A clip of the start of the event, Valentines Day 2004 - Jon K and Kelvin Brown at the controls. Dego played later that night..

14 02 2004

Setting the mood

Eyes Down, launched on 15th September 2000 at Manchester's infamous Dry Bar as a weekly Friday. After a couple of venue changes Eyes Down settled on the second Saturday of every month at the Legendary Band on the Wall venue with 150 years of musical history reverberating through its ageing walls. Predominantly a live jazz and roots venue it previusly played host to artists such as Tony Allen, Terry Callier, London Electricity, Courtney Pine, Poets of Rhythm, Antiballas, Eddie Palmieri. ACR and Attica Blues.

Here Eyes Down developed an increasingly uncompromising music policy, focusing on individual and often challenging selections taking in Jazz, Cuban, Broken Beat, Hip Hop, Disco, House, Detroit Techno, Folk and Reggae. This led to increasing opportunities to take Eyes Down on the road, including a monthly Eyes Down session at the legendary Plastic People in London

Previous guests at Eyes Down have included I.G. Culture, Waiwan, London Elektricity, Landslide, Recloose, Abdul Forsyth, Moodymann, ?uestlove (The Roots), Dego, Jazzanova, Pepe Bradock, Mark Pritchard, Kyoto Jazz Massive, Charlie Dark and Domu. We also took advantage of the live capabilities of the Band on the Wall to play host to bands such as the Rebirth, RSL, and Reel People.



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