Oh THAT time of year!??!!?! Sheeeeit!

Yes indeed, people.

There we were enjoying a nice summer, sun shining, birds tweeting away, walking down Brick Lane in a bright yellow wife beater with some vintage shades, next thing you know old man winter's got an ice cold foot in the doorway tryin'a gatecrash the party.

Christmas.

I hate it, the songs (saw Cliff Richards video for 'Mistletoe and Wine'- swear down he ends it with the same dance they did in 'The Wickerman' when they made a human barbeque out of poor old Edward Woodward- PAGANS!!), you hear them in every shopping centre, bunch of bogus Santa's at large in town.

Good thing we just got the Fenchurch sponshorship, eh! Ran up in their store in Covent Garden on Tuesday and hooked my broke ass UP! Off to see 'em launch their Autumn Winter Collection at a spot in Old Street this evening. Pictures to follow..

At least now I got a lil one Christmas has some meaning again. I'm actually going hunting for a tree and shit, even offered to do Christmas dinner! Yeesh!!!!

Got a mix for you from dope producer and good friend Funkineven. If you get the chance peep his shit. This mix is quite House'd out, but i'm feeling that shit more and more nowadays so i hope you'll enjoy it as much as i do. Got some dope shit on there, even ends it with some bars from Matter!

http://www.sendspace.com/file/dzkf01

Til later!

End of UK tour!!

Foreign Beggars next UK dates will be supporting Prodigy at the end of January 2010! Thanks to everyone that came out, the promoters, agents and everyone else that helped to make this our best UK tour yet. Stand out shows include the launch at Fabric, Leicester, Cardiff, Sheffield and Bristol Thekla.
The final weekend ended in us being early, for the first time in 7 years, for the train back to London, and look where we got kicked off..




nice voice bruv..

Just had to put this up, unbelievable

VIDEOGIOCO animation and concept by Donato Sansone
http://www.myspace.com/milk
sound design by Enrico Ascoli
http://www.enricoascoli.com

Foreign Beggars 2 Ghosttown Studios

Sat October 31st-Leeds Urban Festival with Skepta, Lethal Bizzle and Killa Kela

CONTACT VIDEO!!

Sup all,

So in recent news, I'm a new Dad, hence i missed out on Croatia and China (although the latter felt more like the bookers didn't want my black ass to come!). We got the album launch popping off this Friday at FABRIC!

And finally this is out and looking to make some serious impact!

Shouts to director Tony Truand, Noor, Badman camera dan JP, the ever ingenious Colette Mcwilliams for the set design, and Harri from Shoot UK for helping us put this shizzle together.

POW!

A letter from China

Dear Mum and Dad,

sorry to not have been in touch i took my shaver charger instead of my phone charger..(: at least the personal grooming is at an all time high this trip! plus i had the most thorough ever haircut where they massage your head first and clean your face and ears, Mum you know you always told me 'If it doesn't feel right James, don't do it'.. well a man cleaning out my inner ear with his pinky felt wrong..

we're in Chengdu, 12 million people and i never even heard of it.. they like hiphop out here, but not as we know it- have to throw a lot of very obvious tunes in there that they know, not just do Beggars tunes, but we flip it up with some Roger, Noisia, Dam Funk, Wiley, Nirvana , keep it moving with beatbox/scratch interludes, and pav chatting chenglish.. they loved it

today it was the 60th yr independence celebrations... incredible.. next level nationalisation indoctrination going on.. everyone waving their flags and singing songs about 'beautiful land of china, with rivers of happiness flowing through the mountains of our resolution' etc etc..

its warm here, but you never see the sun- too covered in smog, but the airs noway as bad as in beijing, oh.. Zani just informed me 'its the topography of the nearby mountains influencing cloud cover'.

The mountains, and tibet are really close, we're going to see the biggest buhda in the world tomorrow, he's carved in a mountain.
still on uk time which is gonna make getting up at 6 in the morning, in 3 hours time interesting..

2 things Chengdu is most famous for; 1. they have pandas here, 2. Everything is served with a bucket of chilis. Pigged out on street barberque with Hakeem and Rachel from Djini.com.. at first hesitant at being handed a bloodied plastic basket, raw hunger took over... they have aubergine, mushrooms, tofu, veg, all the meats.. its just best to eat it and eat not think too much about what bit, or species it is (hold tight Zani with the duck feet), besides they cover it all in chili and spices. 3 hrs later the gut still feels firm though, hope it holds out.. this girl tonight told us about this place in sechuan province nearby where they eat live baby mice brains- im told they have the consistancy of toothpaste... and yes Mum they eat dogs too ):

being well looked after by Jennifer @chinaunlimited.. looking forward to Nang Jin in 2 days..

Hows the canal boating?

lots of love

James