Hackney Colliery Band, Mulatu Astatke, DJ Yoda, Rob Auton, Tom Rogerson

This special Barbican autumn date sees the Hackney Colliery Band perform in collaboration with a host of key guest artists including British Jazz Funk legend James Taylor, writer and performer Rob Auton, artist and writer YVA, composer and pianist Tom Rogerson and the Roundhouse Choir. Here they will present material from their forthcoming album Collaborations: Volume One - featuring Mulatu Astatke and Angelique Kidjo - which is out on 7th June 2019 and will be their first new material since the critically-acclaimed Sharpener in 2016.

Since their formation ten years ago, the East London collective has gone from strength to strength with their genre-bending combination of brass, reeds, percussion and electronics, and they have performed at numerous venues, festivals and clubs around the world. Their setlist is as eclectic as the borough which gives them their name, drawing on influences ranging from contemporary rock and electronica to jazz or the traditional British brass band sound to which their name also pays homage.

Band leader Steve Pretty said about their new album: "It's hard to believe that 2019 is our tenth anniversary, but now we're ten years older it felt like the right time to get back to our jazz roots. It's been such a privilege to work with so many of our musical inspirations both old and new on this record, and we're super excited to be ushering in the next then years with this new collborative spirit: this is called 'Volume One' for a reason...'.