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Down for the Count LIVE!
at the Crouch End Music Palace
Friday 4th May 2012
159a Tottenham Lane, Crouch End, London N8 9BT
Doors 8.00pm - Jazz from 8.00pm - Dancing Music 9.00pm - 11.30pm
Entry £4
Drinks available from the bar

Following the success of our first public performance in North London, we are delighted to announce that we are returning to The Crouch End Music Palace for another fantastic night of live music - and this time we will also be opening the first ever Crouch End Arts Festival!

There will be even more live music than before - with background jazz from our quintet welcoming guests as the doors open at 8.00pm, followed by two sets of the very best swing, big band, jive, soul and Motown music from our sensational 9-piece function band.

The event will also mark the opening night of the first ever Crouch End Arts Festival - a unique 10-day celebration of the wealth of artistic talent living and working in "London's Creative Village".

Read a review of our last event from Hire-a-Band's Martin Kyprianides

Photos from February's DFTC Live! at The Crouch End Music Palace

Photography by Adrian Hau

"I had the pleasure of seeing Down for The Count perform at The Music Palace - a small, welcoming and undoubtedly intimate venue in Crouch End, north London. For the first set, we were treated to nearly an hour of cool swing classics. With the audience nicely warmed up for the second set, the band upped the tempo (and the volume!) for an awesome performance of soul, disco and Motown classics. Hit after hit, the band delivered their interpretations of groovy classics with conviction and vigour. It wasn’t long before the dance-floor was crammed full as Down for The Count turned on the style with songs by Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, James Brown, The Jackson Five, Martha & The Vandellas, Diana Ross, Chaka Khan and others. Deservedly receiving rapturous applause at the end of each song, three encores at the finale rounded off a thoroughly entertaining evening."

Martin Kyprianides, Director, Hire-a-Band