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We are really excited to be able to bring multi platinum selling artist Finley Quaye to West Hampstead. Finley has racked up over 80 million plays on Spotify......you read that right, over 80 million! Finley is a rare breed that tempts comparison but is utterly without parallel. Truly modern music for the 21st century that doesn’t just defy categorisation it beggars belief. Describe Finley’s music … One could think Kate Bush Beck & Bob Marley of course. Listen to his first three albums for all its snazzy flaunting of the rules and its love affair with variety there’s a tough emotional depth to this music that would make Thom Yorke weep. Flashy, sexy, funny, psychedelic. It was every pop star’s duty to seek genius to create music that had never been heard before and record it in such a way that the listener could only be amazed and hazard a guess upon which instruments it was made. And God bless him Finley Quaye has never made such a grandiose pronouncement and yet he’s only gone and done it. Finley continues the momentum with this very special show of which tickets are limited to 80 in total. When they are gone, they are gone.
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West Hampstead Arts Club is a beautiful 110 Capacity speakeasy style club devoted to culture music performance & spoken word. Its friendly, non-commercial, and low-key at...
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Finley Quaye Biography
When Finley Quaye (born on 25 March 1974, in Leith, Edinburgh) won the 1998 Brit Award for Best British Male Solo Artist, he had been famous for less than a year. In 1997, he emerged from seemingly nowhere with a sunny mix of Reggae, Soul and jazzy Funk and claimed the hip Dance Pop throne previously occupied by the likes of Jamiroquai.
Son of Jazz composer Cab Quaye, the brother of noted guitarist Caleb and allegedly the half-uncle of Trip Hop artist Tricky, Quaye made his recording debut in 1995 on A Guy Called Gerald's "Finley's Rainbow". He scored a solo deal with Epic Records, and, in late 1997, hit the UK Top 20 twice with "Sunday Shining", a loose Bob Marley cover, and "Even After All". His reputation was established by Maverick A Strike, an adventurous but accessible album released in September 1997, which sold gold less than three weeks later and led directly to the Brit Award victory.
However, storm clouds started to gather when Tricky - with whom he collaborated on late 1997's "Duppy Umbrella" (also featuring Iggy Pop) - damned him on his "Can't Freestyle". Duppy means ghost in Jamaican patois, a duppy umbrella is a magic mushroom. Adrian Thaws a.k.a. Tricky and Finley Quaye are not related. There are currently no allegations that suggest the contrary.
In 2004 the song "Dice", in collaboration with William Orbit, and featuring Beth Orton was a minor hit, helped in part by its inclusion on The O.C. soundtrack.
Read MoreSon of Jazz composer Cab Quaye, the brother of noted guitarist Caleb and allegedly the half-uncle of Trip Hop artist Tricky, Quaye made his recording debut in 1995 on A Guy Called Gerald's "Finley's Rainbow". He scored a solo deal with Epic Records, and, in late 1997, hit the UK Top 20 twice with "Sunday Shining", a loose Bob Marley cover, and "Even After All". His reputation was established by Maverick A Strike, an adventurous but accessible album released in September 1997, which sold gold less than three weeks later and led directly to the Brit Award victory.
However, storm clouds started to gather when Tricky - with whom he collaborated on late 1997's "Duppy Umbrella" (also featuring Iggy Pop) - damned him on his "Can't Freestyle". Duppy means ghost in Jamaican patois, a duppy umbrella is a magic mushroom. Adrian Thaws a.k.a. Tricky and Finley Quaye are not related. There are currently no allegations that suggest the contrary.
In 2004 the song "Dice", in collaboration with William Orbit, and featuring Beth Orton was a minor hit, helped in part by its inclusion on The O.C. soundtrack.
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