Mind the Gap’s March Marvels!

Join Mind The Gap for its joyous shindig of homegrown British music on Saturday, 5 March 2011! With a line up to kill and a venue to match you’d be mad to miss it.

Expect:

No Cars, a quirky Japanese female trio who are obsessed with food and sellotape.

(Interesting fact : ‘‘No cars” means farmers in Japanese. How’s that for general knowledge?!)

Burnt Toast poet Adrian Lawrence describes himself as an eclectic collective of ‘ a Raymond Chandler detective with the subtleties and unsurpassed surgical spirits of a Martin Hannett production circa Joy Division and Section 25’. The result is an infectious cocktail of American paranoia, Canadian objectivity and a very English obsession of introspection and the fly on the wall documentary.

Closing the line up will be Headline act:  Mikill Pane.

With arguably the best sense of humour you will ever come across – just look at his Twitter timeline and you’ll end up laughing out loud – he has quoted ‘meeting his first ever groupie’ as one of his  greatest  music career memories  in addition to performing alongside  Omar, Shola Ama and Terri Walker. Expect laughs from this Mind the Gap Legend!

All presented by King of the compeer and spoken word artist Simon Mole.

And as if life couldn’t get any sweeter expect a DJ set from the one and only DJ ACKTDJ.

It truly will be a sugar rush Saturday!

Same place. Same time:

2 White Church Lane

London

E1 7 QR

18+

7pm +

 

Simon Mole

Simon Mole

Described as a ‘bonafide emcee’ by hip-hop royalty Jonzi D, Simon Mole is quickly establishing himself as a commendable wordsmith. Flirting occasionally with periphrasis, personification and polyrhythmic verses he composes intriguing and witty narratives which are influenced by his environment and those around him. Having refined his talent through open-mic battles in Brighton, he moved to London in 2003.

In 2008, he was commissioned by Brakin Arts Festival to create a piece challenging the boundaries between hip hop, theatre and spoken word. To Slough and Back was described as witty, accessible and imaginative. Simon is undeniably an ‘about to blow ‘talent.

Watch him do his thing at Mind The Gap’s Xmas session!

Mind The Gap have done it again!

 

Music at its best

Mind the Gap once again proved themselves worthy for applause at their Xmas bonanza at Carnavalie,Whitechaple.

Just to shake things up a bit from written reviews here’s a visual representation of what went down.

One word: Amazing

Check out the video’s to follow!

Can’t wait to rock my socks off at the next  session!

Season’s greetings

X

I bid you – get a visa!

World Cup

A1: Shamelessly using this week to champion the guys performing at Mind The Gap this Saturday. One guy we’re really lucky to be hosting is Simon Mole. He’s part of the Emerging Poets Forum at Keats House, some guys doing some really cool things and we’re very lucky to be part of this. So check out the link and come and see more of him this Saturday if you like it.

A2: Sepp Blatter. Just kidding obviously. But it is World Cup decision day today and that is mega exciting. Russia has just announced that World Cup ticket holders will not need a visa. The thing is, I’ve travelled through Russia before on the way to Kazakhstan and I can tell you one thing for absolute certain.. there’s no way I would go anywhere near that country WITHOUT a visa. I mean, I like to live on the edge and everything but I’m not mad. So yeah, anyway… COME ON ENGLAND!!!