“It’s an energising festival, and a rich smorgasbord of talent.”
– John Lewis, the Guardian
As the advertising went – for anyone who couldn’t make Oslo 2013. London had its own mini-festival. In fact it was decided to hold some sort of festival in the UK every year. Match&Fuse’s musical identity was beginning to clarify, identifying itself as:
“prog jazz acid-fried funk improv post-prog funk rocking punk swagger thrashjazz avant-funk grunge polka disco, skronk bombast and experimental contemporary vaulting, all that and melody too…”