Thanks to the 'Taste the Difference' Crew and one promotors insistence on booking his favourite MC for his birthday, we get a truly unique spectacle, for a fiver! Tonight, Teren Delvon Jones, a man you may know better as Del The Funky Homosapien, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Deltron, Deltron Zero, Sir Dzl, Del Diablo Diabolique or 'That rapper from that 'Clint Eastwood' tune', makes an appearance at the Manchester Roadhouse. Venues of this size are usually suited to amateur and up and coming bands and low key club nights, not Hip Hop royalty such as Del. The crowd all seem to know how special an event this is. I've tried to find a record of any previous UK appearance from Del and couldn't find anything. If he has ever played a UK show I'll bet it wasn't half as intimate.
Support for the show is provided by Californian compatriot Bukue One and DJ Zac Hendrix. Bukue One bucks the crowd up well. An MC who is clearly not afraid to show that he's having fun- a welcome change from the 'badboy MC' image! Once a suitable amount of hype has been imbued to the crowd, Del appears without further ado.
Arms fly up into the air and the crowd goes wild. Del launches into a set comprising of a huge mixture of material, old and new. We get hits from his early days, when he turned up on the scene as 'Ice Cube's Cousin', new material from last year's free download release 'Funk Man' and a host of the inbetween. A pleasant amount of 'Heiroglyphics' material and some impromptu freestyling prove a welcome treat, and the while thing is topped off with a re-worked version of his Gorillaz collaboration 'Clint Eastwood'. This truly was a show that won't be repeated and unlike anything Manchester is likely to see again.
Glad to be a part of it!
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