The Guardian recently published an excerpt from Dan Hancox's Stand Up Tall: Dizzee Rascal and the Birth of Grime (available as a Kindle Single), which points to the apparent influence of Canary Wharf and One Canada Square in the early life of Dizzee and grime in general.
I've always had a bit of a soft spot for the area of psychogeography, especially the connections with music, perhaps a warped take on the famous quote from Elvis Costello, "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture," (though Martin Mull is credited as the first to say it in print).
The article sent me back to Boy In Da Corner, Dizzee's début, and this was tucked inside...
I bought the album almost exactly ten years ago (ten years ago!) in Our Price (Our Price!) in Falmouth with a voucher from Planet Sound (Planet Sound!), the music pages on Channel 4's Teletext. I was a three-time winner of gig review of the week (that may have made it on to some early CVs), with blistering 100 word submissions on Buck 65, Kid 606 and somebody else with a number in their name (possibly), and a £10 Our Price voucher was the prize.
The booty was well spent, as it is still a raw and interesting listen. Coincidentally, it was Planet Sound's album of 2003. Here's the first single off it...
I've always had a bit of a soft spot for the area of psychogeography, especially the connections with music, perhaps a warped take on the famous quote from Elvis Costello, "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture," (though Martin Mull is credited as the first to say it in print).
The article sent me back to Boy In Da Corner, Dizzee's début, and this was tucked inside...
I bought the album almost exactly ten years ago (ten years ago!) in Our Price (Our Price!) in Falmouth with a voucher from Planet Sound (Planet Sound!), the music pages on Channel 4's Teletext. I was a three-time winner of gig review of the week (that may have made it on to some early CVs), with blistering 100 word submissions on Buck 65, Kid 606 and somebody else with a number in their name (possibly), and a £10 Our Price voucher was the prize.
The booty was well spent, as it is still a raw and interesting listen. Coincidentally, it was Planet Sound's album of 2003. Here's the first single off it...
