The Brain of Gill

Recently on my real life and online travels I have found some things that I like and that I think you may enjoy too.  The first item deserves a decent write up, the others I shall leave you to click on and discover for yourself. Only the best for you…

• Shlomo & DJ Yoda [Watch & Listen]

I went to one of the Music Through Unconventional Means concerts at the Southbank Centre. Shlomois a Beatboxer who is part of Foreign Beggarsand has created the world’s first beatboxing choir – the vocal orchestra. He is currently an artist in residence at the Southbank Centre and does various unexpected collaborative concerts. DJ Yoda is a Video Scratch-DJ. It was an amazing concert, if one of the more obvious collaborations.  I can’t explain it adequately here but ask me about it and I will wax lyrical.The next concert in the series is with Jazz group Polar Bear.Talking of which, I just heard this spoken word artist on Colin Murray’s excellent show 

• Polar Bear  [Listen]

 Check out the track Jessica here. It’s cute.”Let me tell you about Jessica Brown..”Stick it out until the end. It’s not as saccharine as it originally seems  

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• Ping Pong [Taste] Ordering by “I have no idea what that is” (because they hadn’t given us the menu). Lots of fun.

• Shelf  & Ella Doran [Look & Shop]A road off brick lane with shops of delights. Here are two.    and 

Paramore & Kate Rusby  & Hot Chip[Listen] I’m late to the Paramore party (Pop/Rock/Emo)but hey, who cares? Listen to “Misery Business” and you’ll realise you’ve heard them. Whole albums are streamed on their siteKate Rusby is a husky voiced folk with a Yorkshire twang. Listen here  I’ve discovered that I likeHot Chip’s track “Wrestlers”. It is good. Listen here.