholes before checking-in your soul at the international baggage carousel of Nick Atkinson's woodwind collection! It's finally happening for one night only! Love Square and Hopetoun Brown on the same bill ripping their hottest licks on and off, as Aldous Harding might say. Did you know she sang a few BVs on the second Hopetouns album? So did Marlon Williams! ...and that's not even the beginning of the name-dropping! This is going to be special almost-longest-night-of-the-year knees up.

It's been tough to find a date to get these talented fellows all in the same place on the same night. Tim Stewart's been playing on jets for Synthony in the Sky or killing festivals on-stage with Supergroove, Alistair Deverick and Nick Atkinson have been touring around the nations opulent theatres playing Bruce Sprinsteen hits and you'll hear Atkinson's tenor sax tone has reached a new dimension of fatness since woodsheding all the Clarence Clemons licks he could find. Finn Scholes has recorded three new Carnivorous Plant Society albums and tonight he'll be limbering up those muscular lips for his upcoming EP campaign.

Whammy will have the underground cosiness on a winters night. You'll feel special descending the stairs to hear these musicians at the hight of their powers.