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Lirix

MC / Producer / Promoter / Journalist

About Me

I'm a Grime Kid. I make grime music. I rap over grime music. I produce grime music.shalala_lyts
Journalism I write reviews on new releases & gigs. Predominantly grime, but whatever really. I'm into everything.My most recent reviews are displayed in my blogs above. But MySpace is wreck-up, and only lists the first five. For past reviews, click the links below.
Greatest Hits - Skepta - Review
Star In The Hood - Tinchy Stryder - Review
Disco Rejects 2 @ The Roundhouse
And So The Rock & Roll Cliche Begins EP - Bojangles Medley - Review
London Town – Kano – Preview
Disco Rejects Launch Party @ Tufnell Park Dome - Review
Take Note - Slue - Review
Inner Vision Recordings – Feature Article + Interview
Aggro-Culture Vol. 1 - Aggro - Review
Axiom EP - Durrty Goodz - Review
Ghetto Gospel - Ghetto - Review
Hoodratz Launch Party (Gig) - GoldieLocks - Review
Dizzee Rascal Vs Wiley - Comparative Review
This Is The Beginning - Young Dot - Review
Holla Black - Black The Ripper - Review shalala_lyts
Promotion I promote new music. I co-founded and ran the All-Age promotions company Pop! Goes The Weasel between November 2007 and March 2008, successfully hosting three events with them.I also established and ran the 16+ club night Juice Box , holding a monthly residency at Redstar.shalala_lyts
Contact DetailsEmail: [email protected] Mobile: 07504081639
Management: Matteo Tyler (JB Publishing) Email: [email protected] Mobile: 07944524447
I also reply to all relevant MySpace comments and messages (obviously not spam or bait cut & paste comments though)Get in touch: - If you would like to book me to play at your event (live sets / DJ sets). - If you would like to book me to host your event. - If you would like me to review your show or new release. - If you would like to work with me. - For general chit-chat. shalala_lyts
Blaow! When people meet me they often think I'm a nice enough kinda guy. When they get to know me better, they invariably discover that I'm an utter cunt. When they get to know me properly, most will conclude that I'm actually not too bad. A little reminiscient of my hero (see below), but I would never pretend I am even nearly as funny or clever as the legend that is the Cox.
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Dr. Perry CoxMy hero, role model, and single greatest influence. A great, great man. shalala_lyts

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/3/2006
Band Members: Click the evil grime monster to go to my demos page Dean Tynan My DJ. He's with me when I play live. He brought me onto the scene. If it weren't for him, I wouldn't be promoting now and on the moves I'm on. Blame him for my rise. shalala_lyts
Shabby D My main producer. He gave me FruityLoops and got me into music production. He's the one that keeps my ego in check and tells me when my beats are swag. So if you don't like something you hear on my page, don't even bother telling me it's shit, because it will have received the green light from him. And his opinion counts for way more than yours. shalala_lyts
Jess My original sound engineer. She snuck me into her college where they have some sick equipment. She also took me to JusB, my most productive jammin' sessions. She's doing a lot. shalala_lyts
Concept One of the more talented youngers. I'm his manager. Not that I've actually done anything as his manager, it's just one of those kiddy titles that means nothing. shalala_lyts
I record at Instant Melodies Studios and Bog Zoo Studios
Influences: Catch 22 Joseph Heller
The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows Philip Larkin
"Only sick music makes money today." Friedrich Nietzsche, Der Fall Wagner - Section 5
"Words are loaded pistols." Jean-Paul Sartre
"Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity." Karl Marx, The Poverty Of Philosophy
"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong." Bertrand Rusell
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." Plato
"Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim." Bertrand Russell
"Everyone was like 'manz a nut nut' and Russell was all 'fuckin' genius, bruv'." Bertrand Russell on Wittgenstein, according to Liz
"You're a wasteman if you're 29, and you're still posing by a roadsign" JME, Shh Hut Yuh Muh (Edition 1) - Serious
"However you want it kid, we can do scholarships, politics or the opposite, war with hollow tips" Akala, This Is Not A Rumour - Roll With Us
"The mind is more powerful than any computer" Black The Ripper, Unreleased Shit - Confusion
"None of us got nothing, so why's there so much envy?" Genesis Elijah, Deh Pon Road - How It Goes
"Fuck who's the baddest, a person's status depends on salary" AZ, Illmatic - Life's A Bitch
"Men make machines, machines make money, now money makes men work like machines" Sway DaSafo, This Is My Promo Vol. 2 - Feat. Sway Mix
"Forget reppin' the ends, what the ends do for you?" Akala, Freedom Lasso
Sounds Like: I am musically influenced by the following, so don't be surprised if you hear elements of them in my music.
Wiley Dizzee Rascal JME & Skepta Tinchy Stryder & Ruff Sqwad GoldieLocks Example Black The Ripper Durrty Goodz
Record Label: Don't be silly...
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Interview with American Blog

I'm done with the UK, this little island is dead, i'm gonna go make it big in America now :PIn the very early hours of this morning I was interviewed by Anna Atanassova for her blog en-tur-tain-munt. ...
Posted by Lirix on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:06:00 PST

RIP Social Life

Ok, exams are coming up for a lot of people, boo hoo to the lot of us. Not only has this left me shit-scared, it also makes me look as if I'm not doing a lot. You may not have seen me around as much, ...
Posted by Lirix on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 05:50:00 PST

GoldieLocks + Chlamydia

Yeah, bet that headline caught you. First things first. I haven't blogged for a long time, and although I do have a lot to say, I don't have the time, or to be honest, the inclination, to publicise e...
Posted by Lirix on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:01:00 PST

Pop! Goes The Weasel in a nutshell

The night as a whole was a huge success, although my set was atrocious. I have two very valid excuses for this though: I've been promoting the night so hard and was so stressed out on the night keepin...
Posted by Lirix on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 07:03:00 PST

Back To Bizznizz - Lethal Bizzle - Review

Shit, shit, shitshitshit. Shit.   This is, without a shadow of a doubt, the worst album I have ever heard. Out of 13 tracks, there is only one verse on one song that sounds any good at all, and ...
Posted by Lirix on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:16:00 PST

Disco Rejects 3 @ Tufnell Park Dome - Review

Without a doubt, the best one yet. When you see the bouncers on the door getting pissed off to the extent that they're physically assaulting the nu-rave swarm of teenagers on the door, and having to u...
Posted by Lirix on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:57:00 PST

Greatest Hits - Skepta - Review

"Put your hands in the air for the Boy Better Know managing director!" No, put them right down. Skepta should be ashamed of himself. A good two years in the making, and his debut album, the ironically...
Posted by Lirix on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:28:00 PST

Star In The Hood - Tinchy Stryder - Review

"I'm back U know" Star In The Hood is, unmistakably, one of the best grime albums of the year. And there have been A LOT this year. This debut album from E3's grimiest export shows Tinchy Stryder at h...
Posted by Lirix on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:35:00 PST

Disco Rejects 2 @ The Roundhouse - Review

What a disaster of a night.   It seemed so promising, with a fresh, diverse line-up (The Svengalis, Berlin Girls, Sabotage Party, Far From Beautiful, and Chimera Rouge) with DJ sets from STR8 NEC...
Posted by Lirix on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:19:00 PST

And So The Rock n Roll Cliche Begins EP - Bojangles Medley - Review

"Of all my problems, you're my favourite..."   Yeah, it's pretty decent, but they should have named it the Bojungle Massive EP. Has a better ring to it, and it's less of a mouthful to say out lou...
Posted by Lirix on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 04:49:00 PST