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If you’re under 18 and mad into beats, then Let’s Go Crazy might just be the
biggest night out of your life so far...
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ou might wonder what No matter how worldly wise you are, — and even a slot at Camp Bestival. Talent After all, let’s be totally honest... while
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connection there is between ignore the power of youth at your peril. booked? D&b titan Fresh, Goldie, Skream, we’d love to say we spent our own school
football pundit Alan Hansen They might warrant a fi rm shoeing when Distance, E3 grime-spitter Wiley, years collecting rare Detroit imports on
and a few thousand rave they’re blasting the latest N-Dubz track Bestival’s Rob Da Bank… the list goes on. Axis and hunting out deep house rarities,
kids descending on Brixton from their mobile at the back of the No.48 And on. Callum even had his residents mix the reality is that most of us were jumping
for tonight’s Let’s Go Crazy at the 02 bus on Blue Monday, but (by pure design a branded, HMV racked compilation last round our bedrooms to The Prodigy’s
Academy, but stick with us. alone) kids are the future and Let’s Go year. For a promoter still shy of their 19th ‘Experience’ or buzzing every time
Back on the opening day of the Crazy’s promoter Callum Negus-Fancey birthday, the progress is every bit as Faithless’s ‘Insomnia’ cam e on MTV
1995/1996 season, the BBC’s knows that better than anyone. phenomenal as the players who came to Dance when we were 15 or 16. Just us on
unfl appable, golden-bollocked guru When the school dropout started building be known as Fergie’s Fledglings. that last one? Well, everybody needs an
preached, “You’ll never win anything with his under-18s (but over-16s) party entry point.
kids” after Manchester United’s 3 – 1 empire, he technically still was one. At Tonight’s event is something of a cup fi nal And if there’s a chance that some clueless
capitulation at the hands of Brummie fi rst, Callum admits, venue owners would for Let’s Go Crazy too. With a maximum N-Dubz obsessed 16-year-old catches an
nearly-rans Aston Villa. size him up suspiciously. But just as capacity of nearly 5000, Brixton Academy ear of Joker or Jack Beats tonight and
In Alex Ferguson’s Man United team that footballers are judged ultimately on is as big as it comes in the capital and the gets turned on to dubstep or the myriad
day; three youth players named David scorelines not birthdates, Callum would line-up is off the scale. other energetic underground dance
Beckham, Gary Neville and Paul Scholes. be assessed on talent and ticket sales. The And while Callum hasn’t rammed it with styles in the process, then Let’s Go Crazy
In their trophy cabinet come the end of results soon spoke for themselves. the same precocious ease of his previous is as good an entry point as any.
the season; one proud premiership title events (truth told, the cavernous space is ALLAN MCGRATH
and an FA Cup trophy to go with it. And Let’s recap Let’s Go Crazy’s two-and-half- a little thin round the edges), there’s a
jumping about their dressing room was a year history then. Venues conquered? whole series worth of Skins extras here
blossoming crop of youngsters that would Ministry of Sound, Fire, SeOne, matter and more excitement than X Factor fi nal YOUNG, GIFTED
totally boss English — and eventually — Callum’s third event was upgraded night with the Solomon family.
European football — for the decade to there after pre-sales for the original Whether it’s the high energy bass fl ipping
& TALENTED
come. venue, fabric, went through the roof of Jack Beats’s foyer set, the sub- Three precocious prodigies...
destroying dubstep onslaught of Sukh
Knight in the corridor or the main arena A-Trak
showpieces from Faithless, 2ManyDJs, Montreal-born, NYC-based turntablist
Annie Mac or Chase & Status, the result is defeated the globe’s greats to win the
one and the same — hormone-propelled, World DMC Championship at just 15
ADHD-generation hook-hungry delirium. years of age.
Some seasoned oldies might bemoan
they’re not the coolest headliners were Kyle Hall
the night aimed at us. At 16 years of age, this third
But that’s precisely why 18-year-old generation Detroit innovator and
Callum is promoting to Let’s Go Crazy’s Omar S protégé is being hailed as one
crowd. He’s one of them. He understands of the current greats by the likes of
them. With tonight’s line-up he’s Theo Parrish.
handpicked the ageing, anthem-churning
superstars from big brother’s CD rack Dizzee Rascal
(Faithless), the eternally accessible but The most incendiary UK MC of his
educating party DJs (2ManyDJs), the generation wrote most of his
infi nitely more attractive Pete Tong of his groundbreakingly dark and sparse
generation (Annie Mac) and the band that debut LP ‘Boy In Da Corner’ before his
might do for his age-group what The 18th birthday.
Prodigy did for a good deal of ours (Chase
& Status).
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