Radical Dance Faction / Dagobah / i-Lodica

Name: Radical Dance Faction / Dagobah / i-Lodica
Start: 2025-01-17T18:30:00+00:00
Location: Exeter Phoenix

Schedule

Fri, 17 Jan, 2025 at 06:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Exeter Phoenix | Exeter, EN

Friday, January 17th - £10 in advance, tickets available now from:
https://exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/radical-dance-faction/
Radical Dance Faction
Founded by Chris Bowsher in Hungerford in 1986, Radical Dance Faction's music combines punk, dub, and ska, while Bowsher’s lyrics, spoken rather than sung, deal mainly with political issues, such as the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 in the song “Chinese Poem”. Bowsher also witnessed first hand the Hungerford massacre, describing his experience in the song “Hot on the Wire”.
In 1990 they signed to Southern records, releasing two albums on their own imprint Earthzone and going on to tour Germany and other parts of Europe, supporting Rebel MC and at one point Ziggy Marley. RDF were a regular act on the UK free festival scene prior to the 1994 Criminal Justice Act, and were part of the crusty/anarcho punk movement until they called it day in the mid 1990s. The band reformed in 2006 playing various festivals around the UK during 2007. They reformed again in 2012 and appeared at Bearded Theory festival, and have been active since, performing at the likes of Glastonbury Festival, Boomtown, Rebellion, Willow Man and Green Gathering festivals, as well as London's famous 100 Club and The Dublin Castle.
In 2023 RDF released their latest work, Youth meets Radical Dance Faction - Welcome to the Edge, produced by Youth Sounds.
https://radicaldancefaction.com/welcome-to-the-edge/
Dagobah
Dagobah were formed in the legendary North Devon music scene of the twentieth century’s dying throes, but have, miraculously, barring one or two line-up changes (some of which were just members swapping instruments) been together ever since. Okay, so there may have been the odd ten-to-fifteen-year gap between gigs, and they may not all live in the same city anymore, but nobody ever suggested the band didn’t exist at any point (ignore all the reunion gigs). Some of the two-minute brutalist punk anthems of their early days remain, but over the last decade their music has veered closer to the bastard child of Mogwai and Can, with ethereal soundscapes (that still sometimes fall over the edge back to that brutalist punk sound of the nineties) being painted beneath spoken-word samples. You may have seen members of Dagobah moonlighting in Freak by Wire, Spitting Blood, The Vootubes, Carnivala! or (if you’re old enough) Spudgun and The Mildrids.
i-Lodica
Beginning his career in 1995 playing melodica and percussion, i-Lodica was part of the original lineup for Makating, a reggae band who's first single "Peace In The Garden" reached no. 11 in the Echoes Roots and Culture chart and was played on Radio 1 by John Peel, and also featured by the legendary Jah Shaka on his heavyweight sound.
i-Lodica has produced records over the years with the likes of The Discliples, Concious Sounds, Iration Steppas, Kibir La Amlak, and 'Season of the Harvest' with Lowki (kingz Hifi)