Toby, here's the line up for the 7th May, 2010

[I]

Penny, heres the line up for the 7th May, 2010

SKA MEETS ELECTRO SWING

For the real king of the dings

This is the first night in UK history that fuses the Hot Ska with the new Electro Swing sound ( 1920`s to 1950`s remixed ) . Wheres the sense in that ? Well they are all super cool brass driven spectaculars . Organised by Continental Drifts the festival legends in a welcome return for a Brixtown Special all the way down the line .

Sir Penny Reel - Penny Reel has written extensively about popular black music and specifically reggae since the early 1960s and in that time has met and interviewed most of the latter's major players. He has the oldest and largest selection of ancient Ska in the UK and aside to writing heaps of books was a personal friend and biographer of Dennis Brown amongst others

Swing Zazou - www.myspace.com/swingzazou - THe UKs only full band that mixes in a 9 piece the wonders of Django Rhenhardt and the likes of Dizzy RAscal with slamming and jumping dance beats from Brightons fattest dance scene

MAroon Town - Brixton legends, festival giants and world globetrotters. Probably Londons most mixed Ska Band , The multiracial band Maroon Town started life in Brixton twenty years ago and while sticking to their fiercely independent ethos have released four critically acclaimed albums (read review) to world success.www.maroontown.co.uk

DJ Chris Tofu - Dj Tofu is a electro swing pioneer and creator of the famous Club Electro Swing that is the first of its kind in the world. He runs Shangri LAs GLastonbury, Club Dada at Bestival and has created some of the most legedary moments in all of the UK festival world. Expect Ska Remix , Electro Swing and the Rock in Roll Remix www.facebook.com/#!/electro.swing?ref=ts

Observer

[Mr Swing Easy]

coolio. T>

[danidubdub]

I have worked with Chris Tofu a couple of times and always got on with him alright. Could be very interesting (hopefully).

[jamdown]

nice one. i'm in london and will try to make it down

[I]

Yes Dani, I've known Chris T for nearly 20 years and worked with him many times, at festivals in Hackney and Tottenham and Islington, at Glastonbury, playing for Jamaican pensioners during Black History Week. In 2000, he took myself and Natty Bo to Amsterdam for a gig at the Milky Way. The Dutch promoters treated me better than any one else ever. I got my own dressing room, a bowl of fruit, a good wage and a record bag that I still use. Tofu is one of the most positive people I'ver ever me, a stance he maintains even on a freezing May day in Victoria Park, when it rains ceaselessly and only 23 people turn up. He runs an agency in Walthamstow called Continental Drifts and has every conceivable type of band on his books, as well as acrobats, clowns and other travelling itinerants. In fact, his wife is a trapeze artist.

Observer

[Mr Swing Easy]

penny what time are you playing, roughly ? T.

[I]

Tofu says it's between 8pm and 10pm. Which is strange as the club apparently opens at 9pm. The entrance is free.

Reel