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WHEN THE PEOPLE SAY | 23/10/26The latest album from Agbeko, When the People Say, is due for release on 23 October 2026 on vinyl LP & digital.
This follows summer 2026's UK Single Launch Tour of Know How: out 21 July and available to Pre-Save here.. When the People Say builds upon Agbeko's post-pandemic comeback record, There Must Be Another Way (2023), which featured on international radio including BBC Radio 6 (Tom Robinson & Craig Charles Funk & Soul Show), Worldwide FM, Groove Africa (Ghana), Radio Capital (Italy) and Radio 3 (Spain). "The spectacular chemistry shared by this large band is electric and emotive" - SONGLINES Know How Single Launch Tour tickets below. Stay tuned for album tour dates. |
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"Go and see them if you can for one of the best gigs of your life"
NOW THEN MAGAZINE Mancunian powerhouse Agbeko have been erupting dancefloors across Europe since first taking the stage in 2016. Inspired by the lineage of Afrobeat from Fela Kuti through to Antibalas via modern-day psychedelia of The Heliocentrics and The Shaolin Afronauts, Agbeko write their own chapter uniquely combining Ethio-jazz, British Protest Song and a penchant for the raucous.
Channelled through an onslaught of horns, driven grooves, moving lyrics and cathartic soloing, Agbeko's songs call out corruption and embolden the collective pull towards societal change and healing in our times. Penned by Jamie Stockbridge and borne by a virtuosic, double-digit collective fronted by Amber Kuti & Mali Hayes, their music soundtracks a congregation revelling upon a world on the brink. Agbeko opened WOMEX 24 as ambassadors of hometown Manchester. "I got so lost in the sound I actually fell over... It was completely out of hand"
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