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Nino

It’s funny you should say about Freebase, we’ve been talking over the last few wks about doing something similar, if I can I’d like a weekly night@Trash, a lot of the hiphop I’ve seen in Leeds is very student orientated and pretty removed from the raw feeling we had when the Terrierz+Cockee ran their trial at Trash, this may be though that the places I’ve been haven’t been as good as the city can offer, anyway, my contacts are above, I’m happy to have a coffee with anyone wanting to have a crack at putting something on. And just to finish the initial point, we do sometimes fk up, but it’s through human error, not because we don’t care.

There are plenty of local acts who I think should get involved with the smaller venues around Leeds and Yorkshire such as Trash and the like to help raise the awareness of Uk Hip Hop/Dubstep/grime outside of the usual venues e.g. Atrium.

I mean Freebass is having its last night at Dr Wus soon maybe Trash could get involved with this night?

We on purpose seek to offer the magazine we do(for free and often subsidised over the years by me) and venue as a bridge between different scenes, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, we just do our best, one of the problems being the lack of communication between different tribes, or scenes. For this we made a magazine and flyered/postered the places we knew, we can’t do too much more than that, maybe you could argue that we shouldn’t do genres that we’re not directly descended of, but I look to music as a way that groups of people can break down their barriers.

It’s easy to say what’s wrong with something, a lot harder to do things that get knocked and still keep trying to do your best, frustration in art is constant, everyone wants a good audience, a good reception, we can only hope we all can keep doing our best and that one day it comes to fruition..

We just did our best, to knock us for that’s fine, but it’s probably a bigger issue that Leeds at times has music and social scenes that are that segregated that one area could know all about something and another was obviously unaware, we probably fucked up here, because the scene we knew how to spread the word to wasn’t the one that’d appreciate.

I’d like Vibrations to have more music of this ilk, and have a venue that for the right thing I can arrange for people to do stuff at, if you(Aidan) or anyone else can, as I’m sure you can, do anything better, come show us how, to get in touch/to get anything in the magazine mail me at info@vibrations.org.uk.

Vibrations is a free magazine that takes ads from money making ventures to pay for free space for artists.