Funke and the Two Tone Baby + Cowz

Funke and the Two Tone Baby Brighton

Funke and the Two Tone Baby plays Brighton at The Hope & Ruin on 1st May 2024! Get tickets until 6pm on the show day with only a 50p booking fee above or from Seetickets.

Stage times:

COWZ: 8.30pm

Funke & The Two Tone Baby: 9.15pm

There is no disputing that 2023 has been the biggest and most incredible year in Funke and the Two Tone Baby’s career. From being hot-tipped by the Guardian as a show-to-see at Glastonbury Festival, support from Steve Lamacq on BBC 6 Music, and a brand new album that FATEA have called ‘a milestone for independent music’. What’s even more incredible, is that 2024 is already taking shape to be bigger. Much bigger!

Having just secured two support tours alongside 90’s pioneers EMF and electronic legends Dub Pistols, Funke and the Two Tone Baby announces his own 16-date tour across the UK’s finest independent venues, the Reacclimate Tour Part Two.

Equipped with keyboards, samplers, triggers and a beaten-up blues guitar and harmonica, Funke takes you all the way from a big blues stomp, to acid-house glitches and what IMPRINT calls ‘Ed Sheeran’s acoustic looping with Jack White’s aggressive blues vocal, through the lens of a ska dance beat’.

Uncategorised, uncharted and impossible to pigeonhole, Funke and the Two Tone Baby delivers relentless energy, high-end originality, and a one-man dance frenzy like no other. Now is the time to get on the front row of this one-man band revolution.

‘The record offers a steely determination to come back into the world fighting, via, blues, funk, big-beat and heartbreaking love songs’ – Louder Than War

‘I’ve seen it with my own eyes; this one-man volcano can move any audience to the maximum vibes. Funke is the absolute maestro!’ – Chris Tofu, Shangri La – Glastonbury / Continental Drifts

+ Cowz: COWZ are a Brighton-based alt-pop duo with music that can only be described as “Bubblegum pop in dire need of therapy”. The group was founded by Saga Wahlström and Natasha ‘Tasha’ Nicholl in 2021 with the goal of delivering some hard-hitting truths, with enough glitter and frills to get you dancing.
Having released single ‘Most Fun I’ve Had in Ages’ at the end of November 2023, followed by the well received ‘DOMINATION’ in January 2024 and Bad News in March 2024, COWZs’ track ‘Rosalie’ is set for release on the 11th April. This will be the final single before their debut EP ‘That’s Cute! Baby’ is unleashed on the 3rd May. The duo has supported ‘The Correspondents’ singer, Mr Bruce on a sold-out tour at the end of 2022 and opened The Great Escape beach stage in 2023. They’ve also played Victorious Festival & Loud Women Festival in London as well as various shows in both Brighton and London throughout 2022 & 2023 (such as Green Door Store, Hope and Ruin and The Grace, Islington). They recently played John Kennedy from Radio X’s ‘The Remedy’ as the opener for Office for Personal Development, and Coco and the Lost.

COWZ have been featured in Radio X & by CLOUT, ASBO, Loud Women and, on Kerrang Magazine’s Instagram. COWZ have also received support from Phil Taggart, Nathan Sykes (The Wanted), Jack Saunders, Pete Simmons (A&R, Universal), Nels Hylton, Sian Evans, BBC Introducing and Kieron Pepper (The Prodigy).

Upcoming Love Thy Neighbour shows:
01052024 – Jane Weaver. Concorde 2
01052024 – Funke & The Two Tone Baby. The Hope & Ruin
03052024 – Drahla. The Hope & Ruin
04052024 – USA Nails. The Hope & Ruin
05052024 – Still Corners. Chalk
05052024 – A Certain Ratio. Concorde 2
09052024 – Acid Mothers Temple. The Hope & Ruin
21052024 – Caitlin Rose & Hollow Hand. The Prince Albert
22052024 – Dana Gavanski. The Prince Albert
24052024 – Project Gemini. The Green Door Store
26052024 – Hammok. The Crofter’s Rights, Bristol
28052024 – Hammok. The Hope & Ruin
29052024 – The Lovely Eggs. Chalk
29052024 – Gen and the Degenerates. The Prince Albert
31052024 – El Moono. The Hope & Ruin
03062024 – Mildlife. Patterns
04062024 – EXEK. The Hope & Ruin
05062024 – Amelia Coburn. The Folklore Rooms
07062024 – Ex-Easter Island Head. The Hope & Ruin
08062024 – Chastity Belt. The Hope & Ruin
08062024 – Frankie Archer. Komedia Studio
11062024 – Mike Watt’s Il Sogno Del Marinaio. The Hope & Ruin
13062024 – HAAL. The Hope and Ruin
14062024 – Lewsberg. The Hope & Ruin
15062024 – The Reds, The Pinks, The Purples. The Hope & Ruin
18072024 – Love. Concorde 2
18072024 – The Klittens. The Hope & Ruin
21082024 – Wednesday. Chalk
31082024 – Jake Xerxes Fussell. Lewes Constitutional Club
22092024 – Charlie Parr. Lewes Constitutional Club
26092024 – Melt Banana. Concorde 2
01102024 – Douglas Dare. Dust
03102024 – Twen. The Hope & Ruin
08102024 – The Howlers. The Prince Albert
24102024 – The Tom Robinson Band. Concorde 2
27102024 – Art Brut. Concorde 2
06112024 – Lack of Afro. Patterns.
23112024 – The Orb + Ozric Tentacles

Accessibility: The venue is only accessible via a flight of stairs however they can offer access via a back door at street level to the venue if mobility is an issue or you use a wheelchair. There are 3 large steps via this route so assistance to gain access and to exit the venue would be required. We can arrange this if you contact us in advance of a show. Please bear in mind that they can only allow access in between bands due to sound issues. Two disabled toilets upstairs, both gender neutral. If you require a carer at the venue, please contact us at info@lovethyneighbourmusic.co.uk for guestlist, with evidence such as a blue badge or access card. If strobe lighting is an issue or if standing for long periods of time is an issue, please contact us in advance. They can provide chairs in the venue although if the event is very busy this will impede visibility. If you wish to make use of a chair to view a gig, we advise arriving early to secure a position. They are happy to accommodate assistance dogs.

Funke and the Two Tone Baby Brighton

Funke and the Two Tone Baby Brighton