The now legendary Hastings Fat Tuesday "Grande Mardi Gras Ball" will this year be the launching the 2017 Fat Tuesday celebrations at the end of January, in order to get you all into the spirit of Mardi Gras!

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Dom & The Iko's & ILONA

The success of Dom and the Iko’s just keep growing. From their two year residency at Ronnie Scott’s famous jazz club in London, to the five year long jam session for all things New Orleans, Dom and the Iko’s have been “lighting up the British blues and RnB scene” ever since (BBC Radio 2’s Paul Jones). “The best New Orleans band never to come from Louisiana” (Rocking Magpie) led by charismatic piano virtuoso Dom Pipkin have headlined blues and jazz festivals up and down the country, and released two acclaimed albums..."The soul of New Orleons in the UK"

Having built up her career playing on the club scene professionally encompassing melodic Techno and Tech-House, ILONA has played amongst some of the biggest names in Dance music alongside Eats Everything, Darius Syrossian, Derrick May, Pete Tong, Danny Rampling, Eric Morillo, Judge Jules

ILONA is a self taught vinyl /digital DJ and music producer and have studied Sound Engineering. Based in the UK, but a USA national with Polish/German,and Scottish parents, ILONA has been signed in the past to Alchemy Records, Dragonfly Records, and has released music through Lovemore Records.

Her regular DJ stops include a vast array of countries and cities like Berlin, Ibiza, Munich, London, Australia, U.S.A, Monaco, France, Italy, Antigua, Dubai, Vienna, Vietnam, Cambodia,Philippines, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Bali, Bangkok. Music Festival bookings include Glastonbury, Bestival, and Lovebox, and radio broadcasts for Ministry Of Sound and NationTokyo, and is in demand for exclusive Private Events.

ILONA is currently working on several joint music projects, including her debut E.P, and has just finished her first single to be released through a major record label in 2017.

King Sunny Ade P of Hastings via Manchester’s Hacienda has been DJ-ing for over 20 years and a founding member of The Balearic Assassins of Love. BAOL are a collective of vinyl junkies who worship at the Technics altar of sunrise and the quadraphonic wickerman of sunset-like 80s Kicker-shod party druids. Channelling ley-lines from Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads they encapsulate the spirit of acid house, the emotional joy of pop and the laid-back loose feel of the White Isle with whatever music works for them there and then! Forever on an eternal quest to slay the dragon of segregation and the pigeon-hole of pretence they gather frequently and mix together musical forms as diverse as hypno Latvian Acid Skiffle, Mystic Tibetan Yacht Rock and Hokus Pocus Voodoo Shizzle to create that eclectic, highly danceable, couldn’t care less, ‘last day of the holiday’ feel so beloved of British People in Hot Weather. BAOL were once famously described as “A cross between the opening party at Amnesia and the last days of Sodom and Gommorah”.

Equally at home playing downtempo sunset and woodsmoke campervan sessions to happy times hands-in-the-air hay-bale raves, the BAOL straddle all genres like a well-heeled Achillea colossus in smiley T-shirt and Day-Glo poncho. Formed sometime in the last century the BAOL have played a huge amount of parties never repeating a set or compromising on venue; an Acid drenched beach hut, an ex-communist Prague nuclear bunker, the Lord Mayor's Carnival, Primavera, strobe flecked Brighton basements, 10 hour sets on Hastings pier, Numerous North London clubs and Bars, sunset/sunrise sets in beautiful Sussex fields, Ibiza, Sete, Boat parties and Eastern European cellar bars, always with a smile and a laugh and a joke. Some people believe music is a matter of life and death, the Balearic Assassins of Love can assure you it is much, much more important than that. Check out the BAOL Mixcloud site and radio shows on One brighton FM and expect the unexpected.