Tonight was a good night, it was a great night.
Q-tip finally returned to London. I never got to see A Tribe Called Quest when they were in there prime. Even though I caught their reunion show at Rock the Bells last year, I know it wasn’t the same as watching them perform when ‘Midnight Marauders’ first dropped, one of the greatest Hip-Hop albums of all time.
Despite this, Q-tip is just as relevant now, as he was then, and his solo stage show is better than most artists in his genre.

I had the honour of warming up the crowd for Q-tip. Tonight it was all about the backpackers, the chin strokers, purveyors of fine Hip-Hop, so I blasted them with an early 90′s Flashback set.

I dropped the classics, but I also reached for the lesser known nuggets by Diamond, Organised Konfusion, etc.
To hear the crowd go crazy every time I played an Illmatic album track kinda says it all.

Virgil from the Good Music/Pastelle fam was in the building! He’s in town to put the finishing touches to the Hudson album artwork.

After a hectic schedule, technicle difficulties, etc. Q-tip hit the stage on time.

He looked like he was feeling the energy.

Of course the Tribe classics went down well, but one of the biggest joints of the night was ‘Move’.

Tonight Q-tip delivered a tight show for his die hard fans, but he also gained a whole generation of new fans. Yes, this is the show that you should have been at.

Big Giles P for putting together a brilliant show! It was a historic night.

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1. A TRIBE CALLED QUEST – BEATS RHYMES & LIFE
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3. LIVE IN THE STUDIO: SINCERE
4. ELECTRIC PROMS: AFRICA EXPRESS @ COKO, LONDON
5. ROCK THE BELLS: A TRIBE CALLED QUEST

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