If you like your street art you’ll surely have heard of Upfest, and if you haven’t -where the hell have you been?!?

Running since 2008 and now billed as “Europe’s largest free urban paint festival; Upfest, is now in its fourth year and is preparing to take over its cultural home Bristol by welcoming over 250 artists and 40 DJs, Groups & Human Beatboxers”, this is a fantastic event, and what’s even better it’s FREE.

Featuring live painting from big names from the national and local scenes, such as  Inkie, Spqr, Cheo, Jody and Lokey alongside a multitude of others, the organisers thought you might need some music to go with the doodling, so have booked a host of talent to spin some tunes as well as l’il ole me.

I’m *cough* ‘headlining’ the inside stage at 1pm @ Tobacco Factory, so pop on down and say hello!

Apologies for the lack of a Ctrl:Alt:TheBeat recording for you this week – technical issues meant that I had to restart the software mid-show, and second time around I didn’t restart the recording.

To make up for it, I’ll chuck a review or two up and another Mixtape Madness for you to tide you over till next week …

Been sitting on this one for a while, as I couldn’t quite believe it was true, but now it’s been announced, I’ll share – those handsome, witty, and devastatingly charming chaps  at Antidote Bristol want to sponsor little old me.

This will see me joining such Bristol luminaries as Ewan Hoozami, Graham Acidic, Benjamin One and Khoi as part of their  collaboration with some of  “the vast wealth of raw underground talent in Bristol” – result!

For those who don’t know, Antidote are a skate company based in Bristol who make a cracking line in tees, artwork and DVDs, and what’s more, they do all of this in the most ethical way they can – all their clothing is made from organic an hemp/cotton blend and printed using water based inks, and all their packaging is sourced from an eco-friendly company. If you like the sound of what they do, check out their site by following the links from here to their site, and showing them some love by buying a tee or two …

Hopefully this should see me playing a few of their events, and sporting some of their rather natty gear!

Here you go, ya vultures – enjoy!

(Update – I’ve removed this from Soundcloud, as I’ve only got so much space, but it’s available on Postbocks here)

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