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Live Reviews
Souls Of Mischief
| Venue | The Jazz Cafe, London |
| Date | 14 March 2010 |
By Christopher Mitchell | 17 March 2010
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Souls Of Mischief, the legendary crew, hailing from Oakland, California, were in town this past weekend for a rare performance at the Jazz Cafe. Expectations were high and following the critical success of their recently released album with Prince Paul, Montezuma's Revenge, they had no other option but to smash…
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Jedi Mind Tricks
| Venue | The Jazz Cafe |
| Date | 1 March 2010 |
By Ryan Proctor | 08 March 2010
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A Jedi Mind Tricks show is less of a typical concert and more like a bar-room brawl set to chest-thumping beats and rhymes. Taking London's Jazz Café by storm on the last date of their European Assassin's Creed tour, the trio of Vinnie Paz, Jus Allah and DJ Kwestion proved…
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Jay Electronica
| Venue | The Jazz Cafe, London |
| Date | 18 February 2010 |
By Reah Brown | 22 February 2010
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If I was asked to name one of the best rappers to emerge on the music scene in the past decade, Jay Electronica would rank at the top of my list. Etched as the 'new messiah of Hip hop', it's an assertion not far from the truth as I'm sure…
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JLS - Tour 2010
| Venue | HMV Hammersmith Apollo |
| Date | 13 February 2010 |
By Ash Qureshi | 15 February 2010
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As a male in my late twenties, did I really want to give up my Saturday afternoon to see JLS in concert? Well the answer would be, not really, for something supposedly churned out of the X Factor 'factory'. To my surprise it wasn't half as bad as I first…
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Teena Marie
| Venue | Indigo02 |
| Date | 30 January 2010 |
By Charles Waring | 03 February 2010
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Although Teena Marie - 'Lady T' to her fans, of course – was in London ostensibly to promote her new album, 'Congo Square,' it was no real surprise that her live set at a sold-out IndigO2 in North Greenwich consisted mainly of golden oldies from her copious back catalogue of…
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Slum Village
| Venue | The Jazz Cafe, London |
| Date | 14th December 2009 |
By Christopher Mitchell | 18 December 2009
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Prior to this latest performance, I last saw Slum Village two years ago, also at the Jazz Cafe. The venue was packed, and everybody was sweaty and screaming at the top of their lungs. It was definitely one of the best shows I had ever been to in my life.…
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Alicia Keys album launch party
| Venue | Aqua, London |
| Date | 09 Dec 2009 |
By Jamie Topham | 15 December 2009
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Nowadays, it's not often that I go out of my way to attend one of these things but both the star and the expectation of such a night, made me feel nostalgic enough to hit up our flock's leader, put on my special Black Sheep hat and began badgering the…
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Masta Ace & Edo G
| Venue | The Jazz Cafe, London |
| Date | 27 November 2009 |
By Christopher Mitchell | 04 December 2009
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Throughout our lives we all bare witness to those moments that we can look back at in our old age with tearful nostalgia. The kind of moments where we can tell our grandchildren that “I was there”. One of those very moments took place this past Friday at the Jazz…
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Mos Def
| Venue | The Forum, London |
| Date | 29 November 2009 |
By Andrew Kay | 01 December 2009
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Despite the fulsome praise heaped upon rapper Mos Def since he started his career back around 1996, this sold-out concert was just about the dullest I’d been to in some time, and this is coming from someone who saw Tim Dog and Chubb Rock live in 1991 at the quarter-full…
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Marva Whitney with Osaka Monaurail
| Venue | The Yardbird, Birmingham |
| Date | 17th Nov 2009 |
By Charles Waring | 19 November 2009
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To the uninitiated listener, perhaps, the pairing of the Kansas City soul sister, Marva Whitney, with a nine-piece funk band from Japan might seem an unusual combination – but as anyone who witnessed the former James Brown revue star’s performance at a rammed-to-the-rafters Yardbird club in Birmingham last night will…
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