ChokKa are a 3-piece live band consisting of electric lead guitar, keyboards, synth bass and electronic drums. We play everything live in our signature neon outfits. We love to create a great experience and bring the joy and inclusivity of old school dancefloor music alive with crazy visuals and effects! Our unusual, happy and upbeat original music has a wide appeal. Our music is influenced by modern dance music, jazz, funk, rock and more. We’re skilled musicians with flowing, melodic lead guitar, synth bass, jazz-influenced keyboards and electronic drums. ChokKa create melodies, structures and rhythms for dancing and listening.
ChokKa want to play the most fascinating venues in the most interesting places to the most up-for-it people we can find in Scotland and around abouts. Is that you?
ChokKa aim to create the sounds, vibe, look and atmosphere of a underground festival dancefloor or a crazy rave. Coming from the west coast of Scotland we’ve had plenty of experience playing in unusual places, from front rooms to distilleries via Islands and bothies. Now we’re planning on taking our joyful musical and dancing experience around the country. We’re actively looking for unusual musical opportunities with lovely people in interesting places.
ChokKa have been gigging and recording together for a year, but all 3 members have previously gigged together for 5 years around the West Coast in a soul & funk band. We just decided to stop playing songs and start writing for the dancefloor!
The band are;
Caledonia Joynson; lead guitar, Edinburgh Napier Pop Music Graduate. Likes labradors, RocknRoll and dancing.
Ruari Edmond; keyboards and synths, former member of the Scottish Youth Jazz Orchestra. Likes pirates, Funk and dancing.
Tom Fisher; electronic drums. Likes kayaks, HipHop and dancing.
ChokKa are based in Argyll and Glasgow, but happy to travel all over Scotland and beyond.
We are a 3-piece band plus engineer/tech and can supply our own PA, lights and visuals. We are enthusiastic members of the Touring Network and especially want to play in suitable TN venues.
We can play a 1 hour to 1 ½ hour set of original, live music with lights and visuals. We’d like £400 for a show and £600 if that will involve complicated travel and overnight stay. Plus reasonable travel costs and accommodation tbc. Additional DJ set by negotiation. We’re generally very reasonable so please ask so we can make it work for you and us. We don’t usually have an interval as dancing, smiling and laughing equals buying more drinks from the bar. Your venue will need a dancefloor and some people to go on it but that’s about it.
Get in/set up time 2-3 hours. Get out, much less.
Contact details: chokka.sounds@gmail.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ChokKa__band
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61555985870922
Ru: 07415 311848, Tom: 07795 424575
Testimonials;
Amber Crowley, Chair, Ford Village Hall, Argyll;
‘ChokKa played in our village hall and were fantastic. I called and spoke to Tom to book, it was very straight forward. They arrived as arranged and as they have such a compact set up it took hardly any time at all for them to get sorted and do a quick sound check. The band dressed up brilliantly and contributed loads to our jungle theme and the crowd loved them, their music is amazing! ChokKa had everyone up dancing and we had loads of comments about how original and fun they were. We’ve never had any music like that before! After the party they packed up their kit quickly and left everything tidy. We’ll definitely have them back!’
Rachel Rogers, Chair, Craignish Village Hall, TN member;
‘ChokKa can raise the energy of any venue. These guys bring psychedelic visuals, fantastic sound and enormous amounts of fun. The music is exciting and new, you haven’t heard anything like this live. This is the best electronic live music since Kraftwerk, in my opinion, (but then I am married to the drummer). They are lovely guys, great attitude and easy to work with. If you want a high energy, fun night with quality music – you want ChokKa.’
