December 8th, 2010

2010 Live Grime Roundup

Right, time for a bit of an end of year Grime round up…

Listening to the songs and sets on radio is all well and good but for me the best way to experience Grime is live and in a rave. So first up is some of the best club nights this year. I know a lot of the readers of this blog are based in America or Japan so I have chosen my favourite videos that give you an idea of what the Grime rave scene is about.

The first event of the year was Pigeon Face in Shoreditch. It was freezing, snow everywhere but loads of people still made it along and the night was quality. Check D Double E over Frontline at 3:00 “think you’re a big boy cause you got a beard, bullets will make your face look weird” wheeeeel. Griminal, Lil Nasty and all of the OG’z were on top form that night as well.


Later on in the year Chronik had just been released and headed down to Just Jam for his comeback set. Listen to Chronik at the start of the video then skip past the weed carriers until you get to Footsie destroying the Spartan Riddim at 5:08.

As I said in my last post, Spooky’s Spartan has easily been the biggest tune this year and the No Hats No Hoods night for Rude Kid’s launch party was the first time anyone got to hear a live PA of Kozzie’s vocal ‘Destruction’ over the Spartan Riddim. Spooky is on the decks and the tune got wheeled about 10 times.

Next up D Double E and Footsie going mad over a load of old Wiley tunes. Spyro & Mak10 are B2B on the decks. Just Jam will be kicking off again next year and they stream all of their nights on their website so anyone can lock in and watch what is going on at The Alibi club.

Finally another No Hats No Hoods night. The crowd wasn’t really on a hype one at this night as some stuff had kicked off at the last Grime rave there. Still its not every day you get to hear Rapid over a selection of Ruff Sqwad tunes including my personal favourite Pied Piper. Merky Ace kills it on this one as well along with a great selection from Logan Sama.