Bold Tendencies, London
The super-producer to Stormzy, Dave and Kano showcases his solo album, with Kojey Radical and Simon Armitage among his eclectic guests
We should all be used to unusual gigs by now. Tonight’s performance, however, finds the UK’s poet laureate Simon Armitage pacing the stage, declaiming about the state of human nature; it sees left-field rapper Kojey Radical clad in sky-coloured velour, anatomising the difference between value and worth. Naturally, we’re in a multistorey car park in Peckham, south London – a venue called Bold Tendencies – perched on socially distanced plastic chairs.
The mild-mannered British super-producer holding the evening together – Fraser T Smith, currently trading as Future Utopia – is smiling, encased inside a sculpture, Noise Matrix, made of brightly coloured pipework. Noise Matrix represents the discordant waveforms of human-generated noise; it’s by Smith’s partner, the artist Sarah Thorneycroft-Smith.
Smith has effectively overseen the transition of grime from Cinderella genre to mainstream domination
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