Talking Gigs are a cross between alternative music performances and a talk / interview format, offering unique insights into the work and culture of an artist. We'll be performing Orchestra of Samples at the university of Sheffield in their wonderful Drama Studio concert theatre with guests, percussionist Ford Collier (Mishra, Drystones) and Sufi singer Sarah Yaseen (Rafiki Jazz).
We're performing Orchestra of Samples as part of the outdoor free festival French Rendez-Vous in Pondicherry, India (stage will be next to the Gandhi statue).
Online Q&A session with Addictive TV, who'll give an insight into how they created their new track Ribab Jam.
Registration via Eventbrite - link below...
We're taking part in the artistic cultural programme, completing their cycle of conferences around the themes of heritage, mobility, diversity, humanities in society, the pandemic and more. The conference is co-organized by UNESCO's Social and Human Sciences Programme, the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH) and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).
Make Music Day UK is part of the international Fête de la Musique which started in France in the early 1980’s and now takes place worldwide in over 700 cities in more than 100 countries.
Joining a line-up of international artists from Indonesia to Colombia, Plugged launch their first live stream in a series of upcoming online short performances called 'Plugged In'. Addictive TV's 30 minute lockdown gig is from Graham in London and Alejandro in Paris and starts at 8:30pm!
With live guests, including fretless guitar virtuoso Alejandro de Valera, French rapper Edgar Sekloka and singers Mélody Linhart and Marion Cassel from vocal acapella group Ommm.
Q&A session with Addictive TV and rapper Lemzi. As part of London Borough of Culture 2019, the William Morris Gallery’s Young Producers programme hosts a series of talks for young creatives working in the arts, to hear from artists and entrepreneurs featured in Borough of Culture’s 2019 Programme. This is the second event in the series, held at Waltham Forest’s new creative space One Hoe Street.
Joining them on this musical journey without borders will be fellow local artists Layil Barr on bass viol, percussionist Khaled Hakim on daf and rapper Lemzi.
SPECIAL GUESTS: Performing with Addictive TV will be the incredible Iranian percussionist Arian Sadr from Manchester’s award-winning Haymanot Tesfa Trio.
Launching a new night, East London venue The Glove That Fits joins forces with the website and hugely followed Facebook page Rare & Strange Intruments. French multi-instrumentalist and creator of the site and FB page Nicolas Bras joins Addictive TV to perform on Orchestra of Samples with his many wonderful strange homemade instruments.
Joining them on this musical journey without borders will be both celebrated jazz trombonist Dennis Rollins and percussionist extraordinaire STOMP’s Paul Gunter!
SPECIAL GUESTS : Performing with Addictive TV, rapper Edgar Sekloka aka Suga (of Milk Coffee & Sugar fame) and fretless guitar virtuoso Alejandro de Valera.
SPECIAL GUESTS : Performing with Addictive TV will be Tunisian percussionist and Grammy Academy member Saifeddine Helal, fretless guitar virtuoso Alejandro de Valera and rapper Edgar Sekloka, aka "Suga" of Milk Coffee & Sugar fame.
SPECIAL GUEST : Performing with Addictive TV, celebrated jazz trombonist Dennis Rollins, percussionist extraordinaire Stomp’s Paul Gunter and Scottish fiddle player from The Shee and winner of the BBC's Young Traditional Musician of the Year Shona Mooney.
Addictive TV's 'Orchestra of Samples' + Byron Wallen
Join Addictive TV on their unique musical journey without borders! Take over 200 musicians from more than 25 countries, imagine they never met but are sampled and combined to create new music of extraordinary unique fusions!
SPECIAL GUESTS: Performing with Addictive TV will be MC Zani and Bass 6 from the award-winning Beatbox Collective, and percussionist extraordinaire Stomp’s Paul Gunter.
Headlining the Bowers & Wilkins Stage at 8:30pm. SPECIAL GUESTS: Performing with Addictive TV at WOMAD will be STOMP percussionist extraordinaire Paul Gunter and Parisian fretless-guitar virtuoso Alejandro de Valera.
Join Addictive TV on their unique musical journey without borders! Take over 200 musicians from more than 25 countries, imagine they never met but are sampled and combined to create new music of extraordinary unique fusions! The free event is part of London Bridge City Summer Festival at The Scoop, the outdoor amphitheatre next to London's City Hall, by The Thames (near HMS Belfast). There's food and drink stalls etc... More info: www.thelondonriviera.com
SPECIAL GUESTS: Performing with Addictive TV will be percussionist extraordinaire STOMP's Paul Gunter plus original Addictive TV member and local boy Peter 'Tolly' Toll on melodica.
Part of BBC Music Day 2017. SPECIAL GUESTS: Performing with Addictive TV, percussionist extraordinaire Stomp’s Paul Gunter and Parisian fretless-guitar virtuoso Alejandro de Valera.
Celebrating the release of their new album with !K7 Records, duo Addictive TV perform their latest audiovisual venture Orchestra of Samples. SPECIAL GUESTS: Performing with Addictive TV will be MC Zani and Bass 6 from the award-winning Beatbox Collective, Parisian fretless-guitar virtuoso Alejandro de Valera and sitar master Baluji Shrivastav (awarded an OBE this year in recognition of his music foundation).
Starting the Orchestra of Samples UK tour as part of Hull City of Culture 2017.
SPECIAL GUESTS: Performing with Addictive TV, Scottish fiddle player and winner of the BBC's Young Traditional Musician of the Year Shona Mooney and Iranian percussionist Arian Sadr.
Addictive TV perform Orchestra of Samples at the amazing Matadero Madrid as part of this year's pre-Christmas celebrations atLa Navideña, Feria Internacional de las Culturas. events.
Closing the week long Live Cinema Festival in Rome, Addictive TV perform Orchestra of Samples in the beautiful outdoor Piazza dell'Immacolata square in Rome, Italy.