Chris has been collecting records for over 30 years. He's supported the likes of Joey Negro, Greg Wilson, Horse Meat Disco, Craig Charles and Roy Ayers.

His musical tastes vary from jazz fusion, bop, latin, boogie, funk and house. Expect to hear this and more for this sunday brunch session.

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Discs of Fun and Love is a record label run by Miche and Frederika, focusing on modern soul and more.

Come join them for their monthly Sunday brunch session on Spiritland Royal Festival Hall's EMT broadcasting turntables.

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Co-founder of Manchester clubland institution Wet Play Craig returns to Spiritland for a Balearic-infused Sunday night all vinyl session.

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Pierre Elie is a French record collector travelling for the love of music.

After recent digging trips in Panama, Kenya and Ghana, he will be sharing some of his best and most treasured records.

Expect a jazzy journey into Afro-Latino music.

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Eastern Front Soundsystem are an East London-based DJ collective – self-confessed vinyl obsessives and balearic soul boys.

They have appeared at venues and festivals across London and beyond, and pride themselves on their eclectic tastes with their sets covering everything from chilled-out balearica and worldwide sounds to forgotten soul 45s, disco and beyond.

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Andy Cabic’s musical being is, like many curious 21st-century musicians, shaped and sustained by divergent tangents. If he’s not crafting a melancholy folk rock diamond in his Northern California studio, he’s moving a dancefloor with bossa nova or house DJ sets, or helping curate a compilation of Japanese City Pop.

Visit Spiritland King's Cross for this very rare London DJ set appearance from Andy. DJ support from Jack Sellen of Flying Mojito Bros.

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Martin is the creative force behind the pioneering club Smashing, guiding hand on over 25 compilations of soundtrack, jazz and lounge obscurities and DJ at private parties at the most happening hotspots in London and beyond.

Martin drafts in his most musical friends for an evening on the EMT 948s.

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James Stewart is the host, resident DJ and promoter of monthly night "Black Atlantic Club" at Le Sucre in Lyon.

Borrowing the term "Black Atlantic" from renowned scholar Paul Gilroy's 1993 book, Stewart presents black music as a transnational, incredibly diverse cultural exchange.

An avid lecturer on the subject and founder of the Blog Afrosouldescarga, he merges an intellectual approach with the musical and creative side of things: as an active conga player and percussionist, member of Voilaaa Sound System and showhost at Radio Nova. His first EP is the work of of a mature and thoughtful musician, combining different musical influences at a high level of production. Producer, percussionist, his EP-Cotonou (Alma Negra Records) is in the daily playlist of Radio Nova since June, was played in the Tom Ravenscroft BBC Radio Show and Gilles Peterson Worldwide Radio Show. His new track, Nolias will be issue in may on Versus 3 a compilation published by On The Corner Records.

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Borrowing the term "Black Atlantic" from renowned scholar Paul Gilroy's 1993 book, Stewart presents black music as a transnational, incredibly diverse cultural exchange.

An avid lecturer on the subject and founder of the Blog Afrosouldescarga, he merges an intellectual approach with the musical and creative side of things: as an active conga player and percussionist, member of Voilaaa Sound System and showhost at Radio Nova. His first EP is the work of of a mature and thoughtful musician, combining different musical influences at a high level of production. Producer, percussionist, his EP-Cotonou (Alma Negra Records) is in the daily playlist of Radio Nova since June, was played in the Tom Ravenscroft BBC Radio Show and Gilles Peterson Worldwide Radio Show. His new track, Nolias will be issue in may on Versus 3 a compilation published by On The Corner Records." data-image="https://spiritland.com/website/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/James-Stewart-1500-600x400.jpg" data-imagewidth="1200" data-imageheight="600" data-url="https://spiritland.com/events/james-stewart/">Facebook or Twitter

Nick Henderson and Paul Hutchins, aka DJ Superior and DJ Confusion, are two school friends who met through the same taste in House and Dance music back in the late 80's. The duo formed in 1991 and were given the opportunity to join a newly formed pirate radio station known as Pulse FM in late 91.

Over the years their tastes have developed and evolved with a more eclectic mix of music including funk, soul and jazz.

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An avid record collecting DJ within the audiophile scene and joining the brunch resident roster at Spiritland RFH, Don seamlessly sows different styles and genres into one musical journey.

A founding member of improv night Open Sauce featuring acts from labels such as Ninja Tune, Big Dada and Wichita Records – with recent DJ sets at EartH, Grow, Two Tribes to name just a few – his selection encompasses variations of jazz, funk, dub, reggae, tropical grooves, North African, Middle Eastern, disco, balearic, beats and anything in between.

Expect to have your musical cosmos expanded.

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El & Del are South East London selectors, Ellen & Danielle – best mates and vinyl obsessives, who came together in the summer of 2018 after realising their passion for digging and combined record collection was something they wanted to share with the world.

The girls run their monthly 'Cosmic Love' night across London, with guest DJs including Sam Hardaker (Zero 7) – taking the dancefloor on a musical journey of vinyl sounds from across the globe.

They're known for their lively and eclectic strictly sets, playing regularly at venues including Ace Hotel, Peckham Springs, Hand of Glory and Four Quarters, with upcoming sets at Love Supreme Jazz festival, BBE Store and supporting Wally Badarou at Peckham's Bussey Building.

For Spiritland, they'll be digging deep into their record collection to bring a sonic blend of ambient, balearic, funk and soul, and deep disco cuts.

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Super Disco Edits started out as a re-edits label, then morphed into specialising in finding and releasing completely unknown and/or unreleased soul, funk and disco.

Label owner Russell Paine (DJ Sigher) joins us for an evening of choice label cuts and more.

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With his musical roots firmly in soul and jazz Kev Beadle has been one of London’s underground jazz and soul scene's most respected selectors for over 30 years.

With a remarkable background in radio starting from pirate days to Kiss FM, Solar and Totally Wired Radio (TWR) – a wealth of curated compilations and original releases in double figures – and pins in the map for gigs and residencies all over Europe, Japan and the USA – Kev knows his onions.

Come and hear the taste of a master selector.

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Born in Bulgaria, Frederika has been collecting records while living in London for the past six years. She also started her own night, Date With The Sun, at the renowned Cubo Beach Bar in her hometown of Varna that takes place every few months and has gained a considerable following.

She brings the "playing-for-your-friends" vibe everywhere she plays her sets now and you can expect to hear all styles, from Eastern European jazz to modern soul, gospel, hip hop, lovers rock, tropical grooves and everything that helps her express her state of mind.

Frederika plays a brunch set for us at Spiritland Royal Festival Hall as part of our Meltdown 2019 programming.

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The WONDERFULSOUND Libraries is the DJ offshoot of record label WONDERFULSOUND, broadcasting weekly on Soho radio with a show that's becoming the staple diet of Monday mornings.

Selecting an eclectic mix of timeless music from the last hundred years to present day, WONDERFULSOUND Libraries tap into songwriting, easy-listening, library music, ambient, folk, mod-soul, jazz and more.

Ceri Preston & Miles Copeland provide the audio at this monthly Sunday session alongside occasional superstar guests.

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Mathias aims to make an impression on London nightlife just as he have done in his native Sweden, where he founded and ran one of the most influential underground clubs in Stockholm. Linzatti also co-founded the 10 years deep Hägring disco collective, and with his brother Staffan, runs Searchlights Records. In London Linzatti is part of the regular line up of Hashtag UNiTY's annual Jamuary weekender, the weekly #UNiTY Powerspace sessions in Hackney Wick and casual substitute DJ at NTS Radio, consistently applauded for his deep, dynamic and soulful disco beatdown sets.

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Mari* is a radio producer, a radio presenter, and a multicultural free spirit.

She's lived and worked in the US, Japan and the UK and has produced and coordinated radio shows with more than 30 radio stations around the world.

She presents the bitesize weekday morning show on Worldwide FM “Morning Mari*”and Japanese music focus show “Oto Nova Japan (音の波)” every first Monday.

Come and hear her varied tastes at Spiritland King's Cross.

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Rachael cut her teeth in the glitter filled gay bars of east London, peddling spangly disco, chiffon infused Italo and the campest hi-nrg known to man via her very first party Les Poppeurs at world renowned LGBT venue Dalston Superstore. Now based with at Rye Wax, she's appearing everywhere from Printworks to Field Manuevers, as well as throwing the secretly feminist rave Il Telefono, highlighting amazing non male DJs like Budino (for her UK debut), Doc Sleep and Spinee. This commitment to true underground music combined with a lasting affection for the roots of dance music in queer disco informs all her DJ sets and radio shows.

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Hollick is half of No Bad Days, the label he runs with Gabriel Szatan. The duo share a love of "prettiness, colour and melody" in music.

That's what first led them to crystallise their friendship and create their label, party and sometimes radio show all under the same name.

His taste knows no bounds.

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With 30 years experience as a broadcaster, writer and DJ Tony Minvielle has worked with or interviewed some of the worlds greatest musical legends including Curtis Mayfield, George Benson, Roy Ayers, Mark Murphy, Gil Scott Heron, Gregory Porter, Snarky Puppy and many more.

London born Tony became part of the soul/ jazz scene in the 70s and 80s. After leaving London he established a home for the scene in the Midlands of the UK. His residencies have included London’s Jazz Café and Ibiza’s seminal Cafe Del Mar.

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Sammseed, the South London-born DJ of Portuguese descend, blends music with a focus on connecting soul, spirit and dance. He's one of the key members of Touching Bass: a movement of London-based soul disciples – curators, record label, and dance doers who also hold down a biweekly NTS Radio residency.

He ventures across everything from Boogie, Beats, and Jazz to the full spectrum of the UK/Tuga underground scenes, have lead to appearances at various UK festivals and support slots for legends like Nightmares On Wax. Okayplayer were also quick to support his regular Soundcloud mix series. When not DJing, Sammseed curates 'Scene & Heard', bridging the worlds of independent cinema and music with a series of intimate screenings.

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Karl FM cut his teeth playing long sets in his native Stockholm and has since picked up gigs in New York, Delhi and across the UK.

Karl is Station Manager at SOAS Radio and a resident DJ at the London party Club Sandwich.

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Notorious London partystarters Jimmy K Tel and Matt Brown bring the sound of Sancho Panza to Spiritland Royal Festival Hall. From warehouses to disco boats, clubs to carnival, Sancho Panza have been a part of London's musical landscape for two decades and their takeover night happens right in the middle of the festive fiesta season. Get involved.

Tickets just £10 via link above.

You can join for dinner before the party starts too – book a table for dinner by emailing our front desk on rfh@spiritland.com or calling 020 3146 1980.

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Regular-for-a-reason selector Mark G checks in for another sweet and soulful afternoon session.

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Paula is a DJ and Radio host based in East London.

She regularly graces the decks at Brilliant Corners, the Gun and Dalston Superstore and has a monthly show on Netil Radio called Peace of Mind.

Her passion for music is deep-rooted, and emerges from a love for the dance music scene.

Her selections are eclectic, ranging from ambient to balearic, electronica going through Italo disco and beyond.

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Seamus Haji has been DJ’ing and collecting records since his London sound system days in the mid 80’s when he was 16 mixing up soul, funk, hip hop and early house. Fast forward almost 35 years later and he’s become an International DJ/Producer & remixer in his own right. He’s been A&R for seminal house labels Slip’N’Slide, Strictly Rhythm, Defected Records, run his own Big Love since 2002 and has now re-joined Defected Records this time to A&R for the phenomenal Glitterbox Records.

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Netil Radio’s experienced selector Fannoire Ge connects the dots between boogie, disco and soul for this Sunday afternoon session.

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Jazz FM's Chris Philips and Jez Nelson return to Spiritland Royal Festival Hall for their laid-back, sociable Sunday afternoon monthly residency of the grooviest jazz sounds around, touching on funky jazz burners, rare boogie 12s and between-the-lines neo-soul grooves.

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A well-known face behind the decks at London's classier musical establishments, Ashley Robinson makes his return to Spiritland with more worldwide tunes from his 'Inhabit w/ Ash' radio show.

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thekingmob (James Denman) is a DJ, record collector and marketer based in New York. A born and bred Londoner, he was one of Spiritland's first DJ's back in 2014. Expect smooth jams, rare grooves, Jazz Funk, Psych workouts, Brazilian moods and unexpectedly danceable tunes from around the world.

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We’re delighted to welcome Jonny Woo, one of London's leading cabaret artists - plus a few of his super talented friends - to Spiritland Royal Festival Hall, where they're hosting an evening of festive pop and classic Christmas songs followed by a proper disco.

7pm Doors
8pm Singalong show
Plus post-singalong disco DJs Dan Beaumont & Wes Baggaley until 2am

Tickets £15 via link above.

Expect everything from Wham's 'Last Christmas' to The Pogues 'Fairytale of New York' and if you are very good, a delicious dose of Mariah Carey. Sprinkle in the likes of 'Oh Holy Night', 'Deck The Halls' and 'Ding Dong Merrily on High' and it's a festive evening for everyone. Richard Thomas (Olivier Award-winning composer of Jerry Spring The Opera) bashes out the hits on the piano whilst Sooz Kempner, Adam Perchard and Kevin Davies add show stopping solos and superlative harmonies. Expect irreverent familiar banter from Jonny throughout. How could you miss this festive treat in the heart of London's buzzing Southbank?

Jonny Woo is one of London's most prolific cabaret performers. He not only co-owns the infamous performance pub The Glory, but makes solo and large scale group shows such as The Un-Royal Variety and Jonny Woo's All Star Brexit Cabaret. He regularly presents work at The Soho Theatre and has performed at The London Coliseum, Royal Festival Hall, The ICA and regularly tours Australia.

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Sam Don has been a long time friend of Spiritland and had gone on to develop his own style via digging trips to the USA and his Free Association radio shows on Netil Radio

Spiritland's programmer and Discs of Fun And Love label owner Miche is a serial crate digger and DJ with a passion for remarkable music. He enjoys nothing more than genre-spanning marathon sets, with records played from all across the globe.

In the past few years he's featured at some of the top spaces across Europe – listening sessions at Kasheme in Zurich and Hosoi in Stockholm, hosting slots on Amsterdam's Red Light Radio, Brussels’ Kiosk Radio and Paris' Le Mellotron – and also playing at Gilles Peterson's We Out Here festival.

The pair team up for a pre-Christmas soul and boogie affair

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Martin is the creative force behind the pioneering club Smashing, guiding hand on over 25 compilations of soundtrack, jazz and lounge obscurities and DJ at private parties at the most happening hotspots in London and beyond.

Martin drafts in his most musical friends for an evening on the EMT 948s.

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Widely regarded - and quite correctly - as the DJ's DJ Frank Tope's encyclopaedic knowledge of and superb taste in music always makes for a great night at Spiritland. Entrance is free but reserving at table is recommended for this one.

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Niles and Baggy tell it best in their own words:

"We know emotion, we live emotion, we are emotion. We know pain and we know glory. It courses through our veins and drowns our hearts. Love and hate, joy and sadness, anger and fear – we are in touch with our souls. We ain’t afraid to cry, but then we aren’t reticent to strip to the waist and beat our chests in a display of primal expression either. And this shit needs soundtracking and to be made available to stream on the internet and we need it now."

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The hardest working DJ on the planet Severino fills in the tricky no-mans land of amusement that lies between Christmas and New Year's Eve perfectly, with a night of easy seasonal jams. Buon Natale!

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Come in from the cold! Our Jack's back with his latest wav and wax acquisitions on the Spiritland RFH sound system – and a perfectly-placed Christmas drinks / brunch session.

With a decade of DJ experience behind him, he brings smiles to happy dancers and braying barflys alike at festivals, parties and clubs – be it alongside close friends such as None More Records, Heavenly or Amateurism, as one half of country/disco/house dancefloor mescaleros the Flying Mojito Bros, or as landlord of his Boxpub mobile boozer.

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Spiritland favourite Marie – nom de guerre Iko Chérie when creating her 'psychedelicate surf pop' – returns for another of her special French-inspired, pop-tinged, laid back and breezy sessions.

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Micky's laid-back Balearic sets are always a treat, but this time he heads up again from his beachside town with a record box brimful of nothing but breezy, feel-good Saturday nighters.

Micky Browne works day-to-day at WARM, the booking agency, record label and event company. He works with founder Ali Tillett with acts such as Horse Meat Disco, Gerd Janson, Hot Chip, John Gomez to name a few.

Between his hundreds of emails Micky also likes to go digging for records from around the world whilst sipping on a nice ale. Expect anything and everything from his collection as he touches on dub, reggae, soul, boogie, afro, disco, house and anything in-between.

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Sophie has graced decks worldwide with her signature fusion of jazz funk, soul, boogie, disco, electro, house and world music.

Steadily building her repertoire, Callis has played alongside the likes of Gilles Peterson, Norman Jay and Trevor Nelson. From underground clubs and festivals to exclusive events such as the Cannes Film Festival, Monaco Grand Prix and Hotel Costes Paris, Sophie continues to make regular appearances at many reputable venues and parties worldwide.

A decade ago, Sophie joined the world's first all-female broken beat / nu-jazz collective Ladybugz, leading to a weekly show on Ministry of Sound Radio and many festival line ups. She also joined forces with Soho Radio at which she presents her weekly show 'Callis in Wonderland'.

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Brunch at Spiritland Royal Festival Hall gets groovy once a month with this residency from two titans of the library music scene, Jonny Trunk and Martin Green.

Half Forgotten Library is a regular Sunday session bringing largely forgotten swinging library recordings and OSTs back to life through our world-class sound system.

Drop in anytime for a stretched out brunch, daytime drinking and lounging in the company of recently revived jazz, soul, funk, exotica and soundtracks.

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DINING, DRINKING AND DANCING ON THE SOUTHBANK – PLUS ACCESS TO THE BIGGEST FIREWORK SHOW IN TOWN

Death to the past! See in the roaring twenties at Spiritland Royal Festival Hall with an indulgent New Year's Eve celebration.

Spiritland resident Iko Chérie plays music for elegant lounging and dining as we see out the year over a three-course feasting menu.

You'll also get guaranteed access to the insane South Bank firework display at midnight – which you'll be able to go out and see at the riverside in the heart of the action.

Then it's all back to ours as we move out the tables and DJ and musical authority Patrick Forge continues the party until 2am on our world-class sound system.

TICKETS:

Full dinner tickets include entry, a cocktail on arrival, three-course meal and bubbles after the fireworks at midnight.
Bar only tickets are available too.
Visit above link to purchase.

SCHEDULE:

7:30pm – Doors
8:30pm – Dinner
12:00am – Fireworks
2:00am – Close

FEASTING MENU:

CANAPÉS
• Baby gem, rice crusted tofu, green mango, pickled carrot, cucumber, tamarind caramel
• Crab beignets, chorizo aioli

STARTERS
• Asparagus, wild garlic, ticklemore, radish
• Chicory, pear, Picos de Europa, pickled grapes, black rice vinegar, walnuts
• Soused Mackerel, monk's beard, orange, pickled rhubarb

MAINS
• Freekah, miso butternut, mulberry sour cherries, Aleppo roasted feta
• Baked cod, fennel, yuzu, samphire salsa verde
• Lamb shoulder, puy lentils, pomegranate, mint, yoghurt, cumin salt

SIDES
• New potatoes, capers, shallots, parsley
• Broccoli, chilli, almonds

DESSERTS
• Chocolate brownie, date coconut yoghurt, sesame brittle
• Blood orange curd, pandan meringue, raspberries, Thai basil
• Sweet labneh, mango, pomegranate, pistachios, mint
• Selection of cheeses

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