The menu offers up Brazil with hints of the Mediterranean! It’s all about exotic flavours, bright colours, and a touch of the unusual, in short, a feast for the senses! The Favela kitchen is a hive of fresh produce with enough zest for the most discerning taste buds!!

An array of dishes to suit vegetable fiends and flesh eaters alike!  And for those with a sweet tooth, take a stab at the chocolate fondant! Go on, indulge yourselves!
For the past twelve years Head Chef Vagner Matos has worked for some of the most exclusive names in the industry including: Harvey Nichols Fifth Floor Restaurant, Knightsbridge; Terence Conran’s Plateau, Canary Wharf; Antonio Carluccio, Neal Street and (most recently) the prestigious Shoreditch House under Maurillo Monteni. Now he’s ours! Ha!

6pm-1am (Terrace open from 3pm)
Free entry

Victor steps up to the booth for a bit. It’s a break away from the clothes-strewn mayhem of monthly Swap!
Still, the beats roll on … Deany cuts up the old and plays it anew, samba, drum ‘n’ bass, baile funk and back again! Sounds range from the best of Brazil, through pop, hiphop, funk, rock, soul and sews up the seams with one of his many guises.

One of Favela’s Magnificent Seven pops in blue breaks, jazz swing and mambo madness amongst other things.
Famous last words: This is ‘stoopid music for stoopid people.’

www.myspace.com/deanyseagulls

– 3pm to 2am - £10 after 9pm, £5 after 11pm.

A fest of Favela’s finest … baile beats courtesy of music-man extraordinaire, Il Gringo de tout ou rien! Et oui, bien sur, this one’s in full festival flow, so expect even more than the usual dose of Favela flavour old soul, rock’n’roll, electro, disco and general party shenanigans (wine / women y compris).

It’s more of what we know and love: la camaraderie via pop, samba, bossa nova, electronica, funk, breakbeats, southern rock, swing, batucada and groove inesperado …

A kaleidoscope of the purest tradition and the best of cutting edge Brazilian music reflecting the chaotic but harmonious aspects of the Favela… and chic!

www.myspace.com/gringodaparada

3pm to 2am - £5 after 9pm £10 after 11pm.

Dj Gringo da Parada

Adriano Trindade and Ulisses Bezerra run the first London celebration of samba rock!

Samba-rock is a Brazilian rhythm for those with a global music ear! It appeared and carried the Brazilian underground scene from the poor to the rich, the hill to the asphalt!!!

We may swing to the balance sheets of Jorge Ben, Originals Samba, Trio Mocotó, Clube do Balanco, Tim Maia, Chico Buarque, Bebeto, Seu Jorge, among others.

Trindade has footed the other side of the world and back with his second dose of samba-rock. Ulisses Bezerra, the son of the most traditional sambista in Brazil (Bezerra da Silva), has crossed continents and been stateside and back!

www.myspace.com/adrianotrindadesolo

– 3pm to 1 am- Free Entry

A fest of Favela’s finest … baile beats courtesy of music-man extraordinaire, Il Gringo de tout ou rien! Et oui, bien sur, this one’s in full festival flow, so expect even more than the usual dose of Favela flavour old soul, rock’n’roll, electro, disco and general party shenanigans (wine / women y compris).

It’s more of what we know and love: la camaraderie via pop, samba, bossa nova, electronica, funk, breakbeats, southern rock, swing, batucada and groove inesperado …

A kaleidoscope of the purest tradition and the best of cutting edge Brazilian music reflecting the chaotic but harmonious aspects of the Favela… and chic!
3pm to 2am - £5 after 9pm £10 after 11pm

After falling in love with Latin music, distinctive vocalist Heather McClell spent two years in Brazil writing her début album which was recorded in collaboration with some of Brazil’s leading musicians. A special to Favela chic London, an acoustic duo to perform a repertoire of Jazz and Bossa Nova Standards.

‘Sensual and sultry voiced, McClell has a laid back delivery perfectly complimented by the swing of Bossa Nova’. Time Out London.
http://heathermcclell.co.uk/jazz/

http://www.myspace.com/heathermcclell

6pm to 1am Free Entry

 

Exploding out of the rich cultural mix in the melting-pot of London’s underground music scene, comes the exciting and original sound of SARAVAH SOUL. This half-brazilian, half-british outfit has drawn upon unashamedly old-school flavours to create a new genre of RAW AFRO-BRAZILIAN FUNK!

Fronted by fiery break dancer Otto Nascarella, the intensity of their live shows has earned them a reputation for wild performances and a rapidly expanding fan base

Exploding out of the rich cultural mix in the melting-pot of London’s underground music scene, comes the exciting and original sound of SARAVAH SOUL. This half-brazilian, half-british outfit has drawn upon unashamedly old-school flavours to create a new genre of RAW AFRO-BRAZILIAN FUNK!

http://www.myspace.com/saravahsoul

6pm to 1am - £ 5 Entry

Education and stimulation! Rhyming aside, psychedelia makes its way in the furthermost regions of that final frontier … the claim is ‘musical elixirs to get you lifted and drifted … into space’ that is …

The playlist consists of cosmic disco / italo, bollywood (60s/70s), synth rock, kraut, dirty electro, psyched out soul, Brazilian bullets – MPB, bossa, tropicalia …

The Resident DJs:

Cherrystones- an excavator of exciting, but unfamiliar genres and beat-digger par excellence. Cherrystones is the sound of psychedelia-soundtracks-folk-rock-prog-noise-moog-AND-library-records.

Psychemagik - Danny ‘Copious Breaks’ McLewin and Tom ‘Matojo’ Coveney, a Canterbury-based production duo, signed to Warner Bros & Chrysalis. Expect psychedelic hip hop/electro beats with funk, rock and 60s orchestral pop!

Guest DJ David Holmes A master of modulation, disc-jockey-turned-recording-artist David Holmes came to represent all things “techno,” by virtue of critical reviews in the late 1990s. He embraced the inventive synthetic music form, injecting his own unique spin on the genre to create a musical style universally described as an intriguing combination of Latin techno, blues, background jazz, funk, freaky, Celtic, and electronica. Holmes has repeatedly displayed a natural bent for provoking uniquely wry and sardonic imagery.

6pm until late (3am)

£3 before 9pm and £5 after 9pm.

Fun and games for the non-toddling amongst us! Think party hats, musical chairs, pass the gargantuan parcel and all the childhood fun and frivolity!

It’ll be seven hours of DJs, one hour-a-piece, that’s an awful lotta music for one evening, and an awful lotta dancing under streamers, paper chains and sparkles.

Regress to near infancy and align yourself with Kit, Molly Parson and Gringo da Parada, our resident man on decks!

Gringo’ll bring home the samba, bossa nova, electronica, funk, breakbeats, batucada, hip hop, pop, southern rock, swing …

Plus a caipirinha to wash it all down with …

6pm – 1am

£3 before 9pm, £5 after

 It’s ‘everyone’s-favourite-excuse-to-drop-and-swap-party! You know the score … come along in clothing you don’t mind losing, add some layers upon arrival and when the klaxon sounds peel ‘em off to swap with summink else that tickles your fancy. Gents. Get in touch with your feminine side, joing the throng and embellish yourself with a frock? Try it you might just like it! Ladies, relish the spectacle!Dj’s Victor Lavish & Butch Façade6 p.m. – 1 a.m.Tree pounds before 9 p.m.Five pounds after 9 p.m.