On stage nudity, marijuana smoking, and random members of the audience screaming “Pussy” into microphones, just an average gig for the Brazilian Girls, and their not exactly shy front woman Sabina Sciubba. Sadly this evenings show was positively Women’s Institute by comparison (and I don’t mean the nude calendar WI). Of course Sabina’s not a woman who does dowdy, emerging looking every inch the femme fatale in an all in one skin tight pink number puffing away on a cigarette as the gig progressed (whether it was wacky backie or Camel’s I couldn’t say).
Despite the amount of blog and press coverage centring around the band, the gig initially had a slightly subdued feel to it, as if they really should be playing bigger venues than this by now, but Sabina used that old trick of dragging the audience up on stage to get the place moving. A succession of girls took a song each to dance front stage, and a full crowd invasion enevitable had the oddly officious Luminaire security not rudely interrupted some serious rump shaking before administering a sound telling off to Sabina.
So that was the crowd’s stage participation over and the singer half jokingly threatened to either leave the stage as a protest, or smoke a joint (eventually settling for the latter). Even contained to the dancefloor the audience loved it, especially the aforementioned “Pussy“, and of course their most well known song “Don’t Stop (until Im coming)“. However for me at least with the exception of three or four numbers I left feeling slightly underwhelmed, although as I said I was probably alone in feeling that!
While Sabina is a brilliant performer and a handful of songs superb, their brew of worldly jazzy samba/reggae infused house is perhaps just a little too coffee table for my palette.
That said why they haven’t yet reached a larger audience remains a mystery to me?
Brazilian Girls
Listen:
Brazilian Girls – “Don’t Stop” (MP3)
Brazilian Girls – “Jique (MSTRKRFT Remix)” (MP3)
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