grimm

yar! nice long weekend - the Public Enemy show on friday was excellent fun!
Edan and Dagha were on first, like pretty early - just after 7pm. They have a pretty good stage show, with Edan MCing and DJing at the same time, only using one hand for scratching and cutting the records. Anti Pop Consortium were up next and tho they were okay, i wasn't really feeling them too much. Trying to go for my first cigarette break at that point only to discover they weren't letting anyone outside - "come back in an hour" i was told. waaaaaa!
Kool Keith - fuck!!! he was ace - during the first song tho, he barely said a word with the vocals being played back from the record, so i thought he was gonna lipsync the whole thing, but nah, it was only the first track, and after that he was bounding around the stage dropping all the big Dr Octagon tracks. The Bombsquad were on next and played straightup dubstep for their whole hour, which wasn't doing anything for me - you hear so much dubstep in london, i would much rather have heard new US hip hop, or at least have it mixed up, but just playing dubstep kinda lost my interest. (i heard they were also DJing at DMZ the next night). PE finally was pretty class - i mean it wasn't anything you weren't expecting - they were just 40 year old hip hop icons jumping around shouting out all their old hits, but Chuck D and Flavor Flav were stilling oozing stage presence!
Rest of the weekend was mostly spent indoors avoiding the rain, watching movies and smoking out. Its been a busy few weeks so it was actually super nice to chill out, and with the rain i didn't feel guilty about not going out. I've started working on a DJ set for the upcoming Requirements shows and its coming well.

Arriving at work this morning, there was a package waiting for me which i had ordered from Amazon last week: "Sentences: The Life Of MF Grimm" a comic autobiography of MF Grimm which looks pretty good. I'll have a read tonite and see how it is. Artwork looks ace. I could copy and past a lil bit of his bio here, but easier if you go have a read of his bio at wikipedia which is pretty interesting. I don't know too much about him and only have one album "The Hunt For The Gingerbread Man" which is pretty decent, but yeah, being a comic book fan and a hip hop fan, i figured the book was worth checking out anyhow..

Labels: comics, hip hop