Leeds Hip Hop Scene

To paraphrase an article I read on the coach back from Pilton, “Glastonbury is simply the most important gig you can expect to play in the world, if you’re not on the bill and you have a release out that year you really should be worried…”,

With that in mind I can’t help getting excited about [...]

It was a long day that Sunday I was up from 7am getting my shit together to put on a BBQ at Novakane’s gaff, and true to Bank holiday form it rained all day so as the night wore on it was down to the HiFi club for a bit of jiving.
We got to the [...]

For their third birthday celebrations new bohemia brought in one of their strongest line-ups to date, and the packed out crowd were as eager as i was to catch one of the uk’s biggest names: DJ Format, not to mention the support acts: Dirty Diggers and Rup.
When I arrived, admittedly quie late on, there was [...]

Subterranea is a new monthly night (the last Wednesday of every month), held at the the Primrose Pub in Meanwood and run by the Moulding The Breaks crew on the Quake Soundsystem.
I’ve worked with MTB recently on the part two of the Straight Out Leodis podcast series (part 3 coming soon!) and I’m going to [...]

Easy guys, thought I’d best write this whilst still inhebriated and on a hiphop-high,”Whagwan LEEEEDDSS!!!”, a rhetorical question met with a suitably enthusiastic cheer brought the Leeds stalwarts Double d Dagger to the Faversham’s stage, and precluded a beautifully grimy set.
However, don’t jump the proverbial gun, for when I arrived, around 11pm, the place was deserted, [...]

Word up peeps, this is how it is and this is how it was.   
Got to the Elbow Rooms with a an hour and a bit to spare, a couple of white boys were playing the block party music the ears wanted to hear and warming up the one’s ‘n’ two’s, the breakers were makin holes [...]