About
Photo by Kate Beatty
MAMA FEEL GOOD! is a celebration of rare funk and soul brought to Birmingham and London by the dynamic duo DJs Bobbalin’ Hot and Sister 45. Touring the UK and Europe, this rare coupling of She-jays are bringing feminine vibes to a usually male dominated arena and have recently been voted as one of Flavour Magazine’s fab 5 groups to emerge from the UK music scene.
MAMA FEEL GOOD! Have played at well respected funk nights at The Powder Room Barcelona, Soul Spectrum Edinburgh, Sunday Joint Barcelona, Funkshun Limerick, and at the Soul Service club Balsam and Regenercia in Poland, at festivals DBNB, Shambala and The Larmer Tree. They have also played for Roy Ayers, Jazzman Gerald, Roger C, Fryer, DJ Amma, Nia Saw, The Hot Eight Brass Band and Charles Walker and The Dynamites.
Bobbalin’ Hot is from the cultural melting pot of Birmingham and grew up mainly listening to her dad’s bass heavy reggae collection and calypso- or was that woken up by it? She now resides in the capital but still spends a considerable amount of her time in Brum.
She has been DJing since 2001 where a Drum and Bass DJ friend gave her a ‘hear the difference’ test between analogue and digital sound. Consequently, CD purchases came to a halt.
Bobbalin’ Hot loves crate digging, finding rare funk nuggets and playing them out to receptive crowds ! BH has djed in Japan; including Tokyo and Sendai and regularly DJs in the UK, Poland and Ireland.
Her taste in music has always been diverse due to a classical music background, but her genres of DJing choice are funk, reggae, latin and afrobeat. Expect to be taken on whirlwind adventure of ass-shaking, hip grinding and overbite-bleeding choice selections!
Photo by Matt Wilson
Sister 45 grew up in rural mid Wales on her mum’s eclectic music collection listening to Soul, Reggae, Blues and Folk. She began DJing in 2002 taking initial influence from Hip Hop and Blaxpoitation soundtracks and in 2004 held a residency at Funked Up in Swansea, one of the longest running vinyl only Funk and Soul nights in the UK. That residency secured her passion for black music and her love of seeking out rare original funk and soul 45s.
She has held nine residencies since then and in 2006 started her own night; mama feel good! in Birmingham UK, with best friend and cohort DJ Bobbalin’ Hot.
Music Policy…
The music policy at Mama’s celebrates soulful black music, mainly Funk and Soul but also Gospel, Northern Soul, Afrobeat, dance-floor Jazz, Rare Groove, Boogaloo and Latin. Played all on wax and mostly on original 7-inch vinyl.