Sunday Joint

Every Sunday

 

Free Entry All Day

 

The legendary Sunday Joint has now been playing host to some of the greatest jazz, Latin, funk & salsa bands for the past 15 years – If you haven’t been yet, now is the chance to see what you’ve been missing!!

Serving up some delicious home cooked food between 12 noon & 4.00pm, The Sunday Joint also features 3 live bands every week – one through lunch, another at 8.30pm and the evening band appearing onstage at 10.30pm – alongside resident DJs from New Bohemia and First Word Records who play Soul, Funk & Hip Hop into the early hours!

12 Noon until 3.00am

The Mid Sessions are now a firmly established slot for  acoustic artists to play you their best set between the afternoon and evening performances. Entry, as ever, is free and we're looking for performers every Sunday, so if you would like more information, please email James@thehificlub.co.uk

 

January 31st

 

Afternoon: Tessa Smith

 

A beautiful jazz singer with a hauntingly ethereal voice.

 

Chunky Butt Funky:

 

Founded and fronted by Leeds based former preacher turned frontman Cleve "Rev Chunky" Freckleton. CBF have been spreading the "love vibe" home and abroad for the past 6 years. Having served an apprentiship in gospel music which still influences the bands sound to this day, "The Rev" has gone on to front several outfits but none so spritually vibrant as Chunky Butt Funky.

 

February 7th

 

Afternoon: Rob Durbin Trio

 

Rob Durbin put on one of the best and most varied shows in town. Their version of James Brown's Soul Power was recently featured on the Craig Charles Funk & Soul Show.

 

Evening: TBC

 

February 14th

 

Afternoon and Evening TBC

 

February 21st

 

Afternoon: Jonas Blackman

 

Jonas Backman started the band to bring back the joy of listening and playing the kind of music that puts him in a good mood and just makes us all want to laugh, dance and sing! It's a mixture of influences from the New Orleans second line music, 60s New Orleans soul and funk and jazz from New York. Like a cross between Dirty Dozen Brass Band, the Meters, Booker T and the MGs, Ray Charles and John Coltrane. Playing both originals and standards they capture the joy and feel from the music that we're inspired by.

 

Evening: The Heavy


The Heavy continually cross genres as they as a unit are proud to be completely musically schizophrenic. From country to rhythm and blues, garage punk to rock and roll, Studio one to the slums of shaolin, you'll find that The Heavy are indeed like a pack of chemists with the way that genres get cooked up, blended, stirred and then mixed, to create their own unique style of rock and roll. You will not experience another band like this!

 

 

February 28th

 

Afternoon TBC

 

Evening: Rafiki Jazz

 

With an outstanding all-Yorkshire frontline trio featuring the fiery Swahili taarab singing of Zanzibari Real World recording artist Mim Suleiman alongside Sheffield bossa-jazz singer Rosie Brown’s cool liquid vocals & newcomer Vanessa Chutturghoon’s sultry creole stylings, this ambitious band’s vision promises an ecstatic babble of voices, languages, stories & beats, whilst the breadth & energy of their arrangements focus on a daring combination of key cultural instruments..kora, marimba, tabla, steeldrums all propel a thoroughly contemporary sound, where beatbox meets berimbau and Brazil greets Banjul.

 

 

March 7th

 

Afternoon: TBC

 

Evening: Grand Wazoo

 

Grand Wazoo is a 14+ piece band with a mission to create an exceptional Australian soul experience to present great songs in Black Soul, Funk and Rhythm and Blues.

 

March 14th

 

Afternoon TBC

 

Evening: 6ix Toys

 

6ix Toys are the 7 piece funk monster who have played alongside the likes of Sting, Ms Dynamite, Alice Russell, The Nextmen, Youngblood Brass Band, The Apples, Dj Vadim & Yarah Bravo, Quantic and Mr Scruff as well as performing at The 2008 Isle of Wight Festival and V Festivals and received airplay on BBC Radio One and BBC 6 Music.

 

March 21st

 

Afternoon: TBC

 

Evening: Lack of Afro

 

As a multi instrumentalist, in-demand producer and re-mixer, a DJ with his finger on the cutting edge of contemporary sounds, and an ear tastefully cocked to the hippest soul, jazz and funk music from the 60´s and 70´s, Adam Gibbons, the young man at the centre of the Lack Of Afro phenomenon, has already established an unrivalled reputation as one of the most crucial names at work in funk and dance music today.

 

March 28th

 

Afternoon: Manu Delago

 

A music prodigy playing drums from the age of 2, this is simply not one that you can afford to miss!

 

Evening: Gentlemans Dub Club

 

This is always a massive show at HiFi! Gentleman’s Dub Club is a nine-piece band that formed in Leeds in early 2006. With a style based in dub, ska and roots reggae, GDC have burst onto the UK circuit, rocking gigs and festivals up and down the country with their super high energy show. Combining tight grooves and a heavyweight sound, Gentleman’s Dub Club bring the party to crowds of all ages hungry for a dance floor workout, with their gigs often ending in a frenzied mosh pit reminiscent of a mid 80’s ska night. Live effects and mixing make for a crystal clear sound, and the band’s larger than life stage presence makes for a mesmerising experience.

 

April 4th

 

Afternoon and Evening TBC

 

April 11th

 

Afternoon: Sally Doherty

 

A beautiful jazz singer with a hauntingly ethereal voice. Returning after a break to have her baby this is a very welcome return from Sally.

 

Evening: TBC

 

April 18th

 

Afternoon TBC

 

Evening: Souljazz Orchestra

 

The Souljazz Orchestra picks up where the golden age of soulful music left off: they expand upon the rough and raw grooves of the 1960s and 1970s by taking on an eclectic, genre-bending approach, enriched by musical traditions stemming from both sides of the Atlantic. The resulting sound is enthralling and unique: a potent mixture of funk, soul, jazz, afro and Latin rhythms, supported by an arsenal of dusty vintage keyboards and driven by powerful horn-drenched melodies.

 

April 25th

 

Afternoon: TBC

 

Evening: Protect the Beat

 

The music classifies as jazz/groove set in a commercial songs format yet live Protect the Beat still cannot avoid getting 'seriously funky'.

 

May 2nd

 

Afternoon: Rosie Brown

 

A founding member of Rafiki Jazz Rosie has been described by The Guardian as ‘an intelligent and eloquent singer with more than a touch of the great blues buzz about whom a substantial interest is spreading.’

 

Evening: TBC

 

May 9th

 

Afternoon and Evening TBC

 

May 16th

 

Afternoon and Evening TBC

 

May 23rd

 

Afternoon Hat Fitz

 

The ‘wild man’ of Australian blues, Fitz hails from Queensland. Backed by Belfast’s Cara Robinson on drums, Fitz plays guitar (usually a metal-bodied resonator), stomps his foot and sings the blues with a physical presence and power that remind listeners of past blues greats like Son House and Charley Patton. In many ways, he is Australia’s counterpart to R.L. Burnside or T-Model Ford, playing gritty blues of mesmerising, deceptive simplicity.


 


 

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