Akala + Ezra Bang & Hot Machine + MissOddKidd & Dekker @ Madame Jojo’s, London
By bandweblogs on Sep 9, 2008 in Press Releases | Tags: Akala, Bloody Awful Poetry, Djs, Ezra Bang & Hot Machine, London, Madame JoJo's, MissOddKidd, Shows
Pictured: MissOddKidd
Bloody Awful Poetry has gathered a legion of followers and despite the title, they are a happy band. They’re back at Madame Jojo’s for their September night, Thursday 11th September, 2008, which includes:
Live Bands (see below); Bloody Awful Poetry DJs; Confession Booth; The Bloody Awful Poetry Art Gallery; The Bloody Awful Poetry Competition (send your submissions); Free Giveaways – and more!
Live bands:
Akala
Kingslee ‘Akala’ Daley, 24, has emerged from London’s hip hop underground as one of the leaders of a new British artistic renaissance. In 2006 he won the Best Hip hop MOBO award for his debut album ‘It’s Not A Rumour’. Since then Akala has rocked live spots on Radio 1 and warmed up for artists as diverse as Jay-Z, Christina Aguilera and Richard Ashcroft. At the same time he has toured his acclaimed live show not only across the UK, but as far afield as Nigeria and Vietnam, where he performed the first ever hip hop show in the country’s history at the behest of the British Council.
“Akala offers a spirited corrective to mainstream hip hop’s directionless excess” – Mojo.
“Smart, addictive and right on the mark” – The Independent.
“Startingly affective” – The Guardian.
“Possessed of an intense lyrical flow” – The Times.
Ezra Bang & Hot Machine
On first look, it’s Grace Jones doing Rage Against The Machine, on closer inspection it appears to be Spank Rock fronting Public Enemy. But it’s soon apparent that it’s neither. This is ‘Gorilla Funk’.
“If Public Enemy had swamped their raps with buzzing synths, they’d sound like Ezra Bang & Hot Machine” – Loud and Quiet.
“After a few blasts of tracks like ‘Knuckle Up’ and ‘Roc Steady’, we reckon we could be persuaded” – Disorder Magazine.
“… a good, if somewhat scary show” – Gay.com.
“An extremely camp version of Chuck D gyrating his way through a rap set” – The Guardian.
MissOddKidd & Dekker
Gobby and photogenic, MissOddKidd touts pared-down, clattering electro flavoured with her estuary English raps, while Dekker brings hypnotic and dark synth stabs.
“Doing exactly what it says on the tin, rhymer MissOddKidd delivers music that is unlike anything else you’ve heard in a hot minute” – RWD Magazine.
Plus Bloody Awful Poetry DJs: That Perfect Fumble, This Handsome Devil and Micky Blue; spinning the best in Indie, Electro and Retro.
Bloody Awful Poetry
Thursday 11th September, 2008
Time: 7.30pm – 3am
£6, £5 before 9pm/with flyer or night pass
Madame Jojo’s, 8 – 10 Brewer Street, London, W1F 0SE.
Nearest Tube: Piccadilly Circus.
020 7734 3040
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