SMOOVE & TURRELL: Broken Toys (2014) Album review

Smoove & Turrell reach that critical career watershed of the ‘difficult third’ album. You know – the one which can elevate a good band to classic status or see a previously good band consigned to the scrap heap like…well…like a broken toy. Sure, debut Antique Soul was particularly well-received and the pair sidestepped the ‘Antique Soul-Pt II’-trap with Eccentric Audio by shimmying down a mirrorball/ ladies’ night route to the dancefloor which ultimately rewarded them with a tour support slot for Nile Rodgers and Chic. But have Berry Geordie and his meaty-voiced partner in crime, Turrell, deftly resisted the urge to sell out, get all self-indulgent or, worst of all, produce a ‘concept LP’ with Broken Toys? Let’s find out!…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

SMOOVE & TURRELL: Lay It On Me (2014) + video

Berry Geordie is back, in the company of the mighty John Turrell of course, with their latest installment of the ‘northern coal’ sound. Lay It On Me is the first single off the pair’s forthcoming long player Broken Toys and the sort of big soul-clap stomper that is their bread and butter. Or whatever they can afford to eat up north now in these benighted economic times – probably a coal…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

SMOOVE & TURRELL: Slow Down/ In Deep (2012)

SMOOVE & TURRELL: Slow Down/ In Deep (2012)
Slow Down might be the first-named track on the cover but this one’s all about the neo-disco adventures of coal-soul duo Smoove & Turrell with their ‘creators-of-Last-Night-A-DJ-Saved-My-Life’-referencing In Deep. How deep? Balls deep my friends! We’re not just flirting with the bouncer at Studio 54 here either – more…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

SMOOVE & TURRELL: Eccentric Audio – 2011 + ‘Slow Down video’

SMOOVE & TURRELL: Eccentric Audio – 2011 + ‘Slow Down video’
Nu-northern soul boys Smoove and Turrell (a.k.a. Berry Geordie and Smokey Turrell) are due to return shortly with second album Eccentric Audio which is all set to propel them into mainstream consciousness. As always Turrell rides as classic-voiced vocal shotgun to Smoove’s driving force behind the beats. And (it has to be said) Smoove (or rather ‘smoove’) is frequently the word this time around as their bid for more widespread (and well-deserved) recognition finds Eccentric Audio featuring more than a few…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

SMOOVE & TURRELL: 'Electric Audio' LP due April 2011 + listen to album preview

SMOOVE & TURRELL: 'Electric Audio' LP due April 2011 + listen to album preview
Here we are then – it seems that Berry Geordie and Smokey Turrell will be back in April with a brand-new, full-length follow-up to last year’s superb effort Antique Soul. It’s business as usual in the sense that the pair running the gamut of all things (northern) soulful and funky – although it has to be said that production-wise things are sounding somewhat more – uh – smooth and ambience-wise a bit more ladies’ night than last time around. The sly dogs. Check out…LISTEN/ READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM

SMOOVE & TURRELL: DJ Smoove Moscow Mix – Free download

SMOOVE & TURRELL: DJ Smoove Moscow Mix – Free download
The ever generous man from ‘Get Carter country’ (TM.), (that’ll be Smoove of Smoove & Turrell fame) has put together a fresh bunch of funk breaks and grooves for
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SMOOVE & TURRELL: Beggarman – 2009 – Single review

SMOOVE & TURRELL: Beggarman – 2009 – Single review
RATING: 5/5
One of the stand-outs from the Antique Soul LP, this soaring, yet somewhat melancholy, nu-soul anthem finds Turrell pondering the current economic recession through the medium of his warmly rasping soul vocal. In this he is
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SMOOVE & TURRELL: Antique Soul – 2009 – Album review

SMOOVE & TURRELL: Antique Soul – 2009 – Album review
HIGHLIGHTS: Hammond – I Can’t Give You Up – Beggarman – Don’t Go
SOUNDBITE: “Yeah, yeah, feel the crunch, get to the beggarman’s disco”
RATING: 4/5
Take a couple of blokes who could pass for those two Geordie builders who drink in your local, put them together in a studio and what do you get? If the two in question are Smoove and Turrell the answer isn’t a new stud wall and the faint whiff of battered Mars bars but Antique Soul. In other words a heavyweight northern soul-influenced collaboration with the gritty credibility that other nu-soul pairing Mark Ronson and Daniel Merriweather just can’t seem to muster and more crossover power than Moses at the Red Sea. Because when this is on, it’s really on.

On the one hand you’ve got…READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM

SMOOVE & TURRELL: Beggarman - Video

SMOOVE & TURRELL: Beggarman - Video
Smoove & Turrell's Beggarman 12" will be out soon. In the meantime - have a gander at the video. It seems the recession has hit Newcastle so badly that, for some, mirrorballs are having to double as headgear to keep the bitter northern cold at bay:…WATCH VID. @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

SMOOVE & TURRELL - YOu Don't Know

SMOOVE & TURRELL - You Don’t Know – 2009 – Single review
RATING: 4/5
Listening to the various efforts at rebooting northern soul over the last couple of years has been a bit like being on the sidelines of the ‘open’ egg and spoon race at a school sports day. Ever an event that inspires a variety of approaches, it has both heroes and villains. Mark Ronson is the devious competitive parent who achieved an early lead by sticking chewing gum to the bottom of his egg but gave the game away because…READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM