28/02/14: Boys bolted out of their Bedsits and clammered down to Kazbar for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see Best Song BAFTA gong winner Katherine Ellis share the stage with Bedsit Boys DJs Robb White and Eduardo Herrera.
Singer/writer/mama/diva Katherine’s soul-searing vocals, uptempo RnB funk and catchy phrasing made for a perfect marriage with White and Herrera’s nu-disco deep house grooves.
She laid out all her hits to the lucky ones who got in and the swarming masses outside. Highlights of the show included an impromptu accapella duet between Ms. Katherine and Kazbar’s Mr. Maritza with Katherine calling out to him up in the mezzanine and he, arms out-stretched over the railing, responding note for note a la West Side Story’s Tony and Maria.
The audience lapped it up like cats n cream and shouted the house down for more until Ms. Ellis closed the show with everyone’s favourite Freemasons remix of ‘Tears’. “She’s just fabuluus!” preened Brazilian duo ElectroMagnetico’s Christian Peterson and Alessandre Dias who had just arrived to see the show and were queuing in the cluster of fans trying to get backstage.
Exhausted but delighted, Katherine had no plans for slowing down just yet. “I spent 2013 touring, so now I’m spending 2014 recording.” She’s written 5 of the 6 tracks she’s recorded on the forthcoming Bimbo Jones album ‘Go Naked’ due for digital download in March. Then touring behind that. We can’t wait!
Kazbar, 50 Clapham High Street, SW4 7UL
Words by Tom Redkid
Photos by Chris Jepson
