Soul man Lee Fields makes another trip to UK shores on Thursday 25th January this year in the company of his band The Expressions and soul sister Lady Wray. The presence of two of New York label Big Crown’s biggest artists at London’s Electric Ballroom should certainly ensure a high voltage show. Not least of the reasons for this will be their respective pedigrees. Fields has been
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LEE FIELDS & THE EXPRESSIONS + LADY WRAY: Electric Ballroom (London) Thursday 25th January 2018
EDAN & PATEN LOCKE: Live in London Friday May 22nd (2015)
The always humble but unfailingly magnificent Edan makes a trip to the UK very soon appearing in two days’ time at the All Tomorrow’s Parties Pop-Up venue at Farleigh Place N16. He’ll be in the company of fellow live performing partner in crime Paten Locke. The pair of them are adept emcees and djs (as well as producers) and a quality live show is a foregone conclusion should
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THE CHI-LITES: Clapham Grand, London headline gig 6 March (2015)
Have you seen them? Tell me have you seen them? I could laugh, tell you a few jokes but that still wouldn’t ease your pain. What might is the news that smoothie Chi-town soul legends The Chi-Lites (as in sampled by Beyonce for Crazy In Love – the most high profile sample in umpteen samplings of the band) are playing the Clapham Grand in London on 6 March this year! If that news
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SMOOVE & TURRELL: Slow Down/ In Deep (2012)
Slow Down might be the first-named track on the cover but this one’s all about the neo-disco adventures of coal-soul duo Smoove & Turrell with their ‘creators-of-Last-Night-A-DJ-Saved-My-Life’-referencing In Deep. How deep? Balls deep my friends! We’re not just flirting with the bouncer at Studio 54 here either – more attempting to storm the doors with no fewer than seven remixes (from
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K DELIGHT: Fresh For 86 mixtape (2011) – Free download
K-Delight goes super old-school for the imminent UK Fresh 86 reunion at the London Scala on 16 July and gets his analogue on for a new mixtape. That’s right, he recorded the whole thing on multi-track tape using some fat original electro vinyl. Naturally he is aware that it is 2011 so the whole thing is available for your aural delectation below via the soundcloud player.
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DEAD PREZ: Live @ The Garage – London – 25 May, 2011
Hey – what’s bigger than Dead Prez’s track Hip-hop? As far as Dead Prez are concerned, not much, since they’re still largely known for their one big hit from eleven years ago. And being mildly racist to white people. Could it be because rappers M-1 and Stic.man sound like a motorway and a book by the creator of the Gruffalo respectively? Perhaps their anti-record label stance held them back? Never mind.
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RAEKWON: London, HMV Forum, 18 March 2010 EPK + Shaolin Vs. Wu-Tang LP update
Yeah, that’s right – the chef will be cooking up some Tang-y (see what I did there?) delights for your aural consumption in the UK in March. I guess you could look at it as kind of like a live course between his last serving Only Built For Cuban Linx Part II and the forthcoming Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang. Yes, you did read that correctly – Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang will appear on the public’s table in only two months time and feature
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EPMD: UK show – February 2011 – London, HMV Forum
Is it possible to pack in some feeble EPMD-referencing wordplay whilst commenting on this rare rampage in the big smoke at London’s HMV Forum on 19 February next year? Actually, I might already have started. One suspects Errick and Parrish may not be making as many dollars as they’d currently like given that the last time they gigged in London was ten years ago. Not that I’m suggesting they’re gold diggers or anything – I would imagine things’ll be business as usual for the boys and that they’ll let the funk flow.
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PETE ROCK & CL SMOOTH: Win tickets to exclusive London show 12 December 2010
I’m all about living the good life but don’t you just hate it when you go to buy tickets for a gig and they’re all sold out. I think the main ingredient of success here is to either be all over that shit the minute it comes out or to have some other kind of ‘in’. It could be that you’re on the guest list, for example. Then again – it could be that you just happen to know the answer to the question below
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