BBC Asian Network announces it’s first-ever University Tour, running throughout November and launching with a live broadcast of the flagship ‘Friction’ show from Nottingham Trent University. The UK's most listened to Asian radio station kicks off its tour on November 10 in Nottingham.
The tour will be bringing the new sound of the station to campuses nationwide, with residents Bobby Friction, DJ Kayper and Mentor Kolektiv showcasing some of the brightest new British-Asian talents, including D-Boy, Jinx and MDK Cartel.
Mark Strippel, Head of Music and Live Events on the station: “BBC Asian Network already has a real connection with students and we’ll be building on that link, as well as growing our reputation for leading in British-Asian music by introducing them to some of the key Live acts that we now play on this station.”
The tour takes on Nottingham, London, Leicester, Guildford, Birmingham, Colchester and Bradford, closing with a Live Broadcast of Riz MC and guests from Kings College, London.
Born in 1979, Taran Kaur Dhillon never once imagined that she’d perform on stage to a rowdy crowd of hip-hop heads. Destiny, however, had different plans for the young Indian girl who once aspired to be like her aunty dressed in a sari playing the traditional Indian harmonium. Evolving from the good little Indian girl who didn’t argue or answer back, she is now a fire-breathing dragon spitting rhymes here there and everywhere with a punch so hard it’d knock you out from the other side of the room.
The album ‘21st Century Jugni’ by ‘Mukhtar Sahota & Arif Lohar’, which is due for release on Mukhtar’s own Record Label, ‘Internalmusic’, on the 20th October 2006.
The album contains 10 tracks, and 2 bonus mixes. “Arif Lohar is one of the ‘Legends of Pakistan’, son of the late celebrated Pakistani folk singer, ‘Alam Lohar’.
Arif has established himself in his own right as one of Pakistan’s most successful artists. Mukhtar Sahota (The Sahotas), a Music Producer known for his distinctive sound of fusion, from Desi, Reggae to Dance and Rock, unites with Arif to re-introduce some classics of Alam Lohar and hits from Arif.
The album ‘Jugni’ brings Arif Lohar to the sound of the 21st Century with the distinctive sound of Mukhtar, for all ages to discover, rediscover, and enjoy.”