riot:lyrics live. Thursday. Rich Mix.

As announced last week we are very pleased to be collaborating with deep:black on the riot:lyrics event at Rich Mix, next Thursday 19th Jan. A collaborative creative and lyrical response to the London riots of August 2011.

And now, it gives us even more pleasure to be able to announce some of the acts performing on the night… drum roll…

Lil Simz. Dean Atta. Joshua Idehen. Burnt Toast. G.R.E.Ed.S. Infecta. Lovely. Sean Mahoney. Kweku Aacht. Chris Redmond. Zita Holbourne. Rita Walters. Jennifer Lewin.

And there’s more to come. Needless to say this is going to be good. We hope you can join us.

You can get tickets here or on the door on the night.

Join the Facebook event here.

Rich Mix. Thursday. 7.30pm. Nuff said.

riot:lyrics. Let’s GO 2012!

So we’ve been away for a little while. Sorry for neglecting you. The good news is, we’re back with a bang and ready to get 2012 off to the start it deserves.

Back in the summer we reflected on the riots (see post below) and we hoped that once all the furore died down, that some positive community change would come about in response to what happened. Sadly, it seems that a lot of people were as quick to forget as they were to blame, whilst we know that there are a lot of questions still unanswered, a lot still to be said and acted upon.

Thankfully, we are not alone! We are very pleased to announce that we are collaborating with the wonderful deep:black at their riot:lyrics live event on Thursday 19th January at Rich Mix.

They burn down shops cos they wanna break out of their box,
They ignite fires but they can’t yet feel the fires within themselves,
Do we dare delve, to the deepest places where this all started?

In response to the riots, deep:black set up a blog to capture people’s thoughts, feelings and experiences of the riots in a few lines of lyrical expression. The concept seemed to capture people’s imaginations and thus the idea for riot:lyrics live was born.

The evening will involve responses to the riots by various performance artists (spoken word, poets, musicians), either inspired by the contributions to the blog or from their own material, followed by an interactive session where we hope the audience, artists, young people and community organisations will discuss the issues at stake and collectively generate creative ideas for community action. riot:lyrics live will culminate in a live performance which will have been created by artists over the course of the evening in response to audience contributions.

More news and pretty details to come on the event soon, but for now, put the date in your diaries, spread the word, and holler at us if you’d like to get involved in any way, shape, or even form.

Oh and also, we hope you’ve all heard/read the brilliant Dean Atta’s poem I Am Nobody’s Nigger inspired by Stephen Lawrence.

who’s the dj?

curved decks

if it’s you then please send a short mix to mindthegapldn @ live dot com and be in with the chance of djing at a major london festival this summer.

if it’s not you then please don’t send a short mix to mindthegapldn @ live dot com but come and judge for yourself at mtg on the 4th June.

The Rodeo

The Rodeo

French femmine fatal, The Rodeo already travelled as far as San Francisco where an open mic at the Hotel Utah prompted the realization that there might just be an audience out there for her twisted take on folk. The Rodeo has played her rough and tender songs at SXSW in Austin, Texas,  New York, Montreal, Finland, Portugal, Switzerland, Germany and of course Mind the Gap!

Definitely one to watch in 2011.