Red Snapper, Noisy Pots - exclusive lockdown broadcast

On Sunday 10th October Woodbridge Festival in association with Noise of Art broadcast exclusive live recordings of up and coming Czech act Noisy Pots, riding high on the release of their latest single Khan, and club Jazz pioneers Red Snapper.

The broadcast is the third installment of the Festival's Lockdown 2020, featuring acts who would have been in Woodbridge for our main summer festival, but thankfully are here anyway in another form.

Noisy Pots are at the forefront of the new wave of acts currently coming out of the Czech Republic. Formed by Michal Supak and Jakub Tengler, they have a classical and jazz background with a focus on electronic music.

The band started out by making electro music with the help of kitchen utensils - hence their name, and their live set-up still features pots and pans.

The new single is the prolific band’s sixth release in 2020 and features Tanita, whose vocals are influenced by Grime and her Bulgarian roots.

Woodbridge was privileged to host Red Snapper at the town's historic Riverside Theatre/Cinema. The band will be releasing long-awaited new material this year/early next year.

Red Snapper were recorded at the Riverside in front of a small but fortunate audience. Their new track Truth (currently getting some attention on BBC Radio 6 Music) is the first of three new singles, while an album will be released in 2021. 

Festival programme director and DJ Ben Osborne said: "I've worked with both these acts and it's a privilege to be able to present them for the festival. Red Snapper's appearance at the Riverside was emotional. There was a lot of love in that room. Some people came 200 miles down from the north to get there and there were familiar faces from London's Balearic, techno and jazz funk scenes, as well as different parts of Suffolk's music scene.

"It's given our lockdown events a special feeling having that support. Rich and Ali from the band both contacted me the following day saying they'd taken precious memories with them of the three days we spent in Suffolk preparing for the gig."

"Noisy Pots are a classical / jazz trained act who make electro music and are a band new part of an exciting new scene in Prague. We had hoped to bring them and other Czech acts to make their UK debut this year, but COVID has made that impossible. Instead they're giving us a UK debut from Prague, which we are premiering weekend to the world, before it goes online on their own website.

"We've organised these events with Noise of Art and Czech partners Move Festival and Cross Club, and we'll be bringing more European acts to Woodbridge Festival in coming months.

"We are also starting regular monthly Woodbridge Festival events at the Riverside, Woodbridge, from Monday 2 November - announcements of local through to international acts coming soon and we look forward to seeing everyone again there."

The Woodbridge Festival of Art and Music is helping to raise funds for the Save Our Venues Campaign, nationally co-ordinated by Musicians Union and Music Venues Trust.

This event is supported by the Arts Council England.