SUPERNOVA – the ultimate tribute band - play STEELY DAN

‘Listening to Steely Dan for me feels like slipping into a rich tapestry, woven from jazz sophistication, rock coolness, and lyrical wit. It’s a sound that is slick, sharp, and seductive, built on precision and artistry.’

SUPERNOVA – the ultimate tribute band - is going back to its roots: our first gig in 2000 featured Steely Dan. Since that first gig at the Gov, SUPERNOVA has built up an enviable reputation as a musicians’ band, performing Toto and Chicago’s evocative classic songs, the exuberant Earth Wind & Fire, the soul of Tower of Power, Chaka Khan and the incomparable songs of Stevie Wonder … but we always come back to where it all began.

We will play the two albums that came to epitomise their jazz-rock sound: Gaucho and Aja. On these albums, which became two of the most influential jazz-rock albums of all time, Steely Dan fully realized their musical ambitions.

‘GAUCHO’ is a model of studio perfection by itself and features some of Steely Dan’s best-known tracks in Babylon Sisters (a phenomenal intro to the album), Hey Nineteen, and the title track, Gaucho, with its lyrical saxophone intro. This was their last album before their long break from performing.

‘AJA’ is, without a doubt, Steely Dan’s most accomplished album, and it is perfection. It is still the band’s most commercially successful and represents their first full-on venture into the kind of sophisticated jazz-rock that would characterize their music from then on. In many ways, it remains Steely Dan’s finest, with some of the lushest textures and most relaxed music of their career. Deacon Blues? Love it! Black Cow, Aja, Peg? Yep.

It’s been almost 40 years since Rolling Stone dubbed Steely Dan ‘the perfect musical antiheroes of the Seventies’, and yet the music remains fresh to this day, with their inventive mix of jazz and rock.

Come and help us enjoy keeping their music alive.