All bases covered: Jazz Café's Night Thing relaunches with Benji B, Gilles Peterson
Championing the best sounds from across the globe
Originally focused on digging for the best disco, soul and funk, Jazz Café's Night Thing has taken on a more club-focused agenda and moved from Friday to Saturday nights.
But don’t expect straight-forward house and techno. With Benji B, Gilles Peterson, Guts and Mehmet Aslan ready to grace the venue in July, the night will still be providing a range of genres from some of dance music’s best selectors.
“There’s a lot more to club culture than straight house and techno. People want to hear tracks they’ve never heard before and dance to new kinds of music. Night Thing is a place for the deeper selections that are missing from some of London’s dancefloors,” says the venue's Director Andy Peyton.
The move marks a continuing evolution of Jazz Café, which was taken over by the Columbo Group (owners of XOYO, Phonox, The Nest and Camden Assembly) last year. And they’ve delivered on claims of a reinvigorated bookings approach for the Camden spot.
“We wanted the line-ups to better reflect the venue’s diverse live programming. We approached Gilles, Benji, GUTS and Mehmet Aslan because of their reputations as being selectors first and foremost – Night Thing will take dancers on a trip through best sounds from across soul, disco, world and beyond.”
“We’ve covered pretty much all the bases – broken beat, hip hop, live afrobeat, a disco choir. It’s all to come.”
The revamped Night Thing launches July 7 with a DJ set from Afriquoi and Mehmet Aslan, before Guts takes on a three-hour set the following week. Gilles Peterson takes his talents to Camden on July 21 before Benji B and Judah round out the month on July 28.
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