Town of Cats + Mango Django at The Magic Garden

TOWN OF CATS

Town of Cats are an ever-mutating municipality of musical misfits, grown in Brighton’s grubby and fertile Petri dish. To hear them is to be transported by the transformative power of the best parties. The ones that set fire to your zero-hour contract and remind you that change, real change, can come from the most ordinary of places. Wordplay careens between raised-brow punnage and righteous indignation at the state of the nation.

Funk rhythms dare you not to dance, coloured by boiling blasts of brass and a guitar that warps from crystalline chicken-scratch to face-melting prog. Whether the keys belong to some sleazy lounge act or the Mothers of Invention is up for debate. Town of Cats started as a winking, whimsical set of backstreet fables. They’ve coalesced into a battle-hardened groove and a well-worn but vital message: when we stand together, we break down walls.

MANGO DJANGO

Mango Django is the juice you get when you wring those sponges out; a sweet, tropical syrup, followed by a tangy rush of speed garage, and finished off with a sharp kick of drum n bass. The perfect cocktail for both a sun-soaked afternoon, and also an all-nighter out-out, raving hard til the lights come up again. Best served on the rocks and always with a smile