Music Industry Showcase and Networking Event
Eastside Records are providing an interesting debate on ‘The importance of being Independent’. With a panel of key music industry professionals and hosted by ‘JD’ aka Dready.
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Eastside Records are providing an interesting debate on ‘The importance of being Independent’. With a panel of key music industry professionals and hosted by ‘JD’ aka Dready.
On October 9, 2004, The Beastie Boys handed out 50 cameras to audience members at their sold-out performance in New York’s Madison Square Garden. These 50 different passionate perspectives, shot from the point-of view of the audience, take the viewers deep inside the world of a live Beastie Boys show, capturing the experience of a live musical performance like no film ever has done.
On Wednesday 12th July hundreds of music fans will descend upon Cargo nightclub in London to witness a competition like no other: music being made solely with the mouth. Eight of the country’s finest human beatboxers will fight it out to become the National Champion, and to represent the UK at the World Championships in Tokyo this Winter.
Following a scathing attack on hip hop and rap culture by Cameron in The Mail On Sunday, and a fierce debate on Newsnight, the Tory leader has been invited to Lethal Bizzle’s next London show. The influential ‘grime’ artist, performing tomorrow at Scala, King’s Cross, has entered a vicious war of words with Cameron over the last few days, after the Tory leader claimed that Lethal’s lyrics encouraged knife violence.
Bringing warmth to the cockles of the unsigned and admirers of London's Youth music scene, this is a night showcasing new music with industry debate. More than 50 music artists with industry professionals will converge within London ICA, to celebrate today's youth music scene and chart its future.
Apples & Snakes, England's leading poetry organisation established in 1982 commemorate the evolution of poetry to lyricism and RAP by celebrating hip-hop as a cross strand of performance poetry in its own right. Apples & Snakes’ provide a platform for poetry that is popular, relevant, cross-cultural and accessible and stretch the boundaries of poetry in education and performance.
Urban Poets represent a flavoursome blend of conscious lyrics and funky rhythms, arranged strategically across the backdrop of slamming beats. The precise production skills of Dimension Productions alongside Big Teeth create a truly original sound. This sound in turn creates an environment conducive to the laying down of The Urban Poets’ sublime lyrical format.
FYA is a charitable organisation that supports and promotes young creative people in London by giving them opportunity to perform to the public at various artistic venues across the capital as well as promoting networking and creative collaboration between young people. All creative areas are covered.
Do you like documentaries? Do you like real people? If so you’ll like this original new film… ‘The Prince of Hip Hop’ is based on the true story of the unlikely odyssey of Stanley Harris - a reformed pickpocket from the Bronx, turned Jehovah's Witness Minister… who claims he's the creator of Hip Hop…!
Renowned in the underground hip-hop and club dance scenes as “CrutchMaster”, Bill Shannon has invented a unique and vibrant dance technique.