Due to circumstances outside our control, Seun Kuti’s two dates on Sunday 5th & Monday 6th Ocotber have been rescheduled to the Sunday 14th & Monday 15th of December. All existing ticket holders have had their tickets transferred to the respective days automatically, so if you bought tickets to see Seun on Sunday the 5th of October, you ticket is now valid on Sunday the 15th of December, and similarly for the Monday night ticket holders.
Cargo apologises for any inconvenience caused. Any questions, queries or wonderments please contact james.p@cargo-london.com
For all of those who can’t wait and need your afrobeat fix now, on Wednesday the 15th October, Dele Sosimi’s Afrobeat Orchestra celebrate the 70th birthday of Seun’s dad, Fela Kuti, by celebrating the funkiest era of the Afrobeat King’s musical output, the 70’s.
Next week, as part of the successful Polish Deconstruction series, acclaimed Polish director Rafael Kapelinski, will screen his new film ‘Emily Cries’ and gives a talk on its origins and meanings.
“I’ve made this film to have my say about Martial Law in Poland. My memories from those days are very vivid, and I will always associate that time with humiliation and suffering. Emily Cries is my personal statement over what happened then and an expression of my grief that my generation had to grow up during such a difficult time. The film is also about first real love and the fact that it is always great to be in love regardless of politics.”
Don’t miss Polish Deconstruction and the screening here at Cargo on Tuesday the 23rd of September
With pop gurus now cookie cutting retro sounding girls to fill the top of our charts eversince Winehouse pissed her career up the wall, today people approach female crooners with a new sense of Brit-School-Media-Trained-dread.
That’s why Stephanie McKay is such a welcomed change of air. No filtered bullshit, no feigned accent, no ‘raised-in-Dorset-singing-like-your-from-Memphis’ claptrap.
McKay’s proper. The Real McKay as it were (sorry, I’m a sucker for puns). Working with the greats (Spinna, Mos Def, Roy Hargrove etc)), growing up in the Bronx, not only singing like she means it, but singing like she knows about it. Check her tunes on her website. Genuinely sounding like 70’s soul, not some watered-down Mark Ronson preset ridden tunage, harking back to the crispness of old school hip hop and the grit of funk-era, Miss McKay ticks all these boxes without trying to. Stephanie McKay fucking rules. There I said it. Sorry. I apologise. But she does. And you NEED to see her live.
Wonky Pop’s bubble keeps increasing in size. With two sell out shows under their belt, this month the slightly off-centre crew host the Sneaky Soundsystem afterparty with the SSS guys DJing along side The New Young Pony Club; While Kitty, Daisy & Lewis and Kennedy play live. Damn. They simply up the pressure huh?
Here’s the video from the first one:
And here’s a link to the podcast with a live song from the Mr Hudson and the Library at the last one: here
Due to circumstances outside our control, Seun Kuti’s two dates on Sunday 5th & Monday 6th Ocotber have been rescheduled to the Sunday 14th & Monday 15th of December. All existing ticket holders have had their tickets transferred to the respective days automatically, so if you bought tickets to see Seun on Sunday the 5th of October, you ticket is now valid on Sunday the 15th of December, and similarly for the Monday night ticket holders.
