ESG

The New York funk veterans ESG have been stunning audiences for over thirty years with their endlessly grooving music. Interestingly the four sisters originally started playing instruments together after their mother believed this to be a way of ensuring her children kept out of trouble on the mean streets of the Bronx. And thank goodness she did as ESG became one of the most important funk bands to arise in the eighties. They may be a lot older now, but ESG still offer an incredible, energetic live performance, performing their hits with great aplomb as if they have only just started. At KOKO in London in January this year, they proved just this, with a set that incited huge swathes of the audience to boogie their buttocks off, attracting an audience of al ages, proving their music to be still influential to this day. They played their classic tunes like "UFO," "Dance" and "My Love For You" pushing the funk levels to a riotously danceable level. Highlight was perhaps the encore "Erase You" which just perfectly summed up the night, laying down some serious groove which made it difficult for the audience to accept that the night had come to an end. It is great to see artists like ESG still going strong and the world of live music is all the better for it.