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Saturday 14th of May
Substance at the Spice of Life
Featuring - Bruno Giacomazzi + Gabriel Byrd and the Ambitious Bastards + Kooky
The Spice of Life is a Soho landmark, historic music venue and is in the heart of London's West End.
Renowned for having a great live sound The Spice of Life and Substance have worked together for over 14 years to bring the very best new music to the heart of the capital.
"One of the best little venues in London" Evening Standard
The Line up
Bruno Giacomazzi
Bruno Giacomazzi is a guitarist, singer-songwriter, and guitar tutor who started his career at the age of 12. In 2012, when he was only 16 years old, he formed his first band named "Stay Johnny". Months later, the talented group début in "Cult In Music", a famous Brazilian band competition, winning the prizes of 'Best Band' and 'Best Lead Guitarist'. The band competition was sponsored by "Cultura Inglesa" English school.
One year later, Bruno Giacomazzi and his band performed at "Cultura Inglesa Festival", sharing the stage with British artists such as Kate Nash, The Magic Numbers and The Dark Jokes. Due to their successful performance, the band was the opening act for one of the most famous bands in Brazil, "Capital Inicial". The gig took place at HSBC Brasil venue in São Paulo and had an audience of 3,000 people.
Years later, the band was dissolved and Bruno decided to start his solo career, moving to London in 2017. Following his blues/rock style, he performed at the famous "Cavern Club" in Liverpool, "Ain't Nothin' But Blues Bar?, "Hope & Anchor", and many other venues. Bruno has already released 3 video clips on YouTube, two original songs and one cover, reaching more than 130K views in total. Bruno has also released a 5-track EP called "Black Hat?. It is available on all digital platforms and as physical copies.
In January 2019, he started a new project called: Bruno Giacomazzi & The Foreigners. In the same year, Bruno and the band performed at London Chinese New Year. After the gig, they were interviewed by London Live channel. The interview was broadcasted one week later. They band has performed in Norway in the following cities: Lillestrom, Oslo and Notodden. In Notodden, the band was invited to perform at the Notodden Blues Festival. The Notodden Blues Festival is the largest blues festival in Europe, and it is widely known as "Europe's best blues experience"
https://www.brunogiacomazzi.com/
Gabriel Byrd and the Ambitious Bastards
Original Guitarist, Singer-Songwriter based in London.
The influences range from Rock & Roll and Electric Blues to Acoustic Folk, Psychedelic moods and sweet melodic ballads. Astonishing soloist and kaleidoscopic singer, Gabriel presents a fresh and unique vision that mixes passionate classic-rock, modern landscapes and wild guitar soloing
Byrd has been rambling Europe, London and surroundings with his electric band 'Gabriel Byrd & Ambitious Bastards' or performing solo in intimist acoustic format
Multi-instrumentalist, composer and graduated tutor, Gabriel is currently working in studio on his debut album 'Along the Way'
https://www.gabrielbyrd.com/
Kooky
KOOKY are a London based multi European retro sounding pop group.
Ana is from Portugal, Céline from France, Hanna from Sweden and Paul from the U.K.
KOOKY favour many of the artists and songs from what is often considered the golden era of pop; the 1960s and 1970s and their sound and influence is clearly drawn from here. So expect 3 minute songs which are high on melodic and harmonic content (especially on vocals), with interesting lyrics and thoughtful arrangements.
In addition to this the band do not want to become too formulaic so amongst the 30 or so original songs already in their repotoire you will find ballads, folk, guitar pop, rock, country, Euro disco and even a little jazz.
KOOKY are already beginning to attract a following and attention to their fun look and catchy sound from playing live regularly in the London area. The band are currently saving towards funding their first recordings in a professional studio. All music currently available was recorded as home demos.
https://www.luvmusic.org/
The Spice of Life is an over 18?s venue .ID will be required if you are asked.
http://www.spiceoflifesoho.com/
http://substancegigs.com/index.php
https://en-gb.facebook.com/substance.gigs
A pub and music bar on the perimeter of Cambridge Circus, at the corner of Romilly Street and Moor Street. First licensed in 1686 as the George, the current building dates from 1898 and the current name from 1986. (One of the old names, Cantons, can be seen being held by one of the gargoyles on the top of the building).
Famous in the 1960s and 70s for folk music and then punk, latterly it has become a jazz venue and home to SpiceJazz club. Up to 5 real ales from the McMullen range on offer and free admission to the main bar but you may have to pay for some music gigs in the basement.
Upstairs at the Spice is for drinks, eats and good times. Enjoy Great British classics with special seasonal dishes prepared daily by our chefs.
6 Moor Street,
Soho,
City of Westminster,
Greater London,
England,
W1D 5NA.
020 7437 7013
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