Friday, 30 April 2010

Dizzee Rascal among artists in window display project




Music artists Dizzee Rascal and Florence Welch are to create window displays at London store Selfridges.
They are among 10 artists given free rein to create their designs, based around one of their songs, in a project called Sounds Of The Mind.
Others involved in the project include Hot Chip, Empire Of The Sun and Paloma Faith, as well as hotly tipped bands The XX and Marina And The Diamonds.
The project, which launches in May, is intended to celebrate lyrical power.
It has been timed to tie in with the start of the festival season.
Dizzee Rascal chose to build use hit song Bonkers as his theme while Welch, who fronts Florence And The Machine, chose to illustrate her track Cosmic Love.
"The concept behind this is crazy. I want people to be blown away, to see how creative we can be visually with my music," Dizzee Rascal said.
Meanwhile, Ms Welch said the project was about "creating a representation of the song in a visual sense" to envisage "what a song would look like instead of hearing it".
The windows will be part of a themed sequence of displays which includes others by Selfridges' own experts.

Wednesday, 7 April 2010

Dizzee Is One Luck Rascal



Dizzee Rascal has sorted out the perfect ticket to the World Cup - he's signed up to perform a gig at the Cool Britannia festival site in Cape Town, South Africa.

The festival has room for 10,000 footie fans to watch all the live games in a safe environment. And later on there are DJs and live acts playing into the night.

Best of all, it's just a stone's throw from the Green Point stadium, where much of the action will be taking place.

It doesn't get much better than that.