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Joi announce performance dates, new album
24 May 2000

London based Asian dance fusionists Joi have announced several festival and other performance dates starting with two days on London’s South Bank this weekend as part of the BBC’s Music Live Festival. They’ll play Friday and Saturday (26 + 27 May) with special guest bassist Jah Wobble (ex PiL, now with The Damage Manual).
    Joi are now recording the final bits for the not yet titled follow-up to their 1999 debut One And One Is One, for release later this year on Real World records.
    Joi formed as a duo of Bengali brothers Haroon and Farook Shamsher nearly ten years ago in their adopted home of London’s east end. Haroon died suddently this past July. In tribute to Haroon, Astralwerks posted a 40 minute mix set by Joi Soundsystem in RealAudio—not available elsewhere—recorded just before he passed.
    Here are the upcoming Joi/Joi Sound System dates. Performances are live unless noted as Joi Sound System. In addition to these, you can catch DJ sets from Farook every third Saturday at The Dogstar in Brixton.

May
26-27 - London (BBC Music Live Festival, Coin Street, South Bank - with Jah Wobble)

June
  2 - Bristol, England (Cafe Blue)

July
  1 - Greenwich, England (Anti Racist Festival)
  2 - Bradford, England (Mela Festival)
  9 - Watford, England (Rainbow Festival)
16 - Hanover, Germany (Joi Sound System @ WOMAD/Expo 2000)
21 - Reading, England (WOMAD Festival)
30 - Boechout, Belgium (Sfinks Festival)

August
20 - Bristol, England (Respect Festival)
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