Feel The Real

Rare groove, boogie, 80s soul, house, dance music, with a strong peppering of snack, parking and traffic-based chat

About

Feel the Real Soundsystem are a Bristol DJ crew in the best tradition of the city's soul and rare groove crews of the 70s and 80s that helped shape the Bristol sound. Formed in a pub in Bristol one Sunday evening in 2009 after the three main founders, DJs Pato, Christophe and Andres Cervero, off the back of a couple of successful imporomptu back to back sessions, realised that the sum was possibly greater than the individual parts, and Feel The Real was born! Always keen to have an MC make up the fourth member, a chance encounter between Andres and legendary MC Joe Peng at The Love Inn one night led to a mic appearing behind the decks, and the Feel The Real crew was complete.

Since then Feel The Real have been a mainstay of the Bristol boogie and disco scene, running their own parties and nights (some legal, some not!) as well as appaering alongside some of Bristol's biggest royalty at various events in the city and beyond. They've been a mainstay at Love Saves The Day since it's inception, and have been at Glastonbury every year since 2009. Beyond that, Feel The Real have been on the bill at various festivals in the UK and abroad, including Shindig, Secret Garden Party, Shambala, Farmfest, The Big Chill, The Garden Festival Croatia, Love International, See No Evil, and a few more they can't really remember.