Last night Mose Fan Fan and Somo Somo brought the smiling joyous music of Africa to the park. By the end of the second song the band had successfully banished the traditional reserved British attitude from the marquee and replaced it with smiling and dancing which the crowd could not fail to ignore. The dancers and vocalists of the band were soon teaching the baying crowd the latest dance moves from the 'dark continent' as the audience left their seats to join the heaving mass of bodies around the stage.

The venue came into its own allowing plenty of eye contact and interaction between the crowd and the band, culminating in a euphoric sing-a -long driving the last beads of negativity from their pores and welcoming in the true spirit of the music.

However, the carnival atmosphere came to a seemingly abrupt stop to satisfy the council's ridiculous noise level restrictions leaving the audience in a dreamlike state wondering when they had last enjoyed themselves quite that much and when they might again.

Dave Thorpe

Mose Fan Fan
and Somo Somo

Fringe Marquee,
Victoria Park
Tuesday 1st June

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