‘Deeper Shade Of Soul’! ‘No Kid’! ‘Demagogue’! ‘Good Grief’! ‘Fast Lane’!

This event is part of HIP-HOP 50. AB is celebrating the 50th birthday of one of the most exciting cultures in recent music history. The programme includes concerts, talks, a podcast series, film screenings, workshops and more.

Finally! After Urban Dance Squad broke up in 2006, The Silver Surfering Rudeboy (singer/MC) has decided to return to performing again, with only UDS tracks. Come again? Urban Dance Squad was a Dutch band that was one of the very first to make a cross-over of rock, blues, reggae combined with hip-hop in the late ‘80s. Never before seen. Many foreign acts, including Rage Against the Machine, were later inspired by UDS. Their debut ‘Mental Floss For The Globe’ (from 1989) is an über classic. Feel free to call it a pop music standard!

You can expect an explosive set with tracks from all the Urban Dance Squad albums, the enormous energy of singer/MC Rudeboy, and the unique mix of guitar and hip-hop.

Ready for ‘Deeper Shade Of Soul’, ‘No Kid’, ‘Demagogue’, ‘Good Grief’ and ‘Fast Lane’?

In the press

“Urban Dance Squad was one of the first major innovators in the genre, and clearly a stylistic precursor, in many ways, to Rage Against the Machine. This early mix of different genres is a blueprint for everything great about rap-rock (and everything bad, too, but Urban Dance Squad are actually great). This is what happens when guys influenced by The Beatles, James Brown, Frank Zappa and Public Enemy form a band.” (Sputnik Music)

Sat 7 May 22

New date: Rudeboy plays Urban Dance Squad ft. DJ DNA

+ Elefant

‘Deeper Shade Of Soul’! ‘No Kid’! ‘Demagogue’! ‘Good Grief’! ‘Fast Lane’!

In the press

Look & Listen

Artists

For fans of