Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip @ Concorde2 29/3/10
In between songs my 16-year old son asked "Do you think I'm the youngest here?" I replied "Yes. Do you think I'm the oldest?" I first came across Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip when a friend sent a link on YouTube to their cult status 'Thou Shalt Kill'. He said they had appeared at the Greenbelt Festival. Our whole family loved the tune and video, so we thought we'd see them in Brighton.
Actually, I wasn't the oldest there.
It was a pure rap night that didn't enthuse me or my son. Support acts: The Sound of Rum and P.Dolan, however, proved that this is a versatile and creative art form. A cross between poetry and music, but one that tends to stand on the angry side of the fence. (When the F-word is used in the average stanza it loses its meaning. It is just an emphasis of anger and aggression that makes the sexual act it derives from more like gang rape.)
It was during the P.Dolan set that I first experienced the gut wrenching bass sound that had me crying for 'Treble! More treble!!' but, apparently, young people like that feeling and it is an integral part of the occasion.
Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip are a sensational act. The spiritual undercurrent of their thinking and lyrics set them apart from the other acts. We heard Pip speak out against permissiveness, drugs and suicidal tendency in a way that would have been nauseating to the general ethos had it not been rooted in experience and served up with great sound, poetry and creativity. When they opened with 'The beat that skipped my heart' you knew they had earned the respect of others in the genre well. Their anthemic 'Thou Shalt Kill' is even more powerful live than on YouTube � something I didn't think possible within this genre. I loved the reference to other music and was converted to their axiom: 'Hip hop is Art'.
Actually, I wasn't the oldest there.
It was a pure rap night that didn't enthuse me or my son. Support acts: The Sound of Rum and P.Dolan, however, proved that this is a versatile and creative art form. A cross between poetry and music, but one that tends to stand on the angry side of the fence. (When the F-word is used in the average stanza it loses its meaning. It is just an emphasis of anger and aggression that makes the sexual act it derives from more like gang rape.)
It was during the P.Dolan set that I first experienced the gut wrenching bass sound that had me crying for 'Treble! More treble!!' but, apparently, young people like that feeling and it is an integral part of the occasion.
Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip are a sensational act. The spiritual undercurrent of their thinking and lyrics set them apart from the other acts. We heard Pip speak out against permissiveness, drugs and suicidal tendency in a way that would have been nauseating to the general ethos had it not been rooted in experience and served up with great sound, poetry and creativity. When they opened with 'The beat that skipped my heart' you knew they had earned the respect of others in the genre well. Their anthemic 'Thou Shalt Kill' is even more powerful live than on YouTube � something I didn't think possible within this genre. I loved the reference to other music and was converted to their axiom: 'Hip hop is Art'.