Dates: Saturday 6 July
Time: 10pm - 4am
Place: The Gig Space, Level 5
Access: There is step-free access via a lift
Get up and get down at The South London Soul Train’s summer show featuring the hottest funk, soul and hip-hop dropping DJs + K.O.G (Live).
Prepare yourself for a furious, all-night-long dance off, as hi-life/hip-hop/funk band K.O.G truly know how to deliver and are guaranteed to make you move. Part of SLST’s ongoing mission to funk you up-ah!
Kweku Sackey aka K.O.G (Kweku of Ghana) is a multi-dimensional creative force, combining exquisite writing skills with shamanistic live performance, fierce raps, perfectly on pitch singing across a massive vocal range and some absolutely wicked dance moves. Not to mention his skills as a percussionist, arranger, bandleader and art director. A true poet and storyteller, he uses a mix of English, Pidgin and Ga to paint sonic pictures that reach deep into the souls of everyone ready to listen.
Born in Accra, Ghana, to a nurse mother and marine engineer father who had studied in England, he grew up with a diverse range of international influences alongside Ghanaian styles: Tom Waits, Quincy Jones, Bob Marley, Sizzla, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Ebo Taylor, Gyedu Blay Ambolley, Atongo Simba, George Clinton, Pavarotti, Warsaw Village Band. Resident for over 10 years in Sheffield, music has taken him to perform on huge stages all over the world, from Glastonbury’s legendary West Holts stage to Fusion (Germany), Sauti Za Busara (Zanzibar), Kabardock (Reunion) and the Commonwealth Games (Gold Cost, Australia), winning the 2018 Young Commonwealth Performer and performing for Nelson Mandela’s family.
He is the lead vocalist for afro-futurist project Onipa (Strut Records, Wormfood) and hi-life/hiphop/funk band K.O.G (Heavenly Sweetness), as well as collaborating extensively with Nubiyan Twist; his song ‘If I know’ off the Freedom Fables album (Strut, March 2021) was performed live on Later with Jools Holland and playlisted twice on BBC6 Music.
The South London Soul Train will be taking all passengers on a non-stop magical mystery tour through all things too damn funky.
Passengers are requested to check their souls at the station, as this one's for good time party people only! See you on the dancefloor.