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About The Cactus Channel
Hear that sound? Raw, loose and nasty funk recorded straight to analogue tape. It’s just like the old days, but so new it’s sporting a badass teenage moustache. The Cactus Channel are a ten piece funk orchestra straight out of Princes Hill High School in inner city Melbourne. With an average age of seventeen, these kids are burning down original funk breaks and breaking down funk originals with a musical maturity way beyond their years. Featuring an update on the Porgy Jones classic “The Dap,” and their own “Pepper Snake,” the Cactus Channel’s debut single will be available for digital download and on 7" vinyl on HopeStreet recordings in 2011.

General Information
How Long Have We Been Together

1-3 years
Band Influences

James Brown Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings Syl Jonhson Eddie Bo The Menahan Street Band El Michels Affair The Budos Band Fela Kuti The Bamboos
Dream/Vision

To continue producing top quality funk and soul to the world. Join the funk/soul revolution!
Favourite 5 Musicians/Bands

Gabriel Roth James Brown Tommy Brenneck James Jamerson Dave Guy
Favourite 5 Albums

New Orleans Funk Vol 1 + 2 - Compilation Make The Road By Walking - Menahan Street Band Enter The 37th Chamber - El Michels Affair Its My Thing - Marva Whitney What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
Last Gig We Went To

Saskwatch @ Bar Open