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Manchester Jazz Festival: VIPERTIME ft. Troy Osmond
Wednesday 20 May | 7:30pm?VIPERTIME ft. Troy Osmond?That was Vipertime. I wouldn't mind hanging out somewhere where that was going on. Iguess I'd have to go to Leeds" - Iggy PopBorn in the snake pit of Leeds house parties, aggro-jazz four-piece Vipertime have earned aferocious reputation at venues and festivals across the UK, honing their craft while pushingtheir line up of saxophone, bass and twin drum sets to its sonic limits. Their excursions tothe borders of modal jazz, post-punk, dub and afrobeat have built a sound that issimultaneously unique to the band and a microcosm of the thriving UK scene.Beginning as a free-improvising group in 2018, Vipertime swiftly began writing and movedinto the studio to create 2019?s Shakedown, 2020?s Limbs/All Our Heroes Are Dead and2023?s critically acclaimed Arise. This album received airplay on BBC 6 Music, BBCRadio 2, BBC Radio 3, BBC Introducing and Worldwide FM, was championed by IggyPop, Gilles Peterson and Colin Curtis, and was placed in Louder Than War?s ?Albumsof 2023? list.The band have undertaken numerous UK tour and played festivals including EFG LondonJazz Festival, Manchester Jazz Festival, Leeds Jazz Festival, Smugglers Festival andSolfest, and in 2024 were selected for Jazz North?s prestigious Northern Line scheme.New album Vipertime & Moron Butler sees the band in collaboration with post-punk bandMoron Butler. Jazz is dialled down in favour of the acerbic attack of Gang Of Four,distorted punk-dub of The Pop Group and the motoric drive of Can. The voice and lyrics ofTroy Osmond come to the forefront, his incantations interspersed with saxophoneabstractions and fuelled by hard edged bass and drums.?Technically outstanding and phenomenally imaginative? - LouderThan War?Dance floor ready? - Jamie Cullum?They have that deep, angry sound that you find in Gato Barbieri and Steve Grossman? -Colin Curtis?6.30pm Doors7.30pm-8.15pm Support Band (To Be Announced)8.15pm-8.45pm break/bar/resets8.45pm-10pm Vipertime ft. Troy Osmond?AGE GUIDE: 16+?Links:
