Dizzee Rascal - Showtime

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new album

― Paul (scifisoul), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

at least one website lists a July 19th release date

― Paul (scifisoul), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

omg 1000 new posts by june

― pete b. (pete b.), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

July, that's not nearly enough time to build up the proper about of hype, WTF.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm already tired of it. Anything else new?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

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― zebedee (zebedee), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

In a track from his forthcoming second album Showtime, he admits he's "had enough of ghetto toughs" and asks "If I told you I was leaving the hood, would you call me a sinner?"

― JoB (JoB), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

nice one JoB !
have we had a Lady Sovereign thread yet? I still haven't heard Medasyn et al's "The Battle"
biggup Casual, but how bout some distribution and pressings, eh?

― Paul (scifisoul), Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Medasyn stuff is quite good but Lady Sovereign is plainly the best of hte lot. The other rappers in her crew are really really amateurish - i heard a live set and they kept on having to ask the DJ to start the track again because they lost their momentum.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 13 May 2004 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

a reason to live

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 13 May 2004 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Is Matador releasing it concurrently this time? Or is this just XL again?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 13 May 2004 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

haha yeah like any of us are actually gonna "buy" it

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 13 May 2004 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe considering how much press i've given the little rat faced fuck over the last 18 months XL might see fit to SEND ME A FUCKING PROMO COPY

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 13 May 2004 22:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey I bought the Matador reissue (NEW even)! (Admittedly long long after I had already downloaded most of it.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 13 May 2004 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

ha - I did actually buy it
but more to the point, sold hundreds of them (on import)

― Paul (scifisoul), Friday, 14 May 2004 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

grime profiteer!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 14 May 2004 00:47 (twenty-two years ago)

that'd be almost as many as Reynolds, Finney, Harvell, etc!

― Paul (scifisoul), Friday, 14 May 2004 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Hm?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 14 May 2004 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

well I'm sure there was overlap, see?

― Paul (scifisoul), Friday, 14 May 2004 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

No i don't understand your comment. I am dense.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 14 May 2004 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Rascal crit-share vs retail outlets piechart

― Paul (scifisoul), Friday, 14 May 2004 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah. Sadly I imagine Petridish etc. have more influence than us at the end of the day.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 14 May 2004 00:53 (twenty-two years ago)

well you have only yourself to blame for The Avalanches !

― Paul (scifisoul), Friday, 14 May 2004 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)

now there's an overdue follow-up

― Paul (scifisoul), Friday, 14 May 2004 00:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually would you believe I got hyped to Since I Left You from The Face a couple of months prior to its release date. People who dismiss the mag as being fashion obsessed overlook how OTM it frequently was. They even had a spotlight on Lenky in late '01!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 14 May 2004 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick Logan strikes again!

― Paul (scifisoul), Friday, 14 May 2004 01:11 (twenty-two years ago)

i think if i actually want to get on the label's good sides i should wait to promote albums and singles until they're actually commercially available in this country.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 14 May 2004 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

how boring

― mullygrubber (gaz), Friday, 14 May 2004 01:15 (twenty-two years ago)

That said Strongo, if you start hyping it up now Pitchfork will only get it half wrong in July - the labels should respect that.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 14 May 2004 01:17 (twenty-two years ago)

BEST ALBUM OF THE YEAR, ****, CHANGED MY LIFE AND MY TRASHCAN LINER -- Jess Harvell

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 14 May 2004 01:21 (twenty-two years ago)

"THE GRIMEY TRIBUTE TO PIZZA SHILLING ANIMATRONIC BEARS WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR...TAKE A BITE OUT OF GRIME...*****" - Tex Schramm Jr., Dallas Morning-Observer.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 14 May 2004 02:31 (twenty-two years ago)

i expect casual records will get bugger all done like island blue before it

― prima fassy (mwah), Friday, 14 May 2004 08:15 (twenty-two years ago)

"the beauty stab of grime. buy other records please. better still, buy no records. do something more useful with your lives. don't rely on me. i can't. this needed to be the mr bailey, grocer, of grime, except read." - m carlin, n maja.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 14 May 2004 08:41 (twenty-two years ago)

This appears to have been put together so quickly I'm a bit worried it'll be a disappointment - considering BIDC took years to come together.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 14 May 2004 09:18 (twenty-two years ago)

he wants to be careful he doesn't become The Coral of grime.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 14 May 2004 09:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Every time I see this thread "Showdown" by Britney Spears pops into my head.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 14 May 2004 10:50 (twenty-two years ago)

where's the faith matt.

boy in da corner had a rushed feel to me.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 14 May 2004 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

is it his live album?

― mullygrubber (gaz), Friday, 14 May 2004 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

yeh i'd assumed BIDC was actually produced within a month or two at the most - i don't consider it 'rushed' tho because part of the point of Dizzee and Eskidance is that 'to the point/one take is all we need' mentality

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 14 May 2004 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

the cd tells you when stuff was done, &c. i can't be bothered to look but it was all done nov02-mar-03 or something like that.

― ENRQ (Enrique), Friday, 14 May 2004 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

is this improv then? dizzee rascal live at the klinker? i've never seen him there. was prevost on drums?

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 14 May 2004 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

"People who dismiss the mag as being fashion obsessed overlook how OTM it frequently was. They even had a spotlight on Lenky in late '01! "

OTM

― don (don), Friday, 14 May 2004 12:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Every time I see this thread "Showdown" by Britney Spears pops into my head.

I keep reading it as "Showtune" which opens up a whole 'nother world of options

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 14 May 2004 12:23 (twenty-two years ago)

haha take a bite out of grime
nice one

― robin (robin), Sunday, 16 May 2004 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

the title worries me a bit.

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 16 May 2004 21:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"Showtime" is as dark and complex as underground dizzee fans might have hoped for. from one listen, it's slightly more tempered that "Boy In ..." with the highs and lows slightly less extreme, but still unique and powerfull nonetheless.

― martin (martin), Monday, 17 May 2004 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't see why it should mark.

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 17 May 2004 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

it seems a little cable channel is all.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 17 May 2004 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

the title reminds me of "Beetlejuice"

― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 17 May 2004 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

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I can see how Marga Man's vocal timbre might make him a bit of an acquired taste. I personally fucking LOVE "Girls" though.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

GIRLS is great, its marga that just ruins it. as RWD mag said, it would have been better if dizzee brought through some stronger MCs from the grime fraternity rather than marga.

― splooge (thesplooge), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

It is OUT in the U.S today.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

...and the thread died

Is there a single? What will get him on hiphop radio? My money is on "Flyin"

Does "Stand Up Tall" sample pigeon noises from Ghost Dog or is that just an effect?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 23 September 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

also, am i just imagining something of an old-school feel to this? is it just a sample or two?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 23 September 2004 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"Stand Up Tall" is the single. It's supposedly getting some play.

The song that has really grown on me the most over the incubation period between my dl'ing it and buying it = "Learn". If I were to edit a music-related dictionary, under "SICKER THAN FUCK", it would say 'see: Dizzee Rascal "Learn"'.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 23 September 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, both of those are. i actually think 'learn' would be more likely to get radio play, but what do i know.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 23 September 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I'M A LOVELY LAD, I'LL GIVE YOU THE LOVELIEST BEATING YOU EVER HAD

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 September 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

as long as gabbneb does not somehow compare this to Ani DiFranco, I approve of this thread revival.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 September 2004 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

also, am i just imagining something of an old-school feel to this? is it just a sample or two?

I agree. I think it's the drum sounds, but I found myself thinking that if I had heard instrumental versions of a couple tracks they could have easily been from 1985.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 23 September 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

as long as gabbneb does not somehow compare this to Ani DiFranco

no, but I'll call "Stand Up Tall" a Beasties track

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 23 September 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Learn is a straight Dre track, but it has the subtlety he's incapable of

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 23 September 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

(er, Graftin', that is)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 23 September 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Could we have a video clip for "Dream" with lots of little kiddies from the ghetto, please please please???

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 23 September 2004 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

What the hell does "arm's ass" mean? I know that's not what he's saying, but that's what it sounds like.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 27 September 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

It's "arm's house", but fuck if my gringo ass knows what that manes.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 27 September 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

ha ha yeah er MEANS

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 27 September 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

???

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 27 September 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

'alms-house', perhaps?

(as in home for the needy, erected by private benefactors)

― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 27 September 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

So for someone who bought the first album and liked it but didn't love it (Dizzee's wordplay was impressive in a purely technical way, the fact that he did all his own beats pleased my inner auteurist/rockist, and the synth sounds were pleasantly meaty, though perhaps a bit too stiff for my taste (they remind me of Autechre, whom I've never really "gotten" the taste for), some of the songs resonated emotionally (e.g. "I Luv You" and "Jezebel") but many of the others kind of left me cold, and overall the album is too long and monotonous), is there reason to hope that I'd like this new one better?

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 27 September 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

No.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 September 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes (I find it much warmer and more fluid and less frantic and [tenatitively] way way way more consistently listenable/less punishing [in that I don't just zoom in on a handful of individual tracks like last time] although I concur that the yellow of BITC was more delicious sleevewise)

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Monday, 27 September 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

There are some more conventional sounding hip-hop beats thrown in to break up the atonal Dizzee beats (which I don't like as much as on BitC, maybe because they sound better when they're low-end and squelchy like on that record), if that helps.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 September 2004 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not looking for "conventional sounding hip-hop beats" - I'm just looking for something with a little more bounce and swing in it. Alex in Doncaster's post gives me some reason for hope in that regard.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 27 September 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

You need some Cash Money.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 September 2004 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Could we have a video clip for "Dream" with lots of little kiddies from the ghetto, please please please???

No, because that wouldn't be nearly as insane as tiny Dizzee starring beside ghetto puppets in an update of Watch With Mother. It starts with two rows of building blocks which turn over to read DIZZEE RASCAL, and a grandmotherly figure playing on a piano, then she turns to the camera and says: "Shall we see what Dizzee's doing today? He _is_ a rascal." Then the jack in the box on the table opens, and Dizzee clambers out (he doesn't pop for anyone:) and starts complaining about too sensible etc. The rest of the video is just him and puppets (with really obvious strings), and it's mental. The only real problem is that they keep cutting back to the lady who'se got an air of "I don't want to do this but it's my job" in her smile, and it's like we get it, he's terrifying to old white women, well done.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, 10 October 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I love the terrified old white woman!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I was about to say, I saw that more as a 'who IS this person?' look rather than some sort of further subtext.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, she introduces him at the start!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, more in the show host 'I am going to pretend I know everything about this person' way, and then gets flummoxed like whenever Madonna curses out Letterman.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

At aprxoimetntaly 8:30 am earlier today (er, eystaerday cacaording to timezoneses) my son woke me up going "DADDDDY LISTEN TO THISW IT GOS WITH TEH SONG" and he pushed theh button on this star Warses thing that mkes r2d22 noizesw and he says "the rbot says thngs that sound like singgning with thts song" and it went bwoop bleep chukgUHakuhthahhhhBLEUOOOP a la R2D2. That song was "Stand up Tall" by Dizzee Rascal. Lukas calls it "Stawnd Ooop Tawl".

― nickalicious is somewhare weird where he will crash on some dudeses' couch, Sunday, 17 October 2004 08:19 (twenty-one years ago)

His two favorite songs rite noww r dizzee stand up tall and UGH those shaggy facehaired mofos who did 'tywo princes'

― nicaLC IOUS, Sunday, 17 October 2004 08:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I now2 wish i hadn't psted that on this thread. lukas of the future who is mad at me for declaring in 04 that you liked 'two prcnces', i apologize. i will buy you fast car as apology gift my boy.

― nickalicious R drunk dad (nickalicious), Sunday, 17 October 2004 08:28 (twenty-one years ago)

from www.nme.com:

BECK'S JUST A RASCAL

DIZZEE RASCAL has been working with BECK and has remixed 'HELL YEAH', a new track from the singer set for future single release.

The rapper is about to head out on his first major tour of the UK and told NME.COM: "I’ve just finished a remix for Beck – it’s a song called 'Hell, Yeah' and I’m very excited about that. It happened easily - he asked and naturally I said yes. He’s a credible artist, a real artist so I’m happy about that."

The Mercury Music Prize winning star said he had not yet been introduced to Beck but he was planning on meeting him at the final of the Shortlist Awards.

Rascal is one of three British acts nominated for the prize, alongside Franz Ferdinand and The Streets, for his debut album 'Boy In Da Corner'.

The awards ceremony will be held at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles in mid November.

Dizzee Rascal releases his new single 'Dream' on November 8.

NME.COM understands that Beck will release his new album in February – the follow-up to 2002’s 'Sea Change'. 'Hell, Yeah' is set to be the second single from the album. The LP was produced by Beck and The Dust Brothers.

― splooge (thesplooge), Sunday, 17 October 2004 09:56 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, dizzee has blown up!

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Sunday, 17 October 2004 10:54 (twenty-one years ago)

i dont know if this song thats doing the rounds between durty goodz and dizzee is new or not but its brilliant.

― splooge (thesplooge), Sunday, 17 October 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

Anyone know who Dizzee's touring with this spring? He's coming to Dallas on 4/11, but there's no information about supporting acts yet.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 10 February 2005 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

he posted this via myspace:

03-15 London, England - Royal Festival Hall
03-18 Exeter, England - The Lemon Tree (Vibraphonic Festival)
03-30 Vancouver, British Columbia - The Commodore Ballroom
03-31 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
04-01 Seattle, WA - Neurmos Crystal Ball Reading
04-02 Eugene, OR - Wow Hall
04-04 San Fransico, CA - The Independent
04-05 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre
04-06 San Diego, CA - Canes
04-08 Salt Lake City, UT - Lo-Fi Cafe
04-11 Dallas, TX - Gypsy Tea Room
04-12 Austin, TX - The Parish
04-14 Houston, TX - Engine Room
04-15 New Orleans, LA - The Parish
04-16 Atlanta, GA - The Loft at Earthlink Live
04-18 Orlando, FL - The Social
04-19 Miami, FL - I/O Lounge
04-21 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle
04-26 Boston, MA - Middle East Cafe
04-27 Montreal, Quebec - Club Soda
04-28 Toronto, Ontario - The Opera House
04-29 East Lansing, MI - Union Ballroom
04-30 Chicago, IL - Double Door

― f-a-b-o-l-o-u-s (adamwest), Thursday, 10 February 2005 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

he posted this via myspace:

i'm sorry... what?

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 10 February 2005 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Lots of exciting things coming up then.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 10 February 2005 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

He's playing LA on my birthday!!!!!!!!!

― Lukas (lukas), Thursday, 10 February 2005 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

mark:

http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=3614068&Mytoken=20050210133306

seems legit

― f-a-b-o-l-o-u-s (adamwest), Thursday, 10 February 2005 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm hoping/praying XL gets MIA to support him on the tour, I can't think of any other acts that make sense (the Streets are too big now and on a different label, Wiley doesn't have enough presence in the US or a new album)

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 10 February 2005 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

(http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=77569&Mytoken=20050210133620 - Dizzee has awe-inspiring friends)

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 10 February 2005 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

When he played in SF last year the support act was(gulp) Gold Chains.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 10 February 2005 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

He had MARGA MAN with him, though! Pre-Showtime, obv!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 10 February 2005 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Myspace is getting huge for music. I hear them yapping all day about which artists they're working with.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 10 February 2005 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I would say that *might* be him, but it's not an official myspace music profile...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 10 February 2005 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

omg omg omg

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Thursday, 10 February 2005 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

my day has been made

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Thursday, 10 February 2005 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

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