In 1989 I wasn't really interested in music but I wasn't far off. Everyone else went to the Music of Life Birthday party and got hammered. This is an interesting collection of live turns from said party set around some coherent but drunken shout outs.
Asher D and Daddy Freddy do some ragamuffin stuff - the sort of thing John Peel always used to play and you waited for him to play the latest indie movers instead. And on the sad time when Westwood was ousted from Radio 1, he does his thing over Mark the 45 King cutting up some breaks. Then MC Duke does a fantastic version of I'm Riffin, it sounds incredible and he kills it.
He's then joined by 'Merlin' who pronounces it "Murlin" - he's a saying what he sees type of freestyler. He's second go is weird and veers into homophobia. Then he's off and some bonkers talk:
"Right about now, everybody that's in the place, right, we came here tonight to have a jam with the music of life posse right. But right about now some suckers got on the stage and they want to battle. We didn't come here to battle but they invited us anyway. So we won't have a battle but we'll have a freestyle and you can decide who's best. But no battling"
Then queen latifah tries to break up a fight in an equally incoherent way. Then the Demon Boyz finished everything off with a bit more raga style stuff.
So overall it's worth the entrance fee for the drunkenness and the MC Duke track. But it's a neat document of the time and it's pretty short. And yes, Daddy Freddy does a ton of Frank Bruno impressions....
Here's that MC Duke track:
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