Red Snapper

Red Snapper, a British acid jazz band formed in 1993 and signed to the Warp label, performs in Birmingham at the Hare & Hounds, a venue that mainly hosts concerts with a programme centred on pop, rock and indie.

Red Snapper's core line-up is guitarist David Ayers, double bassist Ali Friend and drummer Richard Thair. Their sound combines acoustic instruments with electronic production, drawing on avant-garde jazz, funk, dub, post-punk and hip-hop. Their debut album, Reeled and Skinned, came out in 1995, compiling earlier EPs, and Beth Orton was among the vocal collaborators on those early releases.

Warp issued the studio albums Prince Blimey (1996), Making Bones (1998) and Our Aim Is to Satisfy (2000), during which period the group also supported Björk, Massive Attack, The Prodigy and The Fugees on live dates. Later records include A Pale Blue Dot (2008), Key (2011) and Hyena (2014), the last of which grew out of a tour built around a reissued print of the 1970s Senegalese road movie Touki Bouki, a film that deepened the band's interest in Afrobeat.

The Hare & Hounds, on High Street in Birmingham, is a venue that mainly hosts concerts, with a programme centred on pop, rock and indie music. This date places Red Snapper's instrumental, genre-crossing repertoire in a room that regularly books guitar-based acts.