I’m a notorious nag I am and I’m not about to stop until you all pull your finger’s out your bums and come to Stop Showin’ Offthis Saturday! The USP’s are ridiculous: It’s at the Abbey Tavern in Kentish Town (easy public transport links), it’s free to get in, there’ll be everything from Soul, Funk to hip hop thanks to DJ’s Lucy Pink, myself and The Last Skeptikspinning for your audio pleasure and the atmosphere is nothing but friendly and chilled! There’s also a massive beer garden for you to catch some evening rays in. So come and support our anti ‘too-cool-for-school’ revolution!
This is a massive track from Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, the nine-piece Brooklyn collective, from their fourth album ‘I Learned the Hard Way’ on Daptone Records. The whole album is recorded entirely on an Ampex eight-track tape machine! Have a peep for the mighty Funk Soul legend Lee Fields’ cameo at the start!
Check the latest from Willo Wispa, part of the Associated Minds family, in the form of this refreshingly amusing video. I’m told the model’s from Living TV’s ‘Britain’s Next Top Model’ – How very hip Hop! You can download this on Itunes or direct from Associated Minds’ website here:
Big line up for this August Bank holiday gig at HMV Forum: Hip hop legends Dead Prez headlining with support from UK heavyweights Skinnyman,Swayand Akala. Tickets are from £22.50 available here and if you’re quick there’s some strictly limited, early bird tickets from £15 availablehere
WIN: Lucky for you, we’ve got a pair of tickets to give away! For your chance to win email me: milly@airsngraces.com with a good and reasonably amusing reason as to why you think you should go to the ball! Competition ends Friday 6th August 2010.
June not only brought my birthday and the commencement of my 31st year on this planet but it was also the first ‘Stop Showin’ Off‘, Lucy Pink and Mildillatake over atThe Abbey Tavernin Kentish Town, with very special guest Mr Thing swinging by for a surprise visit. Luckily for you guys and gals this is a regular thang, as once a month we‘ll be taking control of the decks for the evening and each event we’ll have a special guest spinning for your audio and cerebral pleasure. It’s all about good music, shits’n'giggles and strictly no egos if you please! So if, like us, you’re bored of going to places where everyone’s far too kool for skool, come show your support and help us make every one a stormer.
Join our Facebook groupand come drop the Catepillar at our next one on Saturday 24th July – the Last Skeptik will be our special guest DJ! Remember it’s FREE as well!
We bring the noise and you bring your dancing feet. Thanks to all that made it down, making it the messy mayhem it was. It’s a dance off, Stop showin’ off……
Sri McKinnonis a name you’ve heard me mention on here a good few times by now and hopefully you’ve read my interview with her for Not Bad For A Girl! This is all for good reason, she’s an incredibly talented artist and illustrator who seems to have her eyes firmly set on global domination this year! Fresh off the back of her first solo show at the Print House gallery earlier this year, her second exhibition ‘Archipelago’ opens tonight at the Eastpak Gallery on Caranaby Street and runs until Tuesday 13th September 2010. I find it really hard to convey her works in words and suggest you go and experience their magic and wonder in the flesh for yourselves. More information: www.srimckinnon.com
Tonight is the 2010 DMC DJ Championships UK final. Hosted by the trusty Inja with live PA’s from two UK legends Klashnekoff and TY, this promises to be the hottest hip hop ticket in town. There’s still a limited amount left this morning so go grab one while you can and witness first-hand the crowning this year’s champion.
Jean-Baptiste Reinhardt aka Django Reinhart was the king of ‘gypsy jazz’, he was also one of those rare human beings that created something original and unlike anything any one had heard before. Born into the gypsy community in Belgium in 1910 the style he became so revered for, a mixing of Romany Rhythms and Parisian swing, was born out of necessity after, as a teenager, a caravan he was living in caught fire damaging his left hand and rendering his two last fingers unusable. Told he’d never play again Django not only re-taught himself using what he had but created the most mind boggling style and sound.
January would’ve been Django’s one-hundredth birthday, so tonight to celebrate the Barbican in partnership with Cinemoi are showing ‘Django Drom’ a multi-media work created by French Director Toni Gatlif. It features the likes of Didier Lockwood and Bireli Lagreneand explores Django’s gypsy roots and his life achievements in the jazz world.
Tonight at 20.30 at The Barbican London, tickets are from £15 and availablehere.
