Just a quick heads up to remind y’all of our newest collaboration project with the Heinously Envious Crew – the Over The Top Xmas Special at The Edge, Park St. Luton, on 23rd December.

Our regular readers, and those in the Luton area, are likely to know about this already - but for those that haven’t here’s the lowdown… Continue reading…

It’s been a few weeks in the making, but we are now proud to unveil our next series of gigs!

The Audiovault Project is a new monthly jam starting on 18th November at the Hat Factory, a state-of-the-art media and arts centre in Luton.

We’ve got two rooms and a fairly late licence to play around with so we’re going to rotate the policy from month to month to see what works best.

The debut night on the 18th will see all the Blunt Beats residents team up with some special guests as follows: Continue reading…

Some quick radio news - Next week Blunt Beats Radio will be going out over the webwaves as normal, but will be broadcast live from The Hat Factory in central Luton town.

Those lucky enough to be in the Luton area next wednesday night will be more than welcome to pop down and catch the tunes first-hand, whilst relaxing in the plush surroundings of the fully-licenced basement bar. We’ll be running from the usual show times, 20:00 - 00:00 BST, and the playlist looks like this: Continue reading…

Well, it did exactly what it said on the tin. - Dub, Funk, Hip Hop and Ska from the Blunt Beats family and Solution Sounds!

Firstly, a big shout to everyone that made it down for this little shindig, including Kazza and all the out of town party crew Now, on to the review… Continue reading…

August was an exceptionaly good month. I went to the ‘Dam, saw Beck and played a great little festival. Here’s a bit of a report. (OK, a bleary-eyed report) Continue reading…

During my August travels I passed through Amsterdam for a few days and was lucky enough to catch Beck at the Paradiso (what a great venue). It was a top event so I thoguht I’d share it with you… Continue reading…

The Erbalist will be playing the first set @ HIVE this Fri, 15th Sept. A new techno and d+b night @ The Well, Hightown rd, Luton.

There is rumour that the Erbalist is gonna be reachin’ for his bag of Digi-Dub & Dubstep, warming up the speakers for WreckUp & the Krew. Trying not to blow the subs up with that big BASS frequency & ting.

For a sneak preview of what you’ll get if you’re down at HIVE on Friday here’s a 1hr dubstep mix (55mb mp3) from Erbalist on Blunt Beats Radio this week.

Tracklisting to follow…

It’s been long overdue, and now a date and venue for Shakedown has been finalised. The Blunt Beats crew will be back out for a gig on the 29th Sept in Dunstable in conjunction with the Solution Sounds crew. Continue reading…

Whilst trawling through the hours of audio we have in the radio archive I turned up this gem from back in the dim and distant history of Blunt Beats Radio.

It’s a summer mix from 2004 of soulful drum & bass accompanied by the man like MC Nyeko (Raw FM).

I’ll post up a tracklisting shortly, but here’s the 1hr mix. Enjoy…

Right then…I don’t need to go into what a blindin’ weekend we had at the Rhythms Of The World Festival last week, with our Urban Picnic Sounds project. Top stuff. You’ve only gotta look at the pics to know this was an absolute stormer!

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