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Paul Gibbins is an Advertising Professional and avid music fan. He became involved in London's grime scene while working on the launch of Simon Wheatley's genre-defining book "Don't Call Me Urban!" and has remained an active member of the grime community ever since. In his spare time he edits influential grime blog dreamersrow.com and also contributes to GRMdaily.

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Big Narstie: The ‘lighter’ and funnier side of grime, Music

Big Narstie: The ‘lighter’ and funnier side of grime

“If I made a song in pink boxer shorts and green gloves called Sexy Girl and got a number 1 the whole fucking grime scene would be in pink boxer shorts making a f****** remix.”

By | Music | Tuesday, 23 April 2013 at 6:00 am

Dexplicit: The Dex Files and #ThatBassLife are coming and Pow ‘came out of nowhere’, Arts

Dexplicit: The Dex Files and #ThatBassLife are coming and Pow ‘came out of nowhere’

Dexplicit plans to release twelve instrumental EPs over the next 12 months, with the first coming out at the end of February.

By | Arts, Music | Wednesday, 20 February 2013 at 5:30 am

Launchpad Records are taking off, Arts

Launchpad Records are taking off

Back in 2004, following the release of Wiley’s debut album Treddin’ on Thin Ice and Dizzee Rascal’s semi-seminal Boy in Da Corner the previous year, a young grime fan named George Quann-Barnett (www.twitter.com/qu_nn) wrote a handwritten letter to XL Records asking if there was any way he could be involved in working for the label.

By | Arts, Music | Friday, 2 November 2012 at 12:16 pm

Mr ShaoDow: How to sell 10,000 CDs completely independently, Arts

Mr ShaoDow: How to sell 10,000 CDs completely independently

It feels good to know that as an independent artist I’ve managed to achieve on my own; what some artists with a whole label and team of people aspire to do.

By | Arts, Music, Notebook | Wednesday, 3 October 2012 at 4:00 am

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