LISTEN | Incognito's Bluey Maunick chats about DStv Delicious fest, band's legacy and new album

Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit will be buzzing with people on September 23 and 24 for the 10th annual DStv Delicious International Food & Music festival

British acid jazz band Incognito will be performing on the Sunday. Band leader Jean-Paul “Bluey” Maunick told TshisaLIVE coming to South Africa for the festival was an easy decision to make. 

“Delicious is delicious by name and by nature and why would we not want to come and enjoy for the second time something that we enjoyed and had much pleasure [performing at]? And I like the richness of the festival. I love the fact that it's on a weekend where people are going to be celebrating historical events and enjoying it with food and music. Those have been my go-to places since I was a child. Music and food — you will find Bluey there to this day. This is a wonderful invitation that we couldn't turn down.”

Also in the line-up are Maxwell, Shalamar, gospel choir Joyous Celebration, Greg The Musical Maestro, and Oskido. Bluey promises fans of the band will hear all their favourite songs.

“We start rehearsing next month for the new album. We've been on the road so it would be more a chance to tap into the whole history, the 44 years. This will be the last time we actually gonna be playing the 44 years, touching a little bit of the journey right from where we started in 1979, which we didn't do the last time we where here. Playing right across the 18 albums that we had done. The 19th one we start rehearsing next month and so we are looking for another invitation to South Africa to come and play the new album.

“I think at a festival it's hard to introduce people to a lot of new music because they have come to celebrate. I've always understood festivals to be a place where people are turning up to hear the variations of music but the ones that come to see you are there because the history historically connects.”

He said fans can expect “a celebration of life. It's a party, it's delicious, it's flavours, the spices you use for certain things, it's bringing you all the songs. I wanted those who have been with us on this journey for quite a while that they get to turn a page of their history and photographic memories of Incognito.”