Leeds Hip Hop Scene

The top thing that Brutal Artistry does is stay true to the roots. So there was none of this, ‘lets just sell out to students and pissheads’…It was a hip hop night. They wanted a hip hop crowd. And man did they get one. It seems nowadays the common acceptance is that real hip hop [...]

Damn that Flying Lotus set last night was good, wasn’t it? What do you mean you missed it? I hope you had a decent reason for your non-attendance at one of the busiest New Bohemia nights this year.
New Bo regular Eliphino was on the decks as I arrived dropping some bass heavy hip hop to [...]

Words & Photos: Aidan Severs
I’m sorry to start on a negative but it’s probably best if I get this off my chest to begin with. Whoever promoted this event must have no idea what flyers and posters are, they must have never stumbled across this thing we call the internet; that new fangled contraption. Hands [...]

First off full props to the guys at Room 237 for putting on this show in the first place, Prefuse 73 is one of my all time producers, with entirely unique brand of glitch-hop, space rock whatever ya wanna label it. Bundle in supports from Fingathing and Beans and you’ve got a show that was [...]

Words: Aidan Severs

Missing a Beer & Rap night in Leeds would be akin to not attenting my own birthday party, so I went. New Bohemia, a Leeds based club night (acclaimed by the yes men of all that is cool, The Guardian, as ‘Musically Brilliant’), constantly create line-ups of marvellous artists to fill their [...]

Last week, Tuesday night, 10.00 pm; yes, I should have been in bed on account of the fact that I am a working man whose day begins at 7.00 am. Alas, I was just queuing up outside the Stylus venue in the bowels of Leeds University’s student union waiting to see some Hip Hop heroes. [...]