Gold Panda + Baba Ali - Parish, Huddersfield - Sat 10th May 2025

Name: Gold Panda + Baba Ali - Parish, Huddersfield - Sat 10th May 2025
Start: 2025-05-10T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-05-10T23:00:00+01:00
Location: Parish

Schedule

Sat May 10 2025 at 07:30 pm to 11:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Parish | Huddersfield, EN

Parish Events presents...
Gold Panda +
Special Guests - Baba Ali
Parish, Huddersfield
Sat 10th May 2025
Doors 7.30pm // £16 adv // 14+ (under 18's must be accompanied by a parent / guardian)
Tickets on-sale now - parishpub.co.uk/gigs/922
Derwin Dicker, better known by his stage name Gold Panda, is a British electronic record producer, performer, and composer from the United Kingdom. As a musician, Derwin has enjoyed the acclaim that comes with touring the world and selling out shows in Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo, Paris, London and many places in between.
The story of Gold Panda’s journey from an acclaimed debut record to now begins in 2009 with his first several 7inch and single releases. He was remixing tracks for Bloc Party and turning the ears of tastemakers. This lead up to the release of his genre-defining debut album ‘Lucky Shiner’ (2010 – Ghostly International). Derwin has spent the subsequent years splitting the majority of his time between London, Berlin and countless excursions to Japan.
Born in New York, Baba Ali was previously part of the future-soul duo Voices of Black before moving to the UK to undertake a master’s degree in fine art at Goldsmiths. He released his debut solo Nomad EP in 2017 and toured with the likes of Gold Panda, Shigeto, Kele Okereke, and Jonny Greenwood’s Junun project.
A new set of music, recorded with The Kills’ Jamie Hince in LA, found its way to Danger Mouse, who made Baba the latest signing to 30th Century Records.
Those songs became the four-track This House EP – a perfect entry point to what Baba Ali has to offer. The opening track and previous single, ‘House’, provides the launching point for Ali and Hince’s collaboration – the spiky, swaggering single broke down all the walls and allowed the floodgates to open for the remainder of the project. ‘Cirque de Bizarre’ elaborates on a melody that was locked inside Ali’s head since he was a teenager. With the help of Hince, he was finally able to crack the code and unleash the hook-laden track. ‘El Dorado’ ties together the bluesy tones within the EP while adding in more experimental elements. It is, as Ali puts it, “an apt way to close out the EP with an eye on the future.”