What: Art Fusion 5.

When: Saturday, March 20, 2010 from 7:00pm until  2:00am

Where: 196 Dundas St (Richmond and Clarence)

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With smash singles like Africa, Yalla Habibi, and so many more. Karl Wolf and I discuss about his journey to success, what it’s like for a Lebanese artist in the music industry and what music means to him.

Red Bull Thre3Style is an innovative concept that gives highly skilled DJs a platform to battle, perform, gain notoriety and express themselves in a party atmosphere. Unlike other DJ battles that are based on more technical aspects, this is a creative and unique format that seeks to find the DJ that has best perfected the true art of how to rock the party. Each DJ needs to deliver a 15 minute set that incorporates a minimum of three genres of music.

A panel of music industry judges selected the winners based on track selection, creativity, mixing skills, stage presence and crowd reaction.

Each night is ended with a special headlining performance from Canadian DJ legend Skratch Bastid.

The winner of the Canadian National Final will earn a trip to play at the World Final in Paris, France in December 2010, and compete against winners from 13 countries to be crowned the first Global Red Bull Thre3Style Champion. This is truly international as the competition will go through countries such as Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Columbia, Ecuador, France, Japan, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States.

The Come Up Show team had lots of fun at this event, we witnessed some great DJ’s. From DJ B Nutz who brought out a CHAIN SAW in the middle of his set to DJ Bounce who sported a Michael Jackson jacket.

This is M-Kutz set, the DJ who won the London challenge.

It’s finally here and S.W.A.P. (Style, Women,Awesome, Party) 2010 is underway!

S.W.A.P. Is a charity event celebrating the introduction of go 2 girl Media, swaping various items and donating to charity in a fun and fabulous way.

This is a female focused event where swaping clothing, footwear, handbags, accessories, and jewelry is strongly suggested. This event gives those the opportunity to trade or swap items that are no longer
needed by the individual.

Perhaps you can’t fit into that hot dress, your tired of that handbag, or even if you have something sitting around with the tags still attached come to the event and S.W.A.P.

Event: S.W.A.P.
Date: Saturday March 20, 2010
Time: 12:00-4:00pm
Venue: Harlem Restaurant. 67 Richmond St. East @ Church.
Host: Go 2 Girl Media
Charity: Nellies Women’s Shelter

Finger foods, bar, photographer, videographer, music, and giveaways!

Where: Club Large. 335 Richmond st

When: Thursday, April 1, 2010

Who: Demarco, alongside Tanya P and Lindo P

Tickets: $30 Early bird until March 20th ( Limited) and the following outlets.

London
Clive 519 -318-5759 or 519 200-0487
Festival Food 519 649 7765
Little Ochi Restaurant – 519-204-7795

Cambridge
Flavor City Restaurant 519 624-2222
Mobile Ticket Outlet Ticket Dog – 519 729 -0482

Kitchener
Rainbow Restaurant 519 579 2618

Toronto
Tre Jah Isle 416 787 – 7615
Claudette – 647 628 7092

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Here a few songs by Demarco.

What: Laura G album and video release party.

Where: Exhale Lounge Corner of Richmond and King.

When: March 27, Doors open at 9 and Show starts at 10 pm.

Tickets: $10 at the door.

Laura G has just announced the release of her new album, ” I AM”, signified with a red carpet event. Proceeds from the album sales will be going to March of dimes. In tandem, Laura will be debuting her premier music video produced by Wreckless Crew Productions.

Opening out the night will be local sensations Orlando Valencia and Bascrom Kiri.

With a sophisticated twist on modern live events, this evening is shaping up to be an affair to remember.

RED BULL THRE3STYLE INVADES LONDON, ON

Time to get the party started and ignite clubgoers across Canada fifteen minutes at a time. Red Bull Thre3style is preparing for rotation around the country, giving each DJ their fifteen minutes of fame. Hitting 10 cities across Canada, Red Bull Thre3Style will feature 8 of the best local DJs throwing down their best party sets followed by a special performance from Canadian DJ legend Skratch Bastid with the first show touching down in Vancouver at the Commodore Ballroom on January 28th, 2010.

The industry’s top talent – music writers, musicians, promoters, bloggers and headlining DJ’s will judge the DJs and evaluate each performer based on creativity, track selection, skills, stage presence, and audience response. The winner of each stop will move on to the National Final set to take place in Toronto on Saturday, March 13, 2010 as part of Canadian Music Week. The winner of the Canadian National Final will earn a trip to play at the World Final in Paris, France in December 2010, and compete against winners from 13 countries to be crowned the first Global Red Bull Thre3Style Champion.

What: RED BULL THRE3STYLE. A 10-City Hunt for Canada’s Best Party Rocker DJ

When: FRIDAY MARCH 5TH, 2010

Where: Up on Carling, 153 Carling Street.

Tickets: Online or go to the facebook event to purchase from a promoter.

Line up: DJ Skratch Bastid,  DJ Bounce, BNutz, Ayo D, DJ Soundbwoy, Kempers, DJ Chase
DJ Allie V, M Kutz.

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I was very excited to interview Shad once I found out he would be in our hometown. We talked about the new album, the people who inspire him, and we obviously caught his performance. Ch-check it out, brought to you by The Come Up Show and in association with L DOT ONLINE.

Shad K: London’s Prince of Hip Hop
Written by Phillie from L DOT ONLINE

For those of you unfamiliar with Shad, consider checking out the main page of his website where he showcases his sickening ability to freestyle for a recorded 6 minutes. Raised in London Ontario, Shad was born in Kenya to parents of Rwandan descent; and, in a few short years he has cemented himself as one of Canada’s best hip-hop artists (‘artist’ is used deliberately). His profound and conscientious lyrics mesmerize his audiences, as they are educated on Shad’s perspective of social issues that are relevant to us all. Listening to Shad’s lyrics, themes relating to religion, love, greed, racism, and many other characteristics of the human condition are all brilliantly balanced by two central components of his character, spontaneity and humour.

Shad’s debut album When This Is Over (2005), was a self-made, self-financed venture, financed with the $17,500 he won from Kitchener-Waterloo’s 91.5 The Beat’s Rhythm of the Future talent competition. When This Is Over achieved broad appeal and respect, while receiving a sold amount of support from the grassroots hip-hop community throughout Canada. Following the success of his 2005 album, Shad signed with Black Box Recordings in 2007 and released his second album The Old Prince, which received much critical acclaim. The Old Prince (a clever play on words) is a thoughtful and thought provoking look into Shad’s perspective of various social issues. Shortly after its release, The Old Prince received a Juno nomination for Rap Recording of the Year and was nominated for the 2008 Polaris Music Prize.
The future is very bright for this talented artist, who currently attends Simon Fraser University, where he is completing his Masters Degree. Recently, Shad gained some notable recognition from Kanye West when West posted Shad’s music video, for his song ‘Compromise’ (The Old Prince, 2007), on West’s blog. We can only hope that Shad continues to produce conscientious music that seeks to inspire, educate, and uplift.

The Come Up Show’s DJ Chedo had the opportunity to interview Shad while he was in London (scheduled to perform at Call The Office). They discussed his next album, due out in May, his ambitions and the people that inspire him. To find out whom, check out the interview below.

Photography by Tom Pilgrim

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Infusion Fashion Show at the London Music Hall.

If you are the type of person that only goes out for special events then I reccommend checking out Soul 2010. Full details below.

What: SOUL 2010. An Exhibition of Black Artistry, brought to you by the Black Students Association (BSA).
Where: Polish Combatants Hall, 80 ANN ST in London, Ontario.
Tickets: BSA Members $33.00. Non Members $37.00. [...]

It’s finally here. Click on the post to read more.

These posters caught my attention, I looked at them for around 5 minutes at least.
Do you remember the last time a poster made you pay attention to every detail?
Originality to the fullest. This event is in Toronto, even though this site is based in London, I was so impressed with the quality I wanted to [...]

We had the opportunity to see Classified live at Forewell Hall in Fanshawe College.
As usual, every time Classified is in London I interview him, he expects my face now lol.
Thank you to Classified for giving us access on the tour bus, we captured an interview and exclusive close ups taken by Danielle Da Silva, make [...]

Thank you very much Two Crown King for allowing us to take these photos.

All Photography is by Danielle Da Silva.

I have known this for a while, I’m not sure why I didn’t post it.
Better Late than never.

Full details posted below.
Press Release
There is no substitute to seeing John Mayer perform live and the release of Battle Studies later this month will kick off a Canadian tour beginning February 13th at the John Labatt Centre in [...]

He’sssss backkk!!!!!!
Mr. I don’t really like to, but ummmm… is back in the forest city. Details are posted near the end of this post.

If you haven’t seen the footage we grabbed of Shad Interviewing Classified and crew check it out here
Not only that!!!!!
Opening acts
Grand Analog

Grand Analog has been doing really well for themselves this [...]

My man Classified is coming to London!!

Here are a few videos to get your familiar.
Quit While Your Ahead

Up All Night

This single isn’t new, but if you are not a Classified fan, just listen to this song and I know you will be. If not then leave thecomeupshow.com lol. I’m serious though.

Opening Acts

Two Crown King

No [...]

Connecting emerging talent with local industry and strengthening London’s economy through investment – Student-2-Business builds powerful networks and enables opportunity.
Keynote Dave Howlett will provide a dynamic session on how to make the most out of new connections. Through his message “Knocking Down Silos”, Dave will identify the elements of networking in a simple and powerful [...]

Melanie Fiona

I was really curious to see who would be opening for Alicia Keys at JLC. I knew a few days ago Melanie Fiona would be opening for Alicia Keys but Robin Thicke is a total surprise, in LONDON? really? WOW.
If you are not familiar with these following artists here is some music to get [...]

“Hip Hop Ain’t Dead It Lives In The North” reads the daring brand of t-shirts first launched in 2007 and now available in stores across Canada. Initiated by cultural commentator, writer and entrepreneur Jonathon Brown, this line of t-shirts has seen several manifestations since its initial release and continues to be greeted with open arms [...]