Empirical Pop-Up Jazz Lounge Bops to Birmingham, London and Liverpool
Friday, April 21, 2017
MOBO Award-winning Brit-jazz four-piece Empirical are set to take their boundary-busting Pop-up Jazz Lounge to three locations around the UK this year, which kicked off with a weeklong string of dates in Birmingham from 25-29 April.
Launching the project at Old Street Tube station in February 2016, the band played to some 2,800 commuters over 24 performances, winning approval from many non-jazz fans in the process.
The gigs are aimed at taking jazz out of the concert halls playing directly to workers, shoppers and commuters via several sets each day. This year also marks Empirical's decade together with the band set to return to Old Street Underground station from 19-24 June during the day and early evening, before appearing in Liverpool in September.
The band's bassist Tom Farmer commented on the project: "It was great to see so many new people at our pop-up lounge at Old Street and to see them really engage with the music – it showed that there is an audience for jazz out there, and we can reach them! So we're really excited to be able to take our pop-up lounge to Birmingham this April and hope that we'll get the same enthusiastic reaction from people there."
– Mike Flynn
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Watch '6 days in Old Street' – a short documentary about the band's pilot Pop-up Jazz Lounge: