FINK + Guests

Wed 17th Oct 2007

Sound Crash Productions presents
an album launch party for
FINK
+ Guests

SOLD OUT

Doors 7.30
SOLD OUT

"He achieves a brooding power reminiscent of a stripped down Nick Cave. A leftfield delight." Observer Music Monthly]

This former purveyor of laidback cool Ninja Tune beats has done what very few recording artists would dare to do. He changed. Completely.

"Bluesy laments and brooding soul....deep with emotion and intent." [Q]

What Fink has achieved is to have been reincarnated as Ninja Tune's first ever guitar-toting singer-songwriter. Immersed in a very personal labour of love, the Bristol-bred, Brighton-based artist has written, produced and performed a striking, stripped-down symphony of an album. Like a twenty-first century John Martyn, Fink's insistent songs are flushed with bruised basslines and skinny blues licks. And they're exceptional.

"John Martyn with added digital traces... stunning." [Uncut 4/5]

Fink was, like so many, enticed away from the brooding sensibilities of the '90s indie scene towards the illicit free spirited hedonism of the even more '90s rave scene, and for a long time never looked back. But in the commercial and pigeonholed world of the contemporary music scene Fink has committed the unthinkable. Namely turned his artistic identity inside out, with startling results.

Will appeal to those who succumbed to the charms of Jose Gonzalez. This, if anything, is better." [The Sun 5/5]

The veteran of countless remix and production credits with inspirational artists including Martin Taylor, Amy Winehouse, Michael Pitt, and Robert Belfour, this night is an opportunity to see the work of one of Ninja's – or indeed anyone's - most innovative artists on his own terms, fulfilling his artistry with an astounding candour.

"As albums go this is near perfect and deserves to be an integral part of peoples' lives." [The National Student]

After the roaring success of his tour last year with Zero 7, this is a rare and intimate gig but also an opportunity to see the artist his own label couldn't help themselves but offer a deal to. Even though they didn't know it was him at the time.

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