Jamie Lidell
A boundary-breaking, British soul vocalist beyond your wildest expectations. Jamie Lidell is a prodigious performer, fusing elements that evoke several giants of the music world without ever appearing derivative.
Jamie has been shocking audiences for the past few years with his extraordinary live shows; which careen from glitzy Funkadelic extravaganza to hard electronic avant-garde showpieces. A peerless vocal performer; his largely improvised shows have won him thousands of fans from Belfast to Tokyo. Those who have witnessed his skills can attest to the exhilarating and anarchic abandon of his risk-taking, daredevil vocal endeavours. To watch is to be privy to Lidell harnessing the essence of pure spontaneous creativity.
Reviewers have likened him to “a 21st century reincarnation of Little Richard” with “a soul voice fried in honey like Sly Stone or Prince, and a beatboxing talent to make Muhammad Ali quake in his Everlast”, delivering time and again “a thrilling, visceral performance”, “pure, visceral power: a scintillating display of demented musical and physical energy”, both “exhilarating” and “astounding”. Jamie Lidell is British music’s best kept secret, about to be unleashed on an exceptionally lucky Bestival 2008.
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