Devlin

Birmingham Promoters present:
Devlin + special guests
Monday 23rd May @ HMV Institute
Tickets: http://bit.ly/95LEUq

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DEVLIN

After February’s sold out show in the Library, Devlin returns to the HMV Institute. It’s taken only a handful of years for the Dagenham resident Devlin to take his deep, dedicated lyrics out of the confines of East London and set the bar for a new generation of Grime music.

His is a voice that started on Rinse FM aged 13. An imagination that pulled 4 million Youtube views towards it. Quickly garnering what can only be described as a cult following of supporters that value his intelligent and evocative lyrics, in a pool of MCs that all too often spawn monotonous and lacklustre rappers.

He’s the cinematic storyteller with the febrile brain but also the conscious rapper with a complex soul, mixing youthful bravado with social realism. He’s the mirror to a Britain which is not only broken but angry - even when it’s dancing. He toys with imagery expertly; from science, art and algebra to Elvis and the Boston Strangler, with the wryest, rhythmical jokes. “We shot music,” he intones on ‘Shot Music’ (featuring Giggs), “Call it murder on the dancefloor/And we got more bars than Wandsworth and Dartmoor.”

Both a playful and polemical poet, he is famed for “the biggest vocabulary in grime”. Signed to Island Records in early 2010 after a five-label bidding war, his debut album ‘Bud, Sweat & Beers’ is a musical and lyrical state-of-the-art landmark, with Devlin’s worldview beamed through the prism of pioneering producers and beguiling female vocalists, including Lewi White, Naughty Boy, Future Cut and Yasmin.

http://www.officialdevlin.com/

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Tickets available from http://bit.ly/95LEUq
Doors: 7pm
Ages: 14+
For more info visit http://birminghampromoters.com/

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