Funk and Soul Club with The Cuban Brothers (live) 7th April
It’s long been said that Cubans sing when they speak, dance when they walk and woo with a love song so it should be of little surprise that The Cuban Brothers’ peerless funk soul review blends sexy, soulful music, with jaw-dropping b-boy action and riotous comedy. From humble beginnings Miguel Mantovani, Archerio Mantovani and Kengo San have built Los Hermanos Cubanos - The Cuban Brothers - into a legendary outfit that continuously sells out shows across the globe.
Mike Keat (Miguel) started The Cuban Brothers as an entertainment entity after ‘watching dance music disappear up its own arsehole’ (his own words) in the mid to late 90s. His love of b-boying, Latin music and character comedy inspired him to create a fun, irreverent music-driven show to help him showcase his burgeoning talents as a singer, MC and dancer. After enrolling Archie ‘Archerio’ Easton (a former champion b-boy and ex-Prodigy dancer) and Kengo ‘Kengo San’ Oshima (a dance student and earnest wrong-man) the trio was complete and blurring historic fact with fiction and the three elements of entertainment - music comedy and dancing - the three amigos began their foray into filthy fun and funky action.
Not only the entertainment of choice for Elton John, Richard Branson and Robbie Williams, the trio has also supported James Brown, Chuck Berry, Fatboy Slim, De La Soul, Talib Kweli and performed with the likes of The Prodigy, Q-Tip, Chic, Roy Ayers and Jocelyn Brown, as well as touring the world in their own right 20 times over. Their residency at Rob da Bank’s celebrated Sunday Best parties led to The Cuban Brothers compering and hosting the main stage at Bestival since its inception in 2004 to the present day. The perfect foil for the festival’s beyond eclectic hedonism, the band’s deliriously infectious funk and lightning wit plus the gentle ribbing of world famous artists and a lot of inappropriate touching has endeared them to thousands of Bestivalites.
The Funk and Soul Club resident djs will show well worthy support in the shape of Mary-Go-Round, Sir Funk and Dj Haze.
Line Up
The Cuban Brothers (live)
Mary-Go-Round
Sir Funk
Dj Haze
£7/8 on the door
Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes
Bedford Way
Russell Square
London
WC1 H9EU
8-3am
Last Entry 1am
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