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a review on P-Bass Expressway submitted by p-bass expressway.
The Package Reunion Gig Review....
P-Bass Expressway
Dux de Lux, Christchurch
Saturday 24 May
After a one and a half year absence, P-Bass Expressway returned to put some much-needed funk back in the Christchurch live music scene.
DJ’s Soul Providah and Partido (aka Nava Thomas and Kurt Dyer of P-Bass) warmed up the crowd with some booty shakin’ old-school funk tunes. P-Bass then played an eclectic set of material from their forthcoming album, which should be out by October, thanks to a $2000 grant from Creative NZ. Nava and drummer Ariel White (who together formed the band in 1999 as a production outfit) are currently in the studio. The band will play at the b.Net music awards in Auckland this year and despite bassist/trumpet player Simon Kay living in Sydney, will tour New Zealand to promote the album.
Musically, P-Bass are just good old-fashioned funk, cast very much in the mould of Herbie Hancock and other classic acts of the 60’s and 70’s. While they’re hardly groundbreaking, the motherfuckers can play. Standout songs from the gig included Slick City, Chester and Boogie Slacks (which in a just world, drunk people would sing instead of The Gambler). If their live show or demos playlisted on b.Net stations are anything to go by, the album will be the shit. They got the funk: ‘nuff said.
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Brad .....................................
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