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D'archetypes Feat. Shane Solanki, Nikesh Shukla, Excentral Tempest, Riz Mc, Daniel Clark, Last Mango In Paris, Ishen Amara, Mr Sole Abode & Ventriloquist
D'Archytypes will perform at The Big Chill festival 2008 A-Z line up | Ticket infoThe D’Archetypes - Biography
The D'Archetypes are performance poets Shane Solanki and Nikesh Shukla, who mix comedy and political narrative into farcical cabaret. This year, the D’Archetypes present an evening of poetry and acoustic unplugged songwriting, featuring the crème of underground UK spoken word talent.
The D’archetypes
www.darchetypes.com
Riz MC
Riz MC’s year says it all. He recently supported Mos Def at the Warehouse Project, is an emerging-artist-in-residence at Royal Festival Hall, and featured artist on Nitin Sawhney’s Aftershock programme. His song ‘Post 911 Blues’ had worldwide coverage, and was banned from MTV and UK radio. Besides being an actor of renown, starring in Channel 4’s ‘Britz’ and Asian Dub Foundation’s ‘Gaddafi: The Opera’, Riz has been described as "... a sick MC. He's got nice charisma, he knows how to handle himself on the mic.”
www.myspace.com/rizmc
Ex Central Tempest
Without a doubt one of the best performance poets in the country at present, Ex Central Tempest’s rapid-fire lyrics encapsulate urban life. While she’s not one to shy to fade away from telling it exactly how it is, her words are motivating and inspiring, and her delivery is electric.
www.myspace.com/excentraltempest
Daniel Clark
Daniel Clark is the charismatic lead singer of highly renowned band ‘The Hat’, who have been described as ‘intoxicating, and idiosyncratic pleasure and an esoteric delight’ by the Guardian, and besides headlining sell-out tours, have supported the likes of The Bees, The Mystery Jets, The Brakes and Michelle Shocked. Coming from a family of writers and poets, Daniel regularly performs solo as both a musician and storyteller, and he was recently commissioned by the Spiegeltent to produce his first one man show ‘The Things People Do To Fall In Love.’
www.myspace.com/wearethehat
Ventriloquist
Ventriloquist is an artist whose mellifluous poetry combine urban musings with spiritual undertones. His band, which feature renowned jazz players, is a malleable melange of marvelous melodies and mesmerising musical madness. Besides his work as a poet, musician, composer, producer, promoter, he also finds time to run the independent music label Soundseasy. His appearance at the Big Chill will sees him doing what he does best, unplugged, delivering spoken word.
www.myspace.com/ventriloquistmusic
Last Mango In Paris
Yet another pseudonym for Shane Solanki, a man who Big Chill regulars will know well - under at least one of his many guises! While Shane’s wordplay helped to shape Ninja Tune, and his music was being produced by Talvin Singh, Big Chillers would often see Shane in drag, non compos mentis. Thankfully (or perhaps not) he’s grown up, and is making some amazing music, mixing global styles and genres; his first album is released this autumn. Catch him at the Big Chill delivering brilliantly incisive comic urban poetry, which tackles contemporary issues in a subversive and yet accessible way.
www.myspace.com/lastmangoinouterspace
Nikesh Shukla
Nikesh Shukla is an author, song-writer and Saved By the
Bell enthusiast. His writing has been featured on BBC2, Radio 1 and 4, Resonance FM, Tell Tales and Transmission Magazine. He has performed at Royal Festival Hall, Apples and Snakes, Soho Theatre, The Big Chill, Rise Festival, The London Mela and Glastonbury. He has travelled to America, Europe, India, and Africa to perform and read his words. He recently completed his first travel memoir, I've Forgotten My Mantra, as well as a full-length novel. He records under the name Yam Boy, plays guitar and mandolin and recently spent a year in Kenya, where he produced a solo folk album and an Arts Council-commissioned book of poetry.
www.myspace.com/nikeshshukla
www.yamboy.net
Ishen Amara
Ishen Amara is a London based 21 year old singer/songwriter, who marries insightful lyrics beyond his age, which are sometimes rapped and sometimes sung, to his dextrous playing of both piano and guitar. A prodigious talent, Ishen’s star is beginning to rise, and is one to watch out for in the future.
www.myspace.com/ishenamara
Mr Sole Abode
Mr Sole Abode is an excitable dreamer who fantasises about incredible culinary delights. Mr. Sole Abode is brought to life by Leo Kay, a versatile writer, choreographer and director who experiments with the boundaries of theatre performance and poetry. His latest one-man show, directed by Benji Reid, recently toured the UK. Leo is building a strong following for his work as a director in both the fields of spoken word and experimental/site specific theatre, most notably for ‘Don Letts Presents Speakers Corner’ and grime theatre show ‘8.16.32’, developed in collaboration with Decypher Collective, Charlie Dark, Polar Bear, Punch and Birmingham Rep.
www.madrugada.info
D'Archytypes will perform at The Big Chill festival 2008 A-Z line up | Ticket info
Written: 16th Apr, 08
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