英国说唱朋克RAT BOY 2019巡演上海站

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Rat Boy乐队是来自英国Essex，由主唱Jordan Cardy，Liam Haygarth（贝斯），Harry Todd（吉他兼键盘）和Noah Booth（鼓手）组成。这支乐队以其独特的嘻哈与独立摇滚的混合闻名于世，Rat Boy获得NME杂志最佳艺人奖后，在2016年真正成名。 Rat Boy于2017年8月发行了首张专辑“SCUM”。他们Revolution这首歌的MV被NME评为最佳MV提名，随后在BBC Radio 1， X电台（原XFM）和BBC电台频繁出现。在BBC Sound Of2016 Longlist一年一次的调查中，Rat Boy从100名以上的音乐人中脱颖而出成为在未来12个月内最成功的音乐人。

2017年8月11日，Rat Boy发行的首张专辑SCUM 以取得商业成功。这张专辑最初是以13首曲目发行，随后豪华版的25首曲目也随之发行了。豪华版包括超过15分钟的短剧，样本和插曲，以及一首以悲伤为特色的独立音乐歌曲。

Jordan Cardy作为乐队灵魂对自己的音乐有着自己的独特方法，与众不同的音乐类型受到英国广大年轻人的疯狂追捧，在英国年轻人调查中没有人不知道Rat Boy，他们会说如果你不喜欢RatBoy你不是过时了就是老了~！随之Rat Boy热度高涨你都会在Glastonbury，Reading and Leeds ，Truck ，Community，summer sonic，这些音乐节上看到他们，RatBoy在2017年还为oasis的Noel Gallagher 英国巡演作为嘉宾参与演出。

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Rat Boy’shomegrown raps paint a lyrical dissertation of suburban Britain. It’s a placein which stepping onto public transport is akin to entering a battlefield: a land of wannabe gangsters, muggings andsportswear casualties.

TheChelmsford resident observes the society around him and encapsulates hisenvironment in songs which flow with wit and caustic disparagement. He’s firmlywithin the storytelling lineage of Britain’s great lyricists who represent someof his greatest influences: Ian Dury, The Clash, Squeeze, Blur and The Streets.

Rat Boy(real name Jordan Cardy) is a product of his background. Life after schooloffered little: after going to art school, he faced a succession of rejectionsfrom retail work which finally culminated in him landing a job in Wetherspoons.“I was in the kitchen – they didn’t let me out the front because I was tooweird,” he recalls. “I wrote a lot of lyrics in Wetherspoons, just sitting at thetable writing about people in there. Afterwards, I’d ride my bike home atnight, and stop to record drunk people’s conversations. Eventually I gotfired.”

Rat Boyfound solace in music. If he wasn’t hanging around the skate park, he’d befound trying to teach himself Logic on his mum’s computer, and graduallyevolved his skills from that of an absolute beginner to become someone whocould bring his flood of ideas to life. He had little other choice. “Every weekI tried to start a new band but I couldn’t get people to rehearse. So I dideverything myself.”

The resultwas The Mixtape, which distilled his small-town tales into three minutemash-ups of hip-hop and indie topped with his half-rapped, half-hollered Essexvocal tones. Rat Boy performs almost everything – vocals, bass, keys andproduction – throughout its five riotous tracks. “I can’t play drums, though.Just strings and fingers.”

Its songsreflect reality: “blokes getting woman pregnant and then not bothering aboutthe kid” (Sportswear) and the fear of doing the same dead end job for his wholelife (Carry On). Inspiration strikes randomly, so Rat Boy carries a notebook(“it’s kind of embarrassing”) and will often interrupt conversations to “writesome shit down on my phone.”

His tracksare often intercut with samples from films such as Withnail and I, Scum andMade in Britain. Those films are favourites of his father and, he notes, are wellsuited to his music. That quotes from these long passed visions of Britishsociety can fit seamlessly into the modern day is a damning indictment of wherewe’re at in 2016.

“I’ve alwaysbeen interested in history and shit,” he adds. “I listen to a lot of old musicand watch old films. I’m interested in skinhead culture, mods, Quadrophenia andstuff like that. Shane Meadows is sick too.”

Aftersending his mixtape out to any blog he could find, he suddenly received adeluge of “weird e-mails from record company scouts.” Amidst them all, however,he found a notable fan in the shape of Babyshambles bassist Drew McConnell. “Ididn’t know what was going on, but he set me up talking to managers. I didn’teven know what a manager was. He lent money to come to meetings in London afterI lost my job. He’s really helped me out.”

The stakesare higher, but he’s sticking with his singular style. Although debut singleSign On was a co-production with James Dring, he’s producing everything else himself;he feels that co-writes would dilute his style; plans to continue to create allartwork himself (inspirations include skateboarding artist Mark Gonzales andSnoop Dogg associate Darryl “Joe Cool” Daniels) as well as the accompanyingmusic videos; and he has formed a band in which he’s joined by three friends.

“We alwaysget kicked out of everywhere,” he laughs. “If there’s four of you, you can bemore of a dick.”

Other songscontinued where The Mixtape left off. His debut single Sign On tackled theinsecurity of being unemployed and hoping that his music career takes off,while the follow-up Fake ID offered a stream-of-consciousness tale of anoutsider who gets mugged after being denied entry to a club.

The reactionthat followed proved that Rat Boy possessed the ability to connect with a hugeaudience, with widespread support at Radio 1 backed by critical acclaim fromthe likes of Noisey, NME, Q, The Fader and DIY. Meanwhile, his anarchic liveshows have also sparked chaotic scenes at the Reading and Leeds Festivals aswell as on tour with The 1975 and Circa Waves.

2016commenced with the kind of acclaim that suggests that Rat Boy stands on thecusp of a major breakthrough.

Not only washe featured on the influential BBC Sound of 2016 longlist, but he also featuredfor MTV’s Brand New For 2016 shortlist and collected Best New Artist at the NMEAwards after been nominated alongside the likes of Halsey and Hinds.

For his recent single MOVE, Rat Boy resurrected the boisterous bounce ofthe big beat era for the modern age, with his British Beastie Boy rap declaring“Everything’s free if you want it to be / Take my MP3 illegally and MOVE!”

Rat Boy personally asked Dillon Markey to direct the track’saccompanying stop-motion music video. The Los Angeles-based director, animatorand inventor is best known for his work on Robot Chicken and for FreshGuacamole, his Academy Award-nominated collaboration with animation artist PES.

This yearhas also seen Rat Boy take several bold steps forwards with his live show.After receiving a rapturous reception at his sold-out headline show at London’sHeaven (“A raucous atmosphere that’s rare at gigs these days,” noted TheTimes), Rat Boy embarked upon the prestigious NME Awards Tour on a bill thatwas headlined by Bloc Party and completed by Drenge and Bugzy Malone.

Similarscenes were ignited when Rat Boy stepped out in April and May for his biggestheadline tour to date which featured a major London show at the Electric Brixton.

Afterplaying the 6 Music Festival in Bristol, Rat Boy was also in the first wave of artists to be announced for thisyear’s Reading and Leeds Festivals alongside the likes of Red Hot ChiliPeppers, The 1975 and Slaves. He’ll also hit Glastonbury and Latitude for thefirst time this summer.

Other festival plans already include Japan’s famous Summer SonicFestival, plus Hurricane and Southside in Germany, and Best Kept Secrets in theNetherlands.

Even morefresh opportunities are on the horizon for a young man who until recentlyhadn’t even left the country. “It was crazy to meet Mike Skinner – when I wassix-years-old I knew all of the words to Original Pirate Material and used torap along to it. He told me that me that once you go abroad, you realise whatthe UK is really like. If I get to see different cultures, I’m hoping that whenI come back I’ll see stuff that I’ve never noticed before.”

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