SATURDAY 5TH JULY:
BRIT-ASIA AND FUNKSHAAN PRESENT V.I.P
SHEKIE N SHAM ALBUM LAUNCH PARTY
Birmingham's most glamorous club night Funkshaan joins forces with the UK's number one music channel Brit-Asia TV to present a brand new monthly club night.

V.I.P is an exclusive brand new club night showcasing hot new live acts and artists from the Asian music scene. Combine this with glamour, celebrities and top music, be sure you'll be treated like a V.I.P.

Shekie n Sham
Album Launch Party
(LIVE PA)
Supported by Serese

DJs: Manga: Parm Panesar (Funkshaan): Anthony & Surprise Guests

TIME: 10-4am PRICE: £5 b4 11, More After
INFO: 07968 260276/ 07968 366878 (Text for Q-jump list): Email: music@shaanti.co.uk
Concrete: 120 Vyse Street. The Big Peg. Jewellery Quarter. Hockley. B'ham. B18 6NF - info@concretebar.co.uk/ www.concretebar.co.uk

Brit Asia TV is FREE on SKY 836 and the only channel in the UK dedicated to the
British Asian music scene. www.britasia.tv - Brit Asia TV - KEEP IT LOCKED

SATURDAY 19TH JULY:
SHAANTI PRESENTS… CHAMPION SOUND
PREDATORY PREY LIVE, OPEN MINDED PPL (DJS), MANGA, BASS-FLO & SKA
Champion Sound is the underground illegitimate child of Birmingham’s Shaanti’s showcase night happening on the Saturday 19th July at Concrete.

Shaanti presents Champion Sound is a heavier and more serious outlook to music with the night’s typically funky approach. The programme is split into three sections: Live Vs DJ Vs Art.

This month Predatory Prey will headlining the night. For 5 years the combination of Dave Rodgers and Jalporte have been turning heads and changing minds real quick. A style that is not ordinary, nor in rhymes or beats, but yet sits quietly among all styles. Quiet until ready to explode upon its prey. When others have laughed a raw work-ethic and unmovable self-belief have carried these two far...and their still going. They’ll be performing live alongside Open Minded People DJs, Manga, Bass Flo and artist SKA will be exhibition exclusive prints from her upcoming show.

“The concept of Champion Sound is to sound-clash many musical forms and genres into one club sound. It’s about promoting new music on a underground level, It’s also a chance to showcase exclusive DJ sets from artists from the breaks, drum and bass, dub, liquid Jazz, Asian fusion… community together with an eclectic, intimate backdrop of raw undiluted live talent,” Manga, Founder of Shaanti says.

Champion Sound is all about the music first; it’s also a place where artists and new talent can network, showcase and jam with like-minded people who love music. In many ways it what Shaanti used to be like when it first launched back in 1999.

“To put it in a nutshell the night is about Championing New Sound.” He adds.

The parties launched every month from May, at the newly launched Concrete Club, where past guests have included Bugz in the Attic’s Co-op, Jazzonova, Eska Mtungwazi, Drop Beats Not Bombs Night My Bass, Miss Moneypenny’s (Twilight), Halo and Southport Weekender’s Choice Uber – underground basement at The Big Peg, formally The Old Boiler Room in Birmingham.

Champion Sounds, Saturday 19th July at Concrete featuring Predatory Prey Live, Open Minded People DJs, Manga, Bass Flo and artist SKA.

Live: Predatory Prey
DJs: Open Minded People DJs, Manga and Bass Flo.
Art: SKA
Time: 8.00 pm til 4.00 am.
Price: £5 B4 12, More After
Address: Concrete, 120 Vyse Street. The Old Boiler Room. Jewellery Quarter. Hockley. Birmingham. B1 3HH.
www.shaanti.co.uk/ www.concretebar.co.uk Tel: 07968 260276/ 07968 366878\
Artists Sounds:
Listen: Shaanti/Manga: www. www.myspace/shaanti.collective
Predatory Thoughts: www.myspace.com/ predatorythoughts
Bass Flo: www.myspace.com/bassflo

1st – 3rd AUGUST: NITIN SAWHNEY (DJ SET), ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION SOUND SYSTEM, UK APACHE AMONGST THE LATEST ARTISTS ANNOUNCED FOR SHAANTI’S CLUB TENT AT THE BIG CHILL 2008
Shaanti are proud to announce their present at this year’s The Big Chill Festival 2008.

Shaanti will be joining flamboyant Diva Roisin Murphy, award winning electro pop/songwriter’s – Hot Chip and cult British acid house band Alabama 3 as well as Leonard Cohen, The Mighty Boosh, Bill Bailey, Bomb the Bass, John Shuttleworth, Buzzcocks, The Thievery Corporation, The ICA, The BFI and many more over the three day festival in Eastnor, 1st – 3rd August.

The award winning Shaanti will host The Big Chill’s Club Tent on Sunday 3rd August featuring multi instrumentals Nitin Sawhney (DJ Set), British alternative electronica band Asian Dub Foundation Soundsystem, jungllist and rapper UK Apache and desi-futurist pioneers The Kaylan feat. Gubsy (on Dhol and electric Tabla) and Steve (Guitar) and Anila (Samplers & Mix) live. They’ll be also joined by Shaanti’s front man Manga and resident DJ MSC who be representing ‘Champion Sound’ - the underground illegitimate club-child of Shaanti.

Manga, Founder of Shaanti says: “ It’s a honour to be invited to host the first ever Global Asian Club tent at The Big Chill Festival. Not only are we the first club brand to represent Asian broken and fusion beats to the masses but we’ll also the first to host a club tent in a daytime setting, as a main music feature, alongside the rest of the programming for this festival,” he adds.

I just want to host events what feels right at the moment without thinking about genres, thankfully The Big Chill motions that same notion. He adds.

Shaanti arguably is one of the best global brands in the world. Still breaking the rules, the music Shaanti represented has shifted over the nine years as genres have progressed and developed. Tearing up genre conventions by showcasing every genre of music under the sun, veering from Asian breaks, Eastern drum n bass licks to searing electro workouts, rowdy breaks to groove focused house and joining all the dots in between. The musical direction is broad enough to deliver a diverse offer, giving the crowds plenty of reason to dance up to 6 hours straight on Sunday 3rd August.

Shaanti at The Big Chill (Club Tent) feat. Nitin Sawhney (DJ Set), Asian Dub Foundation Soundsystem, UK Apache, The Kaylan feat. Gubsy (on Dhol and Tabla) and Steve (Guitar) and Anila (Samplers), Manga and DJ MSC at Eastnor, Castle Deer Park. Great Malvern. Herfordshire. 1st – 3rd August 2008. www.thebigchill.net / www.shaanti.co.uk
Address: Eastnor, Castle Deer Park. Great Malvern. Hertfordshire.
Info: www.the bigchill.net/ www.shaanti.co.uk
Ticket Prices: Adult £129, Student £110, Teen £60, Under 13s are free with accompanying an adult. Car parking starts at £5 for smaller vehicles
Ticket Booking: www.bigchill.net/ www.ticketline.co.uk

SATURDAY 16th AUGUST
BRIT-ASIA AND FUNKSHAAN PRESENTS V.I.P
H.DHAMI ALBUM LAUNCH PARTY
Birmingham's most glamorous club night Funkshaan joins forces with the UK's number one music channel Brit-Asia TV to present a brand new monthly club night.

V.I.P is an exclusive brand new club night showcasing hot new live acts and artists from the Asian music scene. Combine this with glamour, celebrities and top music be sure you'll be treated like a V.I.P.

H. Dhami (Live)
Performing tracks from his new album
DJs: Manga: Parm Panesar (Funkshaan): Anthony & Surprise Guests

TIME: 10-4am PRICE: £5 b4 11, More After
INFO: 07968 260276/ 07968 366878 (Text for Q-jump list): Email: music@shaanti.co.uk
Concrete: 120 Vyse Street. The Big Peg. Jewellery Quarter. Hockley. B'ham. B18 6NF - info@concretebar.co.uk/ www.concretebar.co.uk