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Start Time: | Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 8:00pm |
End Time: | Thursday, May 7, 2009 at 2:00am |
Location: | Club Academy, UMSU |
Street: | Oxford road |
City/Town: | Manchester, United Kingdom |
"AUDIO UPRISING"
Supporting Children in conflict week
All proceeds to the DEC appeal for Gaza http://www.dec.org.uk/
Recommended donations £4
Educate and Entertain yourself with fresh beats and fresh rhymes from acclaimed rapper and poet Lowkey in Manchester University's Club Academy with all proceeds going to the war torn people of Gaza.
The night will be a colourful soiree of reggae, dancehall, dubstep and hip hop from some of Britain and Manchester's top musicians.
LOWKEY (live)
http://www.myspace.com/lowkeyuk
KEN EVIL
http://www.myspace.com/ken_evil
LONGSHOT – SIR ROBIN & LOUIS
http://www.myspace.com/longshotsoundsystem
DOM – BLOOD AND FIRE
http://www.bloodandfire.co.uk/
TANANTE (live)
http://www.myspace.com/drumroots
CAULBEARERS (live)
http://www.myspace.com/caulbearers
http://www.singlecell.co.uk/
Archaic funk fables and dub migrations. Bitter sweet songs of the self, soul and society played by a ten-piece heavy-groove orchestra, conducted and improvised on the night.
CHICO PERE’S BAND (live)
http://chicopere.com/
JULIE E GORDON (live)
http://www.myspace.com/julieegordon
http://www.singlecell.co.uk/
Hosted by CHUNKY
Visuals by POLYP and PAUL DAWSON
http://polyp.org.uk/
Art by AMAL KAWASH
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*** LOWKEY ***
Lowkey is a Poet, Playwright, Political Activist and award winning Hip Hop Artist who has received airplay on numerous major radio stations and has toured internationally performing to crowds everywhere from Glastonbury and Trafalgar Square to Germany and Amsterdam.
He has attracted a large fan base and much critical acclaim since the release of his Key to the Game mix CD series, winning awards for Best Newcomer 2005 at the Lyric Pad Hip Hop Awards and in Undercover Magazine.
Logic and Lowkey are co-founders of non profit organization The Peoples Army, started in Brixton, South London. They took part in the NSPCC's "Don't Hide It" campaign in 2007, recording an exclusive track for the project.
LowKey is the rapper in ''supergroup'' Mongrel, which also includes members of the Arctic Monkeys, Babyshambles and Reverend and the Makers.
''One of the best lyricists in the Western Hemisphere”
Benjamin Zephaniah
"One of my favourite rappers right now"
DJ Semtex (BBC 1Xtra + Dizzee Rascal's DJ)
*** DOM ***
Dom started working for Manchester's esteemed reggae label, Blood and Fire, embarking on an old school Jamaican sound system promotion lasting 10 years, promoting the talents of dancehall singers & deejays such as the original Jamaican deejays like U BROWN, DILLINGER, TRINITY, RANKING JOE, JOSEPH COTTON, DENNIS ALCAPONE and U ROY as well as promoting and performing live shows for and with singers; HORACE ANDY, EARL 16, JAH BIBLE and COUNTRY CULTURE. After years of professional DJ gigs DOM formed the Blood and Fire Sound System which gained international notoriety for its unique shows all over touring regularly all over Europe, North America, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Moscow.
With Dom at the controls, the 'Blood and Fire Show' will showcase the best in all style of reggae music from all corners of the globe. Also expect a mixture of exclusives from the label, classic roots reggae and top draw dancehall...
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Supporters:
UNICEF | http://www.unicef.org.uk
Amnesty | http://www.amnesty.org.uk
STAR | http://www.star-network.org.uk
Action Palestine l http://www.actionpalestine.org/
Single Cell Collective l http://www.singlecell.co.uk/
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