Lazy Habits are supporting Herbaliser and Anti-Pop Consortium at KOKO this Saturday 24th July. Come join us for this amazing London show. Click here to get yourself cheap tickets as our guests: http://www.wegottickets.com/sct/4mGjtCcSFM

Read the amazing review The Sun just gave us of our sell out show at Passing Clouds: http://www.thesun.co.uk

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Watch Lazy Habits at Shepherds Bush Empire

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You can always judge an act by their crowd and “the mighty Mos Def” is the thinking man’s hip hop star so Shepherd’s Bush Empire was packed with a discerning, well raised, mix people. However, an hour and a half of waiting can push even the best mannered Londoners to slow hand claps and booing. All was forgiven when Mos finally took to the stage but he can thank a savvy support DJ and the classy support for keeping the mood below boiling point. Lazy Habits were a smart warm up choice, with full live band, two able MC’s, slick arrangements and plenty of hooks. This is a band you can sway your hips to, they have cheek and charm and plenty of groove. This wasn’t their crowd but they won them over, even the moody looking teenager next to me was moved to take a quick snap on his iphone and everyone’s heads were nodding. When he finally appeared Mos himself seemed relaxed, treating us to some a cappella. It would have been great to see him match the ‘Habits with some brass but aside from his own drum break this was a pared down, two DJ set. Despite the predictable high of “Umi Says” and a loyal crowd somehow he failed to ignite. I was left underwhelmed – the energy and excitement just wasn’t there. There’s no denying he’s a fine rapper, and cute with it, but this was a complacent performance and I expected more - Nicola Hannam

Official Reviews

http://www.winkball.com

http://www.comelime.com/reviews/april2010/mos-def.html

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/playlist/view/130950/Mos-Def-at-o2-Sheperds-Bush-Empire-London

http://hookedonthat.blogspot.com/2010/04/mos-def-live-at-shepherds-bush-empire.html

http://www.skiddle.com/news/all/Review-Mos-Def–Shepherds-Bush-Empire-London/5707/

Mos Def – Photography by Dannie Price

Lazy Habits – Photography by Dannie Price

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I’ve never seen you before, loved every second of your set! Great sound, totally polished performance which sounded AMAZING.

I can’t recall ANY gigs I’ve been to before this one where the support group sounds about a gazillion times better than the main act (yes dare I say it, not impressed sadly with Mos Def’s set – sounded poor to me) - Stefan

Just see u at mos def on Wednesday, u smacked it best act by far - Katie

Great Gig for you guys last night really enjoyed it, shame about MOS DEF being so very poor and very late! You should have headlined! - James

You were fucking brilliant man, you ripped The Empire apart!!! So glad I made the effort to come up early. - Adam

Great gig guys, you made the night worthwhile! - Diane

MC Lazy Habits and DJ Itchi performed a crowd rocking set at Spring Scream, Kenting in Taiwan last week. The crowd were amazing as was the weather. Asia watch out Habits will be back. For more info check out the info on this Taiwanese blog… http://www.waakao.com/en/component/content/article/39-rokfeature/640-habitually-diligent

Great new front page review on the Londonist: http://londonist.com/

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Hailing from Hackney and vehement defenders of the 7″ vinyl format, Lazy Habits are cross genre, combining big band and hip-hop sampling sounds to give you the mariachi horn. Their first few releases – Even Out, Please People, and EP – have reached cult status, selling out faster than they could be printed. Picked for Radio 6 Music’s “Introducing“, they’ve played Cargo with Jurassic 5’s Chali 2na and Koko with The Herbaliser, Trojan Sound and the Dub Pistols, and in the summer of 2009 could be seen at pretty much every festival going, including Secret Garden Party, and hosting the Jazz World stage at Glastonbury, introducing the likes of Fun Lovin’ Criminals, The Streets, Lupe Fiasco, Q-Tip. In fact, we can’t believe you won’t have already heard of them. They play Koko next month with Mos Def, and we thought we’d better catch them before they rocket off into superstardom:

Who’s in the line up these days?
Lazy Habits are MCs Mr Lazy (that’s me) & Skin Horse, The Lazy Brass Section consisting of Mr Silver and Mr Brown, Skin and Bones courtesy of Messers Abunab and MacDoual, Mr James on Bass and DJ Itchi on the 1s and 2s.

Whereabouts in London are you based and what’s ace about it?
Mostly East London, Hackney. It’s an amazing mix of people and cultures, a great example of why London is such a great place. It’s vibrant, unique and brimming with artistry. It’s a very special place – someone told me it has ‘more artists per square mile than anywhere in Europe’. Not sure how true that is but it certainly feels that way. No disrespect to any artists holding up West London, but it’s like East London is the stage and west is the audience. Our DJ, Itchi has been playing underground venues and squats in Hackney for the last ten years but I think now it’s having a heyday. This area belongs to the artists and all the best nights out are still in secret warehouse venues rather than clubs or bars. Hackney’s growing international reputation means the budgets and crowds are bigger than the dirty underground parties of five years ago, it’s warehouse chic. At some point this will all turn into Islington and get swallowed by the mainstream as is happening to Shoreditch, but for now, get involved. The best spots are Passing Clouds, The New Empowering Church, Dalston Jazz Bar (after 1am), Moustache Bar and Stoke Newington International Airport. Our studio is there too, so some of the Habits can always be found at The Way. It’s just a great place with a lot of musical people coming and going, a really creative space.

Lazy Habits have been featured in FHM South Africa and are now securing distribution there too.

Click here to view online: http://fhm.co.za/entertainment/music/article/lazy-habits-rad-smooth-uk-based-hip-hopjazz-fusion/1786/

After another 15 minutes hip hop session by Dj Charlee Brown, Lazy Habits were the next band to hit the stage. They’ve got an original formation: drummer, percussion, dj, bassist, two horns and two mc’s. They play a rarely seen hip hop, which intends to be carefree and easy, focused to party and enjoyment with funny lyrics. Once they’re on stage you can notice they’re British, and in a kind of way that’s what I liked most of them. Sometimes hip hoppers try to imitate americans and they don’t show a strong personality. Lazy Habits though, shown they can adapt the american hip hop style into the British lifestyle.

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We’re currently getting day time air play on Channel 4. The exotic cake making cookery show Glamour Puds is using Even Out as backing to it’s chefs!
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How did it all start? What prompted such an approach to hip hop, and do you have any major influences?

First thing you need to know is that I came up in music through the band route, fu**ed around with a few instruments to begin with, bit of brass, a little drums.. I got a big ass church organ at home now, an accordion, stuff like that.. Anyway, I was tired of always diluting my ideas in the democracy of a band situation, too many cooks and all that! At that time I really wasn’t feelin’ any of the bands out there that played hip hop either. To me it was generic funk or cross over guitar music with an average mc up front, this was before people like the Beggars had a live band. So I went away and worked on stuff on my own for a long while, got a producer to facilitate my lack of programming skills at the time, wrote a few songs and then started getting the right people in to play it and slowly its become what it is now. Read Full Article