Music News - Living Colour @ The Powerstation May 11th
17 January 2017 - 0 Comments
Living
Colour are bringing their 30th Anniversary Tour to New Zealand!
Led by the mighty guitar-slinging virtuoso Vernon Reid, Living Colour set the
musical world on fire in the 1980s with their incendiary brand of funk-rock
fusion.
Championed by Mick Jagger and credited with opening the musical landscape of
the late 1980s with hits like the Grammy-winning Cult Of Personality and the
Top 40 smash Glamour Boys, Living Colour broke through musical and racial
barriers, opening for Guns n’ Roses and The Rolling Stones along the way.
Stylistically, the band's music is a creative fusion influenced by free jazz,
funk, hard rock and heavy metal. Their lyrics range from the personal to the
political, in some of the latter cases attacking Eurocentrism and racism in
America.
These days Living
Colour is a self-contained supergroup with vocalist Cory Glover, aka
Rev Daddy Love, drummer Will
Calhoun, an accomplished photographer who has played with B.B. King, Public Enemy and Wayne Shorter and acclaimed bass player Doug
Wimbish, veteran session man who was a member of the original Sugarhill house
band and
and part of Adrian Sherwood’s On-U
Sound.
Vernon Reid has
a special connection to New Zealand, having assembled a one-off solo band in
2008 to appear at the G-TARanaki Guitar Fest jamming with GnR guitarist Gilby
Clarke.
Living Colour’s next album, Shade, is due in 2017 and is described as "the sound of a band coming to terms with its shadows and light,” according to Vernon
Reid. “From
the blue pulpit of Robert Johnson to the mean red streets of Brooklyn”.
30 years on, Living
Colour are still a musical force to be reckoned with.
Don’t miss them live
at THE POWERSTATION, March 11th 2017
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