{"id":13936,"date":"2018-09-23T16:49:33","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T16:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grpresents.co.uk\/?p=13936"},"modified":"2020-01-27T10:36:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T10:36:10","slug":"hip-hop-cabaret-at-the-underbelly-spiegeltent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grpresents.co.uk\/blogs\/hip-hop-cabaret-at-the-underbelly-spiegeltent\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip Hop Cabaret At The Underbelly Spiegeltent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Hip Hop Cabaret: SO good that you will enjoy it even if you are an opera connoisseur or a heavy metal enthusiast.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I know, you\u2019ve heard us banging on about\u00a0these guys before.\u00a0A lot. But seriously\u2026 that is because they produce some of the most unique, highest-quality alternative shows in London, and this week\u2019s offering was no exception.<\/p>\n<p>If you read our last interview with the fabulous Gersch &amp; Rox then you\u2019ll have a pretty good idea of the concept behind Hip Hop Cabaret. And, if that wasn\u2019t enough to make you run out immediately and buy a ticket to their Underbelly extravaganza then\u2026 you\u2019re too late. You missed it. Also, you\u2019re a fool.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not to worry though, I\u2019m here to recap and give you all the highlights so you don\u2019t make the same mistake in the future. Sound good? Then let\u2019s crack on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I will preface this by saying that I totes get that hip hop is not everyone\u2019s thing. I will expand on that thought by saying IT REALLY DOESN\u2019T MATTER. Not for this show.\u00a0<b><strong>It is SO good that you will enjoy it even if you are an opera connoisseur or a heavy metal enthusiast.<\/strong><\/b>\u00a0Don\u2019t believe me? Just ask Tina, the illustrious founder of VBO, who had her reservations about the hip hoppiness of it all beforehand &#8211; and was shocked and thrilled by how much fun she had.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b><strong>The concept is simple, but genius: classic variety show\u2026set to hip hop music<\/strong><\/b>. That\u2019s all there is to it! That means hip hop burlesque acts, beatboxing, soul singing and\u2026 the almighty\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FbXoh7d9nG4\">Fatman Scoop\u00a0<\/a>as an emcee. I mean really though.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b><strong>A little run-down of the acts, pretty much verbatim from my show notes:<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li><b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kitty_velour\/?hl=en\">Kitty Velour<\/a>:<\/strong><\/b>\u00a0I would like to be her when I grow up. She twerked, she\u00a0<em>werked<\/em>, her costumes were stunning and my GOODNESS was she amazing on the pole.<\/li>\n<li><b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thecocoabutterclub.com\/2016\/08\/20\/silver-tears\/\">Silver Tears<\/a><\/strong><\/b>: Swag for days. Her dancing was infectiously good \u2013 it was hard to sit still while watching, and she had the\u00a0<em>best<\/em>\u00a0facial expressions.<\/li>\n<li><b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thecocoabutterclub.com\/2016\/08\/24\/sadie-sinner\/\">Sadie Sinner<\/a>:<\/strong><\/b>\u00a0Besides her Amazonian beauty, she has one hell of a voice. The last time I saw her perform, she had a live gospel choir with her and it was AMAZING \u2013 would have been lovely to have had that this time.<\/li>\n<li><b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thecocoabutterclub.com\/2016\/08\/21\/coco-deville\/\">Coco Deville<\/a><\/strong><\/b>: Super-original burlesque act which took us through the history of hip hop. Hilarious, sexy and entertaining as all hell.<\/li>\n<li><b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thecocoabutterclub.com\/2016\/08\/09\/cleopantha\/\">Cleopantha<\/a><\/strong><\/b>: Seriously fucking fierce. Stompy and beautiful. I nearly shed a hot tear of joy when she dropped into the splits.<\/li>\n<li><b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarvRadio\">Marv Radio<\/a>:<\/strong><\/b>\u00a0What the damn hell. There is no way this man\u2019s vocal chords are the same as mine. Nuh uh. Nope. No way. Mind. Blown.<\/li>\n<li><b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockitriyad\/\">Rocket<\/a><\/strong><\/b>: The sassiest of sassy pants. Would have liked to see more work on the pole, but otherwise a super-fun high-energy romp.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b><strong>The acts comprised a bunch of bad-ass women, one fine man, and a beat boxer who I swear must be part-robot.<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>We were lucky enough to see a preview of the show at G&amp;R\u2019s normal stomping ground of The Curtain, in Shoreditch. It was fantastic there, but \u2013 unlike many shows &#8211; I think it\u2019s benefited from a larger venue. We could see every act better, and the place was packed \u2013 should it become a regular occurrence, I think they\u2019d have no problem filling the Underbelly\u2019s Spiegeltent every time.<\/p>\n<p>Literally the only thing I have to say which isn\u2019t glowing praise is this: going forward \u2013 if Hip Hop Cabaret becomes the household name it deserves to be \u2013 I\u2019d love to see more different types of act, the more the merrier. As you should know, I am a HUGE fan of dance and burlesque, but I reckon a sprinkling of other disciplines is all it would take to make this a perfect 10.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, there you have it. You may have missed your shot this time, but t<b><strong>his show is\u00a0<u>special<\/u>\u00a0and I will be gobsmacked if they don\u2019t get asked to bring it back.<\/strong><\/b>\u00a0And when they do? Get a mother-flaming ticket. For goodness\u2019 sake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hip Hop Cabaret: SO good that you will enjoy it even if you are an opera connoisseur or a heavy metal enthusiast. I know, you\u2019ve heard us banging on about\u00a0these guys before.\u00a0A lot. But seriously\u2026 that is because they produce some of the most unique, highest-quality alternative shows in London, and this week\u2019s offering was &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/grpresents.co.uk\/blogs\/hip-hop-cabaret-at-the-underbelly-spiegeltent\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hip Hop Cabaret At The Underbelly Spiegeltent<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[327,757,247,171,1372,169,512,1371,1375,537,167,168,539,1281,1374,1373,1370,183,180,733],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grpresents.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grpresents.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grpresents.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grpresents.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grpresents.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13936"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/grpresents.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19482,"href":"https:\/\/grpresents.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13936\/revisions\/19482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grpresents.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grpresents.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grpresents.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grpresents.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13936"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grpresents.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=13936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}