TGU’s first official release of the year is a collaboration with Afrikan Boy with a version of ‘London Calling.’ It started out as something more oriental but ended up somewhere in South London via Lagos. Which doesn’t sound a lot like the Clash, but it has Mick Jones’ seal of Read more…
http://www.artpolefest.org/ENG/ “At the IXth ArtPole you will as always find music discoveries – organic trance project Airtist from Hungary that combined the electronic dance music with Jew’s harp and didgeridoo, and Deši from Czech Republic that also have didgeridoo that sounds surprisingly soft together with the clarinet. Two completely Read more…
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TGU appearing at Beyond the Border-Wales International Storytelling festival on Sunday July 1st. http://www.beyondtheborder.com/festival/line-up/transglobal-underground/
After the success of the Portobello show with Ingrid Webster, we’re moving east and playing her London Zulu mashup set along with our multi-talented multi-Perisan Gulf project In Transit playing a warm-up set for the River of London show. This is, of course, a secret gig, only we thought we’d Read more…
We’ve been involved with putting together a very special show for the pre-Olympic River of Music festivities at Battersea Park on Sunday July 22nd. ‘In Transit’ is a rare London meeting of a number of very disparate artists originating from the Gulf region. The whole show is only going to Read more…
Thanks to everyone who braved the Royal Rain to make it down to party at the Old Print Works in Birmingham last night. Great music from Village Well and the drummers from Cameroun. The sun’s back out and we’re headed to the fabled metropolis of Dorchester.
SUNDAY JUNE 3rd: Celebrating Sanctuary, The Old Print Works, Ballsall Heath, Birmingham http://www.celebrating-sanctuary.org.uk/ MONDAY JUNE 4th: Dorchester Festival, Dorchester Arts Centre http://dorchesterfestival.co.uk
New show added!……TGU play as part of the Celebrating Sanctuary festival, the Old Print Works, Mosley Rd, Birmingham. Tickets are £8.00 in advance from www.theticketsellers.co.uk Celebrating Sanctuary brochure