Issue 4

October 2011

DL Publications

L’ARTBe Creative

Education is the passport to the future

For tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today

- Malcolm X

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Hi all and welcome to the fourth issue of L’ART; the ‘Black History Month’ issue. We are celebrating black history

by recognising the work of one talented artist, LL Cool J and finding out how others have been inspired by the greats such as Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Malcolm X; the list is endless.

Join us as we speak to one of the hottest names in the funky house genre; Fuzzy Logik. We were fortunate enough to have a one-on-one chat with the producer and realised just how humble he is.

We also have some exclusive images from Bluey Robinson’s ‘Coming Home’ music video, a review of September’s spec-tacular Miss P Fundraiser and there is a new comedy night on the horizon.

Enjoy!

Letisha & Daniella

ContentsMusic

10 L’ART speak to music producer Fuzzy Logik! Get his

thoughts on the music scene

18 We talk all things Bluey Robinson with ‘Coming

Back’ music video producer Licia Conn

22 Back To Business; see what this Oxford local talent has in store for you this year

Fashion7 Booty’s store beauties show their new Autumn/Winter

lines plus the moment they saw Beyonce

16 FDR Media company launch a hair and beauty show

with a chance to win. Find out how you can get involved

Performing Arts4 The Miss P Fundraiser. This show came back bigger &

better and this is just the beginning

13 Da House of Comedy; Oxford’s new Comedy night with a difference

Reviews 24 Word on the street2

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Saturday September 24th was the day that the Miss

P Fundraiser achieved an-other seal of approval from the audience of over 600 peo-ple. Before the night had started, it was clear that the third annual show was already off to a great start with a new venue and new faces in the crowd. There were also a lot of new faces on stage. Due to watching the previous shows, the founder and committee

members of the Miss P Foun-dation were approached by budding stars who wanted to get involved; even two family

members – Dwight and Gavin Jones – who hosted the first half of the show. So with a combination of returning groups and

new members, the audience were in for a treat with over 17 dancers, actors, groups, singers and soloists ready to perform.

The journey began in Octo-

ber 2009 with the show dedi-cated to Michael Jackson and Broadway. Then 2010 cel-ebrated the different music styles of today and musical theatre. This year Beverley Harry, the founder and creator of the foundation, decided to explore two angles of music; one being the story of Motown and the other, a scripted piece of how music has evolved over the years. Audience members were taken back in time with some old classic tunes such as

Rick James’ ‘Superfreak’, Ray Charles’ ‘I’ve Got A Woman’ and Ella Fitzgerald’s ‘I Get A Kick Out Of You’. These originals were then cleverly played along with their lat-est covers. ‘Superfreak’ was followed by MC Hammer’s ‘Can’t Touch This’, ‘I’ve Got A Woman’ with Kanye West’s ‘Gold Digga’ and ‘I Get A

Kick Out Of You’ merged into Frank Sinatra and Jamie Cul-lum’s own renditions of the song. So overall, the concept of the first half was received very well as it was a trip down memory lane for the adults and a fun music lesson for the younger generation. High-lights of the second half were the Miss P Performers tell-ing the story of Motown, El-lie and Chloe singing Michael Jackson’s ‘Ben’, their favour-ite song from that era, Portia belting out ‘Who’s Loving You’ accompanied by Manu on the piano and Spin Off’s

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contemporary piece to Ste-vie Wonder’s ‘Redemption Song’.

With every show comes a few glitches. Can you believe that four of the dancers set to open the first few min-utes of the show weren’t ready? Yes, once Doyle Academy’s Irish dancers had opened the show, it was the be-ginning of b a c k s t a g e m a d n e s s . But overall the show was a success and the New Theatre has already shown their interest in work-ing with the Miss P Founda-tion in the near future. The foundation also has their own future mapped out where they plan to start a regular musical

theatre group for children as young as five. The time and venue are still to be confirmed but if you keep an eye on their website (www.misspfounda-tion.com), you will be the first

to know about all upcoming events.

In the mean-time the entire Miss P commit-tee are thankful and grateful for the constant support and help that has been offered over the years. Although this f u n d r a i s i n g pe r fo rmance

was initially created to help lo-cal student, Portia Harry with her attendance at the Urdang Academy, your involvement is helping them reach their goal in helping other young, aspiring performers achieve the same dream.

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Attending a London Fashion Week (LFW) 2011 after-

party, conducting a photoshoot, a fashion promo video & see-ing Beyonce; these were all the fun-filled business duties Boo-ty’s Louise Trueman and Kes-hia Roachford crammed into a September weekend.

Fashion followers will know LFW took place last month and a memorable event that took place was the UK launch of House of Dereon.

Founders Beyonce and Tina Knowles were in London & Team Booty were there to wit-ness the party that followed the successful catwalk show.

Keshia recalled on the moment she was less than five metres away from the superstar. Perks on the night included tester per-fumes of her fragrance ‘Pulse’, canapés and a free bar; but see-ing Beyonce in person had to top them all right?

Looking forward to holding Beyonce’s pre-season range, the autumn/winter collection will be in store from Octo-ber. With dresses and evening wear, items from the line will serve as the perfect Christmas gift.

“We saw the line, loved it and so placed an order for the first season,” Keshia reveals.

Booty will be a great location for women to get teasers of the line, not forgetting the en-tire range is in London’s de-partment store, Selfridges.

A few hours sleep later and Team Booty were on loca-tion for their shoot featuring labels Sugar Hill and Bunty & Co. After a morning with hair stylist Kaysha Green and make-up artist Kellie Morgan, it was off to their shoot with photographer Tab Adverts

Sugar Hill has been seen on the likes of X-Factor judge Tu-

lisa Contostavlos and TOW-IE’s Sam Faiers, described by Keshia as being “easy day to night transitional wear”.

Following heavy rain, it was off to a forest setting with models Michaela-Jane Baker, Paris Richardson and Sarah Fairhurst. The weather added to the seasonal look match-ing the crop tops, hoodies and jumpers that make Bunty & Co.

Louise said, “I would like Booty to be remembered as a fashion institution, which brought fun, confidence, vi-brance and quirkiness. A brand which made it possible for the everyday woman to access trends & fashion, seen on their favourite icons”.

Get your labels in-store now & support Booty’s newly launched Youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/bootyboutique.

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L’ART: We have had a listen to your produced

track All My Love with Jada Pearl. How did you come to work with her?

Fuzzy: I like to work with fresh talent and a friend of mine came across Jada’s MySpace page. I really liked what I heard so we sent each other a few messages back and forth, then had a meeting, discussed ideas, and took it from there.

L’ART: You must get a lot of artists wanting to work with yourself. What factors do you look for in an artist that deter-mines whether or not you de-cide to collaborate musically?

Fuzzy: I look for artists that are different vocally and will bring something original

to the table, based on their own recording

experiences.

L’ART: What was it like working with Jada Pearl?

Fuzzy: Working with Jada was great. She knows exactly what she wants and isn’t afraid to experiment to try some-thing new, which is great!

L’ART: What artist do you wish to collaborate with next and why?

Fuzzy: Someone called My-shy because she’s the first art-ist on my new label, World-Class music.

L’ART: We’re both also big fans of the track you released with Egypt, ‘In the Morning’ in 2009. Would you say you have a big passion for making summer anthems for the holi-day raving scene?

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Fuzzy: Thank you. Haha, well I don’t mind when that happens, however, I’m just happy to put out music at any time of the year that people will enjoy, if possible.

L’ART: What projects are you working on at the moment?

Fuzzy: I’m currently setting up my own label and planning a string of releases from both myself and other producers/ artists.

L’ART: The funky scene has become so popular, but in your opinion, what elements make the perfect funky track, one that stands out from the others?

Fuzzy: When you decide to go outside the box and don’t be afraid to try and do some-

thing a little bit different from everyone else.

L’ART: As it’s UK Black History Month, we are re-membering influential beings such as Martin Luther King and Marcus Garvey. In the next 30 years, how would you want people to look back and remember you?

Fuzzy: I would love if people remembered me as being a guy who put out a lot of great mu-

sic that could still be played in 30 years time. A bit like how Motown is still played today! But really, I just love doing what I do and am grateful if people today enjoy it, even if only for the moment, Lol!

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One thing that Oxford lacks is a regular come-

dy show. Sure, we get the odd comedian act that attends the New Theatre or Playhouse but never a recurring event where people can look forward to having a laugh. Many enjoyed the Sweet Me events that Tony Nanton and Paddy Luscombe created over the past few months and now it seems the success of the comedy bug has encouraged an-other night to be born; Da House Of Comedy.

The highly-anticipated show debuts on Saturday Novem-ber 12th at the Regal, 6.30pm and the endless list of comedi-

ans will blow you away. First we have Kat B - who is best known for his appearances on MTV Base and Choice FM, Will E Robo – the man re-sponsible for P. Diddy’s Bad

Boys Of Com-edy and also seen on BET’s Comic View and last, but not least, Ed-die Kadi will be gracing the stage with his side-splitting humour – you have most probably seen him in Anuvha-

hood and heard him on radio with Tim Westwood.

Here’s what promotor Mista BigStuff had to say about cre-ating a comedy night with a difference.

How did you come up with the theme for this night? - Comedy and game-

shows.I’ve been looking at doing a comedy show & broadening my horizons in terms of events. After seeing that urban comedy events worked well in Oxford an oppor-tunity rose to work with an established events organiser from London called HarmzKidz (HK Productions). I felt that we could raise the bar and do it bigger & better. The concept is actually HK Pro-

ductions brand as they launched it before and are looking to make it into a roadshow. The idea of the gameshow just adds something a little extra and different and if this one is success-ful we have bigger plans ahead.

What shall we expect from this night?A night of laughs and frolics that will have you in stitches. Ex-pect a fun-packed, event-filled evening.

Who chose the comedians for the night?It was a collaboration between all partners and a joint decision. We wanted to bring some fresh acts that haven’t been seen in Oxford and expose some of the biggest names in the industry.

Is this event going to be an annual thing?Depending on the success of the night, we’ll plan them at least twice a year minimum, bringing the UK’s biggest and new ur-ban comedians. So come join us and let’s make this an estab-lished thing for Oxford.

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branded salons, it will be a good opportunity for them,” explains event co-organiser Michelle Buabin.

“The main competition will be for those studying hair and beauty. They will be battling to get this one place,” she teases. Details about how you can win will be revealed on the day.

With a company name trans-lating to ‘from dreams to re-ality’, Michelle’s drive and determination gets L’ART’s support in her quest to build her company, and helping the unemployed. Though she makes it perfectly clear that she couldn’t have gotten this far in her quest to become an entrepreneur without the help

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and want you, (especially hair and beauty lovers) there to welcome the event in with them.

The Saturday showcase hopes to open the door for those struggling for work in the hair and beauty profession. Titled B&B, the Beauty Boutique is even offering a work place-ment at one of London’s top hair salons.

“It’s so hard for everyone, es-pecially students, who work so hard to get a job. I thought if I get involved with different

Varied functions, opportunities to win PLUS see futureperformances by music artists known and up & coming

fdrmediaevents@yahoo.co.uk website coming soon!of good friend, Isaac Kikabi.

“He knows everything,” and with experience in events, Isaac offers business and fi-nance knowledge to match Michelle’s ambitious aims and admin skills.

With Toni & Guy and Super-cuts on their list of desired, participating clients, Michelle

hopes these big names in the hairdressing world will offer help for hair stylists of the fu-ture to gain experience, may-be even work.

“A lot of them are entrepre-neurs as well and happy to help,” Michelle says of other participating parties.

All ages and nationalities are welcome on a day where workshops will be held and hair extensions, beauty prod-ucts and make-up will be sold.

Michelle and Isaac hope for a great reception and want to be remembered as young entre-preneurs striving for success in years to come.

Be sure to support them work in aid of a great cause; you! Also keep your eyes peeled for future events and how you and your business skills can get involved.

“I want clienteles to network, benefit themselves and open them up to a different market.

“Any clients that want to know more/ get involved, even in the team, send CVs,” Michelle encourages, with a promise to answer all. “Any and everything I’ll be happy to look over.”

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The name Bluey Robin-son has been hot on a

lot of people’s lips since he graced us all with his unique swag, sweet vocals and boy-next-door image earlier this year. And how could he not be? With his throwback vibe mixed in with his current day twist, Bluey offers genres of pop, dance and blues as he has fun with his musical talent.

Having performed on ITV’s This Morning, at Oxford’s O2 Academy and London’s Not-ting Hill Carnival after par-ty, the music scene has been made that bit more versatile with the singer/songwriter’s presence.

Following on from the popu-lar single ‘Showgirl’, Bluey shared his latest video release for new track ‘Coming Back’ and on learning about a local lady’s involvement with the end product, Team L’ART just had to meet her.

Thinking back to one of her last University projects, Licia Conn never dreamed that less than five years after gradua-tion, never mind one, that she would have experience as a music video producer, work-ing alongside the likes of mu-sic giants Sony, upcoming media channel SBTV and art-ists such as Bluey Robinson. (Did you know the ‘Com-ing Back’ video director is Bluey’s cousin and works for SBTV?)

Having been spotted for her work by director Paris, being a part of the ‘Coming Back’ team stood out to her from other music video offers that she had previously turned down.

“Bluey’s the first artist that I’ve been offered to produce for that I’ve heard of and love his music. He’s got a massive female following, an amazing voice.”

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So what was it like being in the presence of the ‘Com-ing Back’ singer? “He was lovely to work with,” she said. She also admitted that although the college scenario of the video is slightly Ameri-canised, the local high school in Kingsbury, North West London that served as a set for the day, helps to make sure all can relate in Bluey’s quest to get his girl.

Being a film production hon-ours graduate, Licia special-ised in producing at Bourne-mouth Arts Institute and through recommendations and putting her skills out there, she has gone from strength to strength, kick starting a career in media any film graduate would be proud of.

“It’s been amazing. The la-bel are already impressed and are pitching on more videos,” she says of her recent biggest budget gig to date.

With a catalogue of produc-tions, including Consequenc-es of the Kill and a working relationship with SBTV, her “small but loud” persona con-tinues to get her job offers.

“I got lucky to begin with. You have to be a workaholic”, Licia admits, before praising her top organisational skills for being a big help when it comes to her job role.

So let’s talk SBTV. Team L’ART was introduced to the media channel via a recent in-crease in publicity, particular-ly via TV promotion ads, and once Licia informed us that it was through SBTV that she

got the Bluey gig, we gained a greater understanding of the forever growing Youtube channel.

“The guy that started it (Jamal Edwards) is only 21-years-old. He started when he was 16, then it just grew quite quickly in fanbase,” Li-cia explains of the founder and CEO.

“Rappers would be filmed doing 64 bars, hence the name (A64). At the moment they mainly do live acoustic sessions,” Licia says of the filming at present. “They do interviews with art-ists such as Jessie J.”

Commended for ‘repping’ the UK scene like no other, Licia speaks highly of Edwards and his accomplishments. With average views of 400,000 a day, artists are very keen to

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There are also talks of creat-ing another medium, as Licia spoke of thoughts on “opening

up an arm from SBTV called ‘Sudden Black’, purely for music videos”, so keep your eyes and ears open.

With dreams of travelling and

having possible op-portunities to produce for acts such as Alexandra Burke and The Duchess, Licia means to continue as she’s started, whether her career takes her abroad or onto a shoot for the next big thing.

“Appreciation for your work that runs smoothly with no blips, following a 24 hour day; I love working in pro-duction.” L’ART

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BusinessWhat N-Zyme is doing next...

Firstly, how did you get the name N-Zyme?

I learnt that an enzyme was a catalyst that sped up chemical reactions. That’s how I saw myself; as a catalyst to shake things up.

How did you get started with music?Through my older brothers dj-ing at home. Back in the day they were into conscious hip-hop and R&B. That spurred me on to start spitting.

Are you involved with music at University?Yes. I heard some dub-step

from a group called Multi-Steps based at De Montfort University (DMU) and I spit a few bars over some of their beats. I also worked with a band called Cabrillo Beach and they have been banging out tunes and doing all sorts of events over the course of seven months.

What are you studying at Uni?Originally I wanted to do mu-sic but when I was younger I got involved in all sorts of

stupidness and my calling changed. Music is still at the heart of everything I do but I went into youth work because I felt that was the area I need-ed to explore more.

Have you had any experi-ence working with kids?I taught part-time at a school’s kids club. I’m also working alongside Zahra Tehrani at Ark T and help kids with re-cording and writing lyrics. Her label, PG records - who operate outside of Ark T - is non-profit, purely for kids to come in and use equipment at the cheapest rate.

Where do you want your music to take you?I’m happy and content with what I’m doing right now. If it gets big, it does, if not I’ll still be doing it till I’m 50-years-old.

Do you have any recent ma-terial out?I’ve got an EP coming out around Christmas and I hope there will be a big launch party for it. I’ve also got a bench-mark music video for the EP called ‘Crow’.

Do you produce all your music?No I’ve worked with Zahra on ‘Crow’ which is her first ever beat. I’m not really into pro-ducing but we have put a lot of effort into this beat. It’s go-ing to sound awesome.

As it’s black history month, whilst we remember those who did a huge amount for the black community, how would you like to be remem-bered in years to come?As an eccentric within the bounds of the mainstream, who paradoxically went against the grain. Someone who challenged and annoyed discriminatory ideals.

Discover Daniel ‘N-Zyme’ Odong’s University contacts, his work with kids and what he’s planning for Christmas.

“My calling changed but music is still at the heart

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LL Cool J receives this year’s Hip-Hop Icon title at the Black Entertainment Television Awards. Who would you like to see win next year?

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Ladies Love Cool James

“MC Hammer; I know it’s funny but Hammer was one of the first rap stars to cross over into the pop culture, which in today’s world of hip-hop we see a lot.”

Arnold Minott

“The first to come to mind... Busta Rhymes, Q Tip & Snoop Dogg.”

Louis May

“If there are any trailblazers (pioneers) who haven’t had the recognition, I would choose one of them. They paved the way for the others.”

A Jones-Ellis

“Public Enemy for their so-cial criticism. They are revo-lutionary, conscious and edu-cated us with their music.”

Reyna Jones

“Common. From his poetic, spoken word flow and the unique way he uses the English language; we love this hip-hop lyricist.”

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