Gigs

FRI 27 AUG: Deco 5 Wine Bar, 15 -17 Oxford Street, Whitstable, Kent, CT5 1DB
Venue tel: 01227 770079. www.deco5.co.uk.
Doors open: Noon.
Band on: 9.00 - 11.30pm.
Admission: Free.
You’ll have to wait another few days for oysters (no “R” in “august”) but a great time of year to visit this wine bar and restaurant set in the picturesque and

famous seaside town of Whitstable. The venue is also an art gallery. See venue website for further details. This is the band’s 5th visit to Deco 5 where they’ve created a lot of interest from a cosmopolitan range of customers on previous visits..

THU 9 SEP: The Pantiles bandstand, The Pantiles, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN2 5TW Band on: 8.00pm - 10.15pm. FREE open air performance. Jazz on the Pantiles weblink
The Kit Packham Quartet bring this year’s season of jazz on the Pantiles to a stunning close with their unique blend of jazz and blues standards, originals, re-workings and re-writings delivered with great skill and humour. The Pantiles has lots of places you can eat and drink near the bandstand, some with tables outside, so you can enjoy the band and a meal at the same time. Here’s what the organisers said in their press release:

“...the Summer Jazz programme has been put together to appeal to those that really know and appreciate jazz in its various guises. Better still, many of the bands’
sets combine a mix of accessible jazz designed to draw new audiences to the genre – and all while sitting outside (hopefully on a balmy evening) in one of Kent’s loveliest locations...” and

“9th September – The Kit Packham Quartet
The summer Jazz season on The Pantiles climaxes with a band that will leave you wanting more. A one of a kind performance with a comedy twist, inspired by 1920’s style jazz vaudeville, blues and a bedrock of real jump’n’jive know-how! Regulars at the well known Tunbridge Wells Jazz haunt, The Grey Lady.”