{"id":1044,"date":"2011-11-03T18:50:59","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T12:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ingozi.com\/blog\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2012-01-04T19:54:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T13:54:26","slug":"livemusic-presents%e2%80%a6-the-students-union-urban-tour-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ingozi.com\/blog\/?p=1044","title":{"rendered":"Livemusic Presents\u2026 The Students Union Urban Tour 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_776\" style=\"width: 585px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ingozi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/clement-marfo-sutour.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-1044];player=img;\" title=\"Clement Marfo &#038; the Frontline @KCLSU |  Photo: Ellie Hyde\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-776\" src=\"http:\/\/ingozi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/su-urban-banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Clement Marfo @ KCLSU\" width=\"575\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-776\" \/><\/a><a id=\"sutour-urb1\" class=\"hidden\" title=\"Random Impulse @ KCLSU |  Photo: Ellie Hyde\" href=\"http:\/\/ingozi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/random-impulse-sutour.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-1044];player=img;\">image<\/a><a id=\"sutour-urb1\" class=\"hidden\" title=\"Stooshe @ KCLSU |  Photo: Ellie Hyde\" href=\"http:\/\/ingozi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/stooshe-sutour.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-1044];player=img;\">image<\/a><a id=\"sutour-urb1\" class=\"hidden\" title=\"The Stow @ KCLSU |  Photo: Ellie Hyde\" href=\"http:\/\/ingozi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/thestow-sutour.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-1044];player=img;\">image<\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-776\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Livemusic Presents... The Students Union Urban Tour October 2011 - Click for Photos<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The latter half of October saw the more Urban-focused part of the Livemusic Presents&#8230; Students Union Tour. This tour featured up-and-coming acts from the Urban-HipHop-Rap-Grime arena including Clement Marfo and the Frontline (since nominated for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.co.uk\/artists\/clement-marfo-the-frontline\">MTV&#8217;s New For 2012<\/a>) and Stooshe (included in the BBC &#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/music\/soundof\/2012\/artists\/stooshe\/#p00m9nnf\">Sounds of 2012<\/a> listing) These exciting, energetic bands took the stage around six universities in the UK and once again played the final show at the Kings College Students Union &#8211; with a surprise guest appearance from Grime veteran Ghetts onstage &#8230; and Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the soundcheck (no less!)<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Students Unions featured ont his tour were the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Leicester, Sussex, Solent, Reading, Essex and the final venue Kings College<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The tour was wholly advertised by guerilla flyering and using Facebook (mainly through the burgeoning Livemusic Facebook community, the bands own fan pages, and the SU&#8217;s own group pages). The final gig was an awesome celebration of British urban music featuring 5 bands (one Live&#038;Loud band and 4 other bands &#8211; all of whom have been recognised since by MTV &#038;\/or the BBC as the ones-to-watch in 2012) &#8230; the highlight of the evening was Clement Marfo&#8217;s performance of their new single &#8220;Overtime&#8217; featuring a guest appearance onstage by iconic Grime-star &#8216;Ghetts&#8217; &#8211; though arguably the appearance at the soundcheck by ex-alumni of Kings College Archbishop Desmond Tutu took some beating!<\/p>\n<p>See below for a video of the Clement Marfo (and Ghetts) segment &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/33411105?byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ff008d\" width=\"575\" height=\"323\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Watch this video for a montage of interview &#038; live performances from Random Impulse, The Stow, Stooshe &#038; Clement Marfo &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/34505917?byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ff008d\" width=\"575\" height=\"323\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_777\" style=\"width: 585px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-777\" src=\"http:\/\/ingozi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Clemmy-KCLSU-Gfx-Flyer.jpg\" width=\"555\" border=\"0\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Livemusic Presents - The Students Union Urban Tour October 2011. Flyer & Poster<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latter half of October saw the more Urban-focused part of the Livemusic Presents&#8230; Students Union Tour. This tour featured up-and-coming acts from the Urban-HipHop-Rap-Grime arena including Clement Marfo and the Frontline (since nominated for MTV&#8217;s New For 2012) and Stooshe (included in the BBC &#8216;s Sounds of 2012 listing) These exciting, energetic bands took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,100,92,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-direction","category-creative-development","category-livemusic","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ingozi.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ingozi.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ingozi.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ingozi.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ingozi.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/ingozi.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1093,"href":"https:\/\/ingozi.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions\/1093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ingozi.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ingozi.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ingozi.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}