2011 Edinburgh Fringe
Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer... How I Invented Hip Hop... And Other Faux Pas
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Venue
68: The Voodoo Rooms
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On a one-man mission to introduce Hip-Hop to the Queen's English, Mr. B is delighted to present Chap-Hop.
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On a one-man mission to introduce Hip-Hop to the Queen's English, Mr. B is delighted to present Chap-Hop.
Having spent the best part of a decade bringing some manners back to popular culture, this dopest of fellows will entertain and amuse you with his ingenious stylings.
Aiming to dazzle with dignity, Mr. B takes to the stage with his Banjolele and stiff upper lip to perform ditties of pipe-smoking, high society, Cricket and sexual misadventure, as well as some more well-known pieces from the world of Hip-Hop, re-worked in true Chap-Hop fashion.
Mr. B has fast gained a reputation as an eloquent and entertaining live performer, playing recitals across the UK and into Johnny Continent for the past two years from the Glastonbury Festival to club NME in Paris, from the club in Surrey to the Edinburgh Fringe. His recent video Chap-Hop History received over 100,000 hits in its first week on YouTube. He has just guested on banjolele and vocals on US nerdcore rapper MC Frontalot's album Zero Day.
Performances
| Date | Time | Venue |
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| 3rd Aug 2011 | 23:00 | The Voodoo Rooms |
| 4th Aug 2011 | 23:00 | The Voodoo Rooms |
| 5th Aug 2011 | 23:00 | The Voodoo Rooms |
| 6th Aug 2011 | 23:00 | The Voodoo Rooms |
| 7th Aug 2011 | 23:00 | The Voodoo Rooms |
| 8th Aug 2011 | 23:00 | The Voodoo Rooms |
| 9th Aug 2011 | 23:00 | The Voodoo Rooms |
| 10th Aug 2011 | 23:00 | The Voodoo Rooms |
| 11th Aug 2011 | 23:00 | The Voodoo Rooms |
| 12th Aug 2011 | 23:00 | The Voodoo Rooms |
| 13th Aug 2011 | 23:00 | The Voodoo Rooms |
| 14th Aug 2011 | 23:00 | The Voodoo Rooms |
| 15th Aug 2011 | 23:00 | The Voodoo Rooms |
| 16th Aug 2011 | 23:00 | The Voodoo Rooms |
| 17th Aug 2011 | 23:00 | The Voodoo Rooms |
| 18th Aug 2011 | 23:00 | The Voodoo Rooms |
| 19th Aug 2011 | 23:00 | The Voodoo Rooms |
| 20th Aug 2011 | 23:00 | The Voodoo Rooms |
| 21st Aug 2011 | 23:00 | The Voodoo Rooms |
| 22nd Aug 2011 | 23:00 | The Voodoo Rooms |
| 23rd Aug 2011 | 23:00 | The Voodoo Rooms |
| 24th Aug 2011 | 23:00 | The Voodoo Rooms |
| 25th Aug 2011 | 23:00 | The Voodoo Rooms |
| 26th Aug 2011 | 23:00 | The Voodoo Rooms |
| 27th Aug 2011 | 23:00 | The Voodoo Rooms |
| 28th Aug 2011 | 23:00 | The Voodoo Rooms |
| 29th Aug 2011 | 23:00 | The Voodoo Rooms |
User reviews
A trip through tip top chap-hop from the master of banging Banjolele!
This was a great hour or so, in a lovely venue - upstairs at the Voodoo rooms a great function room up a flight of stairs you would never imagine existed if you walk by it at pavement level - or "on the street" as MrB would know it.
Mr B is the original Gentleman Rhymer, leading light of Chap Hop, the genre that combines deep R&B grooves in a steam powered fusion with a viruoso banjolele performance and received pronounciation of Her Majesty's English.
George Formby didn't live to see the day where he revived his career by making a Santana style duets album with Wu Tang Clan, Snoop Doggy Dogg, DJ Kool and Run DMC, so Mr B had to do it for us, and he does it real well.
This is a heady mix where Gilbert and Sullivan, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Sitwell, Frankie Howerd, Grand Master Flash and Ice Cube all meet up for some Lapsang Suchong and highlights of Test Match Special, followed by Carry On Gangsta.
The show has some new material which seems to be inspired by the second summer of love alumni like The Shamen and The Prodigy, moving chap hop to new psychedelic frontiers.
He keeps it real, with a genuine affection for his inspirations (apparently Nile Rogers endorses him), but applies it to the everyday concerns of the man on the Clapham Omnibus looking forward to the Jet Age.
Cricket, tea, popular radio presenters on The Light Programme, erotic misadventure... there is no topic too raw for Mr B to examine with his gentlemanly grooves and expert diction.
Not only did he stay in character when I met him in the lobby of the Voodoo rooms to discuss his rhyming feud with Professor Elemental (the tea-addled Biggie Smalls of Chap Hop), he seemed to STILL be keeping it real and living the ChapHop life as he walked past me in Grassmarket a few days later on his way from checking out the tweeds at Walker Slater.
Respect in the house, sir.
Check it!Egbert
A great show! Loved his explorations of music (from my generation) from hip-hop to techno....this guy is going to be BIG!