AZIZ ‘Lord of the Strings’ IBRAHIM hosts Fretboard Olympics as antidote to sporting madness

Aziz Ibrahim, virtuoso guitarist and songwriter (Weller, Brown) and his band ‘AZIZ’ are at Cargo in Shoreditch this Thursday 2nd August,  playing tracks from his highly acclaimed second album, Rusholme Rock’ and banishing East Londoners’ Olympics upheaval worries for an hour or two.

Aziz, the former Stone Roses guitarist whose incredible fretboard skills have earned him the moniker ‘Lord of the Strings’, plays Asian Blues: a glorious fusion of eastern and western techniques that acknowledges both his Pakistani heritage and his upbringing in urban Manchester.

Millions will recently have heard Aziz’s music without realising it: he contributed three tracks to Paul Weller’s recent number one album, ‘Sonik Kicks’, including ‘By The Waters’, cited as one of the most beautiful tracks on the album.

Aziz is accompanied by the punk rocker of tabla, Birmingham’s finest, Dalbir Singh Rattan, and supported  by Weird Naked Indian and Kamau Lyon. Tickets: £10 advance, available here from TicketWeb. Cargo is at 83 Rivington Street, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 3AY, 020 7739 3440.

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