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Running order and info for tomorrow’s Jamboree

Here is the running order then:

8:30 – doors open (nice mingling time)
9:15 – Fiona Bevan
9:50 – Amber States
10:30 – AJ Holmes and the Hackney Empire
11:15 onwards – Sacha Dieu DJing

Make sure to get there early as music will start promptly and Fiona Bevan is an absolute treat. It’s £6 on the door before 10pm, £8 after (still a few cheap online tickets left at £4.50).

Some getting there info:
- nearest station is London Fields (9 minutes from Liverpool Street)
- buses that go right near: 26, 48, 55, 106, 236, 254, 388, D6, N26, N55, N253
(when on Mare Street, …

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Special guests

Friday 4th November 2011

AJ Holmes and the Hackney Empire
AJ Holmes & The Hackney Empire are somewhat of an enigma. An all-english 6-piece outfit with it’s leader claiming roots in Dagenham, rocking stages internationally with the sounds of Congolese Rhumba, Soukous and West African Highlife. With guitar skills imparted by legendary Sierra Leonian musician Folo Graff and cutting his teeth as part of the internationally acclaimed Rhumba crew Les Beaux Gosses de Berlin, AJ’s obsession with the good-time sounds of West-Central Africa is set on solid foundations. This tale of high musical pedigree continues to the present and an ongoing affiliation with London’s premier tropical ghetto music purveyors the Secousse Soundsystem.

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