Fat Funk Sound Shoots From Hip

THE music of HEAD POPPIN FATTNESS, playing at the Cambridge Hotel on Friday night, may send your running for a dictionary, but it won't do any good. This hip hop crew has invented a language all its own to describe the sounds that took it to the top three of the University of Newcastle ...

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Getting Ahead in Hip-Hop

By their nature rap groups such as Newcastle's own HEAD POPPIN' FATTNESS have had to evolve out of nothing in order to make a noise on the Hunter music scene. Brothers MICHAEL and SHANE BLOCH, alias LOLLY DEE and WIZZLA, had been rapping together 'for years' before linking up ...

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Uni the Hip venue for Caring Environment

HIP-HOP and funky sounds will both play a role in improving the environment during celebrations for this week's Students and Sustainability conference at Newcastle University. Terminal Illness, Blades of Hades, Elf Tranzporter, Groovy D and Maya Jupiter will all come together for an ...

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