HMP London - 'Same city but a different street, same officers but a different beat '

About a year ago I was stopped and searched on my way home as I left Elephant & Castle Tube about midnight. I remember being asked - 'Do you live here, how long have you lived here?' by a policewoman with a very strong Australian accent - which I found ironic, while their male police officers arrested some teenage girls because they refused to be searched by men - not so much!

This and a few other incidents inspired this song. The pic above is some graffiti that some other people who i guess feel similar have put up around London.

HMP London

This song is from the latest Sabatta album - Emperor's New Clothes - available on Amazon & iTunes, it features Shay from Cherry Brakewells on backing vocals!

The song is currently being remixed by French DJ group Beat Torrent

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Sabatta @ The Id at 12 bar 20 Aug 09

another show, another african suit! And another...song! It's V new V RAW but 'it's makes me feel alive', I think the crowd agreed



audio is a lil' bit distorted (it was LOUD) but hopefully you get the idea

Lemme know what you think of the new tune (it's got the umbilical cord attached!)

Click below for a couple more vids...

COld Enuff

It did get a little wild up in that beeyatch!!!

Taking my Time

I always enjoy the solo on this one!

Our final encore - Didn't C it! With a lil' guitar abuse at the end ;-)

A little bit of Guillotine for good measure!

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Yinka presents...The Id - Aug 20, 12 Bar, Denmark Street

We call it a chaos, a cauldron full of seething excitations...

Yinka from Sabatta/IsBlackMusic/ResonanceFM brings you a night of something very special:

Featuring Sabatta, Olympus Mons, State of the Art, Otto Fischer, Genevieve and Kay Elisabeth

Sabatta – The future of rock is simply how one journalist put it. Yinka will be mistreating his guitar, swinging his head and most likely stripping down to the waist as usual – it gets hot on stage – WHAT!?! Songs, swagger and what a voice – the total package! Expect to hear some new material!

http://www.myspace.com/sabatta

Olympus Mons – Aaron Macintosh fronts this astounding 2-step Indie Band – signed to a French label they are blessing us with a rare UK date! If I could some up the band in one word it would be ENERGY!T his is not to be missed.

http://www.myspace.com/theolympusmons

State of the Art = the new project from Barry Straight formerly of In Search of Apollo. Hear songs in a acoustic context from this master songwriter with a voice and delivery of startling intensity! Barry’s new material is the stuff creative dreams are made of!

Otto Fischer – a profile the ladies swoon over, a voice that makes them tremble, songs that cause angels to cry – need I say more:

http://www.myspace.com/ottofischer

Genevieve & Kay Elisabeth. Respectively this pair – amazing artists in their own right are a shock and awe spoken word artist and a spirit stirring singer song writer! These ladies are powerful dn empowering and they’ve agreed to come together for a performance on the night. They also a regulars at the Speakeasy at shunt! Oh yeah – did I mention they’re HOT!!

Doors 7pm til Laaaate!

DJs - Tony Nwachukwu - http://www.myspace.com/tonynwachukwu

Tomas Brickhill

£5 with flyer/txt $6 on the door!

Arrive early – it’s gonna get tight!

12 Bar, Denmark Street London WC2H 8NL

For further information 020 7240 2622

http://www.12barclub.com/

Visit -----TO BOOK TICKETS call our booking line on 020 7240 2622

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Yinka raps with....Vernon Reid, Norwood Fisher and Saul Williams - Tonight Tue 11 Aug on IsBlackMusic!

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Yep I rapped with 3 of the best! I ain't playing. Check out excerpts of the interviews I did with these guys in the last couple months plus live aduio from the Urb Alt fest 09 and also a sneak peek at the 'The Difference is Why' night at the 12 Bar, Denmark Street, London on Aug 20! It's all going down at tonight at midnight tues 11/wed 12 August on IsBlackMusic? on Resonancefm.com (104.4fm on your dial for UK) at 12 midnite UK time, 7pm EST and 3pm LA time.


I'll posting up the full interviews this week also! The show is only an hour and Norwood's interview is 1 hour itself in it's entirety!

Expect music from Living Colour, Fishbone, Saul Williams, Jeremiah Hosea, Urb Alt fest 09, AfroPunk and more...

Serious!!

Y

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3 for free Fridays

Friday Freeness

Since it’s the weekend I’m putting up a few mp3s – just the way everybody likes ‘em – FREE!! So to kick things off this Friday it’s gonna be:

Go Round

and...

Breakitdown

HMP London feat Shay from Cherry Brakwells

Enjoy the fuck outta your weekend!

Y

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INSPIRATION: Songs that changed my life: Metallica - Battery

You know those times when you hear something so fuckin unbelievable that it changes your life and you never forget the moment? When I first heard Battery by Metallica was one of those times. I was in Scotland and I was listening to a certain radio station and it’s a metal show playing and suddenly out of nowhere I hear these classical chords and time stopped:

Metallica – Battery

It's funny cos they do some interesting time changes which you don't really notice unless you try to play it and the chorus ain't a whole lot different to the verse but you don't notice it's kinda clever! The guitar solo is also one of my all time favourites!!!

Don’t forget to go to metallica.com to get that shit official like! U know those boys don’t play!!

Related: Sabatta – Guillotine

The only thing in common really is some crushing power chords and a wild solo - which ain't bad to have in common actually!

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