Funkology returns with a new slot, the 1st & 3rd Wednesday of every month featuring resident curators Jimi Needles & Hillman Mondegreen. They’ll be deejaying and hosting the best underground live acts from across the staple funkology spectrum of soul, hip hop, afrobeat, reggae etc. This week Funkology presents Dakhla – Bristol’s best afrobeat and balkan fusion band featuring a blazing horn section and drums! Perfect mid week week tunage to lift the soul! Good times guaranteed with FREE ENTRY all night,... Read more

Before The Jam kicks off its 4th birthday celebrations with special guest Roo Savill taking to the stage for a very special performance.

Roo is a singer-songwriter from the New Forest, whose influences include Carole King, The Beatles, Janis Joplin and Etta James. Roo has spent the last 18 months writing for various artists and providing her vocals for various tv and advertising campaigns including Playboy, Ford, Sky and BBC1′s ‘Luther’. She has also featured on Hollywood soundtracks including ‘A little bit of heaven’... Read more

ITS HERE!!! WE ARE FOUR YEARS OLD!!! And to celebrate we are gunna have some special guests, some amazing musicians and one serious JAM!!!! B4 the jam will be with one of the original Jam Tart members the great ROO SAVILL and to follow we will have a jam tart extra!!! BE THERE!!!!!!

JAM TART IS A FREE OPEN MIC/JAM SESSION where we encourage you to get up and play your own music, covers or improvise with our house band.

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Boogie Boutiques newest signings Roast Beatz & Jimi Needles go back to back on 4 turntables for a night of absolute musical

bedlam! Both veterans on the hip hop and breaks scene, they’ll be kicking out a party blend of Latin Beats, Reggae, Mashups,

Hip Hop, Funk & Breaks. Expect crowd rocking and turntable tricknology at its best from these two titans of the nu-funk

scene!

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Tonight Floripa resident and founding father Ross Clarke takes to the decks — Ross is responsible for launching some of the UK’s most recognised music events. He is co-founder of the established musical festival Lovebox, London’s twenty-first century cabaret club night ‘The Orgasmatron’ with Guy Chambers and Manchester’s finest hip hop label and club night ‘Fat City’. He has also worked with many of the world’s top DJs including Groove Armada, DJ Harvey, Massive Attack, Mr Scruff and DJ Marky.

It’s a Bank Holiday jazz special at The Jazz Meet this week as British vocalist Andre Espeut returns to Floripa to present an evening of scintillating soul jazz and old school grooves. Backed by a stellar band of some of London’s finest session musicians including Mark Vandergutch (guitar), Hamish Balfour (piano) and Jon Desbruslais (drums), you can expect two hours of expert musicianship and most importantly rhythms to make you dance! On hand to pick up the dancefloor in between... Read more

The Home Spun Show is an East London based weekly Podcast dedicated to finding and giving air time to the best music, be it old or new underground or overground, cool or unknown. We cross across styles with a hop, skip, and jump, but always focus on the unusual and on the unmissable.

We believe that the music industry is letting people down by presenting pop music for kids as the best it has to offer. We are here to prove... Read more

www.bandrepublic.com presents an eclectic night of the latest upcoming bands & solo artists. Come down and play a part of ‘the people’s record label’. See the website for details of one of the UK’s finest new band nights and the People’s Record Label…

We are back with another instalment of quality music. If you haven’t been to a Band Republic night, things are done slightly differently. The night usually consists of four different acts, from country to indie, pop to... Read more

Far Out is an independent record label based in London that specializes in releasing quality Brazilian music. It also releases music from European and US musicians and producers who share the label’s appreciation of the Brazilian vibes such as Gilles Peterson (BBC Radio 1), Nicola Conte (Blue Note), Zeep, Troubleman (Mark Pritchard) and Marc Mac (4hero) & many others, over the years.

Tonight, three of its most prolific DJs including FOR founder Joe Davis take to the decks in a celebration... Read more

Like Jim Thompson and Harry Dean Stanton on the set of Performance or Blow Out mixed up with a Rat Pack entourage, Deany Seagulls likes to defy categorisation. He enjoys jokes in the worst possible way that translate into the best possible nights (Swap!) with a whirling dancefloor and a mix of music that is both hand raising, fist clenching and toe tapping. Groove is in the heart (of darkness) and light is a load you hang from the ceiling.... Read more

Expect latin, batucada, pop, baile funk and bloc party classics as resident DJ Billy Boy takes to the decks to get you in the perfect party spirit! Billy Boy is not only the finest DJ in London Fields but the main man behind the beautiful look of Floripa and he shows just as much care and attention on the decks whilst keeping the tempo high and fun!

Floripa is the perfect place for dinner, drinks and dancing at the weekend. Book... Read more

This week at The Jazz Meet we pay homage to one of the great jazz pianists, Mr Herbert Jeffrey “Herbie” Hancock. Arguably one of the most influential (and controversial) figures in the genre since its inception, we welcome pianist Tom O’Grady back to The Jazz Meet as he revisits, alongside his band, some of Hancock’s best loved compositions. Herbie has always served as the main inspiration for Tom’s career and having meticulously transcribed many of the pianist’s tracks and acquired... Read more

London Centre of Contemporary Music is the  UK’s leading music school for bass, composition, drums, guitar, piano, saxophone, singing, songwriting, studio production, trombone and trumpet. This events sees great new songwriters and singers performing new material live on the Floripa stage.

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This week Funkology presents Cosmosoul coming to Floripa live & direct from sunny Spain. CosmoSoul was born from the union of five gifted musicians from various cultures creating an original sound deeply rooted in Soul and R&B. Funkology resident DJ’s Jimi Needles & Hillman Mondegreen will be supporting with their unique brand of funky soul goodtime tunage! EAT / DRINK / VIBE – Funkology – your midweek tropical getaway

Jam Tart is an open mic night and jam session with a difference! Bringing together some of London’s most exciting new talent in the form of singers, poets, rappers, story tellers, musicians, dancers and even comedians.

This is not your average open mic as the emphasis is on quality. Jam Tart is an opportunity for talented performers to play with highly experienced musicians. The Jam Tart Houseband is proudly put together from the finest session musicians the UK has to... Read more

Floripa is proud to bring back the one and only DJ Cliffy…

The man behind Batmacumba, the longest running Brazilian club night in England, DJ Cliffy is a globe-trotting DJ and ambassador for the coolest classic cuts and freshest sounds of Brazil. Cliffy is recognised as one of the leading Brazilian and world music DJs in the UK having expertly crafted compilations such as the Black Rio album series (Strut Records), written for Songlines and FACT magazines and performed in over... Read more

Floripa is the perfect place for dinner, drinks and dancing at the weekend. Book a table, sample our petiscos and carne (including the incredible Picanha Steak!) with some fine Brazilian wines, then move onto South American and international cocktails at the bar and eventually the dancefloor with Floripa resident Billy Boy spinning our trademark genre bending sambahiphopdancefloorstupidity… Expect Latin, batucada, pop, baile funk and bloc party classics. Billy Boy is not only the finest DJ in London Fields but the... Read more

Live soul jazz on a Sunday afternoon from The Jazz Meet Band led by Jake Telford on sax and Jessica Lauren on keys, and a rotating cast of some of London’s finest session musicians. DJ support before, after and in between the live sets this week comes from Jazz Meet residents Nik Weston and Jarred Rice who will be raiding their record collections to deliver a mixed bag of jazz and Latin flavoured sets aimed squarely at the dancefloor. Happy... Read more

The Home Spun Show is an East London based weekly Podcast dedicated to finding and giving air time to the best music, be it old or new underground or overground, cool or unknown. We cross across styles with a hop, skip, and jump, but always focus on the unusual and on the unmissable.We believe that the music industry is letting people down by presenting pop music for kids as the best it has to offer. We are here to prove... Read more

Jazz and soul singer/songwriter, Helena Jesele, releases Sun Is Rising as a single on 20th May, hot-on-the-heels of a live performance at the prestigious Cheltenham Jazz Festival,  join us to celebrate her latest release.

Jesele collaborated with Brooklyn-based record label and production team Truth & Soul on the album, whose distinctive sound contributed to the mammoth success of Adele’s 19 and took Aloe Blacc to mainstream success. Using entirely analogue recording techniques, half was produced using a string quintet and live brass... Read more

Well what a treat we have in store for you! To get you in the mood for a true bank holiday blowout we welcome Kid Kasino AND Shea to the stage for a massive electro swing knees up!

Deep from the jazz scene, Kid Kasino has been developing a unique style, fusing nu-skool hip-hop, dub, electro and bass sounds with olde-skool swing, funk and jazz to create a sound that is irresistibly catchy!

Kid Kasino is currently just finishing up his album... Read more

ARE YOU BORED OF YOUR REGULAR FRIDAY NIGHTS??? Wanna go somewhere FRESH and FUNKY to let your hair down? Then why not spice up your Fridays nights with SOUL EVOLUTION…

After the success of our first edition of Soul Evolution, Floor Rippers entertainment couldn’t stop there!!! WE ARE BACK!!! FOR GOOD!! Bringing back the Friday night fever!!

You’ve heard about SOUL TRAIN, seen it on the TV, now its time to take part in the real thing! A brand new Funk night for you and... Read more

Like Jim Thompson and Harry Dean Stanton on the set of Performance or Blow Out mixed up with a Rat Pack entourage, Deany Seagulls likes to defy categorisation. He enjoys jokes in the worst possible way that translate into the best possible nights (Swap!) with a whirling dancefloor and a mix of music that is both hand raising, fist clenching and toe tapping. Groove is in the heart (of darkness) and light is a load you hang from the ceiling.... Read more

It’s another May Bank Holiday bonanza and this time around the esteemed Belleruche songstress Kathrin deBoer joins the hard-grooving, so soulful sounds of Jake Telford and The Jazz Meet Band on the Floripa stage. Having recorded four albums with the Brighton three-piece, Kathrin has also provided bespoke vocals for SBTRKT, Bonobo and DJ Vadim amongst others, and this Sunday she will be dipping into her songbook to perform a selection of jazzy and soulful standards. Expect a few special guests... Read more

It’s another May Bank Holiday bonanza and this time around the esteemed Belleruche songstress Kathrin de Boer joins the hard-grooving, so soulful sounds of Jake Telford and The Jazz Meet Band on the Floripa stage.After the Jazz we welcome the Return to Forever DJs to the decks as they take us on a music journey from jazz through to deep house! DJ NuAge, aka Nuno Da Cruz is the curator for RTF and has been DJing sice 1998, his vinyl collection... Read more

 Night Alive Presents Live at the Floripa – Tuesday 28th May. Shoreditch’s No.1 Live Music Collective!!! A fun night of jammed-packed afro-rock, acoustic and soul bands. Great songwriting, top performances and talented musicianship. Featuring the cool acoustic vibes of ‘Ella vs Mountain’ straight from Tel Aviv. As new soul acoustic sensation ‘Olivia McShane’. Followed by the electro-funky dancefloor band ‘Black Forest Ghetto’. Lastly will be the soul music and performance of ‘Nancee’. Free entry for a night packed with great... Read more

The hosts of your midweek tropical getaway present a one-off special called Folkology. Jimi Needles & Hillman Mondegreen ditch the heavy horns and groovy backbeats for a folk edition with the starring engagement of TOYFACE

 

After the amazing Easter Sunday party the Sidetraked boys are here to delight your ears with their rich mix of all that grooves! get ready to get your dance on.

Like Jim Thompson and Harry Dean Stanton on the set of Performance or Blow Out mixed up with a Rat Pack entourage, Deany Seagulls likes to defy categorisation. He enjoys jokes in the worst possible way that translate into the best possible nights (Swap!) with a whirling dancefloor and a mix of music that is both hand raising, fist clenching and toe tapping. Groove is in the heart (of darkness) and light is a load you hang from the ceiling.... Read more