30 Jun The King's Will – As The Power Fails | Album Review
Oxbridge law graduate turned poet, football pundit and all-round ideal dinner guest Musa Okwonga joins forces with composer, producer, artist and mathematician, Giles Hayter. These two renaissance men record under the name of The King’s Will, dubbing their sound ‘Poetronica.’ The regal appellation is in reference to Okwonga and Hayter’s animated alter egos, the Fool and the Vassal; devoted subjects of a once compassionate but now despotic and extravagant King.
Loosely based on King Lear, the monarch of the title is an allegory for a society in self-inflicted distress, not unlike our own. On their debut album As the Power Fails the King’s Will discuss challenges both global (climate change, the dangers of ‘group-think’, devious marketing ploys) and personal (resilience in the face of adversity, ill-fated romance, personal growth).
For the second year running, E4’s Udderbelly entertainment season at the Southbank Centre played host to London’s exclusive spoken word/music night Poejazzi on July 1st, which featured a band with lead vocalists that change costume six times in a set of just seven tracks, a young reincarnation of Joni Mitchell with in song jokes that induce both giggles and sadness and a Nigerian poet whose transcendental play on words play out like spells found in cosmic dustbins. 
The Roundhouse, Camden on Wednesday night was full to the brim as fans present and future of alternative Hip Hop outfit 
The night was hosted by South London’s finest, rapper Davey J who was kicking on all cylinders. His frenetic turn as compeer was peppered with deliberately distorted but ingenious freestyles.