About this Event

Notting Hill Arts Club is very excited to be bringing you a free night featuring some of the best up and coming talent the UK has to offer.



With live music from:



ESE & The Vooduu People



South Londoner Ese Okorodudu has seen it all, done most of it. Graduating from London’s most demanding performing arts school — the streets, as a busker — songwriter Ese (vocals, guitar) is backed by the incendiary Vooduu People: ex-Noisette Pharoah Russell (drums) and Basile Petite (bass) plus Sheena Ross (backing vocals) and Jackson Baird (keyboards).



She and her band are inspired by a range of legends, from Jimi Hendrix to Amy Winehouse via The Isley Brothers, Led Zeppelin, Bowie, Prince, Alice In Chains, Skunk Anansie and Erykah Badu.



Signed to Quadrafon Music Industries, they have released six singles: Dynamite, Fairytale (both 2017), Up In Smoke (live in Brixton), Silver Spoon, Keep On and I Don’t Mind. The debut album Up In Smoke is released in May.



Ese and Sheena joined the lineup of Alabama 3 on their sold-out UK tour in November and December 2018 and are touring with them throughout 2019, with Ese & Sheena also performing Ese’s songs as the support act on many dates.



Ese was a guest star on Jools Holland’s BBC Radio 2 show broadcast on May 19. Aside from being interviewed about her career, she spins two tunes from her forthcoming album and performs a cover of The Stone Roses’ I Wanna Be Adored with Jools and his band including Squeeze drummer Gilson Lavis.



And support from:



RAW BLUE WIRE



Featuring Kendra Frost (Vox, bass, synths) & Dave Barbarossa (drums)



Having recently opened for Nine Inch Nails on their 'Cold and Black and Infinite' tour across the US as 'Kite Base', Kendra embarks upon a brand new sonic collaboration with Dave Barbarossa (Adam Ant / Bow Wow Wow / Republica) as Raw Blue Wire



TICKETS FREE // DOORS 7:30PM, LIVE MUSIC UNTIL LATE // ENTRY TO CLUB NIGHT AFTER SHOW INCLUDED // 18+