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Bold Tendencies, LondonThe super-producer to Stormzy, Dave and Kano showcases his solo album, with Kojey Radical and Simon Armitage among his eclectic guestsWe should all be used to unusual gigs by now. Tonight’s performance, however, finds the UK’s poet laureate Simon Armitage pacing the stage, declaiming about the state … Read entire story.
Source: Music | The Guardian
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(B Somebody)After two brushes with death last year, the Manchester rapper has a lot to process on his starkly honest second album Hip-hop has no shortage of redemption narratives. Bugzy Malone’s is ongoing. As recently as last year, the Manchester MC was charged with two counts of wounding – … Read entire story.
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(AJ Tracey)The west Londoner’s lyrics are a blur of Vegas hotels and high-end cars – but laced with witty asides about Lenny Henry If you were searching for an artist who embodies the air of confidence currently surging through the UK rap scene, you could do worse than … Read entire story.
Source: Music | The Guardian
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Professors Katrin Kohl and Rajinder Dudrah on the Creative Multilingualism programme led by Oxford’s faculty of modern languages to investigate the creative potential nurtured by multilingual communitiesLucas Bertholdi-Saad is right to highlight that, notwithstanding its intensive outreach work, the University of Oxford needs to be more ambitious in its … Read entire story.
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(Caroline International)Ghetts may be one of grime’s original players, but he has never accrued the celebrity of his fellow trailblazers. That’s partly because he dodged the late noughties grime-goes-pop phenomenon – the one that provided Skepta and others with a selection of misguided Top 40 hits – but also … Read entire story.
Source: Music | The Guardian