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Tuesday, 1 September 2009
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Sunday, 16 August 2009
Giggs + Mike Skinner Interview
Here's an interview I did off the cuff with Mike Skinner and Giggs, behind the scenes of the Slow Song video shoot. The track is out tomorrow on digital release so support the cause! Big tune.
Part 1
Part 2
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Saturday, 15 August 2009
Kano - Rock and Roller - PIANO COVER
He's killing the covers right now... Catch him on Twitter http://twitter.com/Robert_l_s
Thursday, 6 August 2009
Mr Midas Feat David B - MIDAS video
He's trying to get 3,000 views by the end of the day... only 1,150 to go now...
Wednesday, 5 August 2009
Monday, 3 August 2009
Pulling Apart Palestine
So imagine you're sat in your yard, in east London, your family are all tucked up in bed, then bang. Someone kicks your down down. But this person who's telling you to get out of your yard and give it up isn't someone you've got beef with or the police, but a soldier. They're going to give your yard to a family in north London because basically, they don't like you cockneys and they don't care what happens to you. It doesn't matter if you've got a baby in your arms when you argue with them, they'll slap you anyway. Cry at the loss of your home? Get a beating. And when the news crews turn up, they too get told to fall back... hence why you'll never see it on the news. And guess who's helping the new family move in... the police. As for your belongings, they've been dumped a mile or so away at the roadside.
Of course, this isn't happening in London. If this had actually happened here it would be front page news, a trending topic on Twitter, whatever. But it is happening in Palestine.
I recently wrote about my boy Jody for SuperSuper. He may be confined to a wheelchair but that hasn't stopped him dedicating much of his teenage years fighting oppression and social injustice. We recently waved him goodbye as he ventured back to Palestine, where he's been staying with the Hannoun family and writing reports for Ctrl.Alt.Shift on the on-going struggle out there.
Just two weeks ago the family were out buying a cake for Jody's mums birthday. Today they're sat on a gravel track, homeless, with no where to go and no chance of justice.
I don't know the answer, but I do know I need to share the article which came from Jody today:
Week 41 – Eviction
At 5:15am on Sunday morning, I woke up to the sound of the Hannoun family's front room windows being smashed in. I had laid down to rest only 20 minutes earlier. By the time I'd got to my feet, soldiers were rushing into the house and pushing me out the front door. As I fell down the stairs outside, I pointed at my wheelchair:
"That's my wheelchair," I said, "I need it because I can't walk."
"No! No!" the armed Israeli forces replied, continuing to shove me away.
Just outside the house, the police gathered everyone at the wall. Within a matter of seconds they had confiscated everyone's camera and mobile phone, meaning that no footage could be taken and no media could be called. Not that media would've been able to come anyway – the police had closed off the entire area.
The police promptly proceeded to arrest all the international activists they could find, who had been staying with the families to show their support... it was over in minutes. But when they got to me:
"Where are you from?"
"Mish fairhem (Arabic for "I don't understand").
"Just leave him," instructed the chief police officer. He must've thought I was a member of the family he was throwing onto the streets.
As they forced us across the road, I was the only international left with the family. A police barrier was hastily set up, imprisoning us in the road directly opposite the house. All around me I could see tears falling from eyes, and faces falling into hands.
"For the second time I have been kicked out of my home," sobbed Jana, the 16 year old daughter of the family.
A grandmother of the family was cursing the soldiers for their crimes, when one got offended and attempted to strike her. Her son pulled down the barrier, launching himself at the soldiers until he was brutally beaten and crushed to the ground. Other Palestinians were also injured as they desperately tried to de-arrest him.
It was only a couple of hours before the settlers were moving in to the Hannouns house.
"Why are you here?" they cried, "Why are you taking my home?" A distraught and broken Jana had to be held back from scaling the fence, for fear that she would be the next to be beaten.
The international media and UN observers were completely blocked from entering the area. Al Jazeera and CNN managed to get there by climbing through neighbouring gardens, but even they were manhandled and harassed.
I don't cry often, but when I saw Maher breaking down half way through an interview, the emotion was too much for me to handle.
"We have been made refugees again," he told reporters, "this is a slow genocide they are conducting against the Palestinians of East Jerusalem."
At one point, a van of settlers drove up from behind us. I watched as family members held back Jana from kicking the door, and I watched as soldiers ushered the settlers through to the house they had just stolen. This is Apartheid.
At around 5pm, police finally took down the fence and re-opened the roads outside the house. We all immediately crossed the road, put our banners back up and sat on the steps outside the Hannouns' home. Soldiers forced us across the road once more, erecting a new police fence outside the houses.
In the evening, people from across the country gathered outside the house to protest, and chanted as loud as our voices would allow. The Israeli police responded to the peaceful protest by beating everyone up – punching people in the head and throwing a woman with a baby in her arms to the ground. 'Fascism' would be an understatement as 13 more arrests were made.
We slept the night on the street.
Words: Jody McIntyre. Reporter Jody had to go to a friend's house to write this and is now going back to the family.
Read more from Jody here
Of course, this isn't happening in London. If this had actually happened here it would be front page news, a trending topic on Twitter, whatever. But it is happening in Palestine.
I recently wrote about my boy Jody for SuperSuper. He may be confined to a wheelchair but that hasn't stopped him dedicating much of his teenage years fighting oppression and social injustice. We recently waved him goodbye as he ventured back to Palestine, where he's been staying with the Hannoun family and writing reports for Ctrl.Alt.Shift on the on-going struggle out there.
Just two weeks ago the family were out buying a cake for Jody's mums birthday. Today they're sat on a gravel track, homeless, with no where to go and no chance of justice.
I don't know the answer, but I do know I need to share the article which came from Jody today:
Week 41 – Eviction
At 5:15am on Sunday morning, I woke up to the sound of the Hannoun family's front room windows being smashed in. I had laid down to rest only 20 minutes earlier. By the time I'd got to my feet, soldiers were rushing into the house and pushing me out the front door. As I fell down the stairs outside, I pointed at my wheelchair:
"That's my wheelchair," I said, "I need it because I can't walk."
"No! No!" the armed Israeli forces replied, continuing to shove me away.
Just outside the house, the police gathered everyone at the wall. Within a matter of seconds they had confiscated everyone's camera and mobile phone, meaning that no footage could be taken and no media could be called. Not that media would've been able to come anyway – the police had closed off the entire area.
The police promptly proceeded to arrest all the international activists they could find, who had been staying with the families to show their support... it was over in minutes. But when they got to me:
"Where are you from?"
"Mish fairhem (Arabic for "I don't understand").
"Just leave him," instructed the chief police officer. He must've thought I was a member of the family he was throwing onto the streets.
As they forced us across the road, I was the only international left with the family. A police barrier was hastily set up, imprisoning us in the road directly opposite the house. All around me I could see tears falling from eyes, and faces falling into hands.
"For the second time I have been kicked out of my home," sobbed Jana, the 16 year old daughter of the family.
A grandmother of the family was cursing the soldiers for their crimes, when one got offended and attempted to strike her. Her son pulled down the barrier, launching himself at the soldiers until he was brutally beaten and crushed to the ground. Other Palestinians were also injured as they desperately tried to de-arrest him.
It was only a couple of hours before the settlers were moving in to the Hannouns house.
"Why are you here?" they cried, "Why are you taking my home?" A distraught and broken Jana had to be held back from scaling the fence, for fear that she would be the next to be beaten.
The international media and UN observers were completely blocked from entering the area. Al Jazeera and CNN managed to get there by climbing through neighbouring gardens, but even they were manhandled and harassed.
I don't cry often, but when I saw Maher breaking down half way through an interview, the emotion was too much for me to handle.
"We have been made refugees again," he told reporters, "this is a slow genocide they are conducting against the Palestinians of East Jerusalem."
At one point, a van of settlers drove up from behind us. I watched as family members held back Jana from kicking the door, and I watched as soldiers ushered the settlers through to the house they had just stolen. This is Apartheid.
At around 5pm, police finally took down the fence and re-opened the roads outside the house. We all immediately crossed the road, put our banners back up and sat on the steps outside the Hannouns' home. Soldiers forced us across the road once more, erecting a new police fence outside the houses.
In the evening, people from across the country gathered outside the house to protest, and chanted as loud as our voices would allow. The Israeli police responded to the peaceful protest by beating everyone up – punching people in the head and throwing a woman with a baby in her arms to the ground. 'Fascism' would be an understatement as 13 more arrests were made.
We slept the night on the street.
Words: Jody McIntyre. Reporter Jody had to go to a friend's house to write this and is now going back to the family.
Read more from Jody here
Ctrl.Alt.Shift Comic Design Competition
Corruption is both a cause of poverty, and a barrier to overcoming it. It is one of the most serious obstacles to eradicating poverty.
Ctrl.Alt.Shift is unmasking corruption with their new competition.
Win the chance to create a unique comic style story in collaboration with acclaimed musician and writer Dev Hynes aka Lightspeed Champion.
After the first round of judging at the end of September, shortlisted entrants will be given Lightspeed Champion's comic script as inspiration and asked to create a visual adaptation of the story.
The winning commission will also be published in a comic and form part of an exhibition around the theme of corruption for Ctrl.Alt.Shift, the experimental initiative politicising a new generation of activists for social justice and global change. This will coincide with annual comics festival Comica which takes place at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) this November.
To enter the competition, please send relevant examples of your visual work, along with your contact details, to comiccomp@ctrlaltshift.co.uk by Friday 25th September.
Five shortlisted artists will then be given a comic brief to respond to and a winner chosen by a panel or judges including:
Marjane Satrapi (Writer and Director of Academy Award Nominated Animated Film and graphic novel Persepolis)
Paul Gravett (Comica Festival)
V V Brown and David Allain (Musican and Comic Book Wrtier / Artist)
Lightspeed Champion and Ctrl.Alt.Shift
The competition is restricted to UK Residents only.
Sunday, 2 August 2009
SB.TV - Lioness demolishing Rowdy riddim (HD)
Big up Lioness, like a lot of her stuff lately (namely Where's My Sister and Sing For Him). I put her in touch with MJ Cole recently, watching that space closely.
Happy Birthday Rinse
I'm gutted that I was confined to my sick bed and missed this, Rinse's 15th Birthday at Matter, surely one of the parties of the year.
As well as shaping so much of the British music scene we're proud to call our own, Rinse has created many friendships and memories outside of their own station walls, whether that's all the forum massive, the dedicated rave attendees, those that stock up on the CDs... It's changed a lot since my early experiences with Rinse (a time when I had no p to do anything and relied on radio to give me a life) but onwards and upwards. Happy Birthday Rinse...
Boy Better Know Live @ Matter from Butterz on Vimeo.
As well as shaping so much of the British music scene we're proud to call our own, Rinse has created many friendships and memories outside of their own station walls, whether that's all the forum massive, the dedicated rave attendees, those that stock up on the CDs... It's changed a lot since my early experiences with Rinse (a time when I had no p to do anything and relied on radio to give me a life) but onwards and upwards. Happy Birthday Rinse...
Wednesday, 29 July 2009
Monday, 27 July 2009
Friday, 24 July 2009
Thursday, 23 July 2009
Who's This - Who's There
This tune is going to be MASSIVE. Tas knows. Professor Green's party massive know. Wiley knows...
Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Going Green
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Catch me & Collins playing at Professor Green's launch party tomorrow, at 8pm. Also putting in appearances are Shortee Blitz, Rinse, Skream and Green himself. £6 all night. Free if you're on my guestlist... which you're probably not.
Monday, 20 July 2009
Maverick Sabre- They found him a gun
Definitely one of the show stealers, absolutely amazing. Thanks Mr Sabre!
Mpho Skeef "Box N Locks" acoustic performance
MPHO's single is out today, PLEASE support and buy the single! She's currently busking in Brixton, running down there in a second
Saturday, 18 July 2009
On The Scene - United Underground
Full version of today's londonpaper column. I had to cut it down, but if you're up for some edutainment tomorrow, United Underground is us.
On The Scene
Chantelle Fiddy
Activism isn’t just about protesting or waving a banner, believe it or not music and clubbing can play a role too. Demonstrating this is United Underground, a new event launching on Saturday at the Queen Elizabeth Hall (QEH), Southbank Centre.
A partnership between Riz Ahmed (the award winning actor and MC), Ctrl.Alt.Shift (an experimental initiative for young adults who want to tackle global injustice), British Underground (an arts development agency) and Southbank Centre, United Underground is using music, film and art to highlight different ways of becoming an activist.
“I wanted to put on something that brings in a crowd who might not normally go there, and inject the amazing spaces with a fresh underground energy - we're storming the gates and changing the furniture around a bit so everyone feels like they can live here…” explains Ahmed. “The event is about re-connecting music, and other arts forms to activism in a way that is bold and doesn't feel stale or swept under the carpet.”
The event, which kicks off at 5pm, will also be the first club party to be held on the roof of the Southbank. Acoustic sessions from soon-to-be-massive acts including MPHO, Jamie Woon, Maverick Sabre, Gabriel Prokofiev and Theoretical Girl, will be broken up with talks from people who get active in their own unique ways. Speakers on the line-up range from film directors Peter Kosminsky and Noel Clarke, to Iran's Twitter demonstrators and war torn Baghdad’s gay rights activists.
“We've got a stellar lineup of some of the biggest acts around who have all waived their performance fee because they believe in the idea of a party that aims to get people thinking and active. Ultimately this is a conscious rave and festival wrapped up as a rooftop party - but still at a credit crunch beating £5 a ticket.”
For those who don’t like too much fresh air, inside the QEH club promoters Man Make Music, Dirty Canvas and Urban Nerds are coming together to showcase the best of what they bring to the London dance scene, with talent including Afrikan Boy, Bashy, Ice Kid, Lowkey, True Tiger, DJ Djinn and many more putting in appearances. Also ready to keep you occupied are the Craftivists who will teach you how to stitch and sew your own activism materials. Film buffs can also watch climate change flick The Age of Stupid, Rendition and a series of shorts from Ctrl.Alt.Shift and Film London while they’ll be a live fanzine being created for revellers to take away on the night - anyone can get involved by simply twittering, taking a picture on their mobile or dropping a review of a DJ set to the news desk on the night.
With the evenings proceedings rounding off at 11pm, if you’re looking for an afterparty, join the Super Furry Animals Freak Out, an all night acid warehouse party hosted by the band themselves. The Furries will be returning to Corsica Studios, Elephant Road, SE17, straight after their Somerset House show with mates Cherrystones, Andy Votel and Pete Fowler. Tickets are £10 on the door. Finishing at 6am it makes for an epic finale.
Thursday, 16 July 2009
Wiley and Wrigley - She Likes (remix) behind the scenes trailer
Wiley just sent me a verse for The Streets 'Swine Flu' too... watch this space for that coming soon...
The Nextmen feat Ms Dynamite and Andy Cato - Lion's Den (Official Video)
Hattie Collins put me onto this... apparently she's giving away loadsa tunes at www.msdynamite.co.uk too. I like this alot but still waiting for something to beat Ramp.
Monday, 13 July 2009
Bless Beats feat. Wiley & Charlie Brown - The Rain (official video)
When Bless first showed me the treatment for this video I wasn't sure they'd pull off the subliminal's (watch and you'll see what I'm talking about), but it's NANG. Good luck on this one boys. Ps I've clocked the whistle thing you've added to the tune...
Saturday, 11 July 2009
Thursday, 9 July 2009
United Underground!
UNITED UNDERGROUND
A rooftop party at the Southbank Centre.
Queen Elizabeth Hall at Southbank Centre / Saturday 18th July 2009, 5pm – 11pm
£5 all day.
Tickets: http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/unitedundergound
Southbank Centre Ticket Office 0871 663 2538
Music plus activism.
You don’t have to leave London for a summer festival experience. Across the spaces of Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall - including the re-opening of the roof as a venue space - hosted by Ctrl.Alt.Shift, British Underground, Southbank Centre and actor and musician Riz Ahmed/ Riz MC, United Underground is a unique mix of cutting-edge street culture, music, artwork, fanzines and film set against a backdrop of new-school activism.
The event has been specifically created to promote active engagement with new music and its potential as a catalyst for change.
What’s happening where?
On The Roof will be some of London’s hotly tipped live acts, and best-loved underground club nights. We will also present an impressive lineup of speakers from across the cultural and campaigning spectrum, talking activism and their way of doing it – from film director Peter Kosminsky, gay rights campaigners from Baghdad, to Plane Stupid.
The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall will showcase a buzzing lineup of new short film talent gathered by Film London talent spotters, plus feature films from Andy Serkis and Eran Creevey in the Purcell Room. Also in the Front Room, Ctrl.Alt.Shift will be putting together a fanzine, in real time, documenting the night - with contributions from punters (pics taken on your phone, blogs, poetry) as well as pre-sourced contributions from activists and artists.
This is a not-for-profit event. The idea is to showcase creative talent, throw an eclectic party, and encourage participation in fresh ways.
Confirmed acts include:
Plan B
Mpho
Theoretical Girl
Get Cape Wear Cape Fly
Bashy
Afrikan Boy
Professor Green
Dirty Canvas ft. Ice Kid
Urban Nerds ft Illaman, Rattus Rattus, Klose One
Speakers Corner ft. Lowkey, Shortman
Gabriel Prokofiev
The Official Secrets Act
Maverick Sabre
Nathan Flutebox Lee
Jamie Woon
True Tiger
Dj Djinn
Aruba Red
Original event artwork by Sarah Maple
Confirmed Speakers discussing why they bother, and how:
Noel Clarke
Box office topping, BAFTA rising star and writer/ director of Kidulthood and Adulthood
Reprieve
Reprieve uses the law to enforce the human rights of prisoners, from death row to Guantánamo Bay. Their current ZerodB campaign opposes the use of music as torture.
Peter Kosminsky
Acclaimed multi award winning film director and self confessed political trouble-maker.
Ali Alizadeh
Speaking about Iran’s protests and the opportunity and limits of new media in direct action.
London 4 London
A brave city wide initiative where all clubbers donate £1 to charity on October 3rd – the founders talk about how they’re taking action.
London Coalition Against Poverty
Mixing case work with direct action and fighting for the housing rights of London’s poor.
Ali Hili
The Chair of Iraqi LGBT discusses the challenges and dangers of gay rights activism in Baghdad’s warzone
Tom Dale
He was a human shield in Gaza and witnesses the killing of his friends, now he organises exploited call centre workers into unions.
Films curated by Mia Bays, Film London
Including holy tipped short films, music videos from up coming talent, and feature films RENDITION, and THE AGE OF STUPID. Plus shorts from Ctrl.Alt.Shift.
About:
British Underground British Underground is an arts development agency that champions and promotes UK music abroad. www.britishunderground.net
Riz Ahmed aka Riz MC is an actor (Road to Guantanamo, Britz, Dead Set, Shifty), and a musician (Post 9/11 Blues, People Like People, Radar) who has played Glastonbury, Meltdown Festival, BBC Electric Proms, topped underground music charts and enjoyed extensive Radio1 airplay. www.myspace.com/rizmc
Ctrl.Alt.Shift is an experimental initiative engaging a new generation of activists for social justice and global change. www.ctrlaltshift.co.uk
Southbank Centre is the UK’s largest arts centre, occupying a 21-acre site that sits in the midst of London’s most vibrant cultural quarter on the South Bank of the Thames. The site has an extraordinary creative and architectural history stretching back to the 1951 Festival of Britain.
The JASON LEWIS EXPERIENCE MTV Base - From Da ENDZ
Met Jason last night. His Giggs impression killlllled it!
RWD Tribute to Michael Jackson
I'm not lying when I say I've NEVER seen Hattie Collins look this good...
Marsha Ambrosius performs "Say Yes" live at Jazz Cafe, London (July 2009)
This woman makes me cry. One of the best vocalists EVER.
Wednesday, 8 July 2009
Giggs feat. The Streets - Slow Songs (behind the scenes)
My second collabo with Sb-TV and RWD TV, got so much love for my brothers Sb and Luke Gingerkid...
Writing On The Wall, 18th July...
The pre-event to United Underground, organised by Mr Dwain Lucktung, featuring the likes of Remi Rough, Wayne Chisnall and Pure Evil, letting loose on corruption. Art, art and more art. And all for freeeeee.
Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Riz MC - Sour Times
As Riz said to me: "thought it appropriate to up on 7/7..."
In memory of all those who passed away... and all those who lost loved ones.
Monday, 6 July 2009
Sunday, 5 July 2009
Friday, 3 July 2009
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