Brad Strut announces national tour

Brad Strut spent the past weekend performing at the Edinburgh Festival in a UK v Oz soundclash with geezers Mark B (producer for Delta’s The Lostralian, but you knew that) and MC Honeybrown. We’re still waiting to hear the results of this global face-off, but in the meantime, the dates for Brad’s long rumoured Australian tour have been revealed. Taking in 12 dates across this great sunburnt country, the list of support acts Strut is bringing with him is almost as exciting as the news that the man himself is touring.

In a neat twist, the Brisbane show gets supports from Melbourne in the form of Hospice Crew/Broken Tooth Entertainment chiefs Ciecmate and New Sense and the undercard for the Melbourne show is Brisbane’s finest: Lazy Grey with Jake and DJ DCE.

Twelve dates of rawness:

Saturday 22nd September @ National Hotel, GEELONG ft TREM with guests FATTY PHEW ft SPIT – $15 on the door.
Sunday 30th September (Labor Day Long Weekend) @ Colonel Light Hotel, ADELAIDE with DAMO ft WORDS, CLANDESTIEN (WA), DJ KANSEL ft BVA, PATTI & CONSEPS, 2BIZ, K21, EVOLVE & PURPOSE – Earlybird tickets $20+bf from Clinic 116 or www.venuetix.com.au.
Friday 5th October @ Cape York Hotel, CAIRNS with BUTTAHS THE WORDSMITH, DJ MORPHIX – $20 on the door.
Saturday 6th October @ Exchange Hotel, TOWNSVILLE with THE NORTH WARD (SOLDIERS HILL + SUGAR HEIGHTS), TIPPETT STREET HOUNDS – $15 on the door.
Friday 12th October @ Heat Nightclub, PERTH with CLANDESTIEN, HUNTER, WOLVERINE, DJs ROB SHAKER & DEFYRE. Hosted by HUNTER – $25 from 78 Records, The Butcher Shop and Mill Records, $30 on the door.
Friday 19th October @ The Venue, CANBERRA with DOUBLE & BIG LU. Hosted by SHREKK & TOAD – $20+bf pre-sale through nurcharecords.com, $24 on the door.
Saturday 20th October @ Bar Broadway, SYDNEY with SCOTT BURNS, OVERPROOF, DOUBLE & BIG LU, DJ OLOGY. Hosted by SHREKK & RIVALS – $22+bf pre-sale through nurcharecords.com, $25 on the door.
Friday 26th October @ Hotel Great Northern, BYRON BAY with CIECMATE & NEWSENSE (HOSPICE CREW, VIC), BILLY BUNKS (VIC), STRICKNINE, KINGSKONEKTED, VERB ILL & L FLOWS, DJ BOE- $17+bf from Hotel Great Northern, www.byronbayentertainment.com; www.oztix.com.au; Music Bizarre Lismore; ABC Centre Balline 02 6686 2436.
Saturday 27th October – The Waterloo Hotel, BRISBANE with CIECMATE & NEWSENSE (HOSPICE CREW, VIC), BILLY BUNKS (VIC), STRICKNINE, KINGSKONEKTED, VERB ILL & L FLOWS, DJ BOE – $20+bf from Rockinghorse, Skinny’s, Butterbeats, Sunflower Music, Moshpit or www.oztix.com.au.
Saturday 3rd November @ The Western Port, PHILLIP ISLAND ft TREM with guests TRANQUIL ARTILLERY – $15 on the door.
Friday 9th November @ The Espy, MELBOURNE ft TREM & BOB BALANS, with guests LAZY GREY ft JAKE BIZ & DJ DCE (QLD) and more – $15+bf from This Is It and Obese Records.
Saturday 10th November @ Brisbane Hotel, HOBART with MATTY B (WA), EPC, HEADS OF STATE – $15 from Ruffcut Records.

New Suspect Packages Oz radio show

After a hiatus while Disorda relocated his premises, Suspect Packages radio shows are back, with an hour each of new UK and Australian music available for download and streaming. Check the new Australian version by clicking on the ‘Listen’ link on the top right of this page. The player allows you to click through tracks, so if you don’t like what you’re hearing, just skip to the next! Tune in to see how Disorda is repping Aussie hip-hop in the motherland. Features tracks from Brad Strut, Bias B, Muph n Plutonic, Low Budget and a few gems from the new Broken Tooth Entertainment compilation, Dental Records Vol 1.

Exclusive free download: Boltz “Spitfire”

Soulmate Records’ inaugural release, Boltz’ The Wishlist, hits stores next weekend. With a spate of worthy debut solo artist albums in the past month (see also Vents’ Hard To Kill and Damo’s D-Classified Files), you might be having trouble deciding where to spend your hard-earned.

To help you decide we have, for a very limited time, an exclusive download of the track “Spitfire”, as featured in Acclaim Magazine’s quotable column “Sweet Sixteen” this month. The Mules-produced track features a sample you may recognise from last year’s comeback record from a group of Aussie pioneers, but flipped differently and embedded in a thick, funky track that really lets Boltz, aka Bobby Rocketz, get busy with his. Additional production on the album comes from Styalz Fuego, Canada’s Muneshine, Weapon X, Trials of Funkoars and M-Phazes, while Royce Da 5′9″, A-Diction’s Breach, Fergo One and Ken Hell-alter ego Take It Easy Heezy collaborate on the mic.

Stream or download “Spitfire” right here.

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