Fiesta Bombarda

A vibrant, festival-esque events group are celebrating their 1st anniversary in Brighton with a totally-tropical bonanza at Komedia on September 9: music, performance and dance-fuelled party sounds of reggae, brass, afrobeat and dub sounds are the order of the day.
From hosting Cathedral carnivals to Palm House parties across the country, Fiesta Bombarda celebrate their first Brighton anniversary by bringing former Brighton resident Ed Solo to the stage alongside The Future Dub Project and Tru Thoughts’ Ed West.
Honing his skills as a junglist before ducking and diving through every style of broken beat going, his stamp on electronic music runs very deep, starting in London in the mid-90s where he cut his teeth by engineering the likes of Blak Twang and Roots Manuva before laying down groundbreaking collaborations with jungle kingpin DJ Brockie including ‘Represents’ and ‘Echo Box’.

Next was Brighton and into a studio above Krafty Kuts record shop where Ed produced many seminal Breakbeat tracks leading to 2007’s album ‘Random Acts of Kindness’ alongside Skool of Thought and Darrisson, bringing him to a wider audience.
Since then Ed has been enjoying making a wide range of styles but he’s best known for his own crowd-pleasing reggae and drum’n’bass tracks from remixing Chronixx to Sizzla to original recordings with Elijah and Stickybudz.

Komedia, Fri 9 Sept, 11pm, £7-11