14.06.12- The Gladstone, Lant Street, Borough

23.06.12- Secret Garden Pub, Battersea

26.06.12- ONE TASTE SGP Pre-Party @ Passing Clouds

08.07.12- Lounge On The Farm, Kent

09.07.12- BreakOut Club, New X Arms

12.07.12- The Gladstone, Lant Street, Borough

18.07.12- The Ritzy, Brixton

22.07.12- Secret Garden Party- One Taste 9pm
(woodburner @ 5pm)

26.07.12- Secret Garden Pub, SMALL WORLD MONTHLY JAM

29.07.12- 06.08.12- CYPRUS

24.08.12- Hootenanny, Brixton

25.08.12- Shambala Festival

20.08.12- Small World Jam, Magic Garden Pub

07.09.12- Agile Rabbit, Brixton Village

21.09.12- Magic Garden Pub w/ Simo Lagnawi

Brilliant Corners formed in 2011 when songwriter Barnaby Keen met drummer/producer Dave De Rose living in an old south London church, comandeered by artists.

Starting his musicial life as a Saxophone player, Barnaby Keen jumped from the train of galactic, coltrane-inspired wanderings into a lush songwriting jungle whilst travelling in the northeast of Brazil. Back in Europe his near obsession produced an impressive catalogue of songs in every unimaginable shape and size.

Dave De Rose’s musical influences are as broad as his abilities as a drummer, having been the rhythmic backbone for many a headline act over his career, including Mark Ronson, Mulatu Astatke, Jamie Cullum and Moloko.

They spent hours directing noises toward the Alter, filling the cavernous space with experimental music and playing around on an old hammond organ that the church had left behind.

After returning from international duty with Soulstress Andreya Triana, Nathaniel Keen a guitarist and highly accomplished music-maker in his own right, heard the noises from his nearby south London pad and quickly jumped on board Brilliant Corners’ ship to provide decorative basslines and vocal harmonies.

They started off as the church house band, improvising along to silent film projections, trapeze shows and offbeat theatre pieces, no doubt helping cement their musical relationship into something firmly maleable. A common love of analogue sounds, incessant grooves and polished performances inticed them to form a band and start gigging their own material.

They listen to old African pop cassettes and Brazilian Maracatu, mess around with delay pedals, and generally run down avenues of sound that are potentially as weird as they are potentially accessible.

You can either deep-sea-dive into the songs or try and untangle yourself from the perfectly executed, uncivilized beats. Whatever you choose to do, the songs will stick in your mind and the band will serve you up an irresistable feast of wayward groove.

"Brilliant Corners' songs shimmer and shine over high speed train drum beats, at once meditative and hyperactice. Something of a musical miricle"