The Sound of Newcastle (and the NE)
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wasnt sure about the intro, but then at 5.33 it really gets going. would mix well with Aphex twins Sandpaper 7" (travis perkins dubplate)
sunnysidedown
caput mortuum
Great venue - Zoviet France, Whitehouse and I think Nocturnal Emissions all played there around that time as well, bit before my time though. The last gig I saw there was Attila the Stockbroker.
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There isn't a Newcastle 'sound' or even many famous bands but . a lot of hippies used to live in Northumberland, like world class hippies. Chaz Chandler from The Animals discovered Jimi Hendrix and there is a lot of folk tradition up there which the hippies liked, the countryside is still unspoiled and unique but I'd imagine that in the 60s you got a lot of farmers who were like that as well lol
The scene in Newcastle is pretty good, there's a lot of rappers, DJs etc who are decent, not amazing, so they don't make the big time, but a lot of good ones. Phobia is kind of a big name in DnB, not a legend or anything but he has a lot of tunes. Stig of the Dump got famous from that battle with Asher D
This Phobia video stars my brother lol
This Aems video has me AND my brother in
The famous Asher D one
The scene in Newcastle is pretty good, there's a lot of rappers, DJs etc who are decent, not amazing, so they don't make the big time, but a lot of good ones. Phobia is kind of a big name in DnB, not a legend or anything but he has a lot of tunes. Stig of the Dump got famous from that battle with Asher D
This Phobia video stars my brother lol
This Aems video has me AND my brother in
The famous Asher D one
billy_bob
Air of bewilderment model's own
Just remembered this fantastic Newcastle trio from a few years back:
The vids doen't really do them justice - all that twiddling is done with a deadpan sense of humour, and when they finally kick into it it's exhilarating, like a Geordie Shellac or Fugazi.
The vids doen't really do them justice - all that twiddling is done with a deadpan sense of humour, and when they finally kick into it it's exhilarating, like a Geordie Shellac or Fugazi.
ouchmonkey
Singe Gainsbourg
warm digits
ace new geordie band in Krautrock type vein
ace new geordie band in Krautrock type vein
not-bono-ever
meh
noone mentioned the kitchenware roster yet ? lots of delicious stuff going on at the time
there was a pretty big metal / HR scene back in the 80s - Tygers of pan tang, Mythras, whyte spirit IIRC
that fuck david coverdale hails from redcar or some such shithole
there was a pretty big metal / HR scene back in the 80s - Tygers of pan tang, Mythras, whyte spirit IIRC
that fuck david coverdale hails from redcar or some such shithole
cozmikbrew
Bass case
and playing Notts SUMAC centre this saturday
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MUSIC REVIEW by Tom Jennings (taken from Freedom, March 2012)
The War on Terra
Verbal Terrorists
This superb hip-hop set from Newcastle’s finest trumps their accomplished debut Small Axe (reviewed in Freedom, 17th January 2009), which evoked Bob Marley’s David and Goliath metaphor while hinting at humility against the grandiose grains both of rap’s trademark arrogance and MCs Nobull and Drop Dead Fred’s ideological ferocity.
The War On Terra similarly cuts and scratches potentially conflicting components and worldviews, with overarching lyrical themes of class struggle and economic domination integrating different dimensions of oppression as well as environmental degradation in a powerful melange of agitated agitprop.
The beats from Mr Blazey (and collaborators Joonipah, Shangxi, Steady, Bertie Buster, Professor Ojo, and Truescribe) have progressed too. Previous artful dodges and rousing developments of VT’s influences now morph into mellower sonics (reminiscent, to my ears, of the high points of New York production styles) which are as sophisticated as the most imaginative and innovative UK new-school maestros. Diverse samples, rhythms and moods fashioned to suit and synergise the spoken word thereby seamlessly incorporate drum-and-bass and dubstep nuances and Latin, Caribbean and African flavours without ever disrupting the flow.
Most gratifyingly, the rhetoric permeating the album weaves anarchistic left-communist sensitivities into local and global subject matter with sharp contemporary specificity and acute historical abstraction – avoiding misconceptions of wishy-washy trendy-leftism or the shallow streetwise pretensions of so many so-called ‘conscious’ rappers. The unifying military/militant concept implies a dialectic of reproduction against the blind productivism of capitalism and classical Marxism – a trajectory which can transcend deep ecology’s mystical primitivism as well as the comparably baleful conspiratorial reifications underlying fashionable 99%-liberalism and the menaces of Leninist manipulation. Thus, when it counts – whether in righteous invective against the hi-jinks of high-finance and its parliamentary poodles, elaborating on lower-class riotous rage and the mediated reign of the commodity, or lambasting the multiply precarious dead-ends neoliberalism intends for us all – VT unerringly assume grass-roots libertarian positions advocating solidaristic direct action in resistance by all means necessary.
Profundity is consistently delivered without dry analytic patronisation, in immensely skilful wordplay and condensed wit aided by London MCs Akala, Efeks and Cyclonious, Rick Fury of the North-East’s Dialect crew and, most notably, the legendary Revolutionary But Gangsta Stic.man of Dead Prez whose relaxed conversational cadence on the title track encapsulates the art of saying less while meaning more. The guests furnish further tonal variation recalling the collective genius of hip-hop’s cultural heritage – blending different poetic registers in embodying mass experience to entertain, energise and speak truth to power. The full armoury would prioritise first-person storytelling with greater deployment of proletarian humour, sentimentality and spirituality amongst the blistering barrages of educational anger and cogency – politics emerging from the whole mess of life, not just heightened awareness. But only so much fits into fifteen tracks – and anyway, for sheer breadth of coverage, depth of heartfelt insight, vocal dexterity and passionate musical intensity, The War On Terra is hard (-left) to (banging) beat.
* Get The War On Terra from http://verbalterrorists.bandcamp.com, with free download of anti-cuts anthem ‘No Ifs No Buts’.
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From newcastle: Original Sin and with his mate they make up Generation Dub
two dnb monsters
two dnb monsters
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Updating this thread with these two:
AOS3
and also as just saw an article here:
Anita Awbi takes a look at the North East of England, discovering a fiercely independent music scene that bristles with new songwriting talent.
FULL ARTICLE: http://www.m-magazine.co.uk/features/true-north/
Meanwhile, bands like The Futureheads, Field Music, Maximo Park and, more recently, Frankie and the Heartstrings, began to seriously bother the charts. All of a sudden, Sunderland was the epicentre of angular guitar-pop, Gateshead the regional hub of high art, and Newcastle as vibrant a city as Glasgow or Manchester.
Every era comes to an end though, and the region faces another period of austerity, with funding cuts and venue closures beginning to bite. But this time round, it seems like the vibrant local scene is much more prepared.
...
Generator’s Joe Frankland waxes lyrical about all the great new acts popping up across Tyne and Wear, citing Sunderland’s Lilliput and Natasha Haws, Newcastle’s Ajimal and Lulu James, and Crooked Hands as ones to watch.
Lulu James
Ajimal
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Kev Dosdale, guitarist and keyboardist with Field Music, is a case in point. He co-founded the local ‘super group’ B>E>A>K with members of This Ain’t Vegas, The Lake Poets, Field Music and Razmataz Lorry Excitement. They rehearse and record at Sunderland studio The Bunker, the venue itself supported by Field Music.
Beak!
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The region is fairly isolated from the London-based national music industry and Dosdale thinks local songwriters feel less pressure to conform to latest musical trends as a result. Indeed, Ros Rigby from The Sage points to the local folk scene as an enduring standalone entity, which has remained unaffected by national trends.
‘Funnily enough, the region has always been very strong on American acts, going right back to the 50s and 60s, especially the blues. That music influenced the likes of [local bands] Lindisfarne and The Animals in the 60s, and has gone on to affect the whole region. Folk never died up here. There was no 60s folk revival in the North East really, it’s always been popular, and still today. Northumbrian piping and fiddling, and the communities, kept it alive.’
If we're on about honourable mackems you have to include Bobby Thomspon:
I got a video of his on VHS
AOS3
Fucking mint
and also as just saw an article here:
Anita Awbi takes a look at the North East of England, discovering a fiercely independent music scene that bristles with new songwriting talent.
FULL ARTICLE: http://www.m-magazine.co.uk/features/true-north/
Meanwhile, bands like The Futureheads, Field Music, Maximo Park and, more recently, Frankie and the Heartstrings, began to seriously bother the charts. All of a sudden, Sunderland was the epicentre of angular guitar-pop, Gateshead the regional hub of high art, and Newcastle as vibrant a city as Glasgow or Manchester.
Every era comes to an end though, and the region faces another period of austerity, with funding cuts and venue closures beginning to bite. But this time round, it seems like the vibrant local scene is much more prepared.
...
Generator’s Joe Frankland waxes lyrical about all the great new acts popping up across Tyne and Wear, citing Sunderland’s Lilliput and Natasha Haws, Newcastle’s Ajimal and Lulu James, and Crooked Hands as ones to watch.
Ajimal
...
Kev Dosdale, guitarist and keyboardist with Field Music, is a case in point. He co-founded the local ‘super group’ B>E>A>K with members of This Ain’t Vegas, The Lake Poets, Field Music and Razmataz Lorry Excitement. They rehearse and record at Sunderland studio The Bunker, the venue itself supported by Field Music.
...
The region is fairly isolated from the London-based national music industry and Dosdale thinks local songwriters feel less pressure to conform to latest musical trends as a result. Indeed, Ros Rigby from The Sage points to the local folk scene as an enduring standalone entity, which has remained unaffected by national trends.
‘Funnily enough, the region has always been very strong on American acts, going right back to the 50s and 60s, especially the blues. That music influenced the likes of [local bands] Lindisfarne and The Animals in the 60s, and has gone on to affect the whole region. Folk never died up here. There was no 60s folk revival in the North East really, it’s always been popular, and still today. Northumbrian piping and fiddling, and the communities, kept it alive.’
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