Description
In February, Just Jam's event at The Barbican was cancelled at the last minute. It was an event that seemed to be yet another victim of the London authorities now notorious risk assessment procedure, Form 696.
Alex Hoffman
The Police vs Grime Music - A Noisey Film
- Documentary
- Music
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RELEASE
2014-05-29
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LENGTH
20 min
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A Noisey Film
Jamie Adenuga, otherwise known as JME, hosts this much needed investigation behind the relationship between British Police and Grime music.
This documentary is important in many ways. It is a bookmark to return to when discussing the history of Police attitude. And it's also important because England's prized music genre does not have the documented history that it deserves. We don't have enough young filmmakers interested in making documentaries on Grime, and we don't have older filmmakers who lived through the rise of it that want to make it. It's left to be put on the shoulders of the musicians like JME. Luckily I don't think this could've had a better host, but JME still acts as a host here.
At least one major Grime documentary needs to be made. Not just to be shown on BBC, or left on a YouTube channel, but to be shown on a Cinema screen in a cinematic experience. Whether it takes the music artists to pick up a camera and record their history to do this or inspire filmmakers to shine a light on this under-looked piece of British music history. I think it's vital we don't forget about Grime.