Tramshed Performing Arts Centre, Woolwich.

Flamenco Showcase. The real thing.

Performances by: Featuring: Ana De Los Reyes. Mateo Solea. Chris Mullett. Jesus Alvarez. La Joaquina. Gemma De La Cruz. Rosa de Las Heras.

Infoline: 020 8854 9900

Previous Events: Hull Truck Theatre. 15/10/07

Future Events: Belgrade Theatre, Coventry. 7-9th Feb 08

Flamenco is Music, Sex and History all rolled into one. The fiercest expression of the human spirit ever devised. The Flamenco Express policy is simply to obtain the best flamenco performers available, give them total artistic freedom, and present them to international audiences. The result is an amazing diversity of artistic voices all committed to delivering their own view of the world, in their own unique way, according to how they feel at the time, with the music their ancestors have forged over hundreds of years - flamenco. Which means that every show is special.

If there is one person, who has been causing a stir on the international club circuit recently, it is Barcelona's John Talabot. Already his debut "My Old School" (which is meant literally by the way) on Permanent Vacation in 2009 and shortly after that the single " Sunshine", which he put out on his own Hivern Disc imprint, made him one of the most promising musicians of the Spanish electronic scene. And those two releases also already set the mark for John Talabot's unparalleled music: raw, loopy, heavy on the kick drum, sample based, moderate on the tempo, distorted on the drums and light years away from the clean and ever revolving house sound of today. This unique style which also blends influences from afro beat, Detroit techno, Chicago house and cosmic disco, but also northern soul or the energy of Flamenco, immediately turned some heads around. James Murphy, me and Aeroplane started including Talabot music in their sets like it was the most natural thing. However - and this is quite rare - he not only

Alongside performing in Separdic Flamenco outfit Los Desterrados, DJ La Salida brings a blend of Latin, Spanish and Mediterranean music to the dancefl

There's nothing that I could translate into words that would more effectively describe Guadalupe Plata's music than what is perfectly and concisely articulated in this NSFW video:However, for those of you that are unable to notice the subtle descriptive nuances of a stripper yanking 10 feet of beads out of her husband hole — I guess I can attempt to wax lyrical for your reading pleasure. Hailing from Ubeda, Spain, Guadalupe Plata are a doom blues troupe that seem just as hell bent on making you dance Satan's death boogie as they are on blowing the dams on your sex juice reserves, disintegrating the structural integrity of your mind and warping everything you ever thought the blues was or could be. Citing the genre's early greats like Elmore James and Son House as major influences, they perform on their debut album with the same soul and sweat as their Delta south heroes, all the while drenching their mentors' work in a filthy sangria mix of neck-breaking guitar licks, punk rock explosions and "possessed