There is no one quite like them”.īut back to Spanish Bombs on Saturday May 2, which sees a stunning array of names from the Latin music world take part, with more to be announced, and all assembled by music producer Toy Hernández who has worked with Shakira, Eminem and Cypress Hill. The Barcelona-based collective mix dub, hip hop, and flamenco to modern-sounding drum licks and bass lines and have been described by NME as “one of the most strikingly original bands of the new millennia. It’s a two-nighter, La Linea, and the first, Friday |May 1, sees Ojos de Brujo on the bill. Time Out has called La Linea one of the world’s most eclectic celebrations of Latin music and with a whole heap of Iberian and Mediterranean flavoured happenings around Liverpool at the moment (even Shirley Valentine is back next week) there really is no better time to take the bull by the horns, put a rose between your teeth, chomp on an olive and Rock the Casbah. And there was nothing local about Joe Strummer’s long missed world music vocal either. But don’t forget that The Clash’s epic Sandinista! album, inspired many Latin musicians along the way. Wait a minute: A Spanish tribute to The Clash? Sounds like fun, sounds a bit different. Spanish Bombs – Tropical Tribute to The Clash and Ojos de Brujo. It’s London Calling, in every sense, next weekend when La Linea, the London Latin Music Festival, casts its castanets in the direction of Liverpool fresh from Barcelona, via the The Barbican.Īnd with it, two outstanding shows for the Phil. The Clash get the tropical treatment at Spanish Bombs at the Phil.
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