The Great Bootlegger New Years Eve Party is here at The Brighton Bootlegger. Just like the days of The Great Gatsby we plan to party & drink & throw our hands up in dance & song.

Join us as we say goodbye to the old and ring in the new! Live music from Zoot Zazou & Zoophonium from 9pm until 1am. The night doesn’t end there though! Swing DJ Dan Dapper will be playing the best of the best Bootlegger style hits until the early hours of the morn’

Open from 6pm December 31st until 3:30am 1 January with last rounds at 2:30am. Last Entry at 2:30am.

Each ticket gets you entry to 2 live bands, swing DJ, glass of Prosecco upon entry and a special shot at midnight.

The Great Bootlegger New Years Eve Party Tickets are on sale now. £13.50 for Early Birds before 25th December, £17.50 thereafter.

There will also be an optional Charleston Dance class at £7 pp (£4 with concessions) at 7:30 to 8:30pm!

ZOOPHONIUM

This is one killer-diller Electro Swing dance band… A live vintage remix sound with stomping Swing beats, bouncing bass and Charleston breaks, colliding with live swinging licks, riffs and vocals, and a sonic collage of archive samples, vintage loops, and futuristic bleeps. This compact and versatile trio bring the energy and essence of real Swing to the dance-floor, serving up a dashing dazzling live vintage remix show – a live Electro Swing band remixing and re-imagining the sounds of the 20s, 30s and 40s into a retro-futurist imaginarium of hot-swingin’ musical delights. Zoophonium is the creation of three of the founding members of live Electro Swing band Swing Zazou (“the originators of live Electro Swing in the UK”), with DJ Don Dapper at the controls flanked by live Swing guitar and horn.

Zoophonium have received rave reviews wherever they have performed, with gigs to date including: The Shard Time Out New Year’s Eve Party, Larmer Tree Festival (Garden Stage), Hay Winter Festival, Elderflower Fields Festival, Brighton Festival (Hanging Gardens of Brighton and The Warren), Bimble Bandada Festival, Buddhafield Festival, London Floridita, Christies London, Zu New Year’s Eve, Electro Swing Club London, White Mink Brighton, Electro Swing Club Brixton, Electro Swing Club Southend
and Antique Beats at Mirth, Marvel and Maud.

Artie Shaw, Django Reinhardt, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Stuff Smith, Snakehips Johnson, Benny Carter, Charlie Shavers, Bennie Moten, Cab Calloway, Slim Gailard, Jonny Mercer, Stephane Grappelli, Gene Krupa, Roy Eldridge, Billie Banks, Clarence Williams, Nat Gonella, The Mills Brothers, Sidney Bechet, Oscar Aleman, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Christian & Jimmie Lunceford.

ZOOT ZAZOU

Vintage Hot Swing quintet Zoot Zazou play lively foot-stompin’ good time Swing. Inspired by the sound of the underground Parisian Swing clubsof the defiant Zazous, and the secret bootleg Blind Tigers of Prohibition era America, Zoot Zazou conjure the decadent and rebellious atmosphere of the infamous 1930s dancehalls. Zoot Zazou sing some of the very best songs of the 30s – vintage Swing classics from the likes of Cab Calloway, Stuff Smith, Slim Gaillard and Louis Armstrong. Instrumentally the band unleashes blistering trumpet and clarinet – moving between tight rhythmic licks, wild solo improvisation, evocative vintage harmonies, and spontaneous interweaving New Orleans style riffs – backed by the driving hot Swingin’ rhythm of Gypsy Swing guitar, double-bass and drums. Zoot Zazou is great music to dance to, transporting you to the 1930s and the Golden age of Swing – the perfect Speakeasy party band!

Line-Up
Quintet: Clarinet, trumpet, guitar, double-bass, drums and vocals
Quartet: Clarinet / trumpet, guitar, double-bass and vocals, with drums / 2nd horn
Trio: Clarinet / trumpet, guitar, double-bass and vocals

Influences
Artie Shaw, Django Reinhardt, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Stuff Smith, Snakehips Johnson, Benny Carter, Charlie Shavers, Bennie Moten, Cab Calloway, Slim Gailard, Jonny Mercer, Stephane Grappelli, Gene Krupa, Roy Eldridge, Billie Banks, Clarence Williams, Nat Gonella, Mills Brothers, Sidney Bechet, Oscar Aleman, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Christian, & Jimmie Luncford.