We, the Undersigned have thanks to you successfully stankhed up the stage at the Liverpool O2Academy. Thanks to all the people who left the sun to catch up on stage to turn out the party and get youz warmed up for the Skatalites! OMG how amaz we’re they?! Huge Thanks to the Skatalites for blessing us with their sounds here in Liverpool! And they are very lovely people indeed! One Love x

Like we promised on facebook we are adding to this gallery pictures that you send us on our wall (or timeline…hohoho) or lovewtu@gmail.com and we show them here on our website!

Thanks for being funky! And see you at Kaya Festival this weekend! xXx

“However many of their improbably large number of members We, the Undersigned (aka WtU) manage to fit on stage, watching them is an absolute joy. Fusing Reggae, Funk, Hip-hop and Rock to create their own unique sound, they refer to as Stankh, they have gone down a storm with whatever crowd I have seen them perform in front of, and so it’s no surprise they are being booked for festivals all over the summer and to open up for a growing number of reggae and funk superstars. Ahead of their support slot with legendary Jamaican band ‘The Skatalites’ John Gibbons met up with Collen “The Referee” Chandler (Lead vocals and guitar) and Matt “The Mook” Mak (Bass) to talk about their unique style and what the hell Stankh is anyway.”

Check out for the actual interview: http://www.theanfieldwrap.com/2012/05/ones-to-watch-%E2%80%93-we-the-undersigned/

WtU completely to mention on here, the big news that we are playing on Kayabbean Sunday, 3rd June at KAYA FESTIVAL.

Kaya Festival is taking place on the Bank Holiday Weekend from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd June 2012. Besides We, the Undersigned the Kaya Festival features artists like Kanda Bongo Man and Tony Allen on Saturday as well as Dub Pistols and the maverick genuis Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry on Sunday!

Kaya Festival celebrating diversity, music and arts in beautiful North Wales, Gwynedd Council. Getting there!

Direction to buy tickets in person or online are available on http://kayafestival.co.uk/tickets/ and vary from an Adult Day Ticket for £45 to a Adult Weekend ticket for £75! Or get apply to volunteer for Kaya Festival. Get involved and join our musical journey to Africa!

Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry

WtU recommend to see the legendary Afro Beat Drummer Tony Allen!

Also 2 bands before us, they were boss, female singer with lots of brass doing boss covers, do get us in the stankh! YEAH!

Enough words for now enough them pictures! POW!

Check out the up coming event of Liverpool Light Night (18th May 2012)…WtU might get their stankh involved on a Bus! Peace and Love WtU x

For the funkers who live in, not far from Liverpool, we’ve got a gig at Parr Street, STUDIO2, this Friday (13/04/2012), 10.30pm, Doors: 9.00pm.

WtU HQ been called up on the weekend to play for UP AND COMING ARTS presents 21STEPS launch. This event is FREE but GUESTLIST/INVITE ONLY https://docs.google.com/a/upandcoming.org/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHJteE1RNFVUOGd4MlJDQ0xmTm9NdlE6MQ. Although, Leeroy LeGallais said we musn’t play a gig til May, we thought we do it and to try out our new song ARCHETYPE, a real funk machine!

So if it’s not enough for you that WtU are giving up the Stankh on that launch at 10.30pm, here are a couple more details:

The launch we’re playing is for an exhibition featuring the work of 21 selected artists for the third exhibition brought to you by Up & Coming Arts.

Taken from the facebook event page https://www.facebook.com/events/265089126913543/:
Up & Coming Arts presents 21 Steps (curated by Crawley&Wren)

Sponsored by Liverpool Football Club, Worthy Print and Revita Laser

Friday 13th April 2012
PRIVATE VIEW @ STUDIO 2 PARR STREET
9:00pm – 2:00am
LIMITED TO 200 GUESTS
Please fill in our google doc for your ticket
FREE EVENT open to the public
Artists work displayed, Local Bands and DJs playing

https://docs.google.com/a/upandcoming.org/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHJteE1RNFVUOGd4MlJDQ0xmTm9NdlE6MQ

Musicians and DJs will be playing at Studio 2 Parr Street.

This is a free event but funds and donations are welcome on the night to help Up & Coming Arts set up as a new organisation giving Artists, Performance Artists, Filmmakers, Musicians and DJs the platform to showcase their creative talents.

FOR up to date information please see our blog

http://www.upandcomingarts.blogspot.com/

Yes write it down in your diary or spray paint it on the wall:

THE SKATALITES. O2 Academy LIVERPOOL. MONDAY, 28TH MAY 2012, DOORS: 7PM

Because you chose to be a funkateer by following the preaches of stankh…we’ll invite you to a little secret….usual advance tickets are £18.50+booking fees and on the door tickets will cost £21….but now here comes the secret tickets from WtU: £10!! BOOOM!! Let’s fill the venue!!

Contact us on http://on.fb.me/HFgmHP or email us on
lovewtu@gmail.com with your name, contact number and amount of tickets you like to purchase for £10! No hidden costs and demons(…some crazy voodoo perhaps, if you’re willing to send us a picture)

Cheers Liverpool for welcoming us so lovely and taking the time to listen to our crazy improvised madness…yes we take in many shapes and forms but produce many weird new styles and genres.

We’ll be in small formations as much out as possible, but we plan on having a street gig, yes an actual WtU gig in the streets once every month hoping to pay for future recordings, equipment, transport and merchandise. Basically, you people who come to listen to us are gonna be our record label!

And feel free to join us in the street jam if you play an instrument! Like a couple of you already did YES GET INVOLVED!

Enough words! Turn on the music player and have a look at the pictures, that Kaniote Street Style and many others took of We the Undersigned and The Fire Beneath the Sea on church street! Go ahead

Peace and Luv Malou of WtU x

P.S. We’ve also been mentioned as one of Liverpool’s hard working buskers with a really tacky pic of us hahaha But huge thanks for the mention=) http://streetsax.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/liverpools-hardworking-buskers.html?spref=tw

10th to 12th February: Threshold Festival 2012, the second edition of Liverpool’s multi-arts grassroots festival! The universe and the lovely people working at Threshold put us in Chai Wallah’s Sunday line up! WtU was pretty excited to play after the truly boss Yes Sir Boss and before the very talented Joe Driscoll. Thanks to everyone who made it down to our set and everyone who made it down to Threshold! Hell Yeah!

Woo! Thanks for this lovely little review:

“My personal highlight though was the voodoo that We The Undersigned worked on the crowd with even more people throwing funky moves than previously, including many in what seems to be the unofficial Threshold 2012 accessory of an unusual hat. (Hint: How about a stall next year?!) There really should be more people in these hats and the band were on that list too, with the sax player attracting many flash lenses over the course of the set. ” – http://thresholdofficial.tumblr.com/post/17558431156/threshold-diary-day-three

For everyone who missed our set you can watch us on youtube. And, if you like to get the links to listen to the audio recording of the entire set then sent us an email to lovewtu@gmail.com and tell us why.

Then we started writing a new song inspired by John Coltrane’s Equinox, Ed Solo’s We play the music and reggae caribic steeldrums And called it ‘Raise Your Defenses’! You might get to hear it when we’re back in May!!

Then on the 25th February, we played at Occupy Liverpool’s Benefit Gig…and again huge thanks to the crowd you got the energy up to stankh level!

We’re also blessed by getting such a nice preview by John Gibbons for that gig:

“Next up are We The Undersigned (WtU) who I frigging love. They call themselves Reggae Funk Superheroes, which is a TV show, starring them, that I want to see made. Despite being a big fan I literally don’t know where to start describing them. There are 15 of them for a kick off, including a rap troupe, a brass section and whatever other instrument they seem to have found on the way to the stage. They call their music “Stankh”, I call it bedlam and they are worth the money alone. They’re worth double the money alone. I wouldn’t want to go on after them put it that way.”

You can read the full article on: http://www.theanfieldwrap.com/2012/02/gig-of-the-week-punk-ska-benefit-gig-at-basement-20/

Now we’re applying and waiting for festival submissions! Please if you a know or are involved in a festival get us on board by showing the festival your support for WtU – twitter, facebook or even email the festivals and tell them about the cosmic funk rays of WtU and how to get in touch with us (bookwtu@gmail.com) Spread the Stankh! Coz you know you love it!

As well we’re about to audition a couple more drummers and then get back on practicing training up everyone to Festival Form! POW! We’ll be back with a set that will funk you up, skank your knees out and wiggle you into bits! Be aware of the superpowers of WtU!

So until we’ll see back on stage, we’re gonna see in the streets of Liverpool on different locations and probably when you least expect it! With brassed up covers and new songs! Let’s keep the party going! WOAB!

Peace and Bless!

WtU Xx

Yes! You can download now ‘Cosmic Warrior’ recorded live of the main stage at Threshold Festival 2012! Kerp-Pow! But be quick soundcloud.com limits free downloads to a 100! As well if you look carefully through http://soundcloud.com/wtu you will find more free downloads!

Peace and Love

We the Undersigned x