Roni Size & Reprazent - New Forms 30th Anniversary

A celebration of the 30th anniversary of New Forms, the debut album by the British drum and bass group Roni Size Reprazent, staged at O2 Academy Leeds with DJs from the drum and bass scene.

Roni Size Reprazent is a British drum and bass group, active since 1996, whose music blends electronic music with drum and bass. Their first album, New Forms, was released in 1997, and this night marks the 30th anniversary of that record. Roni Size leads the project.

Grooverider is a British DJ from London who works in breakbeat and drum and bass. Born in 1967, they have been associated with the drum and bass scene alongside DJ Fabio. Both DJs appear on the bill with Roni Size, placing the anniversary within the scene that grew up around that period of British dance music.

O2 Academy Leeds is the venue for the night, a Leeds venue that hosts concerts and shows. The evening suits listeners who know New Forms or who follow drum and bass from the late 1990s onwards, and who want to hear the album's sound revisited in a city where the group's work has a clear place in the genre's history.