I was nominated to do a small music bio by jezza of the click , any excuse to do a self indulgent recap of my favourite subject meeeeeeeee, deep breath meeeeeeeeee inhale meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Anyway in short at 14/15 me and sep from dialect and dj tooth started freestyling/writing stupid bars and makin tunes, we were doin all sorts of cringey shit, including covers of cypress hill and house of pain. We were doin that for about a year until we started getting more confident with writing and freestyles and our friend got a computer to record on, until then we were straight to cassette, one take horrible recordings (which I left on a bus in south shields once- gutted) It was a laugh and a bit of a joke until I started going up newcastle and seeing some actual gigs, at this point my tastes were the likes of eastern conference/smut peddlers/copywrite/twiztid/el.p/wutang etc and my only uk stuff was mark b and blade. It wasn’t until I saw task force live in toon at 16 that I thought I could do something interesting with it, hadnt seen a uk act at that level till then and havnt seen many since to be fair. We started going to gigs and local events . I heard about three lads from shields in a crew called northern dialect, til then we thought we were unique to the area, I got hold of a cd off a friend and they blew us out the water, we met up with them when they supported tommy evans in toon and stayed in touch, a year later we joined the crew and started gigging as ‘dialect’ at the time the only other active live people were stig of the dump, textoffenders, animalistix, ken masters, skrufs, giro, lims. There were probs more..we did regular local events alongside those fellas and got our name about, various battles, open mics etc until we got a manager. We released two albums and four mixtapes as dialect did hundreds of shows up and down the country, very proud of that time for what we had we did pretty well I thought. I then moved to bristol for work reasons and that’s when I met up with sam otis from lowercase, akin to the strong accent and general approach to music we worked together on a number of releases and launched killamari records. The label then released a number of close friends and crews albums then got some attention from the local scene and requests to put out there stuff. I released my solo album they call me’ in 2012 and started a live band ‘’three kings high’ with beefeaters producer veekay and sam otis, we released our debut ep ‘tell em lies’ in 2013 on bristol record label ‘reelme’ and self released a few singles, still bangin out tracks with the kings and busy doin some hiphop pieces too, killamari remains dedicated to the real and alls well spinning plates. Inhale meeeeeeeeeee exhale meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee not yeeeeeeeee, meeeeeeeeeeeeeee Heres some links for anyone that’s bothered band Www.threekingshigh Dialect and killamari releases killamari.bandcamp
Posted on: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 10:48:32 +0000
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