WITCH *live*

In the organizer's words:

*advance booking from 02.05 11:00*

Zamrock legends WITCH are coming to the Gretchen with Zambian psychedelic funk rock.

WITCH, short for We Intend To Cause Havoc, were the biggest rock band in Zambia in the 1970s and developed a new genre: zamrock. They fused influences from the Rolling Stones to Black Sabbath and James Brown, mixing them with traditional African rhythms and bush village songs, and later also drew inspiration from disco and boogie.

We Intend To Cause Havoc means something like: We Intend To Cause Havoc. With WITCH, the name said it all: when their lead singer Jagari - whose name refers to Mick Jagger - stirred up the crowd with breakneck stage diving activities, it often took the help of the police to keep the ecstatic crowd reasonably in check while the WITCH mix of psychedelic rock and African rhythms permeated the surroundings.

Recession, totalitarian politics and HIV brought the era of zamrock to an abrupt end. Emanyeo "Jagari" Chanda is the only founding member of the band who did not die as a result of HIV.

WITCH gained worldwide attention in 2012 when Now Again Records reissued their discography. Jagari was able to play concerts again with a new line-up and began a collaboration with Dutch musicians Jacco Gardner and Nic Mauskoviç. WITCH went on a successful first ever European tour with them in 2017. In the meantime, WITCH have already been to the Gretchen twice with new material and old songs.