Hey there!

Thank the Lord, the inevitable has happened. Trying to market a rap-based act (with a song dissing indie kids) TO indie kids was always gonna end up about as popular as selling bagels and chicken soup in a mosque! And though they kinda tolerated us for a while, the public schoolboys and girls at the NME have closed ranks, slewed our album with a 3 out of 10 rating and called us chavs etc etc. You know the deal by now people. have to say, we were waiting for this day to come, and now it has, so we can MOVE ON! Fucking sweet as! We will be taking control of our own shit and no longer worrying about toeing the line and upsetting industry bods. If you're reading this, it's probably quite likely that you like what we're doing, which is good enough for us! Cats in Europe seem to dig it, and understand it too. This ain't so much about music as it is about class prejudice and stereotypes. I don't know if "chavs" are meant to have read the work of William Burroughs, have social science degrees or be qualified computer engineers, for instance, but hey, we're obviously "chavs", so there ya go!

This is good for us. We can break away. We are not The Streets, Jamie T, Just Jack or anyone else. We're two dudes who can do a lot of stuff between us, have wide interests and a lot of possibilities. Fuck being pigeonholed. And fuck pigeonholing YOURSELF to make journos and record company bods' jobs easier. Let us tell you what's happening in our world right now...

- we have a monthly night at the legendary Basics in Leeds, starting on the 17th March. We were gonna be doing the Basics Live nights, DJing inbetween bands, but now we have our own thing, where we can book acts we want to see, and play a massive variety of shit hot music and have a real party! This is a good thing. More info soon.

- we are DJing as the "Look Busy Sound System", with Serato, Ableton, effects and microphones.

- we are in the process of getting together with other creative people we know and drafting a proposal to go out to schools, youth groups and the like, telling the kids how to get into music, the basics of MCing, production, DJing, and video production. We want to try and inspire them and give 'em the confidence to express themselves and maybe make a living doing it too. It ain't about kissing cokehead journalists and promoters arses...it's about giving something back, having some principles and having some fuckin FUN doing it too. More about this as it comes together. If you live in the Leeds, UK area and think you could help us with this, or sound interested, then get in touch, we'd love to hear from ya!

- fingers crossed, we will have a BIG weekly Friday club night in Leeds starting soon. We really really hope this comes off coz it will be amazing.

- we're going to work on a straight up ignorant grimey as fuck mixtape featuring dozens of MCs, called "Threats And Boasts". Nastiness and hardcore all the way, strictly entertainment. If you are gully enough to have your bars feature on this, then, again, GET IN TOUCH!

- I, Noah, was close to throwing in the towel with Yes Boss. The extraneous bullshit was dragging me and G down. Getting 3 out of 10 in the NME was the most liberating thing that could have possibly happened. Fire in the belly is back, big time! This is war! We were never comfortable with this "token rap group" thing...

- we will be collabing with some good people too.

Onwards and upwards! A big thank you to everyone who understands and appreciates what we're doing, or even just WANTS to understand! And a massive thankyou to the NME for slewing us and showing your true colours, and reminding us why we started making music in the first place! (Clue: it wasn't to be able to smoke rocks backstage with Carl Barat, or whatever...)

Fuck 'em! Long live creativity! Long live dissent! THINK FOR YOURSELF, SCHMUCK!!

GAV AND NOAH