Tickets selling fast for Alabama 3 gig at St Leonards Church
Well known Hastings music promotor and DJ Dan Wiltshire has managed to bring legendary London band Alabama 3 to Hastings.
The genre-defying originals perform their celebrated acoustic show at St Leonards Church on Saturday November 14 for a special one-night performance, with Drum Club's Lol Hammond on DJ duties.
More than half of the tickets for the concert have already sold out.
San said: “This is a really special one-off and not to be missed – a rare intimate performance in one of the town's most distinctive settings.
“For a band more accustomed to festival fields, packed venues and considerably bigger stages, this is Alabama 3 at close quarters. No vast field. No distant stage. Just the songs, the voices and one extraordinary room.
Formed in Brixton in the mid-1990s, Alabama 3 created a sound that remains almost impossible to categorise: country and blues colliding with gospel, dub, electronica, spoken-word evangelism and the after-hours pulse of acid house.
Across almost three decades of records, touring and festival appearances, Alabama 3 have maintained one of British music's most singular identities - operating somewhere between a rock 'n' roll band, electronic collective, gospel congregation and late-night Brixton club.
The band have become fixtures of Britain's festival culture, taking their music from clubs and theatres to major outdoor stages and the Hastings concert will bring them closer to the audience.
They are best known for their track Woke Up This Morning, which famously serves as the opening theme song for the hit HBO television series The Sopranos.
Support Lol Hammond emerged from the early-1990s British electronic underground as one half of Drum Club, part of a generation that blurred the boundaries between psychedelia, bands, DJs, electronic experimentation and the rapidly evolving UK dancefloor.
Tickets are available by going to www.ticketpass.org/event/EVAVLJ/alabama-3-acoustic-set or clicking here