Thursday, 3 November 2011
Tuesday, 1 November 2011
Top Boy - Brand New Drama
Tonight marks the grand release of a new four part Thriller Entitled Top Boy. Featuring Ashley Walters(Bullet boy),Kierston Wareing (from luther),Kane Robinson and Scorcher no doubt.
“Written by screenwriter and novelist Ronan Bennett (Public Enemies, The Hamburg Cell) and produced by Cowboy Films (The Last King of Scotland, Poppy Shakespeare) for Channel 4, Top Boy is a 4 X 60’ original drama about young lives lived on the edge. The drama looks beyond the headlines about youth crime and delves into the personal stories of those involved”.
SYNOPSIS
Ashley Walters plays Dushane, a clever charming drug dealer/gang leader who has aspirations of becoming “Top Boy” (at the top of the drug dealing food chain). Along with his right hand man Sully (Kane Robinson) they begin their violent quest to take over the supply of drugs in Summerhouse Estate.
The story also follows the lives of Ra’Nell (Malcolm Kamulete) “a bright 13-year-old struggling to create a stable home environment for his mentally ill mother Lisa (Sharon Duncan Brewster)” and his best friend Gem (Giacomo Mancini) who desperately want to become a member of Dushane’s gang. Heather (Kierston Wareing), pregnant and penniless, is determined to give her baby the chances she never had – “even if it means doing one wrong thing to get to the right place”.
MY VIEW
So, here we are in 2011 going onto 2012 and we’re still seeing reincarnations of bullet boy and kidulthood. Why the cynicism I hear you ask,because I feel shows like this negativly portrays the lives of young people growing up in the inner city.Is this all we have? Im surprised that rioting wasn’t somehow worked into the story. We all must remember that this is fiction and not a documentary.
Top Boy will be featured on channel 4 at 10.00pm on the 31st october and will continue for 3 days.
COURTESY OF FLYPRINTS: AN EXAMPLE ONLY
“Written by screenwriter and novelist Ronan Bennett (Public Enemies, The Hamburg Cell) and produced by Cowboy Films (The Last King of Scotland, Poppy Shakespeare) for Channel 4, Top Boy is a 4 X 60’ original drama about young lives lived on the edge. The drama looks beyond the headlines about youth crime and delves into the personal stories of those involved”.
SYNOPSIS
Ashley Walters plays Dushane, a clever charming drug dealer/gang leader who has aspirations of becoming “Top Boy” (at the top of the drug dealing food chain). Along with his right hand man Sully (Kane Robinson) they begin their violent quest to take over the supply of drugs in Summerhouse Estate.
The story also follows the lives of Ra’Nell (Malcolm Kamulete) “a bright 13-year-old struggling to create a stable home environment for his mentally ill mother Lisa (Sharon Duncan Brewster)” and his best friend Gem (Giacomo Mancini) who desperately want to become a member of Dushane’s gang. Heather (Kierston Wareing), pregnant and penniless, is determined to give her baby the chances she never had – “even if it means doing one wrong thing to get to the right place”.
MY VIEW
So, here we are in 2011 going onto 2012 and we’re still seeing reincarnations of bullet boy and kidulthood. Why the cynicism I hear you ask,because I feel shows like this negativly portrays the lives of young people growing up in the inner city.Is this all we have? Im surprised that rioting wasn’t somehow worked into the story. We all must remember that this is fiction and not a documentary.
Top Boy will be featured on channel 4 at 10.00pm on the 31st october and will continue for 3 days.
COURTESY OF FLYPRINTS: AN EXAMPLE ONLY
Artist Overview - Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip is hardly an artist I would listen to, and he isn’t even near my genre of choice. Recently he played a set in Hull, which I unfortunately missed but I have however to redeem it bought his book (Poetry in (e)motion) which I strongly recommend to anyone to buy, with its amazing graphics painting a brilliant picture in your head of every poem. The I downloaded his solo album (No Commercial Breaks) of which only 1000 copies were made, so on his website I have donated to the ‘guilt’ download PayPal button.
Poetry, to most is incredibly boring, stinted and full on dull. But he creates this bridge between song and poetry while keeping the same meaning that all his poems have to offer. Look at any of his work with producer Dan Le Sac and he has produced some of the best beats I have ever heard, especially ‘Letter From God’ and ‘Thou Shalt Always Kill’ however No Commercial Breaks takes more of a look into his poetry and lyrics which are accompanied by the music, not the other way round.
It starts off Jazz with ‘1000 Words’ however this, even though it is jazz it works because of how good the lyrics are, and this is what you listen to with him. He does dark brilliantly, ‘Love Like This’ shows how good he is at this, twisting the subject of love to be a cruel subject, and is very truthful about it. However for something really dark listen to ‘The Magicians Assistant’ on YouTube, a monologue by him, but very powerful.
The only track I dislike on this album is the second one which is jazz: ‘Rat Race’ the jazz overpowers the lyrics unfortunately, and it looses any meaning it had. This isn’t helped by audience interaction which sort of makes it a little cheap to me (sorry Pip)
‘First Time I Met Musik’ is a great Hip-Hop song (forgive me if I’m wrong) with a sample overlaying from what I think is from one of Kanye West’s tracks however I cannot remember which. This is also the only real ‘love’ song on the album, ironically not about a woman, rather the relationship with music he has.
10 tracks of brilliance, if you forgive the use of jazz. It is a must to download for anyone interested in lyrics, and is a brilliant insight into a brilliantly minded man who is somewhat an enigma to most.
Poetry, to most is incredibly boring, stinted and full on dull. But he creates this bridge between song and poetry while keeping the same meaning that all his poems have to offer. Look at any of his work with producer Dan Le Sac and he has produced some of the best beats I have ever heard, especially ‘Letter From God’ and ‘Thou Shalt Always Kill’ however No Commercial Breaks takes more of a look into his poetry and lyrics which are accompanied by the music, not the other way round.
It starts off Jazz with ‘1000 Words’ however this, even though it is jazz it works because of how good the lyrics are, and this is what you listen to with him. He does dark brilliantly, ‘Love Like This’ shows how good he is at this, twisting the subject of love to be a cruel subject, and is very truthful about it. However for something really dark listen to ‘The Magicians Assistant’ on YouTube, a monologue by him, but very powerful.
The only track I dislike on this album is the second one which is jazz: ‘Rat Race’ the jazz overpowers the lyrics unfortunately, and it looses any meaning it had. This isn’t helped by audience interaction which sort of makes it a little cheap to me (sorry Pip)
‘First Time I Met Musik’ is a great Hip-Hop song (forgive me if I’m wrong) with a sample overlaying from what I think is from one of Kanye West’s tracks however I cannot remember which. This is also the only real ‘love’ song on the album, ironically not about a woman, rather the relationship with music he has.
10 tracks of brilliance, if you forgive the use of jazz. It is a must to download for anyone interested in lyrics, and is a brilliant insight into a brilliantly minded man who is somewhat an enigma to most.
The Coming Weeks Issue:
- Wyke & Times - Letters From Students about college and life in general, a must read interactive discussion for everyone to be involved in.
- Gig Guide - We take a look at Hull's coming week of gigs by local bands and anyone coming to play here.
- Student Review - We ask students to roadtest their brand new phone in the first week of having it, and tell us what they think of it and how it works.
- And Of Course - Loads more stuff!
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