INSPIRATION – Phil Lynott & Thin Lizzy

‘I gotta warn ya – he gotta gun!’

Anyone who knows me REALLY well knows I’m a huge Thin Lizzy fan. It’s not all Boys are back in Town (though I love that too). But in their very early days the band wrote some very different stuff – check out the Hendrix influence on this one:

Ray Gun



and here Phil and Boys bring the funk:

Johnny the Fox

(Make sure you visit - http://www.thinlizzyonline.com/ for the official shit!)

and a lil’ Sabatta funk Thinking

Let me know what you think!

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12 Bar Blues! Doin it 4 Dolo on 23 Jul 09

Hey!!

Last Thurs night I performed - just me and guitar at a night hosted by Art Terry! I am currently co-hosting Is Black Music? on Resonancefm.com 104.4FM with Art - this is the second Live event that has happened in support of the show. i organised the first one and will be organising an event on Aug 20 at 12Bar - along similar lines but it won't be called Is Black Music? Live - stay tuned!

In the meantime check out the tunes and give me some feedback! Cheers!



Love Like A Nervous Breakdown - a track from the Emperor's New Clothes album I think Sabatta has only played once


Zoning - a rap ballad - it'll be coming out soon

Raw - a fave track from Emperor's New Clothes

Emperor's New Clothes

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New York, New York

Yes yes y'all, to the beat y'all, party people guaranteed to be like having a ball!
New York was a blast! July 09 saw me hit the big apple with SABATTA to play the Afro Punk festival! If you wanna play anywhere it's here! What can i say it's was fuckin awesome - Pics and vids after the jump!



Rocking at the Afro Punk festival July 5 09



Click the image below to check pics of me hanging out at the festival with great musicians such as Tamar Kali, Jeremiah Hosea, Swiss Chris, Vernon Reid and more:

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Let's go!

Yeah I got one of these now - a blog. Sheeet! What has the world come to. Anyway I'll be posting things up as and when i feel like it. It might be some music I'm working on, it might be an interview with another artist I've done for Is Black Music? (IBM), it might be music from another artist or a film of a guitar - who the hell knows - we'll see!

Oh - if you're here and you don't know who I am, well I'm Yinka - I front a band called SABATTA - sabatta.net, myspace,.com./sabatta, I currently co-host a show called Is Black Music? the brainchild of Art Terry on resonancefm.com 104.4FM. I'm a musician but i do have a habit of reporting from the frontline and have been do so for about a year for the radio show!

I don't claim to be a journalist or a blogger (HELL NO!) nha i'm just in the trenches reporting back to you. I live this baby!

Yinka
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