(Jamie Lidell Official Website/ www.jamielidell.com) -
Jamie Lidell has been on everybody's lips since Miami and his sunset performance at the M3 Sunset Sessions was reported to be "the best set I heard all conference" (BMC). This guy goes so far beyond the norm. For those not familiar, imagine a white
Al Green who also beat boxes and constructs songs with his sampler in real time. He's got soul, rhythm, passion, humour, forward thinking musical structures and timbres, and more musical skills in his pinky finger than 99.9% of the DJs out there. Bad ass. Don't miss!
Jamie Lidell North American Tour Dates
April 10, 2006 San Diego Casbah
April 11, 2006 Los Angeles Troubadour
April 12, 2006 San Francisco Great American Music Hall
April 12, 2006 San Francisco Amoeba Music Instore
April 14, 2006 Portland Doug Fir Lounge
April 15, 2006 Seattle Chop Suey
April 16, 2006 Plaza Vancouver
April 19, 2006 Minneapolis Varsity Theatre
April 20, 2006 Chicago Empty Bottle
April 21, 2006 Toronto Lee's Palace
April 24, 2006 Boston Great Scotts
April 25, 2006 New York Bowery Ballroom www.ticketweb.com
April 26, 2006 New York South Paw
April 27, 2006 Philadelphia First Unitarian Church
April 30, 2006 Indio Coachella
May 04, 2006 Barcelona Teatre Lliure
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Jamie Lidell Bio
Jamie Lidell has been shocking audiences for the past three years with his extraordinary live shows; which careen from glitzy Funkadelic extravaganza to hard electronic avant-garde showpieces. He was top draw at Sonar (Barcelona) and Ether Festivals (London) of recent years, performing at Ether juxtaposed with the London Sinfonietta, a bill that has toured to sold out coliseums and major performance houses across Europe.
A peerless vocal performer; his largely improvised shows have won him thousands of fans from Belfast to Tokyo. Reviewers have likened him to 'a 21st century reincarnation of Little Richard' with 'a soul voice fried in honey like Sly Stone or Prince, and a beatboxing talent to make Muhammad Ali quake in his Everlast', delivering time and again 'a thrilling, visceral performance', 'pure, visceral power: a scintillating display of demented musical and physical energy', both 'exhilarating' and 'astounding'. Jamie Lidell is British music's best kept secret, about to be unleashed.
His genre-blending live experience is both captivating and passionate - building tracks by expertly sampling and layering loops of his voice and shifting effortlessly from deranged beat boxing to soulful funk.
