Thursday 24th March 2011
Apolo
Nou de la Rambla
08001 Barcelona
21:00
Entry Price: €20.00 / €24.00
ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION
A welcome return to Barcelona this month, for one of the UK’s most powerful and uncompromising live bands, Asian Dub Foundation. With their unique fusion of punk, jungle, ragga and Asian musical styles, coupled with politically charged lyrics - ADF are hugely popular across Europe, but especially so in Spain and Portugal which they have visited many times. In Barcelona alone, they have headlined at the BAM / Merce Festival, Razzmatazz and the Apolo.
Since their emergence from the East London Asian-Underground scene, sixteen years ago, ADF have made a number of groundbreaking achievements . Aside from touring the world and collaborating with artists such as Primal Scream, The Beastie Boys and Radiohead, they established ADF Education to teach music technology to young people, performed live soundtracks for movies ‘La Haine’ and ‘The Battle of Algiers’, Steve Chandra Savale was even asked to edit BBC Radio 4’s prestigious ‘Today’ news programme. ADF have proven themselves to be a band, that truly know how to diversify into other projects, without diluting their original vision.
In February, ADF released their ninth studio album ‘A History Of Now’, on the Cooking Vinyl label, lyrically it is as forthright as ever, commenting on a world where “there is no history anymore, everything is in a state of flux”. The album features more organic instrumentation than before, with live drums and their Indian / Asian influences to the fore, and the dub sound complimented by more guitar based songs.
The Apolo show is the first date of a tour, that will take ADF across Spain, Portugal and France, and it’s onstage that the band, really come into their own. Using guitars and electronics fused with traditional Asian percussion such as tablas and the dhol, coupled with ragga style vocals – they really know how to blow the roof off.
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