Pleasingly, some of the weekend's unexpected thrills come from the subversive outer limits of rock and metal, not least Hacktivist, whose bullish melding of syncopated mutant metal and rapid-fire grime vocals causes a minor riot on Sunday afternoon.
Even down to its claustrophobic production values and uncompromising, rapid-fire beats, grime thrived in part because it described the flaws in New Labour's otherwise confident, wealthy, "modern" Britain.
The biggest cheer of the afternoon arrived when the crowd thought, mistakenly, that Port Vale had equalised at Underhill, then Lincoln's lone striker Ashley Grimes fired over with 15 minutes left before the substitute Reece Connolly sent in Guttridge for another crisp finish – this time from 14 yards – four minutes from the end.
Grimes fired back Thursday, saying that "the only job that [McConnell] has cared about over the past 30 years is his own".
Alabama journalist Roger Shuler has written back-to-back stories on his Legal Schnauzer blog summarizing reports of the congressman's goals, and breaking news of the Grimes firing.
Piers Plowman, chancing one summer day upon a field of folk; John Clare's shepherd, observing cabbage fields and nesting birds; D.H. Lawrence's taciturn miners, washing off their grime before the fire.
The Zip Files are just the foundation". For a mere foundation, the songs are high quality: from avant-garde grime with quick-fire MC-ing (Elusive Intro), to unabashed chart-toppers (Aim High), to tracks sampling The Muppets (Gonzo), the gargantuan Zip Files span the range of Wiley's talent.
For a mere foundation, the songs are high quality: from avant-garde grime with quick-fire MC-ing (Elusive Intro), to unabashed chart-toppers (Aim High), to tracks sampling The Muppets (Gonzo), the gargantuan Zip Files span the range of Wiley's talent.
The grime world is on fire and speaking of Job Centres and waste chicks, Lady Sov may have just landed on her three-striped hooves.
Grimes, as he tries to fire back, ends up blinding himself.
In 2005, I helped start what was probably the first weekly grime party in the world, Pure Fire, in the basement at SubTonic.
