Season's Greetings from FRiZZ !
Whether you celebrate Christmas or not, we hope you're enjoying yourself...
We've been busy digging back into the FRiZZ TV archives to bring you some 'lost' footage from last year's FRiZZ Xmas Party...
We were celebrating our first full year of record label operations, and we decided to make it a fancy dress party...and the theme we came up with was an unusual one: you could come as whatever you wanted as long as you were unrecognisable...
Some people fared better at this than others...special mentions go to DAVID GARSIDE (as an art-ery...as in Art Terry...or maybe Heart Terry...we're not sure...anyway he had a heart on his head...& some of his best friends didn't realise it was him until he started singing!)...ART TERRY himself looking strangely comfortable as an Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh...RAPHAEL MANN in full Chinese Opera costume (not as a Geisha as various uncultured persons were suggesting!)...MAREE CHOIE as some kind of psychedelic bird/man creature...JAMIL REYES looking a sand creature from Star Wars crossed with a Moroccan goat herder...EARL GREY taking the suave option as a Blues Brother...AISHA ASLAM (who also filmed the whole thing, along with our photographer IAN 'Tramp' BINES) as Zorro...
So to start off with we've put together a little collage of some of the best costumes from the night...
(The music is a remix version of 'King Kong' by AUGUST...the original version of which is on the FRiZZ LP 'It's Not The Wand, It's The Magic'...)
The live music for the night was from an all-star cast, with some special one-off collaborations & impromptu Christmas numbers thrown in...
Not only were we celebrating JC's birthday, we were also celebrating JJ's, as you'll hear ART TERRY announce, & our birthday girl had already been up for several days partying like only she knows how...but we still tempted her up to sing, alongside MR HUDSON & THE LIBRARY colleagues RAPHAEL MANN & WILKIE WILKINSON, label mates ART TERRY & DAVID GARSIDE, OTTO FISCHER, MC BRANDY, & none other than her daddy himself, the Calypso luminary ALEXANDER D GREAT...
This first set of clips features DAVID GARSIDE (including a surprise cover of ART TERRY's 'Ms Dominatrix'), a one-off collaboration between OTTO FISCHER & RAPHAEL MANN, & one of the few recorded performances of the '09 incarnation of ART TERRY's band, with EARL GREY on trombone & JAMIL REYES on drums & vibraphone...
Then in Part Two...we have birthday girl JOY JOSEPH singing stripped down (& ever-so slightly drunken) versions of some of her songs to RAPHAEL MANN's piano accompaniment, dueting with OTTO FISCHER on an impromptu version of MR HUDSON's 'Anyone But Him', and then with her daddy ALEXANDER D GREAT on his NELSON MANDELA tribute song...ART TERRY borrowing the LIBRARY rhythm section for a jam through DONNY HATHAWAY's 'This Christmas' ("not the best Christmas song ever, but the BADDEST" as Art has it...)...and then tempting MC BRANDY up to the mic for a little bit of Xmas Reggae... And then a surprise finale...not least to Joy herself...
Whatever else you do, have a Happy New Year...and see you at the next party...
Whether you celebrate Christmas or not, we hope you're enjoying yourself...
We've been busy digging back into the FRiZZ TV archives to bring you some 'lost' footage from last year's FRiZZ Xmas Party...
We were celebrating our first full year of record label operations, and we decided to make it a fancy dress party...and the theme we came up with was an unusual one: you could come as whatever you wanted as long as you were unrecognisable...
Some people fared better at this than others...special mentions go to DAVID GARSIDE (as an art-ery...as in Art Terry...or maybe Heart Terry...we're not sure...anyway he had a heart on his head...& some of his best friends didn't realise it was him until he started singing!)...ART TERRY himself looking strangely comfortable as an Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh...RAPHAEL MANN in full Chinese Opera costume (not as a Geisha as various uncultured persons were suggesting!)...MAREE CHOIE as some kind of psychedelic bird/man creature...JAMIL REYES looking a sand creature from Star Wars crossed with a Moroccan goat herder...EARL GREY taking the suave option as a Blues Brother...AISHA ASLAM (who also filmed the whole thing, along with our photographer IAN 'Tramp' BINES) as Zorro...
So to start off with we've put together a little collage of some of the best costumes from the night...
(The music is a remix version of 'King Kong' by AUGUST...the original version of which is on the FRiZZ LP 'It's Not The Wand, It's The Magic'...)
The live music for the night was from an all-star cast, with some special one-off collaborations & impromptu Christmas numbers thrown in...
Not only were we celebrating JC's birthday, we were also celebrating JJ's, as you'll hear ART TERRY announce, & our birthday girl had already been up for several days partying like only she knows how...but we still tempted her up to sing, alongside MR HUDSON & THE LIBRARY colleagues RAPHAEL MANN & WILKIE WILKINSON, label mates ART TERRY & DAVID GARSIDE, OTTO FISCHER, MC BRANDY, & none other than her daddy himself, the Calypso luminary ALEXANDER D GREAT...
This first set of clips features DAVID GARSIDE (including a surprise cover of ART TERRY's 'Ms Dominatrix'), a one-off collaboration between OTTO FISCHER & RAPHAEL MANN, & one of the few recorded performances of the '09 incarnation of ART TERRY's band, with EARL GREY on trombone & JAMIL REYES on drums & vibraphone...
Then in Part Two...we have birthday girl JOY JOSEPH singing stripped down (& ever-so slightly drunken) versions of some of her songs to RAPHAEL MANN's piano accompaniment, dueting with OTTO FISCHER on an impromptu version of MR HUDSON's 'Anyone But Him', and then with her daddy ALEXANDER D GREAT on his NELSON MANDELA tribute song...ART TERRY borrowing the LIBRARY rhythm section for a jam through DONNY HATHAWAY's 'This Christmas' ("not the best Christmas song ever, but the BADDEST" as Art has it...)...and then tempting MC BRANDY up to the mic for a little bit of Xmas Reggae... And then a surprise finale...not least to Joy herself...
Whatever else you do, have a Happy New Year...and see you at the next party...
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