Slowthai: Last News

Fontaines D.C have said that their forthcoming third album is “wrapped up”, and that there’s a chance fans might be able to hear new material before the end of the year.“It’s done,” the band’s frontman Grian Chatten said in an interview with Matt Wilkinson on Apple Music 1. “I can’t tell you when it’s going to be released, but we did hope to have it out a lot earlier.”“I think we originally hoped to have it kind of nowish, but because of COVID and all that, it pushed things back a bit, because we never toured our second album.

Slowthai has postponed his inaugural Happyland festival due to concerns about meeting the standards he’d envisioned.The rapper, who in May announced a one-day, 15,000-capacity festival held in his hometown of Northampton, issued a statement today (August 19) explaining the decision.“I’m taking the decision to postpone the inaugural Happyland festival due to take place in September 2021,” he wrote.

Shygirl and Slowthai have teamed up on a surprise release by the former, called ‘BDE’ –scroll down the page to listen to it now.The track is the first piece of new music from British rapper, singer and DJ Shygirl since she released her EP ‘ALIAS’ last year.‘BDE’ finds Shygirl rapping: “Read my lips, I need a big dick, boy.” In his verse, Slowthai counters: “Read my lips, I need a thicc chick toy.” The accompanying music video sees the London musician rapping from inside a clingfilm-wrapped car, while the Northampton MC delivers his lines from a mechanic’s creeper board.The video also forms part of Shygirl’s short film ‘BLU’, which includes visuals for tracks including ‘Siren’, ‘Twelve’, ‘Freak’ and more.

Slowthai has revealed that he’s almost finished writing his third album.The Northampton rapper – real name Tyron Frampton – released his acclaimed second record ‘TYRON’ back in February, debuting at Number One in the official UK albums chart.Speaking to NME for last week’s Big Read cover feature, Frampton said of achieving the feat: “It just felt like it was meant to happen – and it was validation that I got there by working hard and not changing anything about myself.”He went on to explain that his next full-length effort would be different to its predecessors, and would explore “the irony of life”.“I’ve got the name – but I can’t say it yet – and I’ve written most of it,” Slowthai added.Aside from making music, Frampton is looking to

Slowthai has covered The Verve‘s classic single ‘The Drugs Don’t Work’ – check out the performance below.The Northampton rapper – real name Tyron Frampton – delivered a stirring rendition of Richard Ashcroft and co’s 1997 track for a new Radio 1 live session, which aired tonight (April 28) as part of Annie Mac’s Future Sounds show.Reading the lyrics to the ‘Urban Hymns’ song from his phone, Slowthai was backed by a drummer, synth player, guitarist and saxophonist, who also played the flute for the subdued first minute and a half.Frampton stood with his back to the camera for the performance, facing towards blue-filtered visuals that played out on a screen at the rear of the stage.