Kings Go Forth - Next Weeks London and Euro Dates

good pass on

have you got (or a link to) the other European dates

Their own website gives all the dates: http://kingsgoforth.com/

I'm very excited!

they put on a great show, definitely worth seeing

Thanks for the info mate -much appreciated!

Dave

shame there no other uk dates, Manchester would of been nice,

Yes, a shame... but it's only a 3 hour drive from Manchester

See them earlier this year in Jan at Jazz cafe.They were really good,worth checking out

My ticket arrived today; I'M SOOOO EXCITED! Excellent footage added by Mike. You can so feel the vibe. I might have to offer to mop all their brows at the end back-stage hehe

great band, as our the support act New Street Adventure! Looking forward to both on Monday.

Last shout for this before it arrives tomorrow. Still time to get tickets and see the band live. I doubt they'll be back as soon as some might like

The soul revival isn't reviving any careers-- it's creating them. Older musicians like Sharon Jones, Lee Fields, and Charles Walker were never exactly household names, not even among record collectors, but now they find themselves with more professional potential in front of them than behind them. Since there is little context for these artists, they aren't obliged to sleepwalk through old hits or old routines. Despite the reliance on old sounds, it's all new. It's an exciting moment for soul music, as albums by Jones, Fields, Walker's the Dynamites, and now Kings Go Forth indicate these older musicians are taking nothing for granted, which lends their music an urgency that transcends mere revivalism.

The musician known as Black Wolf wasn't well known outside the world of cratediggers and soul enthusiasts when he struck up a conversation with Andy Noble, owner of Lotus Records in Milwaukee. During the 1970s, Black Wolf had been a member of the Essentials, a regional soul act whose claim to fame was recording in Curtis Mayfield's studio. He and Noble started a new band and named it Kings Go Forth, after a 1958 Frank Sinatra-Tony Curtis movie. Since then, the 10-member, intergenerational outfit has released a series of 7" singles and gradually but determinedly built a reputation as a dynamic live act, settling easily into complex grooves that highlight Black Wolf's high-flying vocals. Along the way, the band has picked up some notable admirers: Famed disco DJ Tom Moulton, who really did invent the remix, mixed their "Don't Take My Shadow", and D.C. folk artist Mingering Mike, famous for painting covers for imaginary albums, created the artwork for the first Kings Go Forth full-length, The Outsiders Are Back.

This record gathers singles dating back to 2007 yet proves cohesive and consistent. Rather than a collection of mismatched parts, Outsiders sounds like a unified work, even if it does showcase the range of their sound and chops. Kings Go Forth run through soul-revue rave-ups as well as midtempo vocal-group numbers, and they even dabble in reggae on the snaky "1000 Songs". Drummer Jeremy Kuzniar's casually complex beats propel the songs forcefully. From that sturdy foundation, Kings Go Forth build songs full of punchy horns and swelling strings, topping off everything with insistent vocals from Black Wolf, Dan Fernandez, and Matt Norberg. None of the singers has the presence and personality of, say, Sharon Jones, but they compensate by trading off lead and back-up frequently, recalling groups like the Temptations and the Pips one minute and solo soul stirrers like Otis Redding or Lou Rawls the next.

Of course it sounds great: Adherence to period-appropriate production techniques is a bedrock tenet of the soul revival, so the album could be mistaken for a decades-old artifact. That's not an end in itself, but a means of bolstering the band's sound and ratcheting up the tension of their grooves. The horn breakdown on the sped-up "I Don't Love You No More" sounds like all of Michael Masser & Mandrill squaring off against Ali, and "You're the One" bursts out in Technicolor vocals that stretch from Philly all the way to Motown. Outsiders, however, never comes across like a pastiche of old styles and steps. Instead, the urgency of these songs reveals a band anchored strongly in the present but with their eyes toward the future.

" Stephen M. Deusner, April 20, 2010

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Shame that this is on the same night as Aaron Neville playing at the Barbican. Would have loved to see them. Bet they're fab. Have a good one Karen

You enjoy your evening too Warren

Update: AWSOME

http://www.thesoulgirl.com/2011/11/09/kings-go-forth-in-london/

My review and a few photos.

a great night, both bands were excellent. Shame it was a Monday, if that were a weekend gig the roof would have come off!

Hi thesoulgirl, I'd appreciate it if you'd remove the section of your review referring to my backing singers as 'the thin one' and 'the big girl', I don't think anybody you've never met would appreciate being referred to in such a way!

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It's the only way I could differentiate between the two - it wasn't insulting - it was descriptive like saying the short one or the tall one.

Quite right! what is the problem of the singer on the left wearing a scarf and the singer on the right?

Hi thesoulgirl, I'd appreciate it if you'd remove the section of your review referring to my backing singers as 'the thin one' and 'the big girl', I don't think anybody you've never met would appreciate being referred to in such a way!

would appreciate it if you read and followed forum rules and introduced yourself in new members section before using your first post to to dictate on here what people can or cant say in their own private blogs. Just a thought.

which one are you? the chippy one at the front?