Collaboration with Arnob

This afternoon Andrew met up for the first time with the famous Bangladeshi musician Arnob, just to see how they got on and whether there was scope for musical collaboration. In short, they did, and there is.

Arnob on guitar and Andrew on sax play the British High Commission Thursday March 29th, Heady stuff. Stay tuned for pix. We'll try and get a video made for YouTube.

Forthcoming gigs

It's official: BlueNote already booked out in mid and late April '07.

12/04/07: a private party hosted by Andrew's close friend MK Aaref. See BNWLA Fundraising blog (linked from this page bottom right) for details of this amazing gesture

19/04/07: the Nordic Club for a dinner dance evening with five-course meal, champagne, the works. The perfect setting for the BlueNote sound

26/04/07 is the Big One. Our first gig at Le Saigon as BlueNote. An evening of jazz, songs (with Saad also deciding to add some vocal numbers to the repertoire)

Don't miss it. Tickets will be available from the first week of April from Le Saigon. Tel no,. 02 989 2122 Book early to avoid disappointment

BlueNote and the Eyeballs

Our good friend and Chief Advisor to BlueNote, Zub Mahboob, tells us that success in this game is all about Eyeballs. We need people to see us, to recognise the logo, to associate us with serious, quality music and entertainment.

Well, last night there were certainly plenty of eyeballs at Le Saigon, even if a few of them were slightly unfocussed towards the end of the evening. We played along with Renaissance, pioneers of the Dhaka rock scene ever since the 80s, a band with brains as well as dashing good looks, led by our close friend Imran Rahman on vocals and guitar. Great atmosphere as always at Le Saigon, and we rocked. A great time was had by all - until well past 1am. How very rock and roll.

Positive comments poured in, and not only from those with unfocussed eyeballs (although one man did keep hugging Andrew and telling him he loved him like a brother). More importantly, there is talk in the air of BlueNote live at the Saigon, BlueNote live at the Heritage, and BlueNote live at Happy Hour at the British Club. Watch this space.

BlueNote In The Mood

To see our first photo shoot, once again by the talented Snigdha Zaman of Ikon Photos (she also took the outstanding images of the BNWLA Hostel), click on the logo and prepare to be very impressed:

BlueNote In The Mood

What's On

We're appearing with Renaissance at Le Saigon on 22nd March. Our next big gig is on 19th April at the Nordic Club. Saad is also playing regularly at the Sarina Hotel in Banani and Andrew will be playing at the Radisson from April.