East London’s Hackney Colliery Band return to Cornwall in August with their reinvented 21st century take on the brass band.

The band will be bringing their heady mix of trumpets, trombones, saxes, sousaphone, marching percussion and electronics to Lusty Glaze Beach in Newquay on Thursday, August 3.

Formed in 2008 out of a desire to play music that appealed to the feet as much as to the ears, the band are as inspired by contemporary rock and electronica as they are New Orleans marching bands and the traditional British brass bands to which their name pays homage.

Their music has rapidly gained an army of loyal supporters, and since the release of their eponymous debut in 2011, the nine-piece have blown their way into the public consciousness with their energetic and passionate live shows, amassing fans worldwide and reinventing the brass band sound for the modern age.

The band will be playing in Newquay as part of the Sundowner Sessions, a series of atmospheric gigs set against the backdrop of the sea and the sunset at the privately owned Lusty Glaze Beach in Porth.

Alongside their critically-acclaimed releases, Hackney Colliery Band have really stormed the live circuit, selling out two-night runs at Wilton’s Music Hall and the Jazz Café in London, playing main stages of festivals including Field Day, Love Supreme, Wilderness, Cheltenham Jazz Festival and many more, and even performing a 45-minute set in the Olympic stadium as part of the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics. On the international circuit they’ve performed in clubs and festivals from Sziget in Hungary to G! Festival in the Faroe Islands, and in countries including Slovenia, Montenegro, Italy, Kosovo, France, Austria, Holland, Germany and Ireland.

But the band are never content to rest on their laurels or to keep things simple, and are keen collaborators.

Over the years they’ve run a series of experimental music nights at Ronnie Scott’s, a weekly new material night in venues across London, and worked with collaborators including Amy Winehouse, Fyfe Dangerfield, Eliza Doolittle, Jamie Cullum, Andreya Triana, Williams Fairey Band, Rhodes and DJ Yoda. More leftfield collaborations have even included working with a sausage maker on the Hackney Colliery Banger and with legendary London brewery Truman’s on their own hugely popular ale Bold as Brass.

For more information and tickets to see the Hackney Colliery Band at Lusty Glaze on August 3, go to tickettailor.com/checkout/view-event/id/86155/chk/7b61