I go to so many different dances, some of them are not safe but i take chances.

Last friday was of course BoyBetterKnow @ Cargo.
So I rounded up a few of my grime apreciating freinds, and a girl from Salisbury who wasn't at all familiar with the genre, sort of as a fun experiment to see how she would cope. Aparently she really enjoyed it, so all is good.
Any way, like with most things, we were late so we didn't manage to get in for free as we had intended. Nevermind, the venue was fantastic, the crowd were cool, drinks weren't too expensive (before eleven anyway, after it was £4 for a bit less than a pint).
So at about ten to twelve we elbowed our way into a reasonable possition in the fucking huge and crazy crowd. As we got in there the previous act were just finnishing up, in the change over the DJ started spinning parts of familiar grime records to get the crowd in the mood(wiley, dizzee rascal etc), evidently the crowd didn't need warming up because the reaction to Wiley's 'Gangstas' particularly was mad!
Skepta, once he came on actually performed mostly by himself which suprised me, but I thought this was better than the forwardriddim-esc maddness I had expected with sort of 10 angry males taking it in turns to remind the crowd that they shouldn't go to east london at night.

No, Skepta actually did most of it himself, he brought on two little known MCs, who's names I have already forgotten, in order to get them a bit of recognition, which was cool.

This was all after the fuck-up by the venue with the mics, or lack of them. Once this was sorted out, Jammer came on, and then later the brothers Adenuga performed together.

Overall it was a thoroughly enjoyable performance, and the best crowd atmostphere I have witnessed since Dizzee at Reading '06,
if not ever.

There's a lot of people who bad-mouth grime, some comments I agree with, but what you can't deny is the explosive raw energy, unique to the genre.

"when I spray, everyone gets haps, jumping around shouting BRAP BRAP"
A.C.