The Magic Band
Play the music of Captain Beefheart
Praise the Lord! Finally, Captain Beefheart’s wildly influential and seminal Magic Band make their Thanet debut! Bringing the avant-garde and the unfathomable into Rock music, the group shook up a genre that could be perceived as formulaic.
Sharing the vision of celebrating the music of the late Don Van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart, original members Mark “Rockette Morton” Boston, and John “Drumbo” French share the stage with guitarists Eric Klerks & Max Kutner, and drummer Andrew Niven to re-visit the classic Beefheart tunes with renewed fervour.
Alongside contemporaries like Frank Zappa and Henry Cow, they introduced a range of influences to Rock music, simultaneously informing a new generation of ambitious composers. Like the The Velvet Underground, they launched a thousand bands, Tom Waits, Sonic Youth, The Kills, PJ Harvey and Beck have all cited Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band as the major inspiration for their own musical directions.
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