Warning: Smoking Ban inspection during Asian Dun Foundation on Sunday 17 April 2011

Since 1 January 2006 it has no longer been permitted to smoke in public places, so not in AB either. After consultation between AB and the Federal Department of Public Health, Food-Chain Safety and the Environment, there will be a number of inspections carried out in the AB over the coming months by the Public Health department.

The next inspection will be on the during the Asian Dub Concert on Sunday April 17th 2011.

Dancehall, dub beats, ragga and punk-rock combined with socially engaged lyrics: the multicultural Asian Dub Foundation returns in 2011. New album ‘A History Of Now’, released in early February, shows an ADF in fine form. Lyrically, just as relevant and, musically, a melting-pot containing many years of British & Indian political history. Steve Chandra Savale is one of the mainstays of the band and so also proudly reports that ‘in the 16 years of the band we have lived through a lot of change, how we make music, how we relate to people, we're completely transformed and this is a good way to mark that artistically’. The recordings took place in the Lynchmob Studios of Primal Scream- & Paul Weller-producer Brendan Lynch and was produced by Sanjay Taylor and the aforementioned Steve Chandra Savale. The video for the first single was directed by Jimmy Cauty, who we still know from the KLF.

AB has a long relationship with Asian Dub Foundation: this concert will be their fifth in AB. Including in 2003 when they were here for a live performance of their soundtrack to the Mathieu Kassovitz film ‘La Haine’.

'Live Life' is the impressive debut by Brussels' singer-songwriter Maëlan that was recently hailed “album of the week” on FM Brussel. Having grown up in a multi-cultural environment, it was there that he absorbed his favourite genres, such as African music, grime, dubstep, reggae and hip-hop. After having lived in England for a while, Maëlan returned to Brussels where he began working as MC with Grimelock. That same Grimelock also made a contribution to Maëlan's debut, just as the omnipresent Omar Perry.

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