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Reporter: Dawn Marsden
Date published: 29 June 2010
Lethal Bizzle, Liquid, Retiro Street, Oldham, Friday
BEATS: The 27-year-old grime star shot to fame in 2005 with his breakthrough single “Pow” which topped the UK Dance Chart.
The track also won Best Single at the MOBO Awards and Lethal Bizzle — also known as Maxwell Ansah — narrowly missed out in the Best Newcomer category. Before he broke out on his own, Lethal was part of the More Fire Crew, who’s track “Oi” hit the top 10 in 2002. Lethal joined the line up of the Live 8 concert in Edinburgh in 2005 as well as playing on the NME Rock N Roll Riot Tour in 2007.
He was number five in the NME Cool list 2008 beating Amy Winehouse, Pete Doherty and Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys.
The rapper has graced the stage of many festivals over the past five years and has hinted that a new album is on the way.
Clean-living metallers are back
HARDCORE punk metallers Earth Crisis will bring their New York beats to Manchester.
The lads — Karl Buechner, Scott Crouse, Ian Edwards, Dennis Merrick and Erick Edwards — will hit Moho Live tonight.
The band — who got together in 1989 — are well known animal rights activitsts and promote a straightedge lifestyle which means no drink, no drugs and no animal products.
They split up in 2001 to explore other musical avenues but got back together three years ago and immediately started playing hardcore festivals.
Their latest album “To The Death” came out last year silencing rumours that the reunion was temporary.
Death metal
IF extreme death metal is what you want, it’s extreme death metal you’re going to get when The Rotted come to Manchester.
The intense quartet — Ben McCrow, Tim Carley, Nate Gould and Reverend Trudgill — play at Moho Live on Monday.
The band was formed from the ashes of grindcore ensemble Gorerotted and Cradle of Filth in 2008.
Their debut album “Get Dead or Die Trying” was released in the summer of 2008 to critical acclaim.
The Rotted tackle topics such as drink and drug abuse, isolation and the ongoing struggle for freedom with a trademark sarcastic slant.
Man Must Die and Sworn Amongst will fill the support slots on Monday.
