[IMC-bristol] Hip hop for Palestine

Wed Sep 17 22:19:03 PDT 2003

HIP-HOP for PALESTINE All proceeds to Markaz At-Tanwir for their work with Palestinian refugees

Malcolm X Centre
City Rd, St Paul’s, Bristol BS2

Fri 10th October

10pm - 4am
£6/5 concessions

DAM (direct from Palestine)
Fun’da’mental
Jalal Nuridin 
(from the original Last Poets)
Oshin (57th Dinasty) 
Bobafatt & Honeytrap
Klandestino (KFS)

Markaz At-Tanwir

Kebele has the privilege of announcing the visit of the first Palestinean hip hop band DAM. Their planned tour in the UK has raised such expectations that other massive hip hop names from the national and international scene have agreed to support them. And all this without getting a penny as everyone will be contributing to the charity Markaz At Tanwir (right) for their work in Palestinean refugee camps. 

DAM is the first Palestinean hip hop crew. Already the subject of an award-winning documentary film and the recipients of growing media attention both in the Middle East and beyond, the band combine the modern, urban sound of western rap music with traditional sounds from the Arab world. DAM employs powerful political lyrics which revolve around the racial discrimination and social marginalisation members of the band, as Palestinian citizens living within Israel’s 1948 borders, experience in their homeland. With their independently released debut album, entitled ‘Min Irhabi’ or ‘Who’s the Terrorist?’, DAM found themselves in the welcome, if unexpected, media spotlight with the likes of Rolling Stone magazine running feature articles on them and Israel’s anti-establishment musicians rushing to court them. The Palestinian-UK educational charity, Markaz At-Tanwir (www.enlighten-palestine.org) has invited the band to Britain for their first nationwide tour in October this year. DAM will
 be touring the UK from October the 10th finishing it at London’s ‘Scala’ nightclub on Thursday October 9th.

The bands supporting DAM in their Bristol gig will be Fun’da’mental, Jalal Nuridin, Oshin, Bobafatt & Honeytrap and Klandestino. Fun’da’mental were the first UK band mixing computerised beats and rapping with Asian music. They were the first ones to adopt a punk attitude and to speak out about issues affecting them and their community without any kind of limitations. For this gig, we won’t have the whole crew –which also varies from gigs and times- but three of its more riotous members. Dave Watts Riot is one of the founders – MC and DJ, and he’ll be playing at this gig with two of their MCs and authors of some of the lyrics Mush and Kashann. Fun’da’mental plaid Bristol on 29th June at the docks and as closing act of the festival. They demonstrated to rock the audience like they used to do when they started. They also demonstrated that they message and attitude is still as relevant, specially with all the islamophobia and prejudism developed since S-11 2001. Fun’da’mental have
 managed to combine the high status with a more community attitude, and so they don’t mind again to back Kebele’s new call. In the same way, they support anyone from anywhere practicing their music in a resistance situation: so they did with South African Prophets of Da City and now touring with the Mighty Zulu Nation, and backing this DAM’s tour 

Jalal Nurridin was one of the original founders of the last Poets back in the sixties. The Last Poets were poets who mixed their poems with African drumming and other music, and this is why there are considered some of the creators of rap music. Last Poets were also a very political band, being considered the voice of the civil rights era. ‘griots expressing the nation- building fervour of the Black Panthers’. Because of this they went in confrontation with the state and the Ku Klux Klan. Jalal has been based in the UK and currently he is based in Bristol where he combines his poetry and performances with social and community work. This will be Jalal’s first Bristol performance by himself – he took part in the latest Public Enemy gig performing in two of their tracks and as homage to one of the hip hop pioneers. 

Bobafatt & Honeytrap are a couple from Bath where they run their Stonegruve Social at the Mole. They make hip hop making mixing music from 4 decks.: sampling, scratching, mixing
 They run the record shop Subway in Bath.

Klandestino is one of the Kebelian Forces of Sound DJ’s, bringing hip hop from all over the world but specially linking the Palestinian cause with the Basque one where he’s from. Also hip hop from Spain, France, South Africa, Latin-America and other places in struggle.

Kebele Kulture Projekt:

Kebele is an anarchist organization founded in 1995 and based in Easton. Kebele aims at developing activities to ensure sustainability and an alternative to mainstream politics, and to raise awareness. Kebele has been organising fund raising events since 1996 when it started a campaign to buy the premises where it’s based. This sums more than 30 different events with some of the best local, national and International bands and DJs. Kebele owns its own DJ collective whom plays in some of the events and events organised by others but which share the same aims. All Kebele’s events are organised by a collective who work on these premises without a profit making aim.

Ffi on Kebele: www.kebele.org

For more info on Bristol and UK solidarity with Palestine:

Markaz At-Tanwir: www.enlighten-palestine.org

Bristol PSG: www.bristolpsc.freeserve.co.uk

Bristol ISM: www.ism-bristol.org.uk

PSC: www.palestinecampaign.org

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For punctual info: Bristol Indymedia: http://bristol.indymedia.org/

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