Virtuoso violin, Stones-y swagger, roaring guitars, soundscapes ranging from tango to Eno, lyrics about the spiritual future and the material present, Putney based art-rocker Hani Abbasi brings his second collection of vital contemporary rock songs, entitled When in London, out into the open for the first time at his spiritual musical home of the The Half Moon.

As with his 2018 debut LP of "futuristic Britpop" The Polar Route, his second offering was recorded in Suzhou China where Abbasi was a veteran of the arts and music scene for many years.

Hani Abbasi's powerful live ensemble consists of RPO violinist Orpheus Leander, EDM/pop hybrid queen Aeteri, pianist Mark Dixon, bassist Martijn Prins and his brother Danny Abbasi (ex-Emma Pollock) on drums.

The sophomore LP's dystopian-funk lead single 'When In London', inspired by Talking Heads, 70s reggae and generation gaps, is released on 19 September with the full 10-track LP to follow shortly after.

Ali MacQUEEN lingers around east London for now, but growing up in a joyless market town in south Bedfordshire, and seeing the pull of its soul-crushing gravity was more than a reason to leave. Having played with many bands in the Luton music scene, he moved to Nottingham and formed The Autoplan. After a couple of months, they recorded and released ‘The Farringdon Wing’ EP. With airplays on the Steve Lamacq show and a local following secured, the band moved to London.

A couple of months later, Ali began to have epileptic-type fits and was diagnosed with a rare genetic mutation that caused blood-clot like vessels within his brain to leak. One eight-hour bout of brain surgery was needed to remove a golfball-sized benign tumour. After five months in recovery, he slowly he was able to write, record and play again before a second round of brain surgery put him out of action once more.

For Ali, now in his thirties, it was a wake-up call. Time is short... music is the medicine.

Blaggers Records released Ali's debut single 'Loretto' in March 2021, which picked up plenty of attention from digital press and radio stations alike, most notably fromBBC Introducing on Emma Lamont's Rapal show, BBC Radio nan Gaidheal, Phoenix FM, Islington Radio and HitMix1075.

Enlisting the help of 3-piece Oak Moses to be his backing band, Ali has been playing to ever-growing crowds around numerous London venues, at Bedford Esquires' Blender Festival and Islington Radio Festival, and supported Echobelly on their 2021 UK tour.

In November 2021, Ali released his second track 'One of These Days'. On the day of its release, the track went straight into the top 20 of Apple Music's Best in Rock playlist, received support once again from BBC Introducing on Emma Lamont's Rapal show, BBC Radio nan Gaidheal, and was played by Janice Long on her BBC Wales Bug Club session slot, saying that the track was "really, really good stuff". He was also chosen to be featured in The Unsigned Guide's Spotlight Blog, which said that One of These Days was a "melodic and carefree charmer of a song; the perfect marriage of lilting vocals, spirited guitars and driving drumbeat."

Ali says the track is about "everyone and anyone desperately trying to create change – from BLM and climate protestors, to the marginalised and left-behind – who yearn for something good in return for all the tough times they endure, and want a remodelling to occur in the way the world is run." It's also about the way he deals with his own genetic condition, which means he's more at risk of developing blood clots in his brain and suffering from brainhemorrhages; and it's something he could also pass to his children... "Sure I'd like to change it... but it's about dealing with those things you can probably never change, and the effect it might have on others who you love."

Ali's racked up 2.7k streams for Loretto, is fast approaching the 1k mark for One of These Days, and 2022 looks to be a year of building more of a fanbase, appearing at music festivals and releasing a new track through Blagger's Records

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A love for harmonica as a boy grew into obsession with guitar as a teen. Dusty has played lead guitar, drums and fronted rock, folk and heavy metal bands. But it was only when an encounter with a jawsy hellhound left Dusty one finger-tip down did his path as a slide player begin.

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