Battle Time Cru

Summer is approaching. And summer for us means a few things, partying, chilling and most importantly BATTLING.



We have been a bit quiet on the old battle front recently, due to other commitments and spending alot of time working on our other projects.

But this summer we have entered a few big battles and a few smaller ones.
You can catch us at.

SURVIVAL OF THE SICKEST: 24th April, Edinburgh
TEAR IT UP INTL: 22nd May, Liverpool
GET DOWN: 17th, 18th June, Oslo, Norway
REGIONAL CONFLICT UK: July 9th London

And I hope a few others I hope if we have the time.

Watch out now

Aftermath Promo

Heres a link to a piece which has generated ALOT of interest for BTC.
Choreographed by Rawb and BTC, this piece made it the semi finals of the prestigious PLACE PRIZE. Which is an achievement in many ways, but most notably as it was the first ever bboy piece to be commissioned by this contemporary dance body.
See promo below feat BTC's RAWB, TIME, JELLY and RUKUS

Aftermath Promo, Robert Graham (Bad Taste Cru), commissioned by the Place Prize 2010 from robert graham on Vimeo.

Without Walls Update..finally

Bit slack on the old updates of this, I aimed to update every week but as you can see this did not happen. To be honest, I was too tired when I came home to do it and spent my time relaxing. As Biff Buchanan (him of Back to the Future) would say 'Slacker'

Anyway, we are finished our rehearsals now, and it was a fun, but very mentally and physically demanding 4 weeks. The show, without giving too much away has dramatically changed and now runs at almost 40mins. Feedback has suggested it does not feel like 40mins which is good.

We have ran it a few times now and we are pretty happy with the structure and storyline, there are a few changes and upgrades that need to be made and we are rehearsing these up until we do our first show in May in Norwich. Exciting times.

Furthermore we are working on some photography and promo shots with an amazing Newcastle Photographer called Dan Prince. Photo shoots for each character will be happening over the next month or so, keep an eye out for these.

Without Walls Rehearsals Day 1

Ill try to update daily or most likely weekly, but here is a few snaps from today. Good start to the week, loads of ideas, fun and heres to the next 4 weeks.

UK UNIVERSITY BBOY CHAMPS 2011 FLYER

Bboy Doke: Winner of DJ KOOL HERC Benefit Jam!!

Creative Changemakers in Manchester threw a jam to raise money for the medical bills of our hiphop forefather DJ KOOL HERC. Herc has had some problems with his kidneys and has had to get some rather nasty kidney stones removed. So kind people all over the world have been staging fundraisers to help the man himself. If you want to donate please do so, follow this link. http://www.djkoolherc.com/

So onto the man they call Doke, many know him, many may not, but those who do, know our boy has got style, flava, originality and flow.


Along with myself we started BTC all those years ago and this is the first 1on1 Doke has ever won!
Coindicently the first jam Doke ever went to was in Belfast and he performed alongside DJ KOOL HERC and the OG Belfast City Breakers.


I know Doke been through some tough times with injuries, confidence and other stuff over the last few years and he has been back on track and training hard, not to win, just to rep and prove a point and rep himself and his crew.
So Mr O'Kane we salute you

Rehearsals: And so it begins

Writing in retrospect here, but last week we started our first week of rehearsals for our new piece TRIBAL ASSEMBLY, which has been commissioned by the kind folks at the WITHOUT WALLS Festival http://www.withoutwalls.uk.com/.

Check their website for more info and dates.

Tribal Assembly will take our characters from the Council of the Ordinary into a new environment, I wont give you much more than that, as it would spoil it, but I can promise it will be just as dramatic, touching and dynamic as the previous piece.

During our week of rehearsals at Dance City www.dancecity.co.uk we had the pleasure of working with Tammie MClorg, a very inspiring woman who has been dancing for 40 odd years and has travelled the world using dance as a medium of community regeneration and empowerment. We heard some amazing stories and truly were blessed to work with such a lovely, creative and amazing woman.

Each day of rehearsal, well I say rehearsal it was actually more playtime and exploration of movement, which was so refreshing and liberating. We tried alot of different excercises laid on by Tammie, which honestly were tough, challenging and ultimatley very rewarding.

We did some contemporary warm ups, basic yoga and other movement based games which really opened up our range of movement, although we very much still want to keep the bboy style and vocab in there. Nothing worse than trying to be something you are not.

Throughout the week each of us got a chance to devise and perform a solo piece, a duet and obviously group work. Each time something different was created, something nice and of course some really funny and bad things were happening.

Shouts to bboy Justice (btc) for coming in and working with us on the body contact work!!

I really think that this experience for all of us, was positive, challenging and really went towards our thinking and attitudes towards the new show.

Thanks Tammie

BTC

uk uni bboy champs 2010 clip..

Attention to Detail: BBoy battle this weekend in Newcastle

Grant from HIPHOPFIEND has been a busy boy organising Newcastles first ever ATTENTION TO DETAIL Event. With support from ATD, EASTPAK and your very own BTC, the first time event promises to be dope.

Link here for more info

Credible hip-hop party atmosphere, playing both underground and mainstream music, if it's good we will play it!

DJ Sinical (DMC Finalist)
DJ Jed 104 (Snoop Dogg Support DJ)
DJ Ken Masters (Local Legend)

£7 Entry (Over 18's Only)

Girls in half price before 11pm

Graff Battle: Trackside vs. The Ghetto Method

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hiphopfiend.org%2F&h=b4e86

For more info email grant_brydon@hotmail.co.uk

Sponsored by HipHopFiend.net, SoulSearchers, NorthSkull, Trackside, Eastpak, Eastpak ATD, Bad Taste Cru, Danksquad.


B-Boy Jam 8-11pm (Reduced entry for entrants £5)

Check BTC, on their friends site http://www.emmatooth.co.uk/news

Emmas work inspired us to make the Council of the Ordinary piece btw

Rawb and Emma at Customs House



BTC performing at Customs House

Paul interviews Paul

Paul met another guy called Paul, who is also known as Paulskee (Rockforce Crew/Mighty4)

They spoke about bboying and other rap dancing things

Alas they did not speak about the name Paul and how cool they were to share this cool name

Read the interview over at Grants website hiphopfiend.net

http://hiphopfiend.org/2011/01/paulskee-mighty4rockforce-crew-interview/

UK UNIVERSITY BBOY CHAMPS 2011

Rawb has been organising this jam for a few years now, and of course we all lend a hand, wether its judging, doing the door, putting people up in our houses or generally annoying him on the day.

Here is the info

UK University BBoy Champs

Saturday 12th March 2011

Registration 11am - 1230pm.

Doors Open 1230, Battles start at 1pm.

Venue: Domain, Northumbria University Union (same as last year)

Cru Battles (16 places)(Entry fee £5 per member)(minimum 4 max 8)

1 Edinbraapppp (Edinburgh)
2 LBS Cru (Loughborough)
3 Sub Cru
4 Steel City Rockers (Sheffield)
5 Recession Squad (Dublin)
6 Brumingham Cru (Guess)
7 Leeds A (names for crus?)
8 Leeds B
9 Art Of War (Warwick)
10 Flyin' Jalapenos
11 BreakNuts (Nottingham)
12 KCL Cru (London)
13 Freefly Cru (Blackpool)
14 Mighty ULU Kingz (London) haha
15 Newcastle
16 KSK Cru
17 Chilli Con Cru
18 So On It Cru
19 Reading
20 Imperial
21 The B Team
22 Coventry
23 Hard Floor Drillers
24 Manchester

Solo Battles (32 places)(entry fee £5)

1 Uti
2 Darko
3 Duracell
4 Orzelos
5 Khanage
6 Blueskis
7 Ed Lo
8 Chaz B
9 Backfail
10 Sidewinder
11 NRGee
12 Stix
13 The Phasion
14 Spam Assassin
15 CJ
16 Hero
17 Rohu
18 Edgy
19 LB
20 Birmingham tbc
21 Atomic
22 Objekt
23 Crazy Al
24 BBoy Daichi
25 Mowshun
26 Oracle
27 Legend
28 Beef
29 DMC
30 Chin
31 Shark
32 Roo
33 Marius (RBM Cru)
34 Ame
35 Yutaka
36 Manic
37 Gervase
38 Rusty
39 Justin
40 Jay P
41 Karl
42 Lee Roc
43 Phoxy
44 Enzo
45 Eroy
46 Happyface
47 Presto

......

Judges: BBoy Mouse, (Floor Gangz /Zulu Kings) BBoy P (Bad Taste Cru) and TBC

Hosts RawB and Ken Masters

DJ Timber as always on the one's and two's

Unichamps is a university societies event open to ppl at some level of education, part time or full time. Bring Student IDs as you will need them to register your cru.

Will post accomodation details and a map soon. Get registering

Guys also, with regards to £5 entry fee, we are a society with no budget for this event, and dont get paid, all the money made goes on overheads for the event or goes back into the society. Please note if u do crus and solos u dont have to pay twice.

http://www.ukbboy.info/forum/topic/14871-uk-university-bboy-champs-saturday-12th-march-2011/

BTC's DJ TIMBER 2011 new B-Boy Mix-CD Preview

Clip of the big man himself getting down

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2Gkqg6MDD8

Catch him at this years UK UNIVERSITY BBOY CHAMPS, NORTHUMBRIA UNI MARCH 12TH

BTC in New York 2010: Evolution World Finals

After winning the UK EVOLUTION Finals against Trinity Warriors (in a dope battle)

we headed to NYC with the full crew for the WORLD EVOLUTION FINALS

We had one of the most amazing, memorable experience as a crew.

We battled the winners of the event Maxiumum Crew (Korea) in the first round and we were totally outclassed, massive respect to Max Crew for helping us step up our gears again.

We shopped, partied, battled, practiced all over NYC, and got to meet Grand Master Caz (cold crush bros) and JDL (Cold Crush Bros), Met DJ Tony Touch at the Celtics v Knicks game at Madison Square gardens and we went to the legendary 1520 SEDGEWICK AVE!!!

Truth be told we did a hell of alot more, but I dont have time to write it all up.
pics and clips speak for themselves.

Ill post these in a bit

BTC Offical Facebook

Check out our official Bad Taste Cru Facebook Group.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162051760507055

join up and spread the word

http://www.withoutwalls.uk.com/artist_details.php?id=53

BAD TASTE CRU commissioned for UK Festival Tour by WITHOUT WALLS

Dates for our show are TBC, these all happen may-sept 2011

Greenwich International Festival
Lakes Alive, Cumbria
Norwich Festival
Brighton Festival
The Bristol Do
SIRF Stockton
XTRAX Manchester

Update soon, come along and catch the show.

BTC New website

www.badtastecru.co.uk

Thanks to Tristan at Webfangled.net for making the site.

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