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Live Music Review: ESG, Brudenell Social Club
First heard in the early 1980s, ESG's clatter-funk still sounds like the future
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Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
BILLED as their last-ever appearance in Britain, this gig features ESG founder member Renee Scroggins, who shouldn’t even be here. She’s under heavy orders not to fly after a near-fatal pulmonary incident last year.
Now pushing 60, she still has the vim which propelled her and her two Bronx sisters Marie and Valerie and neighbourhood friend Tito Libran to create the defining sound of New York in the early 1980s.
Tonight she’s joined by daughter Nicole on bass and son Nicholas on percussion and, along with hyperactive drummer David Miles, they summon a volcanic groove.
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