GHOSTPOET rocked the Pavilion last year with two packed out shows! Catch him this Paddy’s Weekend for some peanut butter blues and meloncholy jam!

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GHOSTPOET
Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam was released in February 2011 on Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood Recordings and immediately had music journalists reaching for their thesauruses in an attempt to pin down this enormously exciting & multifaceted moody beast of a record. Despite its manifold influences – part hip hop, part soul, part jazz, part experimental -  Peanut Butter Blues is a tremendously assured & focussed, bold & always inventive debut album.
There are many wise heads who believe that Ghostpoet is destined for true greatness and listening to Peanut Butter Blues as a statement of intent would indicate that there is much yet to be revealed about this audaciously talented MC & producer.

LETHAL DIALECT
2010 was a busy year for Lethal Dialect. The Cabra-born Blanchardstown emcee, relatively unknown prior to his debut album, had now began establishing himself a force to be reckoned with on the irish musical front with his first release, now considered, classic-status by irish hip-hop enthusiasts and rightly so.
You can sense from the moment you press play that LD50 is something wholly original. It’s an album loaded with razor sharp lyricism, compelling story telling and raw Hiphop beats. A lot of Irish Hiphop releases suffer from a lack of focus – a tendency to favour quantity over quality. Thankfully, this is a pitfall Lethal Dialect avoids. What you are instead left with is a succinct, tightly knit, concept driven LP, which stands up against any rap album this country has produced.
LD flows with ease over a stellar selection of beats. The gritty, brooding production stylings of G.I and Jonnyboy providing the perfect backdrop for Dialect’s cutting lyricism. Album opener ‘The Beginning’ sets the tone for what is to follow before seamlessly transitioning into the superb ‘Metamorphose’ which showcases his ability to breakdown complex subject matter in verse. Lead single “Cold and Calculated” brings a raw energy and intensity that is almost unmatched. Dialect trades bars with fellow Blanch emcee Tommy Hand on the excellent, grimy sounding ‘Hold You Down’. Hand, the only guest featured on this album, throws down one of its most memorable verses, stringing together some utterly insane rhyme schemes.
Lethal Dialect’s greatest strength however, is in his ability to tell a story. The LP’s standout track ‘The International’ is an extraordinarily detailed conspiracy narrative with some serious replay value. The album’s final two songs show his versatility as an emcee and a willingness to take on different themes. The haunting ‘Do You Believe’ is as good an Irish Hiphop track as you are likely to hear.
In 2011, Lethal Dialect became a featured artist on the second season of Irish broadcaster RTE’s award-winning, crime-based series ‘Love/Hate’, which began airing in October. Lethal also managed to pen and record his sophomore album LD50 Part 2, a mere 12 months since the release of its predecessor. The albums first single and video release ‘Keep It Real’, continued to concrete Lethal Dialects name into the irish music scene and perhaps even further afield. The video received praise from irish heavyweight music bloggers such as Hotpress, Nialler9 (State Magazine) and Entertainment.ie. Even renowned comedians ‘The Rubberbandits’ compared Lethal Dialect to Nas, the legendary sharp-shooting lyricist from Queensbridge after seeing the video, shot by Joe Dooney and co-directed by Lethal Dialect himself.
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