Brand New Heavies

People don't always see the sense in plotting your own, uncharted, course. Yet when the music all around you is heading toward a processed, homogenous, uniformity you know the only way to survive is to just kick out the jams. This has always been the case for the intensely funky Brand New Heavies. Born out of a deep love of classic 1970s grooves, this band of funkateers has always reacted against the grain and now they are back in the saddle after fifteen years of platinum selling success, hungrier than ever for bringing on some new, 21st century, block-rocking grooves. So it should be no surprise, though it might be to some, that just when music seemed to be reaching its most anodyne and stale point for many years; with dance music on its knees and the music industry in a state of flux, that the most radical thing to do right now is plug in and play the music you love; soulful and loud.