Pump Up The Bhangra (2018) documentary - covering the rise of UK Bhangra, the struggles of making it mainstream & finally evolving into today's British Asian Music.
I was forced to watch this for a Music class I'm taking but I ended up really enjoying the content and I would love to continue listening to Bhangra music!
Its amazing the breadth of the uk bhangra from traditional like the 70s and early 80s to the then funky mid 80s like heera and apna sangeet, then the bally sagoo banging bass sound to apache india to the rock sound and synth heavy new pardesi music machine to so much!!! Overload!!! Then talvin singh 2000s. Its crazy!!! Think ill eat some cherrys now got to stop thinking of that era.
The best era for bhangra was 80s till early 90s after that the only best song came was panjabi MCs song, then after then till now most new singers are remaking or hasn't stayed as the orginal bhangra nowadays kids dont understand much as people did back in 80s no one can beat the legends of bhangra from 80s. Pove this documentary it showed alot.
I love this show being a true fan of Bhangra. The UK Bhangra Legend bands are very inspiring. Heera, Apna Sangeet, Bhujhangy etc. Knowing how and where it all started from. What I miss most is the Music & Film shops that were the true souls in the Desi areas like Belgrave Road (Leicester) Soho Rd(Handsworth, Birmingham), Broadway(Southall) etc. I use to be a regular customer buying Music & Films. Good old 1980s & 90s. 🎤🥁🎸🎹🪗🎻🎺📼🎞📺📀💿 16:35 16:44
Great Job ! Thank you for this documentary that I have been researching for many years to see about UK bhangra music, because I am a big fan of great UK bhangra artists. 🙏🏻❤️❤️
I can definitely say these Bhangra clubs, dances did not exist in Canada in the 80s, 90s. It became a thing in the early-mid 2000s. We had events called "Nach To Bhang" and such. The UK seems ahead of Canada when it comes to Punjabi culture becoming mainstream
That's because even though Sikhs/panjabis have been in North America for over 150 yrs, most panjabi groups began in the UK - modern bhangra. Jazzy B' s Canadian started around 92-94 and was superb! I've seen you guys in North America have some really cool melas.
This was a fantastic documentary by the BBC and Bobby Friction! I really enjoyed hearing what different artists from different decades talk about the evolution of Bhangra music and the culture around it.
This is some of the coolest music I've discovered recently all thanks to my musics of the world calls. who would have thought a white boy born and raised in Houston Texas on classic rock, country, punk, and metal would genuinely enjoy music like this.
What an amazing documentary and makes me proud to be an immigrant from Punjab! But i have a question maybe someone can answer. How come popular artists like RDB and Mac-G weren't featured in this docu? They had a lot of mainstream classics that introduced people to this genre
RDB amazing ? You obviously don't know your bhangra. Maybe you lot up North listetned to that garbage but the rest of us appreciate the original UK bhangra.
Good documentary, but seems like a few band mentions were left out. For example Premi Group, Golden Star (Malkit), Azaad etc. Also, if I'm not mistaken, Balbir Bhajhangy is not the only surviving Bhujhangy Group member. Tarlochan Singh Bilga is still alive, along with others. I really enjoyed the old footage of the pubs from the 60's/70's. Where was that footage from, if anyone knows? Thank you in advance.
Nice documentary, but bands missed, so here goes BIGUP 2 following. HOLLE HOLLE, SOHOTTAS, AZAAD, PARDESSI, ACHANAK, DCS, MALKIT SINGH, MANGAL SINGH. PREMI and many more.
Can you get, jhonny zee aka taz stereo nation, as there was one big of him in this documentary but not much about him, is there any videos of his live shows when he was still jhonny zee, and his album hit the deck came.
