Preview

After a three year gap, tonight features a return visit for this powerhouse six-piece. To those of you unfamiliar with them, K-Passa are an exuberant folk-rock outfit with the same stability of personnel that marks out the likes of Fleetwood Mac or the Albion Band. The band now features what Simon Edwards - singer, squeezebox maestro and principal songwriter - describes as "the ultimate line-up." To be specific, that means Edwards himself, Rob Allen on guitar and vocals, Mark Knight (fiddle), Stu Edwards (bass), Jeff France (drums) and Emma Hughes, also on vocals.

Primal energy is what K-Passa generate whenever they step out onto the stage to play "live". The grassroots response to their fiery performances has garnered this UK-based folk/roots/rock band a huge audience following across Europe and the UK. Driven by the brilliant squeeze box playing of Simon Edwards and the madcap fiddling of Mark Knight, K~Passa fuse Celtic folk and rock into a formidable hybrid guaranteed to whip up any crowd into an excited frenzy.

'...barnstorming......surely induce foot-tapping, dancing around the kitchen and singing out loud!' - Taplas

'The level of exuberance expended is enough to knacker a whirling dervish' - fRoot

Review

K-Passa returned after a 3-year gap as full of beans as ever. Simon Edwards (vocals and accordion) fronts a powerhouse six-piece outfit that just doesn't let up - the madcap fiddling of Mark Knight combines with Simon's squeezebox and Rob Allen's guitar, atop a monster rhythm section in a wall-of-sound approach that induces fervent footwork on the dance-floor ... and all that's now augmented by a full-blown Hammond organ player (the band collected the instrument from South Wales en route: an immaculate example - that won't last long! - it was previously used in a church!). Therein lies my only reservation - on the rare occasion the band lays back a little, the subtlety of the individual instruments can be heard; but for the most part, what you get is the flat-out primal energy that's the band's rightful trademark, and which their many fans expect of them. All in all, a good, noisy night.