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| R‘n’B aristocracy |
CHAIRTY GIG - Lynden’s Wish
Camden Jazz Café
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Lynden David Hall
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A NIGHT of R‘n’B royalty, including Kentish Town’s
favourite daughter Ms Dynamite, is set to be the ticket you’d
sell your family pet for.
The night is to raise funds for Sexy Cinderella singer Lynden David
Hall, who has been suffering from Hodgkin’s Lymphoma disease
for the last two years, and has been in Hammersmith Hospital’s
Intensive Care Unit for almost a year, fighting for his life after
a stem cell transplant operation.
Hodgkin’s Lymphoma is a rare form of cancer that affects mainly
young people in their 20s. Around 1,400 people are diagnosed each
year.
The friends of the MOBO winning Lynden are clubbing together to
raise money for charity in his name, and all proceeds of the night
will be going to fellow sufferers of the disease, which affects
the body’s lymphatic system, a complex system of organs such
as the tonsils and bone marrow which protects the body against infection.
An interesting line-up of acts, Grooves is looking forward to catching
up with Kilburn girl Shola Ama and seeing what she’s been up
to.
Where did she go? Some decent albums, a great recent Pirates-collaboration
single You Should Really Know and then nothing. More please. Beverly
Knight, of Archway, never disappoints live, while Roachford is also
a class act. It’s going to be an emotional night.
Lynden’s Wish, which also features Omar and Don-E, is on Tuesday
at Camden Jazz Café. Tickets are £20 and doors open
at 7pm.
Fight goes on
PREVIEW - Public Enemy
Kentish Town Forum
THEY once wanted to sign up Vanilla Ice to their Def Jam label,
but he fell for the million dollar corporation sell-out cheque and
the rest is hip-hop history. Public Enemy are credited with starting
the hip-hop culture we know today – along with NWA – when
they brought out their seminal album It Takes a Nation of Millions
to Hold Us Back in 1988.
Made up of righteous rapper Chuck D and joker Flava Flav (who made
a cringeworthy appearance on Channel Five’s The Farm earlier
this year, complete with clock) it is ironic that the gangsta rap
scene PE are so against, and who have now largely stolen their spotlight,
were made possible as a result of the changes groups like PE brought
about.
Chuck D is way up the ladder when it comes to hip-hop hierarchy,
and is the self-proclaimed grand-daddy of the genre.
“In this get-rich-or-die-trying-time, do you all see the greed
I see?” he asks in one of his songs. True but you’ve gotta
be cool to capture kiddies’ hearts and minds. Are they still?
Grooves thinks so.
• Public Enemy play Kentish Town Forum on Wednesday, November
16. £17.50. 0870 060 3777.
My top five
Reece Hayes, 16, who lives in Queen’s Crescent, is a pupil
at Haverstock School in Chalk Farm.
• Kano – Signs in Life. He’s been underground for
a long time. I like what he’s talking about; life, things like
that.
• Roll Deep – In at the Deep End. Good tunes, good beats,
good album.
• Nas – I Can. Inspirational tune, makes me want to make
music, but that’s too obvious, everyone wants to do that now.
I want to be a film or video editor, and act.
• 2pac – White Man’s World. It’s the truth,
that the white man rules the world at this moment in time. They’re
in charge of government, business, police, school. 2pac makes me
aware of how things are. Some people see others in the country as
a problem and because they run stuff, no-one can do anything about
it.
• Technique – One. Good lyrics. Speaks about God –
if we get together as one we can make changes.
Get heard by bosses
ARE you an unsigned music star of the future?
If so, get down to Wembley Arena this Friday and Saturday to take
part in British Music Week, an industry event launching this week
that will be crammed with movers and shakers who you will want to
shake hands with.
Tickets are available from Kitty Donaldson on 0870 743 6653 or at
kizzy@britishmusicweek.com.
If you want to perform to key record company figures send your demo
to: Unit 107, 203 Mare Studios, E8 3QE or email info@britishmusicweek.com
with ‘Best national unsigned act,’ as the title. Give
your full name and pick your type of music from the list on the
website.
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