What is hip? Goodfellas and What Is Hip!!!

Last Saturday night was the second edition of On the One. The concept so far seems to be a triptych of bands that play any style of funk, soul and a pinch of blues in a frame of contemporary spinning.

The objective appears to get the feet moving.

Regretfully for last Saturday’s three fold canvas the first panel fell a bit short with the band showing up an hour late and even then they had to play without their rhythm section until the last song.

A good thing was that there was not really a wait. The general atmosphere at Timbre at the Substation was great

and the DJ spinned the kind of music that kept up the spirit.

In al honesty the dance floor  seemed to be filling up only at the time the second act, Goodfellas, was scheduled to play, but at that time it did get really full. I ‘d never seen Goodfellas play, although I’ve seen their name announced regularly and I heard they had a great reputation. The turn out on the dance floor was proof of that.

 

Due to the fact that we had decided to have our food at Timbre as well, and table seating was slim pickings at the time we arrived, we were a bit tucked away to the side. Initially this held me back from taking out my camera but then thought the angle and the constructing type effect of the stage metal work was kind of nice I took some pictures anyway. 

 As far as Goodfellas was concerned I was very much impressed with what the two front men presented vocally.

 

 

, the genre was of course funk and a lot of 70ies soul. Earth Wind and Fire kind of stuff.

 

After Goodfellas it was the turn of What is Hip. A 10 piece soul band with a real brass section 

like the one the real Earth Wind and Fire had and that’s also the style this band presented. Differently for sure, and no matter how real a keyboard sounds now a days. Real brass with real faces and real energy just makes it more cool to me. Call me old fashioned. 

  I do think though that those 30 odd people that left after Goodfellas were done, made a mistake.

 I don’t want to fill up the post with names, which is likely to happened with a 7 an 10 person line up but am dedicating this post to one man. I missed his Graduate gig last Wednesday at Blu Jaz, and was pleasantly surprised to see that Nicholas Sanjay Zavior was part of What is Hip. After a bit of the crowd left and we could more easily move our way forward I was able to make a couple of close ups. So here’s saying sorry I missed your Graduate Gig.