About this Event

ALABAMA 3

The Boileroom

13 Stoke Fields

Guildford

GU1 4LS

01483 440022

www.theboileroom.net

Doors: 7.00pm

Age Restriction: 18+

Ticket Price: £25adv.

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ALABAMA 3



"The best live band in the country" The Guardian



"This is the first band I could ever dance to in the daytime hours without chemical assistance...and that says a lot" Irvine Welsh - Author of Trainspotting and Filth



“They swing like the devil’s own dick. Alabama 3 beat a righteous drum and party like bastards.” Time Out



“If anyone thinks that politics and religion aren’t suitable subjects for rock ‘n’ roll they should check out Alabama 3” The Times



“The thought of not having Alabama 3 fills me with horror” Stephen King



2012 was a busy year for Alabama 3! Beginning with their first ever visit to New Zealand and a much lauded return trip to Australia, they ended the year with their acclaimed Art of Theft Tour, which saw the band giving their all during a non stop 18 date tour of the UK.The Oxford Mail described their Art of Theft gig as ‘a tight two-hour set of style, substance, satire, quick wit, great songwriting and perfectly-stated political message. And that’s not even mentioning those floor-trembling killer beats.



They may look like a novelty act, but there is grit and musicianship behind that whisky-soaked aviator-clad facade.Are they the best live band in the country? Very probably. Certainly, when it comes to putting on a show few bands come close.’ Kermit from Black Grape said of their Manchester date: ‘Let me tell you these guys don’t just look the part, they are the real deal... If you weren’t there you missed one of the best gigs this city has had in a long while. ALABAMA 3, I salute you come back soon, my city loves you.’



After the shortest of breaks to regroup and draw breath, the band are back in the studio working on material for their next album. The Reverend D Wayne Love, the band’s iconic rapper and spiritual leader, has let it be known that at the moment they are revisiting and reimagining their roots in techno music. We eagerly await the results … Much as they love being locked down in the studio creating new sounds, Alabama 3 live and breath for live performance and can’t wait to get back out there, performing live in front of their fans and followers, old and new.



THE BACK STORY

Best known internationally for supplying the theme to the American TV series ‘The Sopranos’ with their song ‘Woke Up This Morning’, Alabama 3 have carved a unique niche for themselves which transcends considerations of chart success and runs far deeper than the transitory fame of modern celebrity culture. They are undoubtedly the greatest American act the UK ever did produce, and their heady combination of techno and C&W, alongside a proclivity for rock ‘n’ roll decadence and an acute social conscience means that they are effectively a unique entity in modern music.



They are Alabama 3, from Brixton and beyond…The band’s nucleus of Rob Spragg and Jake Black met towards the end of the 1980s at a south London house party. Still together, and still resident in the heart of their beloved London SW9 postcode, with a fluid and ever changing membership, Alabama 3 are more a way of life than a rock'n'roll band. After major label deals with Sony and Geffen, and an enduring relationship with the indie label One Little Indian, Alabama 3 continued to cut their own groove by starting their own Hostage label.



Their headquarters in the Jamm building in Brixton incorporates a recording studio, a club venue where A3 put on their own Outlaw nights in between many other events, and an administrative centre where various managers, promoters and other support staff keep the whole operation ticking over. Working in this grubby mansion, over looking London's most vibrant, music-savvy, multi-cultural quarter, there are DJs, artists, recording engineers and assorted admin and creative types who wander in and out of a warren of rooms with a purposeful air. “We're very proud to be independent,” Rob says. “It's a cottage industry that's been empowered by a form of narcotic Marxism.” And also, it should be said, by a history of brilliant music-making.