A
gig
held at The Golden Lion
on Friday 4th March. The event starts at 20:00.
SPILL THE BEANS LIVE! Proudly Presents......
PAPER TIGER LIVE!
Paper Tiger began life many years ago as a bedroom experiment: electronically-produced future hip-hop, broken beat and dub incorporating live instruments and musicians. Since then the project has gone from strength to strength, with their early demos gaining support from Radio 1 (Mary-Anne Hobbs, Huw Stephens), 1xtra (Mistajam, Ras Kwame), Charlie Dark and 6Music (Steve Lamacq). Their free releases, and remixes of DELS (Big Dada), Stac (Wah Wah 45s), Sneaky (Big Chill) and Dark Sky (Black Acre, Ninja Tune) have been met with universal acclaim, and their full debut single will be released on Black Acre in early 2011, with plenty more to follow.
Over the past 18 months, a 7-piece live band has been performing these productions and more to packed out audiences across Europe. The shows are a fully live, uninterrupted mix of spaced-out hip-hop, garage, broken beat, dubstep and more: no sequencers or backing tracks, just furious pushing of buttons and flailing of limbs. The band has shared some of the country's most prestigious stages and festival bills with the likes of Hextatic, Dam Funk, Jaga Jazzist (Ninja Tune), The Heatwave (Rinse FM), The Bug and Warrior Queen (Hyperdub), Rustie (Warp), Tokimonsta (Brainfeeder), Nightmares On Wax, The Herbaliser (Ninja Tune), TM Juke & Alice Russell, The Bays, Bonobo, Krafty Kuts, Freq Nasty, Mary-Anne Hobbs (Radio 1), Benji B (1xtra), Daedelus (Mush), Gaslamp Killer (Brainfeeder) and many more.