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Natty tour dates |
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Fresh from supporting Kate Nash and Adele on tour and following the release of the highly acclaimed 'The Mixtape’, Natty returns with his debut single 'Cold Town’, an upbeat ska tinged pop track with a very candid meaning.
Hailing from North London Natty grew up surrounded by an eclectic mix of sounds from Neil Young to Marvin Gaye
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| and it was while working in Sphere Studios in Battersea that he first discovered his talent. By day he was engineering for some of the biggest names in the indie music scene and by night this gave him the inspiration to nurture his own developing talent.
Soon he garnered a devout following from his open mic sessions and Vibes and Pressure nights which have seen everyone from the Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, to Statik and Mr Hudson and the Library perform.
The success of his debut double A-side 'Badmind/Camden Rox’ captivated the well deserved attention from music bible NME who featured him on their Love Music / Hate Racism CD alongside Hard-Fi, Babyshambles, MIA, Bloc Party, Lethal Bizzle and many more. |
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| Stereo MCs return
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| Stereo MCs are back. One of the most successful dance-floor acts to emerge from Great Britain, Stereo MC's formed in London in 1985, when front-man Rob B (born Rob Birch) and Nick Hallam formed the Gee Street label as a means of promoting their music. Following the launch of their debut album 33-45-78, the band went on to release their breakthrough album 'Connected' to high critical acclaim.
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| Fast-forward through a series of groundbreaking productions and remix work (with Mercury Music Prize nominations and 2 Brit Awards along the way) including the lauded follow ups to 'Connected’, 'Deep Down & Dirty’ and 'Paradise', to the here and now and the band are soon to release their eagerly anticipated sixth LP. In the meantime, just to whet your appetite, the band have put together 'Hotplate’ an exclsuive non-album 3 track taster of things to come.
Stereo MCs don’t mess about: 'Gringo’ immediately establishes itself as a no-holds-barred, peak-time club weapon, with a hard, pure-of-purpose kick-drum taking centre stage, while kinetic drum edits patter in, out and around it with each successive build and drop ravishing the listener into submission. The accompanying video is equally impressive
At this point you might expect the pace to let up, but follow-up tracks 'The Runaway’ and 'Soul Girl’ are similarly relentlessly energetic cuts with blasts of magnificently controlled chaos for the party’s more intense moments. With Hotplate, Stereo MCs furnish us with 3 vehement yet elegant tracks guaranteed to turn a dance-floor near you inside out. This is music to immerse yourself in, for sure; but above all it’s music to really, really dance to.
The band is currently busy in the studio and will be announcing LIVE shows in the very near future. The new album will launch in late 2008 however, there will be regular previews on their MySpace page |
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Bollywood's item girl Yana Gupta debuts as singer |
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Bollywood's item girl Yana has crooned two numbers in it, 'Aag Ka Dariya' and 'Na Koi Khayal', which she penned herself.
'I write poetry and so writing songs comes naturally to me,' said the model-turned-actress confidently while talking to media persons here at the release ceremony.
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| Punjabi music composer and DJ Dr. Zeus has composed the album. Shortie a.k.a. Little Fox is the co-crooner. The album also introduces two new crooners, Ravindra and Karamel.
Yaana, who shot to fame with her item number 'Baabuji', said she had been living in India long enough to be able to weave a few words in Punjabi as well in the song.
The Czech-born sexy siren, who also speaks Spanish and Japanese, besides English and pidgin Hindi, revealed to the media that she had been working on a solo album in English for the last six months, which would be released in Britain shortly.
'Back Unda Da Influence' has 13 tracks, including 'Sat Shri Akal' and 'Adhi holi maar'.
The 'Sat Shri Akal' number was topped the BBC Asian Network music chart.
Dr. Zeus lives up to his image of rendering effervescent bhangra numbers, but unlike his earlier Brit Asian bhangra mixes, the songs in the album have desi flavour. |
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