UK beatboxer extraordinaire Beardyman has curated the Freestyle Project as part of this year’s Udderbelly activity. Bringing together a collective of some the UK’s greatest lyrical free stylers this an unrehearsed, off-the-cuff one-night-only freestyle jam. Happening on Monday 7th June @ Udderbelly, Southbank Centre, this moo-sive event is one for the dairy diary.
It’s great to hear that Jamie Lidell is releasing a new LP, Compass, this May. The roster of talent he’s drawn on – Beck, Feist and Gonzales – coupled with his ability to surprise, makes this a record that is well worth looking forward to.
Previous career highlights from the musician, who hails from rural Huntingdon (Cambridgeshire, UK), is capable of putting the soul of the 1960s firmly in the now and looks like a maths teacher, include his work with Matthew Herbert on the decadent Goodbye Swingtime, the perfect slice of urban soul that was Multiply and the instantly accessible Jim long-player. Lidell is also a showman, with his live shows being events that stick in the memory. If you haven’t heard of this guy, check him out.
The Vauxhall Beatbox Championships are back, offering you the chance to win a brand new Vauxhall Corsa SXi. Beatboxer, to give the car urban bumps, presumably not included as part of the soundsystem.
Beatboxing is blossoming at the moment – something we explored in issue 03 with an exclusive interview Shlomo – and is hotbed of imaginative talent.
If you think you can follow previous winners including Beardyman and MC Zani, then pick-up-the-mic, if you can’t then go along and get a ringside seat at a set of nights than are guaranteed to go booooom.
After the stunning Neurosonics Audiomedical Lab video, director Chris Cairns has pushed the envelope further with the Neurosonics Live using beatboxer Beardyman, JFB on the ones and twos and Will Clark banging the drums (or Beardyman’s head depending on how you look at it). Crazy good sums it up.
What could be a better than spending Halloween learning to beatbox with tutor and kids entertainer Biz Markie? Gotta love the Biz purely for his ability to make his audience to go WTF.
