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Lowrider’s music has been called everything from soul, groove and urban lounge to hip-hop, funk and indie.
So, it’s time to have your say, for your chance to score a double pass to the LilkaFest Camping & Music Festival, south of Adelaide, on 13th November 2010.
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Adelaide quartet, LOWRIDER are also jumping in the car to spend their New Years Eve at the picturesque Pyramid Rock Festival. Prepare to enter a soul, funk, hip-hop trance when the boys, who have forged a reputation as one of the most mesmerising live acts around, take to the stage to perform hits like Here We Go, Be Bad and Friends.
Article at The Pyramid Rock Festival 2010/11
If sharing is caring, then Alicia Keys sure had a big spot in her heart for Adelaide soul-funk act Lowrider. Not only did she have the quartet support on her national tour in late 2008, the Grammy Award-winning megastar proved she was no diva by letting the boys jam with her legendary Chops Horns players.
“We didn’t know how much of a big deal it was – we didn’t even know they had to ask for her permission – but they told us later that generally the big star acts wouldn’t let any of their bands play previous to them going on stage,” says frontman Joe Braithwaite, “so for her to say it was fine, just shows how much of a real person she is.”
Thirty million-album sellers aside, Lowrider have since reconnected with (more…)
Having forged a reputation as one of the most extraordinary bands to emerge from Australia in recent years, and with one critically acclaimed album already under their belt (“This album is one of those rare gems of Australian music. Lowrider make the sort of music that the giants of the pop world go to bed dreaming about”, Sauce), the foursome of Paul Bartlett (drums/beats), brother John (piano/keys), Joe Braithwaite (vocals) and Scott Duncan (bass) are at the top their game and ready to take their unique blend of soul and funk to the world. (more…)