Sugarhill Gang at The Village tomorrow (update)

jmc

Just an update for tomorrow night. DJ Laz-e will be getting things going from 8 (info on him below). Still a few tickets left, they're also playing Dolans in Limerick tonight if you're in that neck of the woods.

Cheers,
J

The Original Hip-Hop Legends & Pioneers
SUGARHILL GANG
Plus Special Guest, DJ Laz-e
This Friday, February 20th '04 at The Village, Wexford St., Dublin 2.
Doors: 8.00pm. Over 18's, Garda approved ID essential.

'Rapper's Delight'
'Hot Hot Summer Day'
'8th Wonder'
'Showdown' (Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five meets The Sugarhill Gang)
'Apache'
'The Lover in You'
'The Word Is Out'
'Kick It Live from 9 to 5'
'Livin' in the Fast Lane'
'Girls'
'Work, Work the Body!'

The legendary Kurtis Blow credits the success of "Rapper's Delight" for literally paving the way for his blockbuster smash "The Breaks", "Sugarhill had the biggest-selling record of all time", Blow says, "like 17 million copies, not only putting rap on the map, but also standing on its own up against any other form of music. In fact, after hearing ["Rapper's Delight"], my producers, J.B. Moore and Robert Ford, decided to produce my first record ["The Breaks"] and ended up producing my first five albums".

Adds Big Daddy Kane: "I look at the Sugarhill Gang as the forefathers of the rap industry who made the impossible possible. Rap back in the '70's was something that you thought would never go on wax, somethin' we'd always be doing in the clubs and the parks. But when "Rapper's Delight" hit on wax, it made us really want to go after this rap thing".

Hip-hop legends, the Sugarhill Gang bring their full-on live show to The Village in Dublin this coming Friday, February 20th '04.

It's a five-piece on-stage including all the original Sugarhill Gang members, Michael "Wonder Mike" Wright, Joey "Master Gee" Robinson, and Henry "Big Bank Hank" Jackson.

Warming up on the night is old skool Dublin hero, DJ Laz-e.

Although at first mainly a rapper, Laz-e met up with many of his current contemporaries at a local breakdance club in Clondalkin in 1985 and played one of his first gigs there.

Stints on Radio Diamond 106 in Crumlin, and Smile FM in Ballyfermot followed in '87 and '88 respectively.

'88 also saw him play the Saturday afternoon club at McGonagles - a regular haunt of Oisin Lunny, Martin Moore, and a young DJ Mek (Scary Eire). Judge Jules and Norman Jay were fairly regular visitors to the soul sessions there on Sundays around the same time if memory serves us correctly (they'd often pop into your mum for tea beforehand).

By '96, he'd begun working on some routines with Mek and Sherlock and they eventually granted themselves the Voodoo Scratch Attack tag. Around the same time, he also returned to the airwaves with a Saturday afternoon radio show on Power FM – a show which he now continues online at www.PowerFM.org.

Promises to be rockin’! Don't miss.

Tickets for the Sugarhill Gang at The Village are €24 (inc booking fee) and are available from Road, Soundcellar, Ticketmaster and usual outlets nationwide.

luce

...I really couldn't be arsed reading through all that
Good luck with it all the same!

jmc

Cheers! Seen them twice before and they can still bust a move, as the man says, so lookin' forward.

There's a bit of Irish radio history in there as well if you get the urge!

All the best,
J