RUBIX RED SHOW
@
Chelsea Theater
Thursday 27th
Tickets click HERE
Friday, 21 June 2013
Monday, 27 May 2013
Just A Name Vol 1
A long time ago, in a land far far away (in my head) and an era when in my ignorance I'd never even heard of spoken word and knew very little about poetry or theater, I was rapping.
I still do it. I love it. It's a special feeling kicking a verse over a beat, but from late 2000 onwards for a long time, outside of my work life, it's pretty much all I did.
It's a topic I cover in the show I'm working on A Tale Fron The Besdit in which I moved to Brighton to further what I was already doing, at the time, predominantly MCing in small clubs under the name of Kase One before I began to move towards making Hip Hop and Grime.
During that period while I was down there, I wrote a lot of lyrics, which at the time, didn't seem to amount to anything. When I left Brighton in early 2006, the few music projects I was working on had all seem to drift by the wayside and I was left with a shoe box full of lyrics, and one day, whilst sorting through some stuff just before I moved up to London, I had the idea to put a CD together. So I saved up, bought a laptop, borrowed some equipment, went to Bristol and got a crash course in Logic from my brother Gatekeeper and set about recording some of these words over tracks that I'd selected, or used to practice rapping over.
Mixtapes and CD's were pretty much common place for MC's and rappers even back then, but for me, it was a big achievement and I think I surprised a few people when they listened to it back then. It never really went anyway, at most, I probably gave away 100 copies which I burnt and hand drew the sleeves for, and hearing it back, it's very raw, both lyrically and in the recording of it, and despite most of it making me cringe I'm proud of it, it was a milestone for me. Most of the lyrics were the result of a stream-of-consciousness style of writing I used to do, because it was all I knew to do, I didn't know much else and never really worked with other MC's about from old friends Boogaloo Dee and later on, through the Bristol connection, Grilza, all of which helped me to develop
I've had 3 of the tracks up on Soundcloud for a while, but decoded to stick all up on line (bar 1 track which Soundcloud won't let me, which is fair enough, as I didn't get permission for most of the tracks) and here it is.
.
I still do it. I love it. It's a special feeling kicking a verse over a beat, but from late 2000 onwards for a long time, outside of my work life, it's pretty much all I did.
It's a topic I cover in the show I'm working on A Tale Fron The Besdit in which I moved to Brighton to further what I was already doing, at the time, predominantly MCing in small clubs under the name of Kase One before I began to move towards making Hip Hop and Grime.
During that period while I was down there, I wrote a lot of lyrics, which at the time, didn't seem to amount to anything. When I left Brighton in early 2006, the few music projects I was working on had all seem to drift by the wayside and I was left with a shoe box full of lyrics, and one day, whilst sorting through some stuff just before I moved up to London, I had the idea to put a CD together. So I saved up, bought a laptop, borrowed some equipment, went to Bristol and got a crash course in Logic from my brother Gatekeeper and set about recording some of these words over tracks that I'd selected, or used to practice rapping over.
Mixtapes and CD's were pretty much common place for MC's and rappers even back then, but for me, it was a big achievement and I think I surprised a few people when they listened to it back then. It never really went anyway, at most, I probably gave away 100 copies which I burnt and hand drew the sleeves for, and hearing it back, it's very raw, both lyrically and in the recording of it, and despite most of it making me cringe I'm proud of it, it was a milestone for me. Most of the lyrics were the result of a stream-of-consciousness style of writing I used to do, because it was all I knew to do, I didn't know much else and never really worked with other MC's about from old friends Boogaloo Dee and later on, through the Bristol connection, Grilza, all of which helped me to develop
I've had 3 of the tracks up on Soundcloud for a while, but decoded to stick all up on line (bar 1 track which Soundcloud won't let me, which is fair enough, as I didn't get permission for most of the tracks) and here it is.
Just A
Name Vol 1 Tracklist
Small Town
Perspective – RJD2 Ghostwriter (Deadringer)
I Drop A
16 - Metal Fingers – Spikenard (Special Herbs vol 4)
Figure It
Out – Metal Fingers – Lemon Grass (Special herbs vol 4)
Story –
Black Grass - Toys (Black Grass)
Trials and Tribulations - Myst aka Gatekeeper
Remember
Your Roots - Various Artists - Distorted Minds In The Mix (Knowledge
Magazine Issue 46 / DJ Fresh – All That Jazz (Instrumental) / Q
Project – Ask Not
Friday, 10 May 2013
New Scratch Show and Ritzy Gig Audio
Hello.
There's pollen type things flying around the air, carried on the winds and it's making my eyes itch, though, anyone that's ever seen me get nervous, on, or off stage, will notice that I'm always rubbing my eyes anyway, especially as at the moment there is a lot for me to be getting excited / nervous about!
New Scratch show No Milk For The Foxes
So...At the end of July I'll be going into the final development phase for A Tale From The Bedsit where we actually get to make the show, set an all, and we now have a brilliant set designer on board, which is great....but before then, on the 31st May as part of the Cook Up Scratch festival at Battersea Arts Centre myself and Conrad Murray will be presenting 10 minutes of a new work in progress called No Milk For The Foxes. The show is about 2 security guards and we will be exploring what a job like that means to them in the current climate, using elements of dialogue and rap. I've been working with Conrad for over 2 and a half years now both in theater and with music, as well as our work with young people for BAC Homegrown . We've had endless conversations lasting for hours about our mutual interests, swapping books, reading articles and posting each other links to video's and the like. It feels like a natural time for us to finally collaborate in a theater context and to do it at Battersea Arts Center which is somewhere that means a lot to both of us. There are over 60 artists and company's all going to be showing new work over the course of the scratch festival so naturally I'm rubbing my eyes in excitement and nerves, but trust me, nerves are good!
New Scratch show No Milk For The Foxes
So...At the end of July I'll be going into the final development phase for A Tale From The Bedsit where we actually get to make the show, set an all, and we now have a brilliant set designer on board, which is great....but before then, on the 31st May as part of the Cook Up Scratch festival at Battersea Arts Centre myself and Conrad Murray will be presenting 10 minutes of a new work in progress called No Milk For The Foxes. The show is about 2 security guards and we will be exploring what a job like that means to them in the current climate, using elements of dialogue and rap. I've been working with Conrad for over 2 and a half years now both in theater and with music, as well as our work with young people for BAC Homegrown . We've had endless conversations lasting for hours about our mutual interests, swapping books, reading articles and posting each other links to video's and the like. It feels like a natural time for us to finally collaborate in a theater context and to do it at Battersea Arts Center which is somewhere that means a lot to both of us. There are over 60 artists and company's all going to be showing new work over the course of the scratch festival so naturally I'm rubbing my eyes in excitement and nerves, but trust me, nerves are good!
New Audio: Live At The Ritzy
Back in February, I performed at the Brixton Ritzy, at a night called Ritzy Platform which is an open mike night hosted by fellow spoken word artist and good friend Richard Purnell. Every month Richard will feature an act to do a full 20 minute set, and back in February it was me. It was a good gig, I had a few of my mates there and also 2 of my brothers came which is quite rare. Conrad Murray also joined me for the final piece, which was an improvised acoustic version of a track off the EP were working on called The Dice That Rolled A 3. Have a wee listen...Tuesday, 30 April 2013
Lates@Flat Planet Thursday 2nd May
Hello!
I did this gig last year for Lates@FlatPlanet (the picture on the right hand side of the web was from there) and it was a special night, in fact the only place I've ever been asked to do an encore. It's a very intimate spot in the basement of Flatplanet just off Oxford Street and luckily enough they have asked me again for a slot.
It was a lot of fun last time and the spelt flatbreads are banging!
Hope to see you there!!
Paul
The line up is as follows:
On Storytelling- Mr Steve Keyworth
I did this gig last year for Lates@FlatPlanet (the picture on the right hand side of the web was from there) and it was a special night, in fact the only place I've ever been asked to do an encore. It's a very intimate spot in the basement of Flatplanet just off Oxford Street and luckily enough they have asked me again for a slot.
It was a lot of fun last time and the spelt flatbreads are banging!
Hope to see you there!!
Paul
The line up is as follows:
On Storytelling- Mr Steve Keyworth
Thursday, 25 April 2013
ATFTB: Round 2 Complete!
Hello again
Last week, I was attempting to justify my addiction to both Peep Show and Don't Flop (which you can now add King Of The Dot, Smack URL and Grind Time too) by writing about what I've been up too, including what I was currently working on, A Tale From The Bedsit, which is what I'm going to talk about...
...now. So the comic you see there is The Foolkiller, which I talk about in the show. Now the show, is set in a bedsit, in which the audience come in and sit with me whilst I tell the story, about a bedsit I lived in Brighton and some of the things that went on whilst I was there, with a few mild moments of interaction that we've been playing with.
So Stef O'Driscol, who is directing me, and I had 2 weeks of development back in January at the Roundhouse. This Monday, after 3 scratch performances, we've just completed another 6 days, this time with a sound designer named Phil Davies. Battersea Arts Center kindly put us up for the week and we did a scratch there on the Friday, and then 2 at Roundhouse this Monday just gone. It all went pretty well and we tried out some things, there's been several more edits to the script (which has now gone though about a zillion drafts) and we got some really good feedback from the people that came along.
So the next stage of development will be in June, and all going well we will have a set designer on board who is going to make the show, which is all quite exciting, for when the full show happens in November!
Here's some pics...
The BAC Bedsit.
The Roudhouse bedsit feat. Stef
Last week, I was attempting to justify my addiction to both Peep Show and Don't Flop (which you can now add King Of The Dot, Smack URL and Grind Time too) by writing about what I've been up too, including what I was currently working on, A Tale From The Bedsit, which is what I'm going to talk about...
...now. So the comic you see there is The Foolkiller, which I talk about in the show. Now the show, is set in a bedsit, in which the audience come in and sit with me whilst I tell the story, about a bedsit I lived in Brighton and some of the things that went on whilst I was there, with a few mild moments of interaction that we've been playing with.
So Stef O'Driscol, who is directing me, and I had 2 weeks of development back in January at the Roundhouse. This Monday, after 3 scratch performances, we've just completed another 6 days, this time with a sound designer named Phil Davies. Battersea Arts Center kindly put us up for the week and we did a scratch there on the Friday, and then 2 at Roundhouse this Monday just gone. It all went pretty well and we tried out some things, there's been several more edits to the script (which has now gone though about a zillion drafts) and we got some really good feedback from the people that came along.
So the next stage of development will be in June, and all going well we will have a set designer on board who is going to make the show, which is all quite exciting, for when the full show happens in November!
Here's some pics...
Tuesday, 16 April 2013
Paul, where have you been and what are you doing?
Well, I hear you (don't) ask...
I've been a bit slack
with updating this, but I guess that means that in-between watching
reruns of Peep Show and Don't Flop rap battles I have
actually been doing some stuff. So before I mention what’s coming
up, I think it only nice I mention a few things that I've been up
too.
Since February gigs
wise I've been lucky enough to feature at The Patchwork Club,
Platform @ The Ritzy, Come Rhyme With Me in both
Brighton and London, and also at Look Mum No Hands as a
fund-raiser for the charity CALM. I also did a weeks run, for
the third time, of The Great Escape (A Borrowers Tale)
as part of the Imagine Children s Festival at The Southbank
Centre, which of course was a lot of fun.
I've also been working
on some more workshop projects with Battersea Arts Centre as
part of their Homegrown young people's program for 18-25 year
olds, for the Brave New World festival. I also worked with
Farnham Maltings Art Centre in a spoken word project working
with some Traveller children from Cranleigh Primary school which was
ace, working in part of Surrey that I'd never been to before, and
quite different form Horley where I grew up in.
And so to the future!
It's been a very long time in my head, and in carious forms and
drafts on my PC, but since January my first ever solo project A
Tale From The Bedsit is now currently being made and is in it's
second stage of development, which I'm very excited about. It's
essentially me telling a story about a bedsit I actually lived in
Brighton a few years ago, and some of the things that went on. I say
it's a solo project, but in reality, it isn’t, as it firstly took
the Roundhouse to commission me to do it, and produce it, and
for them to bring in a director, which is Stef O'Driscoll
who's quite frankly breathed a whole new lease of life into it as a
project and really helped me to shape the writing. Were currently
rehearsing all this week at Battersea Arts Centre, and have
bought in a sound designer, Phil Davies who's a don! There's
going to be 2 scratches coming up at the Roundhouse on 22nd
April.
I'm also working on a
show that will be heading to the Lattitude festival with
Poejazzi, called 1990BPM, so, along with, Joshua
Iduhen, Chimene Sullymen and Bridget Minamore, were
all busy working on pieces to do with the 90's...and to top it all
off, in conjuction with the bedsit show, I'm working on a EP with
Conrad Murray called The Dice That Rolled A 3.
Hopefully it won't be
so long until I update this again
Until next time
Paul
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