THE HEADLINERS
Outline’s GUIDE TO
RADIO 1’s
BIG WEEKEND NORWICH 2015
RUDIMENTAL Y
ou must have been living under a rock for the last few years if you’ve not heard any of this
Hackney quartet’s chartbusting tunes. Tey’ve collaborated with Emeli Sande, Ella Eyre and even Steely Dan and Nas, and their second album is about ready to drop. But before that, they’re going to give us a sneaky preview at the Big Weekend as headliners on the In New Music We Trust Stage. I spoke to Leon aka DJ Locksmith about how it feels to be thrown into a whirlpool of fame and champagne.
How did Rudimental first begin? We grew up together as kids from when we were about five, but came together as Rudimental eight years ago. We were on the underground scene making tracks but also working every day jobs and eventually Feel Te Love opened up some doors for us; we had a number one record and now here I am speaking to you today! You’ve won and been nominated for so many prestigious awards like the
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Mercury, a Brit Award and a MOBO. How does it feel to be recognised in this way? It’s amazing! We like to think of ourselves as everyday, Average Joe kind of boys who have a passion for music and fortunately we’ve done well with it. Some of us still live with our mums; the whole fame side of it we’re not really into. We’re more into projecting our music to our audiences. We couldn’t have dreamt of winning or even being nominated for
some of those awards, and now we’re just looking to finish our second album, get the songs out there and continue our journey. Will your second album be along the same tracks as the first or are you taking things in a different direction? Well, we’ve kept things very true to ourselves with the work we’ve done so far. We’re really proud of how we’ve grown together as we’ve been in this whirlwind of craziness. Te music is still on the same wavelength, still soulful with a feel-good factor, like the music that we’ve been influenced by, not only growing up on the streets of London but also Michael Jackson, Lauren Hill and Marvin Gaye. We’ve mixed it with the music of our generation; grime, dance, drum ‘n’ bass, old school garage and jungle and we’ve fused it all together. Luckily enough it worked on our last album and I think it sounds even better on the new album! I understand you’ve worked with Nas, Steely Dan and George Clinton for the new album. What was that experience like? Amazing, especially with George Clinton. It was so mad, because one of our best friend’s mum was really good friends with George Clinton. She passed away many years ago. We went to see him and there was an immediate connection between us and we knew from then that we would be stuck to the hip for a long while. We made a track together and we also went to see him just the other day. Steely Dan make amazing music and we’re massively influenced by their funk sound. You know when people get to the stage that we have done in our careers, people might expect you to start working with Beyonce or someone like that, but we kinda wanna work with the ones that our mum’s and dad’s are fans of that they passed down to us. Your number one album Home had loads of collaborators like Emeli Sande, MNEK and Foxes. How did you go about finding the right people to work with? With Home, we stumbled across some of
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