If it's an organic sound, it absolutely cannot be put on a sampler.
With their teased manes captured eccentrically in hairnets, the models came out in embroidered skirts that depicted the sort of quaint rural scenes you would see on a sampler.
The Gorgonzola gnocchi were as light as whipped cream, and they often show up on a sampler plate of three pastas, with pappardelle in a robust duck ragu and penne in a Tuscan meat sauce.
Nosh on a sampler of mini pulled chicken and brisket sandwiches and the Milt burger, a juicy char burger of chopped brisket, chili, beef bacon and crispy onion (best to hold out for the full-size version of the last).
As musicians, the sextet – expanded to seven on-stage, with the addition of a chap at the back making inaudible beats on a sampler – can't be faulted: the songs are powered by a rhythm section as tight as a soul revue's, and keyboard fills inspired by Billy Preston's futuristic 1970s funk.
The grooves, delivered by a small group including a guitarist, a DJ and Emicida on a sampler, juggled and mingled funk with Brazilian rhythms like forro and maracatu and Emicida kept changing up his tone: accusatory or affectionate, buttonholing or casual.
