The Jass B'stards first conceptually coalesced as the accompanying orchestra to TMS (Stephan Kaye's The Medicine Show.) Stefan hatched the plot for The Medicine Show and enlisted a nebulous cast of musicians, actors, performance artists, comedians, dancers and other firestarters, both homegrown and imported. Amidst the jazz standards and operatic scores, they developed a sketch portraying beatnik jazzbos jamming in a point-counterpoint game that ends in a cacophonous confrontation; hilarity ensues.
Eventually, it became clear that even the expansive scope of TMS couldn't provide the appropriate environment for the JB's to blossom into its own thematic entity, so a semi-regular residency was secured. JB's blaze through psychedelic disco / caveman funk / lizard lounge rockabilly renditions of what sounds like riffs from the hottest jams of the '70s and '80s yielding a distinctly LCD Soundsystem-ish experience.
A range of special guests turns every JB’s gig into a mini-TMS, but more intimate and thus more manic. The last JB's gig transformed TLR into a pimping harem of Egyptian belly dancers weaving through the crowd as Arabian doumbek drums jolted out their staccato syncopation like lightning flashes to the JB's thunderous krautrock chug.
Entry - Rs 300 post 9 pm
