The gig at the Pier Café was still some hours away as I met the two main singers in the band. Barnaby had just come from relaxing on the beach and Dan was prostrate in the middle of the dance floor below the impressive circular ceiling playing Tetris on his mobile

Courting controversy, Gilles Peterson has just announced A Night Of Death Jazz at Camden’s Roundhouse which will feature Tokyo’s Soil & “Pimp” Sessions, The Mighty Jeddo and 2BO4. alongside musikal selectahs Toshio ‘UFO’ Matsuura, drum’n’bass don Fabio and GP himself. Win a pair of tickets and a signed copy of Soil & “Pimp” Sessions’ latest CD