Hey girl look over your shoulder
W
hen the music Moyles; we need Jo Wiley to show had to be asked, what exactly do
industry is rife support.’ you have?
with untalented Ear Dis have a solid history and ‘I’ve got something in my
voices and the a formula which has not yet been pocket!’ Oh really? ‘No, I was
weakest tunes picked up on by the big wigs. Roxy speaking to a female friend and she
somehow climb ‘Arms’ Harris and Spoonface met was saying that sometimes you’ll
to the top of the charts the strug- at a Top of the Pops perform- be out and see a guy and think ‘I
gling artist can only despair. UK ance a few years ago. ‘Arms’ has like the way he looks’ and you’ll
duo, Ear Dis have the credentials a background in production and make an effort to get in front and
and the tracks to make chart has worked with Vanessa Mae see the rest of him. I think guys go
toppers, but how is it that they and Omar to name drop a few. through that too.’
still struggle to be heard by the Spoonface is not only familiar for The track is a catchy number
mainstream? his tremendous facial hair but he and has created a buzz on the
Spoonface defends the art and once reached number one as the house and broken-beat dance
points the finger elsewhere. ‘There voice of Black Legend and the floors but while the mainstream
is nothing wrong with the music single You See The Trouble With determines the next movement in
and nothing wrong with the artists. Me. They’ve been around the block the industry, it is the only way Ear
It’s just that these days music but aren’t particularly famous yet. ‘I Dis can bring broken boogie to the
needs to go through all these spe- get people saying, ‘I know you from charts. Nonetheless, the veterans
cialists to get to Radio 1.’ somewhere, but I can’t pinpoint it.’ of urban music Radio 1xtra and
The few DJ’s that support ex- It would be pretty hard to forget Choice FM have shown full blown
perimental and broken beat music the lyrics at least. While they sound support. Flavour says, rush out and
is not enough. Giles Peterson is like gentlemen, the lyrics to Hey buy the album Welcome to Floor
a big influence on the worldwide Girl suggest a hint of naughtiness; Boogie when it reaches the shops
circuit but in the UK, his support is Hey girl, look over your shoulder, in spring ’08 since we know what’s
not enough for this style of music why don’t you come over to me, really hot!
to be lucrative. ‘We need Chris got something to show you’. So it
ds by Selina Campbell
or
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