Jungle: It's An Exciting Experience Going Somewhere So Far Away From What You Know

The U.K. soul band’s co-founder Tom McFarland on coming to India, their latest album ‘For Ever’ and his review of the year gone by.

- Anurag Tagat

Over the phone from London, Tom McFarland is excited about his neo-soul band Jungle’s India debut this month for more reasons than one. “So we’re actually going to be playing the festival on my 30th birthday, which is quite exciting as an occasion as well,” he says.

Jungle, who have seen a global meteoric rise in acclaim and popularity thanks to their slick soul, R&B and funk sound, will make their way down to Nashik to headline the 2019 edition of wine and music festival SulaFest. And the shows before that include Kiev, Moscow, St. Petersburg and Tokyo. McFarland is having a laugh just thinking about the way he’s counting down to his birthday on February 2nd. He says, “It’s going to be super cold in all of those places and we’re going to come to Mumbai and it’ll be boiling.”