Every Thursday, Friday and Saturday (plus Sunday 11th December), we will be showcasing London’s best artists who will entertain you whilst you peruse the beautiful craft market eat some mince pies, drink mulled wine and feel very merry!

Come and join us:

Every Thursday and Friday from 1-3pm and 6-8pm

and Saturday’s from 12-6pm

kicking off on 1st December all the way through to Christmas Eve!

The magical market is open from 12pm-8pm Thursdays and Fridays and 10am-6pm on Saturdays.

ARTISTS PLAYING:

FREE ENTRY

£10 DOOR (first come first serve)

If you wish to RESERVE A TABLE – please email: tablebookings@onetaste.co.uk (purchasing a ticket does NOT automatically reserve you a table!)

OneTaste is 7 in December.

It doesn’t feel that long ago that we hosted our first show in the Tavistock room at the top of The Bedford with Jamie Woon, Newton Faulkner, Paradox, Jono McCleery and Pepe Belmonte! What a night.

300 odd shows later, we have decided nothing would make us happier than to get back to our roots and celebrate all the amazing artists that we have had the pleasure of listening to over the years.

We like the idea of a big show with SURPRISES, presents and amazing MUSIC & POETRY. Sounds good?

We’d LOVE you to join us!

“Whenever I get a chance to do a OneTaste, it’s got to be done!” Scroobius Pip

Line-up:

Noisettes

We remember first seeing the Noisettes perform at a squat party in Leyton about 6 years ago…! Shingai Shoniwa literally blew us away.

Two years on from a second album Wild Young Hearts, awash with stomping electro-rock and galloping funk grooves, the London duo are set to return with their third album, a set of sleek pop songs steeped in soul, dizzy on disco and harking back to the days of blues and jazz greats.

Described as ‘the best live band in Britain’ by The Guardian, a recent London show saw Shoniwa charge in to the audience playing guitar and singing, clinging to a ladder suspended from the ceiling, a nod to the circus skills she learnt in her teens.

Many a person has stated: “With the Noisettes, it is always best to expect the unexpected” and for our 7th Birthday you had better hold on to your hats for one hell of a ride!

Link to Noisettes

ESKA

ESKA‘s voice that has been already heard by millions.  As a vocalist, ESKA’s legendary virtuosity has attracted the attentions of a host of acclaimed artists – the likes of Tony Allen and David Sylvian, to name a couple. Her vocal arrangements have credits on 3 Mercury-nominated albums.  For her solo project, she chose to work alongside one of her most recent collaborators, artist-producer Matthew Herbert.  As a conductor, ESKA has lead a 150-voice choir for Bobby McFerrin and is Music Director for Goldsmiths (London University) Vocal Ensemble who have performed with Matthew Herbert’s Big Band.

She is one super busy lady, with the most amazing voice to boot and by goodness we are so happy and excited to have her celebrate our 7th Birthday with us!

Link to ESKA

Gideon Conn

Born and raised in Manchester, Gideon Conn spent the greater part of his formative years ensconced in a state of daydream. After four years of sculptural bliss at fine art college, he over extended his self in an attempt to succeed in the construction industry as a labourer. The work was hard. He endured for eight months then packed it in to be an artist and musician and hasn’t looked back.

He’ll quite happily to sing to anyone, anywhere.

“There’s a song for every occasion and each song has its own identity and place within the repertoire. It all depends on what you’re feeling.”

Link to Gideon Conn

Daniel Marcus Clark – EarFilms

Daniel Marcus Clark is a writer, storyteller, musician & composer from Brighton, England. He specialises in the composition and performance of ‘EarFilms’- filmic sound-tracked and sound-designed stories. This is a medium that he has been developing since 1999. As well as writing and telling stories, he plays a multitude of instruments including guitar, harp, double bass, trumpet & baritone horn, and has worked as a recording and live musician on a number of projects including as front-man of ‘The Hat’.

“A consummate performer.” – The Scotsman

“Storyteller and musician Daniel Clark shows how perfectly both these roles can combine.”

Link to Daniel Marcus Clark

Stac

Having been thrown out of school at the age of 14 for setting fire to her music teacher (he didn’t meet her unusually high standards) the artist formerly known as Stacey Dowdeswell, somehow managed to wangle a scholarship to the infamous Brit School (an institution that has so far managed to churn out the likes of Amy Winehouse, Kate Nash and Jamie Woon) and her path in life, it seemed, was set.

Link to Stac

If you wish to RESERVE A TABLE – please email: tablebookings@onetaste.co.uk – purchasing a ticket does not automatically reserve you a table!

Press enquires: jess@onetaste.co.uk

OneTaste’s 6th annual festival is this collectives highlight event of the year. This renowned music and spoken word collective, made their name by helping launch some of the UK’s most amazing talent: Newton Faulkner, Jamie Woon, Portico Quartet, Little Dragon, Scroobius Pip, Polarbear, Jono McCleery and Kate Tempest to name a few, have all performed as part of the OneTaste Collective founded by Director Dannii Evans and singer Jamie Woon in December 2004.

Tickets:

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Press:

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Line-Up:

GLOBE THEATRE:

Alice Russell

We are so, so very excited about this wonderful lady gracing our stage. Alice Russell and OneTaste have been friends for a while now. The OneTaste Choir led by Stac accompanied Alice at her incredibly beautiful acoustic show in May last year, held at the glorious Union Chapel. There was not a dry eye in the house!

Alice also features on our OneTaste Collective Album Vol. 2 with a very special version of her song Universe. Yet, rather surprisingly we have never quite managed to synchronise our diaries for an exclusive, OneTaste performance…UNTIL NOW! There will be candles, magic, surprises and a distinct awareness of the hairs on the back of your neck. Come! Let us be loving Alice Russell!

Link to Alice Russell

Jono McCleery

Having just released his album There Is with Ninja Tune, we are are more than delighted to welcome Jono McCleery back onto our OneTaste stage. His voice is incredible and rich. His melodies are heartbreakingly beautiful and his songs intoxicating. Accompanied by The Dans on bass guitar and drums, Jono’s set at this years OneTaste Festival is going unforgettable.

Link to Jono McCleery

John Adeleye

The last time John ‘JNay’ Adeleye was on our stage was way back in 2008 just after he released his spectacular debut EP Merry Go Round. Since then a lot and nothing has changed.  He is still a MOBO Award-Winning artist with a utterly beautifully soulful voice, that transcends generations.  He may be working in a nursing home for dementia patients as an activities coordinator and you may or may not have seen him on last years X-Factor! But we’re just simply thrilled to have him back in the warm fold of the OneTaste family.

Link to John Adeleye

Bane (Pt 3)

Unfortunately there just don’t seem to be enough adjectives in the English dictionary to describe how bloody great we think Bane is.  Captivating, enthralling, fascinating and hilarious just don’t seem to do it.

Join hired hand Bruce Bane and 79 other characters as he shoots from the hip and asks questions later in the outstanding 3rd part of this movie pastiche that is BANE. Fusing the physical genius of Joe Bone and musical talent of Ben Roe, this one man film noir parody is a: “pitch perfect satire of the highest order.” (The National Arts Service).

Link to Bane

Laura J Martin

Laura J Martin is the solo artist that sounds like a beat orchestra! Flute, amazing vocals, beat looping, piano playing and stories of Japanese female arsonists. These are some of the many reasons we love Laura J Martin. We can’t wait to march along with the Liverpudlian folk pixie!

Link to Laura J Martin

Moulettes

For OneTaste, the Moulettes are a little bit special.  They always seem to bring an element of ruckus magic to their shows and build the audience up into a frenzy!  Their beautifully weird, exciting and quirky music as well as their aesthetically pleasing outfits, always make it a real pleasure to embrace on the OneTaste stage. The Moulettes charismatic, idiosyncratic brand of modern folk music which incorporates elements of prog-rock, gypsy,  classical and swing enthralled crowds at festivals up and down the country, including Larmer Tree, Glastonbury, Secret Garden Party and Latitude. We can’t wait to have them back!

Link to Moulettes

Holly Walker

Holly Walker looks like and angel, sings like an angel and if you don’t pay attention could possibly be mistaken for an angel, but don’t be fooled! Her lyrics are devilish.  Her songs will have you laughing until you realise that she did in fact sing that word you thought you’d mistakenly mis-heard. Her voice is powerful, crisp and delightful. We just love her.

Link to Holly Walker

Nick Mulvey

Nick Mulvey, long standing OneTaste Collective member since his days playing with Portico Quartet is kicking off The Globe Theatre’s musical antics armed with just his voice and a trusty guitar. Expect half an hour of beautiful melodies matched with perfectly chosen chord progressions, captivating stories and lyrics sung with such heartfelt delivery that they could only belong to a man named Mulvey.

Link to Nick Mulvey

John Berkavitch

John Berkavitch is back from a two year hiatus in Cambodia and we have to be honest…we are rather pleased about that! Fresh from giving a TEDX talk about The Art of Embarrassment, John Berkavitch will be delighting us with his obnoxious and hilarious poetry. We can’t wait!

Link to John Berkavitch

A.F. Harrold

Now why would we want a brilliantly funny, charismatic, intelligent poet like A.F. Harrold to perform at the OneTaste Festival?  Well A.F. Harrold performs for adults and children, in cabaret and in schools, in bars and in basements, in fields and indoors. He is the owner of many books, a handful of hats, a few good ideas and one very lovely beard.

Link to A.F. Harrold

Dougie Hastings

Dougie Hastings is one of those spoken word artists you are pretty sure you are gonna like and then actually end up loving. His poetry is powerful, pumped with wit and a human desperation. His delivery effortlessly slides from deadpan to passionate and he has the ability to hook you up onto each and every word…leaving you hanging until you pump your fists in agreement and ask him when his self-help book is going to come out!

Link to Dougie Hastings

Natasha Moskovici

Natasha Moskovici is a fairly new addition to the OneTaste fold but by jove, we just can’t get enough of this scrumptious wonder.  She has a warmth and sincerity to her poetry that just seems to leave you wanting more and more.  Natasha is captivating whilst making you chuckle and sometimes gasp! We are delighted she will be joining us at this years OneTaste Festival!

Link to Natasha Moskovici

Sabrina Mahfouz

Sabrina Mahfouz is a poet, playwright and creative who began her career in politics and journalism but realised real life was overrated; she preferred living in her mix of modern fairytales and magical realism. She recently won the Westminster Prize with her first short play, That Boy, which was performed at Soho Theatre was included in the critically acclaimed show End of the Line.  Sabrina has also just been announced as a Creative in Residence at The Hospital Club in the categories of Theatre & Poetry!

Link to Sabrina Mahfouz

Alex Gwyther

Surrey based wordsmith and aspiring children’s writer Alex Gwyther’s Hip-Hop influenced poetical prose covers short stories and poems about everyday life … and the little bits in between.

“When someone has raw skill and a self awareness that makes it natural you can’t really touch them. Alex has two big bags of both. Ace’  -  Polarbear

Link to Alex Gwyther

BALLROOM:

Swing Dance Session with The Magic Number

This year at the OneTaste Festival we thought we might like to do something different and have a whole 2 hour swing dance session!

There are two brilliant factors about this session. The first is that we will have two pretty highly regarded Swing Dance and Lindy Hop teachers to teach us all how to do it properly. The second is that we will be learning to dance to the soundtrack of The Magic Number a four piece swing band that have been purveyors of Dirty, Dixy, Gypsy swing since 2001. Excited? We are!

Link to The Magic Number

Franky and the Jacks

Franky and the Jacks have brought many a smile to many a face over the last year at our OneTaste events. So, how could we keep them from you at this years festival? We we couldn’t…so come, dance, sing, swing and be merry. There is no way in hell you will be able to resist their guitar, double bass, violin, harmonica and 4 part harmony yielding, foot stomping charms!

Link to Franky and the Jacks

Wah Wah 45s’ presents…

iKestra
Stac
LV and Joshua Idehen

Independent and super duper record label Wah Wah 45s run regular club & live sessions at The Scala, Queen of Hoxton, The Vibe Bar, Favela London, Jazz Cafe, Big Chill Bar and many, many more worldwide and they are popping down with iKestra, Stac and LV and Joshua Idehen for a spectacularly special set from the godfather’s of the label DJs Dom Servini & Scrimshire.

Link to Wah Wah 45s

The Moringa Tree presents…New Sounds of Africa 

The wonderful people at The Moringa Tree charity will be taking over the Ballroom for a wee while, hosting the toe-tapping band that is AJ Holmes & The Hackey Empire, as well as African drum’n'bass duo Mashasha & Sam in collaboration with Focus Organization!

We can’t wait to have them all down!

Link to The Moringa Tree charity

DJ’s:

My Therapist

From Motown to 1990′s slow jams and 50′s Rockabilly, My Therapist is sooooo totally going to blow your minds.

Link to DJ My Therapist

John Hendicott

John Hendicott. Everyone loves John Hendicott. John will be spinning some of the finest records known to man, guaranteed to set the mood and get your head nodding. But be warned, John does have a dark side.

Link to DJ John Hendicott

TAVISTOCK:

The OneTaste show with Gideon Conn

The genius that is our Gideon Conn will be hosting a two hour, traditional OneTaste show filled to the brim with some of our favourite acts from this years festival season. Amber States, Fiona Bevan, OneTaste Choir, John Berkavitch, A.F. Harrold and of course the man himself Gideon Conn will all be playing at what we are sure is going to be one of the many highlights of this years festival.

Gideon Conn – Gideon Conn has been wowing our audiences for almost as long as we can remember. His unique songs and wonderful delivery have won over the hearts of many and we couldn’t be more delighted that he has agreed to host our OneTaste show at this years festival.

Fiona Bevan – Fiona Bevan has the voice of a songbird, the charm of a maiden and the song writing skilz of a daemon. She writes playful, jazz tinged folk songs and will be performing songs from her latest album Plant Your Heart.

Amber States – When the Amber States boys packed out the OneTaste tent at Love Box Festival earlier this year we knew we were on to a good thing. Handsomely talented and laden with catchy hooks, dreamy melodies, exhilarating builds and toe tapping rhythms these boys have ‘it’, whatever ‘it’ is.

OneTaste Choir - The OneTaste Choir, led by soul singer, Stac, perform close harmony a cappella songs at nearly every OneTaste event. The Choir have collaborated with artists such as Alice Russell, Inua Ellams, Aloe Blacc and many other OneTaste and non-OneTaste artists on special arrangements to add something magic to their music and spoken word. It’s an amazing thing having 15 girls singing together and we know how much you love them too!

A.F. Harrold - Now why would we want a brilliantly funny, charismatic, intelligent poet like A.F. Harrold to perform at the OneTaste Festival?  Well A.F. Harrold performs for adults and children, in cabaret and in schools, in bars and in basements, in fields and indoors. He is the owner of many books, a handful of hats, a few good ideas and one very lovely beard.

John Berkavitch - John Berkavitch is back from a two year hiatus in Cambodia and we have to be honest…we are rather pleased about that! Fresh from giving a TEDX Talk about The Art of Embarrassment, John Berkavitch will be delighting us with his obnoxious and hilarious poetry. We can’t wait!

Arena Artists Cabaret

Come; be cheeky; take a peek…

Produced and hosted by Lotan Sapir, the Arena Artists will be taking over with Franky and the Jacks for their full on Cabaret extravaganza!

Performers on the night will be: Flavia Bertam, Margharita Franceschi, Zoe Cobb, Daniel Hernandez, Jo Below, Milly Blue, Tina in the Green Dress, Adam Tafler, Alice Cade…PLUS MORE!

Link to Arena Artists

Plus!

Dance: Burlesque, Clown Dance Theatre, Contemporary Dance and Swing

Food: OneTaste Café run by superfoodsupercook Ben Dwyer

Workshops: The Laughing Workshop & Psychedelic Kidnap Experience

Art: Live Art and exhibition with Sri McKinnon: Sri McKinnon is a talented, acclaimed visual artists and illustrator. Her work is highly influenced by her youth in Indonesia, her love of hip-hop culture and Sri’s own ever-present glorious femininity. Sri will be exhibiting her latest works as well as live painting on the day.

Link to Sri McKinnon

For all Press Enquiries – please contact Jess Fleming at: jess@onetaste.co.uk

After a few months away, we are back at Favela London for a stupendous line up of amazing music and spoken word!

Full line-up:

Joe Driscoll & Sekou Kouyate

“He doesn’t speak any French, and I speak no English… but through music, we understand.” Sekou Kouyate

In the port city of Marseilles, home to many a nomadic soul, Joe Driscoll first met Sekou Kouyate.

Sekou Kouyate, originally from Conakry, Guinea, was raised in a large musical family tradition. Yet, it is not only his traditions, but his ability to transcend them that has set him apart. In France he is known as the ‘Jimi Hendrix of the kora‘, because of his unique style of playing with various effects, in a variety of genres, and with an extreme intensity. He has toured the world over with the band Ba Cissoko, comprised of his cousin and brother.

Joe Driscoll, originally from Syracuse, New York, was raised in the folk traditions of America. Yet it has been his ability to transcend genres that has set him apart from his contemporaries as well. Using live looping technology, he creates the soundscape of a full band with beatbox and multi instrumentalism. Creating musical bridges between folk, reggae, and hip-hop, his one man live show has seen tours of the USA, Europe, and two tours of Africa.

After a week of jamming together, these two musicians from opposite sides of the earth knew that they had found a special type of musical brotherhood. The resulting album is a mad fusion of afrobeat, hip-hop, folk, and reggae, that defies any simple tag or description: “There are only two types of music: good and bad.” This album clearly illustrates these two are definitely in the former camp!

Link to Joe Driscoll

John Berkavitch

One fifth of the Urbanian Quarter, Artist, Vandal, Poet, Writer, B-Boy, Rapper, Comic, Conceptual Thinker, Collaborator, Human-Beatbox and Surrealist, Berkavitch is a Midlands-based live artist and is probably best known for his Slam Poetry and Spoken Word Performances, as a dancer, and for his recent move into hip-hop theatre, which he talks about in the programme.

A veteran of the spoken word scene up and down the UK, he toured with Apples & Snakes as part of the Temptation Tour in Autumn 2005, tearing up stages in venues all over the place. He is the 2007 UK Slam Champion, the 2007 Glastonbury Slam Champion and the 2006 Blackdrop Slam Champion.

Berkavitch co-wrote and stared in Me Versus The City, a semi-autobiographical exploration of the graffiti sub-culture and the human desire to belong.

Link to John Berkavitch

Brooke Sharkey

Brooke Sharkey writes gypsy and blues inspired folk ballads in both French and English, contrasting cotton wool folk melodies with strong soulful vocals throughout her songs. She released her debut EP A Taste of Truth, last summer, recorded in collaboration with producer, Chris Bond. She is now working on her next album with her new found London based band, captivating audiences wherever they go with old timey instrumentation, heartfelt lyrics and three part harmonies.

“Brooke has an incredible voice, control and grace.” Katherine Hamnett, The Observer

Link to Brooke Sharkey

Paula Varjack

Paula Varjack is as likely to perform at a gallery or cabaret night, as at a poetry slam. She often performs with live and recorded music, and sometimes performs with video projection. She has collaborated with a number of international music producers including Cloudfist Conceptz, Ludwig Berger, Backdraft and Zed Vantz.

In 2008 she was nominated for “Best Performance by an International Poet” in the Farrago Slam awards. Her first solo show – Kiss and Tell, premiered at Hau Zwei as part of the Berlin 100 grad theatre festival. In 2009 she entered the world of hosting and creating events, the first of which,the anti-slam, is a satirical take on slams where the lowest score wins. It has since gone on to take place in Warsaw, London and Koelln. In 2010 she was one of the nine artists in residence for the E.U. funded Poetry Slam Days project, creating a mulitlingual spoken word show: Smoke and Mirrors, that went on tour to 21 European cities. And now she is performing at her first ever OneTaste show at Favela London…wow!

Link to Paula Varjack

Afrobilly Jones

Afrobilly Jones has manifested in various incarnations: constantly evolving and exploring sounds aplenty, keeping the heart young. Journeying through Brazil, Africa, the Deep South & London. Influenced by Alan Lomax and 40′s gospel artists such as Bill Landford & the Landfordaries plus the likes of Nina Simone, Nick Drake, Toots & the Maytals and Paul Simon.

Having just played a number of summer festivals and over 50 dates this year, his live shows continue to evolve, crossing musical bounderies from 40′s gospel, congo-rumba and oldtime mountain music,  as well as some of his early jazz influences.

Link to Afrobilly Jones

So there’s the full line-up!

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Weaving together excerpts from the critically acclaimed independent film ‘What About Me’ by 1 Giant Leap and new film Wakan Tanka, with the finest musicians, poets, rappers and dancers from the UK and the USA, OneTaste has created a multi-dimensional, captivating and thought provoking showcase which explores what a truly interdependent world would actually feel like and what it takes to get there.

From underground UK talents like MC Xander to International rappers like SPEECH from Arrested Development and The Narcicyst, this show unites the artists who share an important common message; we are all interdependent as people, as a planet, we all need to become the change we want to see in the world.

Music – SPEECH, The Narcicyst, Ramzy Suleiman, MC Xander (UK) and ESKA (UK, live web feed from London)

Poetry – Kate Tempest (UK), Ainsley Burrows, Rich Ferguson and Zora Howard (Youth Poet Laureate of NYC)

Dance – Lotan Sapir and Tal Adler Arieli

Film – 1 Giant Leap and Wakan Tanka

“I’m involved with the OneTaste show for Interdependence Day cuz it’s about artists coming together & bypassing political divides. It feels empowering and right.” – SPEECH (Arrested Development)

“This show provides one of the greatest opportunities we have as artists to get our message out to a global community, participate in breaking the separation between us all and get on with celebrating the unity that is found within our diversity.” – Dannii Evans, producer of OneTaste

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More on the Artists:

SPEECH

World famous rapper from hip-hop group Arrested Development, Speech is well known for speaking out for social justice and world peace.

Link to SPEECH

The Narcicyst

Canadian rapper, originally from Iraq, The Narcicyst has performed in live shows across Canada, Europe, the United States and the Middle East, often backed by a live band and vocalists. He has also opened for a number of high profile acts like Public Enemy, Busta Rhymes, Talib Kweli & Kanye West!

Link to The Naricyst

MC Xander

Multi-vocalist and beatbox extraordinaire, MC Xander has been wowing crowds all over Europe for the last 5 years with his all vocal dub-flavoured, politically inspired beats.

Link to MC Xander

Kate Tempest

Champion of her peers and signed to renowned underground label Sunday Best, Kate Tempest’s poetry is passionate, hard hitting and eloquent. Get ready for her to reach down into the pit of your stomach and demand that you tell her where your soul is.

Link to Kate Tempest

ESKA

Having sung with Cinematic Orchestra, Nitin Sawhney, Zero 7 and TY, ESKA is one of the UK’s most loved and respected singers. Her effortless voice is incredible, her songs are beautiful and her message is clear.

Link to ESKA

Lotan Sapir

International dancer, actress and corporeal mime artist, Lotan Sapir, within her work, explores identity, belonging and physical borders that keep us from unity as a planet.

Ramzy Suleiman

Palestinian/American artist and Berklee graduate, Ramzy Suleiman is well known to the New York music scene. His soulful musicality is matched by the poignancy of his lyrics on issues of freedom and social justice. Ramzy will appear with his solo and with his band, The Brothers Handsome.

Link to Ramzy Suleiman

Ainsley Burrows

One of NYC’s most prominent poets. Sharp, witty, funny and thoughtful, Ainsley Burrows‘ poetry has the ability to make you question your priorities without you even noticing.

Link to Ainsley Burrows

Zora Howard

The first youth poet laureate of New York City, Zora Howard is a powerful and lyrically brilliant new poet.

Rich Ferguson

Spouting a peculiar blend of spoken-word poetry, Richard Ferguson has developed a performance style that is both intellectually challenging and emotionally direct… Embracing the viewpoint of disenfranchised losers and overly passionate lovers, his virtuosic wordplay also contains a sharp comic perspective.

Link to Rich Ferguson

Tal Adler Arieli

Talented up and coming dancer, fresh out of Juliard School.

For our USA Audience:

Come on down to the 3-Legged Dog, 80 Greenwich St, NYC, 10006 to enjoy this amazing event LIVE in person!

For our UK / International Audience:

You can watch it all LIVE online!

WATCH ONETASTE LIVE IN NYC!

We will be broadcasting between 01:00 – 03:00 (GMT) (02:00 – 04:00 BST) on TUESDAY 13th… due to the time difference it is Tuesday not Monday!

CONFERENCE INFO

We’re so looking forward to coming back to The Bedford for this very special show!

All hosted by AF Harrold!

Line-up:

The Smokey Taps

The Smokey Taps are a dynamic and entertaining swing band that provides high-energy swing, gypsy jazz, bebop and other classic jazz styles.  They have a blinding reputation for getting the whole joint swinging.

Their repertoire features jazz hits from the swing era to the 1950′s – including songs made famous by Billie Holliday, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Cab Calloway and much more.

Link to The Smokey Taps

Milly Blue

Having first sung professionally with Basement Jaxx, Milly Blue‘s musical journey has taken her worldwide, from New York to Paris, Southport to Hull. Armed with a ukulele, loop pedal and a voice to tempt ships to the rocks, she weaves stories of love and loss, horrifying monsters, museum curators and the most deathly revenge. Soulfully jazzy with a folky lilt, let her sound surround you.

Pino Yeats 

Pino Yeats (aka Pepe Belmonte) is an acoustic folk-blues singer/ songwriter currently residing in London. He is known for playing personal arrangements of traditional blues songs including renditions of old favourites such as: Ragged and Dirty, John Henry and Make Me Down A Pallet. Having grown up in rural south west Ireland, its not surprising to find a taste of Irish folk music in his set too. As much as these old blues and folk songs have inspired him, Pino Yeats is also a sensitive songwriter with a formidable back catalogue. He has a strong sense of imagery, catchy melodies and a grand grasp of rhythm and rhyme. His bluesy guitar style and distinctive vocal and harmonica work have led him to collaborate with a number of musicians, artistic groups and bands.   His Debut album The Hermit’s Waltz is available and a special edition home/hand-made 6 song analogue EP: 4-Track Analogue Recordings is available at gigs.

Natasha Moskovici

Natasha Moskovici started writing and performing poetry whilst living on a beach in Thailand and has now been performing in London for the past year.  She’s still waiting to find out what she’s going to be when she grows up!

Jack Dean

MC and poet Jack Dean was born in Tooting, raised in the southwest UK and likes to wander all over the place telling stories of love, loneliness, nostalgia and midget porn. He has toured slams, theatres and festivals across the country and holds highest Pac-Man score of anyone he knows.

Link to Jack Dean

The OneTaste Collective have been travelling the globe & excavating the creative scenes of the UK to bring the best creative talent to this magical garden party: ORIGINS!

‘Where did you come from? Where did you go?’

This is what the OneTaste camp of artists, players, speakers and seekers want to know!

Investigations will be made into these potent perennial ponderings through showcasing the best Music & Poetry performances in the Play Den, Lucid Dreaming & more Workshops in the Explorer’s Den, plus laugh-out-loud Theatre, Mask Parades, Blindfolded Trance Dancing, Arena Cabaret Show, delicious Veggie Café Food, Contact Yoga, Mime, Folk in a Box, Jam Sessions, Transformative Discussions with an international cast of dreamers and Jedi’s & more…

Get your tickets and come play with us!

Line up:

Thursday:

ONETASTE OPENING CEREMONY!

Franky and the Jacks

More Like Trees

VERY SPECIAL GUEST - JAMIE WOON

Arena Caberet

PLUS: Interactive Dance, Contact Meltdown & movie time with 1 Giant Leap throughout the day!

Friday:

Roxy Rawson

Bear

Bunty

OneTaste Poetry Show with the likes of: Paradox, John Berkovitch, Joshua Idehen, Alex Iamb, Rob Auton, Rachel Rose Reid, Natasha Moskovici and Dougie Hastings!

Lail Arad

Tanya Auclair

ESKA

Gideon Conn

Moulettes

Bane

Arena Caberet

PLUS: Laughing Works workshop, Yoga, Clowning Dan, Think Free Live workshop, Lucid Dreaming workshop, Shakti Dance & movie time with 1 Giant Leap throughout the day!

Saturday:

Jont

Fiona Bevan

OneTaste Poetry Show with the likes of: Paradox, John Berkovitch, Joshua Idehen, Alex Iamb, Rob Auton,Rachel Rose Reid, Natasha Moskovici and Dougie Hastings!

Nick Mulvey

Amber States

The Smokey Taps

Bane

PLUS: Laughing Works workshop, Yoga, Happiness workshop, Intro to Tantra workshop, Contact Yoga & Art of Meaning workshop throughout the day!

The Moringa Tree presents The New African Sound:

In the evening we have given over our Main Stage at the OneTaste Arena to The Moringa Tree Charity!

Kuduashe Matimba

Harare

AJ Holmes & The Hackney Empire

DJ John Hendicott

DJ Vamanos & MC Kastro

Sunday:

Franky and the Jacks

Holly Walker

OneTaste Poetry Show with the likes of: Paradox, John Berkovitch, Joshua Idehen, Alex Iamb, Rob Auton,Rachel Rose Reid, Natasha Moskovici and Dougie Hastings!

Park Bench Poet

Bernhoft

The Origin Hours – Details to be announced very soon…very exciting!

La Mort Subite

More Like Trees

Joe Driscoll

Bane

Arena Caberet

PLUS: Yoga, Laughing Works workshop, Into The Jungle, Flying Low & Games, Puppet Your God, Expand with the Faun, OneTaste Arena Parade and Art & Changing the World throughout the day!

OneTaste Arena is dreamed by: OneTaste, Flying Lotus, Arena Artists & The Moringa Tree Charity!

It is going to be an incredible day with such a super duper line up and here is what we have for you:

Line-up:

Nick Lee

Drive to the middle of a forest, preferably one with a lake smack bang in the middle. Find a spot on its bank, get your deck chair out and a cold beer on the go. If you wait long enough, you might just be lucky enough to entice the virtuoso guitar plucking fingers of the illusive  Nick Lee out of hiding to provide your soundtrack. If you do manage to bask in his dreamy intensity, be sure not to look him in the eye or he may well disappear as soon as you’ve made yourself comfy. Nick Lee will be performing some of his greatest hits in our company including My Dad is a Lighthouse and Fresh Willow.

OneTaste Choir

The OneTaste Choir, led by soul singer, Stac, perform close harmony a cappella songs at nearly every OneTaste event. The Choir have collaborated with artists such as Alice Russell, Inua Ellams, Aloe Blacc and many other OneTaste and non-OneTaste artists on special arrangements to add something magic to their music and spoken word. It’s an amazing thing having 15 girls singing together and we know how much you love them too!

Link to OneTaste Choir

Fiona Bevan

Fiona Bevan will be enchanting us with her fiery vocals, playful, jazz tinged folk songs and award-winning lyrics taken from her recently release album Plant Your Heart.

Link to Fiona Bevan

Dougie Hastings

Dougie Hastings has been writing poetry for over a decade and has emerged as an award-winning performance poet. Dougie graduated from drama school and has a passion for the meanings and stories that are attached to words and prefers to express them in his own unique way.  He is perhaps best known as a comedian, performing at The Comedy Store and The Comedy Cafe. He was a semi finalist in the recent New Act of the Year, and won the Utter! poetry competition.

Dougie’s focus is firmly on ‘back to basics’ and story telling and we are intrigued by his purveyor of funny and poetic filth.

Link to Dougie Hastings

Franky and the Jacks

Set within the walls of the wailing harmonica and the screeching fiddle the sometimes dark and often caustic lyrics belie the foot stomping swing of the double bass and guitar. Here is where comedy and tragedy meet head on to deliver a full spirited testament to Franky and the Jacks’ one and only mantra…“Make ‘em dance”.

Link to Franky and the Jacks

Stac

Lush harmonies gallore and the odd gorgeously deliberate note clash thrown in for good measure. Stac writes jazzy, soulful and sometimes uncomprehendably intricate tunes that leave her audience beaming.

Link to Stac

Tanya Auclair

Hailing from West London, via Canada and Rwanda – Tanya Auclair’s influences expand to and from but not restricted to Fats Waller, Fever Ray, Matthew Herbert, Juana Molina and E.S.G, her open instinctive approach shows in the territory she covers from the 60s doowop, delicate folk, to feverish rhythms and oscillating synths.

Either as a one-woman-band or a trio with Joe Allen (drums) and Arista Hawkes (double bass) Tanya builds her songs live, sampling her voice with a loop pedal, playing ukulele, guitar and percussion. The multi-instrumentalist has worked with the likes of Matthew Herbert’s Big Band Ensemble, Andreya Triana and Laura J Martin.

“Gobsmacking!” Tom Robinson, BBC 6Music Radio
“So damn original..” Okayplayer

Link to Tanya Auclair

Amber States

Here is a four piece band of banjo, cello, guitars and keys that make up Amber States. They create a sound not unfamiliar in the burgeoning nu-folk scene, but they seem to steer clear of the hackneyed fiddle and guitar style that has become so popular and instead carve their own sound and produce a short but life-affirmingly magnetic set that gets the biggest crowd and the loudest cheer of the night. Their set is laden with catchy hooks, dreamy melodies, exhilarating builds and a toe tapping rhythms.

Link to Amber States

DJ My Therapist

A short while back, DJ My Therapist admittedly visited DJ Yoda in the DJ booth to find out about what track he was playing a few too many times. Only to be welcomed with: “Why don’t you go and get your own f**king tunes!”

Thus DJ My Therapist started building a deep vault of funk, soul, hip-hop, reggae, breaks and drum ‘n’ bass to blast out of the speakers! With gigs at Glastonbury, Bestival, Shambala, Secret Garden Party and Standon Calling as well as residences at every OneTaste and Beatroot Rendez-Vous events. So go up and ask him what he’s playing any time, he’ll be proud to tell you!

Link to DJ My Therapist

ONETASTE // LEVI ROOTS // AYAH MARAR // LEO THE LION // DJ EDU (BBC 1XTRA) // POEJAZZI // SPARK LONDON // NINA CONTI // SARA PASCOE // TOM ALLEN // RINSE FM & HEARTLESS CREW //

PLUS! Famous Comedy Show: 28 Acts in 28 Minutes at 7.45pm in Screen 1

OneTaste Line-Up:

Trevor Lock

Trevor Lock is the master of improvised silliness, no two sets or shows are ever the same. Headlining clubs up and down the country, and performing solo shows at theatres and festivals around the country, Trevor is a highly original and sought after act and MC.

Trevor has headlined The 99 Club’s Trevor Lock’s Philosophy Society in Leicester Square, as well as resident MC at The Comedy Bar Islington at The Chapel Bar. He has supported Russell Brand on his sell out UK tour Shame and co-hosted The Russell Brand Radio Show on BBC6 Music.  Trevor was a regular performer on multi award winning Channel 4 comedy series Star Stories and was a cast member of cult 90′s comedy Fist of Fun written by and starring Stewart Lee and Richard Herring.

Link to Trevor Lock

Fiona Bevan

Fiona Bevan will be enchanting us with her fiery vocals, playful, jazz tinged folk songs andaward-winning lyrics taken from her recently released album, Plant Your Heart.

Link to Fiona Bevan

Connie Bell

Franky and the Jacks

Set within the walls of the wailing harmonica and the screeching fiddle the sometimes dark and often caustic lyrics belie the foot stomping swing of the double bass and guitar. Here is where comedy and tragedy meet head on to deliver a full spirited testament to Franky and the Jacks‘ one and only mantra…”Make ‘em dance!“.

Link to Franky and the Jacks

Valentina

GENERAL LINE-UP:

NINA CONTI, SARA PASCOE, TOM ALLEN, MATT HIGHTON, CAROLINE MABEY, TREVOR LOCK, WILLIAM TOMBS, DIANE MORGAN, KERRY GILBERT, MARK DOLAN, BRETT GOLDSTEIN…

AND this lot too: Miraculous / P.E.S.T / Connie Bell / Stir Fried Frequency DJ set / Thrillbillies BURLESQUE / Maurizio Minardi / Pocket Caravan / David Goo / Mika Doo / Matt Witt / Kiki Investigates / Rob Bravery / Blabbermouth / Andrew Kinnear / Namvula Rennie / Tinker Box Street Theatre / Rich Purnell & Gary From Leeds / OCHI WP / Must Dash Dancers / Options4 Change Theatre Performance / Mélange / Davey Moss / DJ Trol23 / DJ Boba Fatt.

AND: During the day there’ll be kids craft activities Upstairs – and under 10s get in FREE before 5pm (over 18s only after 5pm).

DJs, MCs & freestylers from Midnight til 3am…

More importantly though, we will also be raising a huge pile of lovely cash for 3 very worthy charities:

Macmillan – in line with their Centenary Year

Options4Change – at-risk youth charity focused of gang crime in South London

and Tourettes Action.

TICKETS:
Upstairs before 5pm – £5 (under 10s go free)

Upstairs 5pm and thereafter – £10

28 Acts In 28 Minutes – comedy show only!

Phew! GO GET YOUR TICKETS…1, 2, 3 GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

BUY your tickets in advance now and it even reserves you a seat too – only the first 35 get it though so buy quickly…

Line up:

Holly Walker

A member of our OneTaste Collective, Holly describes herself as a London girl, lives in Camden, plays the ivories and sings like a small hungry bird. But we know she is a lot more! Classically informed piano and razor sharp vocals collide with scatty, homemade beats and whatever gritty sounds she can crank out of her laptop. Channeling everything from folk to hip hop to dubstep, this stuff makes you want to throw shapes, yet is driven always by soulful, intelligent lyrics. In fact, it is the lyrics that define each of Holly’s songs as she describes her songwriting process as ‘poems put to music’, and it is clear that this girl has plenty to say!

Link to Holly Walker.

Andy Craven-Griffiths

Born and bred in Leicester, Andy is the middle child of seven and always had to fight for attention. He started writing out of anger and carried on because he loved saying things and liked it when people listened. Andy’s poetry is witty, astute and sentimental all in one. His poetry possesses a natural charm and an insight. He’s also John Berkavitch’s brother!

Link to Andy Craven-Griffiths.

Moats & Thrones

Moats & Thrones is Alice Grant (Alice and The Cool Dudes, Fulborn Teversham) and Tom Herbert (The Invisible, Polar Bear). Their intimate and stripped-back music centers around Alice’s haunting and beautiful vocals and the deep, rich sound of Tom’s double bass. After a stonking set at OneTaste & The Wheel present FLOCK, we just had to ask them to come on down!

Raymond Antrobus

Raymond Antrobus is a spoken word artist, photographer, poet and writer, born and bred in Hackney. He is co-curator of Chill Pill/Keats Forum and has performed along side authors and poets such as Margret Atwood, Michael Horovitz, Lemm Sissay, Polarbear and Inua Ellams. He is the International Farrago Slam Champion 2008, Anti-Slam Champ 2010 and won Best Performance by a London Poet at the Farrago annual poetry awards 2010. He’s performed at Literature Festivals at London’s Southbank Centre and Universities across London, Manchester and Coventry. Raymond has also toured internationally from Berlin, Venice, New York & Chicago. He is one half of ‘Speed Camera Shy’; a music project that combines Spoken Word/Rap with Dub Step signed with American Underground label Audio Gradient. Raymond Antrobus is a member of one of the world’s leading collectives of spoken-word artists known as, ‘A Poem inbetween People’, (or PiP) who have been described as “London’s hottest spoken word talent” by The Times.

Link to Raymond Antrobus.

More Like Trees

Comprising of an ever-changing and constantly evolving line-up of talented and diverse musicians, More Like Trees figurehead the north London warehouse movement. With elements of drum n bass, flamenco, ska, dance and indie, they fuse styles and sounds with  effortless and captivating ease.

Frontman Josh Whitehouse and brother Matt lead the charge, accompanied by Orlando Seal and the swell double bassist Lachlan Radford, MC Tali and husband on vocals and decks and an ever changing assortments of peripheral contributors.

“In a nut shell, over many seasons, leaves have fallen, seeds have burrowed and sprouted and are now beginning to grow,” explains Josh. “All in the same field, but growing various different fruits. Hope you like da taste of our tasty, juicy fruits! We’re organic. It’s only right.”

Link to More Like Trees.

OneTaste Choir

The OneTaste Choir, led by soul singer, Stac, perform close harmony a cappella songs at nearly every OneTaste event. The Choir have collaborated with artists such as Alice Russell, Inua Ellams, Aloe Blacc and many other OneTaste and non-OneTaste artists on special arrangements to add something magic to their music and spoken word. It’s an amazing thing having 15 girls singing together and we know how much you love them too!

Link to OneTaste Choir.