Can pop music get any worse than Hero & Leander?

A completely unique artist in his field, Sense is now widely perceived as one of the true pioneers of conscious lyricism within Drum and Bass music working with a wide variety of artists including Lynx, Zero T, Vicious Circle,Alix Pirez and many more.

An unusual and potent combination of heartfelt poetry, social commentary and a complete disregard for convention or the rule-book has gained him a cult following worldwide.

Sense is also a veteran of London’s pirate radio scene having appeared on more or less every influential station over the last decade including Don FM, Ruud Awakening and his now regular haunt on the resurgent Flex FM 99.7 where he can be found most Friday nights (8-10pm GMT) alongside his partner in crime Billion as half of the ‘Fathom Audio’ team (www.fathomaudio.com).
Having retired from ‘professional’ Drum and Bass MC’ing in 2008 due to a spinal injury and subsequent surgeries he has since been concentrating on other parts of his craft including acoustic songwriting, poetry and writing a series of books for children. He has also been influential within UK Hip Hop appearing on releases alongside the likes of KRS-1, Rodney P and Skinnyman.

Recently he has decided to give all his Hip Hop tunes away for free download (www.soundcloud.com/billion) and the videos are available on Youtube.

Sense is a founder member of the Grass Roots Family who are independantly releasing their long awaited debut later this year.
In reality, Sense could not be further away from most people’s view of a stereotypical D’n'B MC.
A fierce commitment to lyrical content and originality ensures this is likely to be the case for a while to come yet….

that seems to be him

Three of H&L's last 5 gigs have been in the same pub, why not go along and heckle?

(The Wenlock & Essex, Islington)

the Wenlock didn't get closed down? this is great news

kept alive by the good vibes of hero & leander.

I dont get why ineloquentwow wants people to heckle them. I don't like them but I'd not want anyone to spoil their gigs of those who do.

SKY FERREIRA

the wenlock /= wenlock & essex

:( aw

has anyone here heckled a band?

Only by giving honest response to a direct question. Or booing homophobia / racism / sexism if that counts.

well that's different. Of course you should shout back. Its not the heckling kind mentioned itt

I meant like "are you having fun out there?" "Not in the slightest."

I saw Momus perform in Manchester and I think there were some sarcastic shouts of 'yes' when he asked if Morrissey was in the audience. (Morrissey wasn't really in the audience.)

He asked whether Howard Devoto and Dick Witts were in the audience as well.

pretty sure you can always find Dick Witts at a Momus gig

better a dicky witt than a ...

I booed at the end of the film Inception and during a Kanye West video shoot/show when he was two hours late coming on stage but I kind of think it's bad form normally. I saw Magick Markers get booed so hard they just stopped playing and slunk off stage. It was pretty brutal. I mean, they weren't very good admittedly but if you're watching so-called 'out there' music you've got to take a leap of the imagination/have an open mind or whatever.

I saw this American improv jazz saxophonist guy play a gig at a small venue once, he sort of made noises with the saxophone without 'playing' it, making clackerty clackerty noise with the keys, making slurpy blowing noises with the reed etc. I was on my own and there were only six other people in audience, two older people who seemed into it, who I think knew him or worked at the venue, and four student age people who spent the whole performance trying to half heartedly suppress their laughter and increasing incredulity that this was the performance. They didn't heckle but they kind of got a fit of the giggles and gave up trying to stop laughing after a certain point.

I can't remember the saxophonist's name, I think the performance went over my head though.

Did anyone else in cinema join you in booing at the end of Inception? (I'm assuming you were watching it in a cinema and not just watching the DVD on your couch or something)

Were you seeing Inception with friends or were you alone? I usually only go to the cinema alone and I would feel awkward booing a film if I was sitting on my own.

i thought i booed at the end of Inception but it turns out i dreamt it

LOL

Soref: It was out of character for me. Even when I was drinking heavily it's not the sort of thing I'd would normally do. I think there was applause at the end of it. Now, I miss people clapping at the end of films (and when planes land successfully) - I think it's charming. But I was so incensed at how utterly terrible I perceived the film to be, in this instance the applause rubbed me up the wrong way. So I made an ineffectual protest by booing. I don't think that many people noticed. My girlfriend and her friend, thankfully thought my irritation was funny rather than the cause for angrily telling me to shut up.

"I would"

these guys seem pretty good

yikes @ that de la cover

no scrubs isnt much better

youtube keeps recommending this to me, presumably because I watched the Hero & Leander video, I would posit that this is worse than Hero & Leander

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rzPmH0cdDo

i think the key issue here is there shd probably be some sort of moratorium on cover versions. especially by indies.

I saw this American improv jazz saxophonist guy play a gig at a small venue once, he sort of made noises with the saxophone without 'playing' it, making clackerty clackerty noise with the keys, making slurpy blowing noises with the reed etc

this is pretty standard free improv. I wish you remembered who he was though.

Did you watch the video? It's not just a cover it's a MASH UP.

i've heard bastille and without viewing that i'm guessing that you're v correct.

i'm not really sure what makes hero & leander stand out from the thousands of other chirpy innocent smoothies twee bands of the last eight years or so, if someone would like to outline it in a 5,000 word post i will definitely read it.

i love how "innocent smoothies" has become an adjective to describe music!

I wish I could remember too! He was very solemn, almost mournful in his demeanor, didn't talk to the audience at all and this made the whole thing more awkward/ridiculous. The gig was in Newcastle upon Tyne and the improv guy had come from America, I assume he was playing other gigs in the UK as well, but the whole thing felt a bit grim.

Did you watch the video?

20 seconds or so more than i shd've

what would be the most platonically ideal innocent smoothies music in the current uk pop lanscape

xp - was he white? approximately how old?

hero and leander are too marginal

is lorde from new zealand innocent smoothies music?

I found a listing for the gig, this was the guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaaVn1Zj7IM

hahaha I know him!

This video seems a bit more 'musical' than what I remember of his performance?

is lorde from new zealand innocent smoothies music?

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also lol @ 0uts0und new music festival

Innocent Smoothies style music:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUx-S-7oV2s7sDyC68DmMsHFoTFp3OGk6&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Twitter&utm_content=Twitter&utm_campaign=Twitter

why is drivemommyblogging one word?

contz have you watched the vauxhall advert linked upthread

i did say it resisted abbreviation but contz is alright

works, yeah

vauxhall ad makes it seem like a terrible, terrible country

not half as bad as that ras trent video though