A night of cutting-edge slam DJ hip-hop from the U.K. awaits.
Dan Le Sac and Scroobius Pip- the youtube sensations (“Thou Shalt Always Kill”) come to rock The Belly Up.
So, what can you expect?
Here’s a recent, very creative review from The Guardian (U.K.)
Dress code: Hassidic beard and trucker cap for the Pip. Barry from Eastenders-style blokey anonymity for the man le Sac.
In summary: Essex’s most hirsute performance poet teams up with Apple Mac knob-twiddler Dan le Sac for 40 minutes of sweat, beats and rhymes. Teases that they are, they unleash a bar of their underground internet hit, Thou Shalt Always Kill, early on to rapturous applause, before Scroobius Pip says: “Do you think we’re f*cking stupid? You’ll all leave as soon as we’ve played it.” The reception of the less well-known hits suggests this pessimism is perhaps unwarranted. The overheated crowd love the lo-fi costume changes during Angles, and whoop along to the Radiohead-sampling A Letter From Man To God. Even a track which features the periodic table prompts yelping and dancing, which is quite something when you consider it’s probably a reminder to most of the teeny crowd that they aren’t even old enough to be able to drop physics at school yet.
Highlight: The “karaoke” medley that follows Thou Shalt Always Kill when they finally play it, featuring cheeky verses of Hadouken!‘s That Girl That Boy and Calvin Harris’s Acceptable In The 80s.
Better than: Almost all performance poetry. Almost all physics lessons.