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review One of the more quirky bootlegs to emerge this summer was ‘Knees Up Look Sharp’, a mutinous mash-up of Dizzee Rascal’s ‘Fix Up Look Sharp’ with Chas N’ Dave’s ‘Rabbit’. It’s cheeky, slightly menacing and full of East End gertcha - Dizzee Rascal in a nutshell.Tonight the boy born within the sound of Bow bells - or Raskit to his pals, and Dylan Mills to his mummy - is chuckling happily. His audience, a bubbling mass of hormones and teenage braggadocio, whip off their bras and caps and fling them stageward with cries of ‘Boom!’ and ‘Dizzeeee!’. Dizzee and his MC pal carry their sweaty trophies aloft as they pace the stage with jeans slung low and caps half-cocked, hitching their crotches and spitting rhymes over bowel-rumbling bass and arcade bleeps. From tense opener ‘Sittin Here’ to blistering, scritchy encore ‘Stand Up Tall’, Dizzee (joy)rides with us through ‘Boy In Da Corner’ and latest album ‘Showtime’. He’s a musical chimera, garage and hip-hop rubbing up against dub, ragga and two-step, his frenetic poetry punctuated with that Busta Rhymes yelp of outrage, idiot samples looping relentlessly. He’s the bad boy with a heart of gold, the cheeky rascal with a mean streak promising malevolently "I ain't mad, I'm a lovely lad, I'll give you the loveliest beatin' that you ever had". Tonight he is both Puck and Corleone, Mozart and Tucker Jenkins. A magical, effortless, awe-inspiring maestro. At just 20, Rascal lacks the studied composure of more established artists. He’s clearly excited. After the commercial sing-a-long of ‘Dream’ and its ‘Happy Talk’ chorus, Dizzee exits for the world’s shortest faux-ending. Moments later he and his MC charge back on to lead the crowd in a “this side over here say ‘OiiiIII!’" call and response that ushers in the obliterating “OiiiiiIIIIIII!" of ‘Fix Up Look Sharp’. A colossal talent. Showtime indeed.
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