Sound
of London Date: Saturday 16th December
2006 Location: Munchenbryggeriet. Stockholm,
Sweden Promotions: Metro Click
on thumbnails to see the big picture/entire gallery I
don't know what it was about The Sound of London, held on the 16th December in
Munchenbryggeriet here in Stockholm, Sweden. It heralded in Christmas, not a white
one this year, with such a bang it took me almost a month to recover enough for
me to write about it. Metro
has presented "The Sound Of" at least once before, and that was the
Sound of New York, but as familiar as I am with the Sound of London I was quite
skeptical about the vibrant, hardcore and sometimes militant London Sound moving
a crowd of normally sterile Swedes, and went out to prove my theory. On
the menu tonight would be tasty UK Hip-Hop, heavy Grime, and solid Drum n Bass.
Give Metro and their co-sponsors Tele-2 credit, they brought some of the heavyweights
of the London scene to Stockholm. There was Sway, Faith SFX, Ears, Foreign Beggars,
Radioclit, Idjutboys, Slix and Max Peezay and Mapei repping Sweden. Shystie was
billed to perform and was the main draw for me but she never made the flight,
although her management was there, the bad boy producers of Dupplate Dramas, the
worlds first interactive TV show. Munchenbryggeriet
is a huge industrial venue, and with never more than 2000 people, the concert
hall enjoyed the nights acts in comfort, no one in danger of getting their toes
trampled. All the big acts tore up their half hour/ forty five, preparing the
crowd for what would come later. At
2 o'clock after the main concert, everybody adjourned to the sound system room,
where Radioclit was bussin some tunes, and that's where the magic started to happen.
Mapei (sick female freestyle rapper) grabbed the mike and ripped it apart for
about ten minutes straight, over some grimey riddims, then faith SFX got involved
and laid down his Godfather beat-box and after that it all went a bit pete tong,
as every MC, Rapper and vocalist wanted a piece of the action... han' in a de
air business. The crowd was loving the intimacy and the hype vibes and security
had to mass to keep a bit of control before it all went suzy wong. At
this point I was on top the speakers, in the middle of the heaving crowd and the
hyped MC's, thinking that was the best event I had been too in a year in Sweden.
Make sure and Check out some youtube and myspace for Mapei, Faith Sfx, Sway and
Shystie, wicked. |