Grime doc on BBC

[Corpsey]

BBC Four - Storyville, 8 Bar: The Evolution of Grime

A Storyville documentary looking at the history and impact of grime.

www.bbc.co.uk

About two thirds into this and it's well worth a watch

Interviews with slimzee, geeneus, dizzee, d double, lethal b, Kano, jammer etc etc

Wiley features quite prominently but no interview

 

[sufi]

Thee times say that

Its cultural takeover is complete.

https://archive.is/BSE3F#selection-1017.411-1017.445

 

[Benny Bunter]

Anyone know what happened to Wiley since that last meltdown?

 

[qwerty south]

Anyone know what happened to Wiley since that last meltdown?

I think he's moved to Dubai, stopped smoking etc. He's done lots of (youtube) podcast interviews relatively recently .

 

[sus]

I've been skipping around but I don't see her in any of the shots?? I thought it would be about her life and dating Elon Musk and stuff but it's all this random old noise music? IDGI

 

[Corpsey]

 

[mixed_biscuits]

I wonder if Hadouken! will be in it. The final ten minutes are about how Hadouken! fulfilled the style's potential.

 

[shiels]

Yes I enjoyed. Well pacedand good context set in the first half especially, some real funny lines too. I always think reflective docs miss a trick by not getting people together more, just one guy on cam but I suppose it’s a hard thing to arrange

 

[shiels]

Nice to see Belfast represented too finally

 

[dilbert1]

Of course iPlayer is prohibited for American audiences, for better or worse…

 

[shiels]

Dizzee says none of this would’ve appended wivat drug dealers - never thought about it that way

 

[Corpsey]

Rhythm Division now being a coffee shop called Zealand — PERFECT

Was interested when Slimzee pitched the jungle tune down to 33, wondered how often he did that and what role that played in forming certain strains of grime

 

[shiels]

Main techno club in Belfast when I was a kid was shine - guy who runned it talked to me a lot and said Laurent garnier played a full set of d&b at 33 in 2003-2004 and how everyone loved it

 

[rubberdingyrapids]

seeing jammer twenty years on from murkle man. TWENTY YEARS ON! what a way to feel old. ending made me feel unsure where grime is at or headed (stormzy doesnt count), if anywhere, though that might not matter (i also have no clue as im totally out the loop), as this is about the past. those pirate radio scenes are still as incredible as ever.

 

[shiels]

There’s something unique about jammer in his willingness to be the hype man for it all despite his own fame and aspirations

 

[bun-u]

Yes - they did a decent job of it (apparently it was completed in 2019) - good to see at last Dizzee biggin up Wiley, I liked the bit where Grooverider laughed at Fabio for pontificating on Jungle

 

[Corpsey]

Rewatched this last night with a mate. Really good.

90s (and even 00s) London looks so much cooler than London is now - thanks to gentrifying fucks like me i suppose

Said mate showed me this afterwards which I've never seen and is hilarious (TLDR: Big H hasn't written any bars about p money and keeps running out of bars and ends up storming off stage etc.)

 

[Corpsey]

We were drunk and excitable so we ended up listening to a lot of grime (not a genre i know much about), stuff like this

 

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I watched it as well. It was very good. It made me think hard about my own role in the story of grime.

 

[woops]

none of this would have happened without drugs dealers and @craner