#NewMusicMonday - Nneka "Suffri" and Scala live show details

Nneka live show at Scala, King's Cross


Nneka's extremely successful second album No Longer At Ease was released in the UK last August. It was an album described as "the most invigorating, innovative and powerful release of the year" by the Independent, that gave birth to a bonafide hit single with Heartbeat reaching BBC Radio 1's A-List; and saw her awarded a 2009 MOBO Award for Best African Act. Amazon.co.uk recently included Nneka in their 2010 Emerging Artists alongside Ellie Goulding, Delphic and The Drums.

Having toured almost non-stop she is now making waves in the USA. SPIN have named her one of the 10 artists to watch in 2010, Rolling Stone gave a four star review and a David Letterman 'Breakout Artist' performance saw her reach her biggest audience yet.

It's a testament to the strength of Nneka's talent that her success has grown by word of mouth, on the quality of her albums and the intensity of her live performance. She is not a big-label product, forced down people's throats by marketing dollars.

Her audience - and there are hundreds of thousands of them, across two continents - have sought her out, because there will always be a demand for music that does more than just entertain, but touches something universal. As she puts it herself: "I do it in a sweet way - but I sing to speak the truth."

Nneka plays London's Scala on Wednesday 28th April.

Venue: Scala, 275 Pentonville RD, Kings Cross, London, N1 9NL
Info: 020 7833 2022
Date: Wed 28 Apr 2010
Doors: 19:30
Tickets: £12.50 + booking fee in advance from ticketmaster.co.uk

http://www.nnekaworld.com 
Nneka on MySpace

Merry Christmas from TooMuchFlavour to all our readers!

To all our readers,

We'd like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Thank you for your support throughout 2009. It's been a great year.

Enjoy our festive and appropriately flavoursome e-card below.

Warm wishes to everyone. Peace, love, and unity.

The TooMuchFlavour team

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Thanks to MoreThanAStance for linking to the ElfYourself site.

For more Elf Yourself Christmas fun, here's what happened when the elves took over New York City:

Belated weekend gift: Brick City Live Podcast download

What with all the updates this week, I know this one is a little late, but I feel it's still worth checking out.

A while back I headed to Brick City Boutique at the Elbow Room in Islington to check out the battles going down, and met a lot of cool people.

On of them was a guy called Vice. Vice runs Street Soul Productions, which plays nothing but underground, authentic hip hop.

Vice hosts his own podcast show. He caught up with me, as well as a few of the other people attending BCB, one of them being the legendary Skinnyman, to interview us for the Brick City podcast episode.

You can listen to the podcast by clicking the link below, and if you like what you hear, make sure to subscribe for future podcasts.

Flave


Basement Sessions: Brick City Minipod 1


Check out the b-boy battle from Brick City Boutique:

Insane in the mebraaane!

INSANE IN THE BRAIN!!

To give you something to BOUNCE about (sorry about the puns, I'll stop!) and to celebrate the return of the hip hop take on "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest," go check out our feature on the main site.

You may also go crazy (sorry, I said I'd stop) about the competition we're running.

Sign yourself up to the mailing list and we'll enter you in to a draw to win a signed Bounce "Insane In The Brain" poster.

Good luck!

Peace,

Flave

We're Excited About... Insane In The Brain

Want to try dance? FREE classes: Taste The Place, this weekend

You're a 'fan' of TooMuchFlavour because you're into some sort of urban lifestyle, but how many of you have yet to try actually giving dancing a go?

Lil Tim, representing Jonzi D Productions, Marso, representing Company Decolage, and Zoo Nation will be giving FREE workshops this Friday at The Place, Euston. FREE!

So whether it's your first time trying dance, or you're just brushing up on your basics, check it out.

Read our article for more info and why we're excited about it!

We're excited about... Taste The Place

Get It On The Floor review and video

We reviewed "Get It On The Floor" at Hackney Empire and caught up with the group they say is the future UK Krump for a quick video.

Go check it out on the site now! The video is pure joke!



Flave

TooMuchFlavour: Review: Get It On The Floor 2009

Why don't you come see how we're doing?

Remember the other day I said the site was being updated?

Why not have a look at how it's going (still in testing process) at the Breakin' Convention section of the site?

I've incorporated a few of the new things to these pages including the new header and colour scheme, plus the widgets I've been giving so many props to (for this I thank Twitter!), meaning you can view updates of the BC tour as they're posted.

It's still a work in progress, but feel free to express your opinions.

Flave

A change gon' come

With that change you're guaranteed faster loading times and fewer page errors.

That's right, TooMuchFlavour will undergo a gradual facelift over the next week to bring the site design more in line with the promo material we put out - how many people here have I handed a flyer or business card to, only for you to visit the site and it looks nothing like the flyer design? EXACTLY!

Originally the site was made with pre-designed templates which were modified by me, which explains why the page image loads over another page image! The new design will fix this, and stop distorting the background (the 'grimey' theme has got to go!).

Page dimensions will now stretch the full width of a standard PC monitor (1024 pixels) giving more space and less clutter, and the use of widgets will simplify site updates by linking to the 2MF news Twitter, provide tidier advertising, and allow you to sample and buy MP3s from Amazon.

Some of the pages have already undergone a transformation. The biggest change will be the home page. To simplify things, all pages converted to the new style will keep the same address as before, so old links won't die.

The redesigned site is going to creep up on you... watch out for it!

Tweet Tweet!

Twitter is a bit like Marmite, you'll either love it or hate it.

Keeping up with the trends (even though I knew of it before the 'bandwagonning' it's getting now), I've set up a Twitter page.

At the moment I've added a 'widget' to the site's home page where you can view the latest tweets. When I redesign the site it will seamlessly interweave into the very fabric of TooMuchFlavour.

And in case you missed that hint - TooMuchFlavour is getting a redesign.

So Tweeters, if you're on there, find me.

"toomuchflavour" or just click the link.

Flave

Post-Breakin' Convention Updates!

I *heart* Breakin' Convention, enough to dedicate 1000+ words to the matter (unlike the newspapers...)

Going that one step further, I took it upon myself to get down to Sadler's Wells on Thursday, Friday, Saturday (even though I didn't have a ticket!) Sunday AND Monday, right through to the after party so I could immerse myself in the whole festival!

There was a lot of BC love. All of the artists performing found time to sign autographs and chat with fans (even though some got murked!), and what's better, they even found the time to talk with me - on camera!

Check out the review of BC'09 and see if you made it into the vox pops reel



Peace,

Flave

Breakin' Convention 2009 - Last part of Jonzi's Diary (for London, at least)

Good evening 'fans' of Too Much Flavour.

If like me you went to the Breakin' Convention after party last night you'll be experiencing the same disrupted body clock I am right now. The party didn't stop 'til 3 in the mooorning with true LEGENDS partying with the fans.

Ken Swift and the VII Gems, Mr Wiggles, Salah and the gravity defying Junior were all in the place to be, while members of Flying Steps were seen hanging at the bar, Company Salama and Lil' Tim threw down in the circles.

It was something else.

The after party sadly meant the end of the London BC festival before the tour (it's already at Wycombe as I type) meaning it was the last video diary I could do. Keep yourself entertained by watching the video (linked to this update) and peeping the photos from around the venue on the Facebook page.



Peace,

Flave

New BC'09 episodes up on YouTube

Breeeaaakin' Convention!!

For those of you who couldn't get tickets to BC'09, you can peep the coverage at the main Too Much Flavour site with the BC'09 playlist loaded on the home page, or the dedicated Jonzi's Diary page.

More videos will go up as I edit them (none of the actual show)!

Flave

Breakin' Convention updates! IT IS SOLD OUT!

Hey! Your first update is in the title - there are no more tickets for the London leg of the London leg of the BC tour. If you want a ticket that badly, you'll have to wait in a very long returned ticket queue!

Following that, the ENORMOUS mural at Sadler's Wells is being finished off as I type. Photos can be found in the Breakin' Convention album on the Too Much Flavour Page. It scales from the top floor down to the lower mezzanine. Even if you don't have tickets, you should still pop in to Sadler's just to see it.

Aaand thirdly, I caught up with Jonzi D yesterday to film the next entry of the critically acclaimed (on a somewhat minor scale) Jonzi's Diary.


I'll see you on the other side of the weekend, with news, photos, and reviews.

Peace,

Flave

Midweek updates!

Oh, how we love a midweek update!

No doubt a lot of editorial energy has been spent chasing Breakin' Convention EXCLUSIVES (so EXCLUSIVE I had to put it in capitals) which have thus far included SALAH and b-boy KEN SWIFT, plus the diary of JONZI-D - the reason the whole Breakin' Convention thing happened.

I hope you're enjoying them - there's more to come! Make sure to get your tickets before they sell out.

Older notes have been dusted off too, and I've managed to get some stuff on Battle of the Year up too.

Have yourself a midweek read, and if you like any of the articles, remember you can click the Share button to put a link to them on Facebook.

Flave

More Breakin' Convention exclusives!

Party people -

Breakin' Convention is less than one week away - so another feature has been added to the Breakin' Convention section on the site.

This time it's the legendary Salah from France telling us about his piece called "The Dream of Gluby"

Meanwhile, Jonzi D has been recording the whole process of preparing for BC'09 in Jonzi's Diary.

Hit up the site and check them out!

Flave

More Breakin' Convention exclusives!

Remember when I said there would be some Breakin' Convention exclusives coming to TooMuchFlavour?

We've got another one!

"Jonzi's Diary" is a daily record of what Jonzi D, the brainchild and artistic director of Breakin' Convention gets up to before the show comes to London for the May bank holiday weekend.

You won't find this anywhere else!

Go to the site and check it out - updated daily.

Flave

This Easter weekend...

Get yourself down to Southbank Centre which will be holding TWO events - with a lot of stuff to do for free!

The first is B.Supreme 09, celebrating the contribution women to hip hop culture, featuring a gang of special guests, battles, and a free popping, breaking and house classes.

The next is BoxCon 09, the international beatbox convention, where emcees will astound and amaze you with their microphone skills.

As I said, most of these events are FREE to check out (except for the main shows and concerts, all reasonably priced under a tenner), so get on down!

News and updates are on the site.

Have a great Easter

Flave

Thinking hats on! Ask questions for Myo Sung

About Myo Sung (for Breakin Convention)

"The festival also features the return on Sunday of Korea's MyoSung with their stunning The Revolution Will Not Be Institutionalised, which was a major highlight of the festival last year."

Myo Sung closed Breakin Convention last year to a standing ovation, and they're back again this year!

Thinking hats on. If you don't know about them, click the attached link to find out!

Your questions please!

Sloow updates, sorry!

If you've been following my status updates on Facebook, you'll know about the trouble my internet is giving me at the moment. It's causing me great grief when trying to update the site, I can't apologise enough.

Anyway, all has been busy at 2MF HQ, and over the past fortnight I've interviewed two HUGE names in the dance world for a feature coming up next month (more of that in the future).

Two new updates for you, we have a review of the "Hip Hop Surgery" night from Jonzi D Productions, as featured on the 2MF listings flyer for March. Have a read, and make sure to join the Jonzi D mailing list so you don't miss out on future Surgery events!

Second is a review of "The Grey Area," another show featured on 2MF listings, contributed by Archie Jay (that's a pseudonym!), making her début to the world of online reporting. A special shout goes out to her for reviewing, it was kind of difficult for me seeing as I was in it!

More updates and announcements coming soon!

Peace,

Flave

Get your questions in for Salah!!

You have until Thursday midday!

Salah is one of the most diverse funk stylers in the b-boy world, down with Vagabonds crew from France, and as a solo act.

He's won numerous competitions as a popper (World Champion 07) and gained further recognition by winning France's version of "Britain's Got Talent," "Incroyable"

Seeing is believing! Check out the attached video to see Salah in action.

Post questions to my wall or message me.

Flave