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Spring 2026 We’re currently putting together a new website, which should be up and running this summer. Meanwhile, do check out the Kick Horns Big Band album Tall Tales on our YouTube channel, on Spotify, or on Apple Music. And you can easily hire us on SoundBetter, here:

A highlight of 2024 for us was recording the new Fairground Attraction album, Beautiful Happening, working with old friends the old fashioned way, everybody playing together live in the studio. We’ve also recorded tracks for newcomer Nia Smith with producer Jimmy Napes, and for Jimmy’s partner...

Our new Kick Horns Big Band album Tall Tales has finally been released. It’s a collection of contemporary grooves, big tunes and dazzling solos, featuring many of the top musicians we’ve worked with over the years. You can find it (with videos) on our YouTube channel,...

We had the huge pleasure recently of joining Baaba Maal’s band for the last night of Meltdown at the Royal Festival Hall. It’s been a few years since we last played together, but Baaba’s band is as strong as ever, and it was wonderful to...

We’ve been thrilled to be working with writer/producer Jimmy Napes again. Following on from Mae Muller’s hit last year I Don’t Want Your Money, we’ve been contributing to new songs by Sam Smith. SoundBetter is keeping us busy too with a number of projects across the...

Like every musician, we’re missing live playing. But at least we have the good fortune to be able to continue recording at the Tall Place. Back in June we recorded horns for a new, as yet unreleased Celeste track ‘Unruly’, produced by Jimmy Napes. Unusually,...

Thankfully we’re managing to work through the lockdown, recording horn tracks individually, then putting them together and firing into the room mics at the beautiful Tall Place to keep that warm Peckham sound. We were very lucky to fit in a session at Jimmy Napes’s...

We’ve been travelling the world recently without leaving home. SoundBetter is an online session agency which has brought us clients from the USA, Switzerland, South Korea, Germany and many other parts of the world. So the Tall Place has been buzzing with musics of every nationality and...

We were deeply saddened to hear of Dr John’s death in June. He had always been a musical inspiration to us, and one of our career highlights was working with him at Abbey Road on the Anutha Zone album. Sweet Home New Orleans is a particular favourite....

The Tall Place is up and running again, newly decorated and gleaming. Great reviews for the new Afro Celt Sound System album Flight include this from the Financial Times: “The Afro Celt formula is by now well-established and popular, but Flight tweaks it in places....