morning world.... on the sylvia stone vibe today... check out this freshness and give her a like http://on.fb.me/nogPH7

So...wtf is going on, yo?

 
...The question that sits on everybody's lips. If it's not on yours, you obviously aren't paying attention. So quite a lot's happened in the past few months, which is why the actual textual content of this blog has been low - I haven't been lazy, just amazingly busy. But that's okay - please be entertained by my unfocussed ramble.

Since I got my new job as Government front-bencher's whipping boy, Rhymes' new position as King of London Buses, Source's elevation to Assistant Meerkat Producer and Something Else new gig making Facebook plugins for Farmville, it leaves very little time for anything else. Man's gotta make money, yo. Apart from Sherlock, who apparently can get by on his good looks, an inexhaustable supply of IOUs and Morrisons sausage rolls.

Hip Hop - Still a dirty word...



I wrote this back last year, before things started to kick off - so obviously, my bad will towards the music industry has worn off somewhat. i don't really have a point, most of my arguements are wildly spurious and probably hihgly innaccurate...however, I think this truely captures a snapshot in time of how fucking frustaring it can be, 'managing' a Hip Hop band. Not to sound narcissistic, but I love the sound of my own words, being read back to me, by myself. And if you're wondering...I'm not being ironic...

Draft date: 17 November 2010 

Yes, yes I know. Weeks since the last post. Some of us have jobs - well, apart from Hass. But he's...you know...doing stuff...Anyhow, I haven't exorcised my demons for at least a good few months, and I reckon I've built up enough bile to let rip on what hopes to be a viceral yet bitterly amusing reposte on the state of what's loosely known as the 'UK Music Industry' - or as I like to refer it, 'that bunch of credit crunch apologist, profit-driven, margin-watching, genre-flattened, ignorant, intern exploiting shits'.

More Hot (cross) Blog QE coverage

So, yet more coverage for the QE crew in the sexual missjuicyjones.com. To be honest, this is what a Hip Hop blog should look like. Good music, good layout and a real decent writer behind it. Unlike the slapdash, last-minute-on-the-train effort that you've now come to expect from me.

Checkout the article

NEXT GIG!! Sat 4th June, QE @ Supa Dupa Fly - Plan B, Brixton

Yes, yes, yes...maybe...no totally...here's the next giggidy gig, thankfully just round the corner from home - take note, young girls - it's also economically sensible to go home with the band after the gig...

Here's some more deets...

Broken Culture - QE interivew

Well, looks like the PR's working - big love to our man James at BC for the props, yo! Also, big love for putting some edits down, cos my verbatim is fucking awful.

Click here for the interview!

QE gang Walrus some bird @ TPMA Live Showcase

Ah, this poor girl - also known as Rachel Doherty, formerly of Holloaks fame - interviewed the guys at the TPMA showcase back in March, WITH HILARIOUS RESULTS. Yep, totally.

two blogs, one day... cheers peeps, we love you right back
http://ping.fm/ibGoq and http://bit.ly/fhBE9Y

wickednice way to wake up: email from Camden Community Radio peeps with podcast. http://bit.ly/i95alJ featuring New Balance QueensEnglish

If you love Queens English, you'll dig IJH (Pikey n Rhymes)! and lucky you, these two monkeys are gigging on 12 th! http://on.fb.me/f4Mek2

Our Love is Your Love, and Your Love is Our Love...

Yes Motherfuxxers...here's the first nibblet from the New Balance Single Launch. Yes I know it's late, but so's everything here, you greedy arse bandits...Just sit back and enjoy it...

Caboco

QE

Queens English are (bangers and) smashing it wild style. 14th Jan. Jazz Cafe, Camden

New Balance - Video and Track out now!!!

Oh. My.Days.

What an amazing party. Jadares Por Fuera, Rumbaba Deluxe and a special appearance from r' kid, Standaloft aka MC Defalt all raised the roof and had Favela Chic kicking the arse off of Old Street. Anyhow, the TV-edit and the release track are available for download at http://www.quinceingles.com/. However, the full viral edit, as shown above, can ONLY be found on the QE Youtube channel! Exclusive! Anyhow - spread the word!!


BOSH

Rhymes and Vines! Round yo Feet!!

Yes mate! So we've got just under a week to go until the launch, and we're all pretty busy, getting fliers out, inviting trendy people and whatnot but that don't mean the beat ever stops for us! Check this new tune by Rhymes and Handpicked Productions' Charles Smith and Matt 'Dex Luther' Sergeant. Its fresh, like that snow what slipped yo fat momma up...

Put this in your pipe...

http://handpickedproductions.com/new-track-round-your-feet/

Friend & Family SPECIAL!!! Critical MC - SE rapper reppin!!

This is our boy, Critical, our breddabin in Sweden catching some big flows with this sick beat...Fuck yes...Peep the QE:SE vid for more Critical!

Hootananny BOSH...

Hootananny, hootananny golly what a day...or night, even. Ladies and gentlemenses, for those of you that didn't come to the Hoots gig - For Shame! (/points finger). We'd all been pretty damn excited about the gig for bloody ages - I mean, it's the Hootananny! The best live music venue in the UK, as voted for by people! And they have the most beautiful barmaids in the entire world - and a pretty fine promoter as well. So yeah, we were fairly pumped up for the gig. But we've been disappointed before - we've built ourselves up and been knocked down like cheap scaffolding.

But Hoots, you didn't disappoint us.

From Pikey's intro, to the last song, the crowd was swaying like Cliff Richard's pants drying in the air of windy Wimbledon final; they were sweating like a trapped badger with a cough; they were bouncing like [insert mildly offensive simile here]. Yes, it was an awesome gig.


We were joined by the big drink of chocolate milk that is Aga, the maestro on the Saxamaphone, and on ethnic drums, the very non-ethnic Will - the very nucleus of the Queens English Live Band Experience (trademark trademark registered blah)!! Most of our japes were caught by the jaunty angled camera of Keane Eye Photography. The rest were caught by me and my unsteady camera hand - and have thus formed the basis of our new, official, Queens English Youtube Channel.


I apologise now, but as a short (yet sexy) man, my arm gets a little tired having to hold the camera above the heads of thronging crowds. And boy, did they throng - all over my chest and in my hair...


Now you're making your own jokes. Here's the start of the show! Click the channel for more jazz!!

New Launch Date!!!

Let's be honest - we all knew it was bound to happen. We've pushed the launch back, due to the inordinate amount of time is taking to cut this video down and get the track rerecorded, as well as getting the new website up. Yes, there's a new website abound.


Anyhow, we've now confirmed that the launch date for New Balance is going to be Tuesday 7 December and the fabulous Favela Chic. Check out the venue's website - it's pretty sick. We're well excited, if a little tired from the copious running about we've all been doing. By the way, check out our new Youtube Channel. 'Tis well exciting.

Friends & Family - Part 2 - Purple Turtle Beads

 

Easy up - a slightly impromptu blog entry, considering I haven't uploaded the Behind-the-Scenes stuff yet, but we couldn't really pass this one up! We went up to Leicester last week for the mighty Jamfest 2010 underground music festival. While we were there, we found a proper top-shelf material stand selling these wicked hama-bead neck-pieces and jewellery - Purple Turtle Beads be its name!. 

QE:ES - Sun, Sand, Sea, such a pain in the arse - PART 1 - The intro

I should have been writing this blog entry last Wednesday - Friday at the latest. Given that it is now the preceeding Friday, over a week and a half after the Queens English crew was supposed to be back from Spain, might give a hint to the mindnumbing terror that we have experienced at the hands of the British institution that is Easy Jet, the Spainish Social Workers Party, a forgetful blonde, a dumbass turk and a small brown man with an ass that just won't stop (me).

Our Mates - Part 1 - Dark Sky / Boogaloo Crew

This is an aspect of the blog that I've wanted to write about for fucking ages. We've been around for a fair while, and we've got about a fair ol' bit. In the course of doing so, we've had our fair share of crackheads, gammon-handed fools and ketamine freaks. And that's just our mate Tom.


But our travels, trials and tribulations have brought us into contact with some excessively brilliant and talented people, who've influenced us no end and more importantly, provide proper joke of a Friday night down the Grand Union. The first, and most fabulous of these are the fucking fantastic Dark Sky crew, also known in an alternative incarnation as the Boogaloo Crew.