Fun-Da-Mental
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Fun-Da-Mental: Prohibition, London
Live Review by Push, Melody Maker, 21 September 1991
FUND-DA-Mental's claim to be the British Asian version of Public Enemy isn't as daft as it sounds. The "Black Revolutionary Runnings" tee-shirts and the keyboard ...
Fun-Da-Mental: Turban Warriors
Report and Interview by Push, Melody Maker, 9 May 1992
"FORGET THE IMAGE of Asians as passive, happy people," begins Prince Haq, MC with Fun-Da-Mental, a Bradford group who are fast making a name for ...
Report and Interview by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 13 March 1993
Britain's Asian community has long hosted a thriving pop scene, operating in a lucrative parallel universe to the chart mainstream. Now, CAROLINE SULLIVAN reports, radical ...
Live Review by Andrew Smith, The Guardian, 2 November 1993
IN 1992, WE thought we were unshockable. Then came news of an English band, those angry sons of Asian immigrants, who had found a chink ...
Fun-Da-Mental: Rebels Without a Pause
Interview by Kodwo Eshun, i-D, January 1994
Asian rappers Fun-Da-Mental burst onto the scene in a blaze of angry political rhetoric and eclectic samples. Now, even though the original band has split ...
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 21 May 1994
IT IS the night before the local elections, the one chance to hit the BNP where it really hurts... and Bath is sound asleep. Down ...
Fun-Da-Mental: Moseley Dance Centre, Birmingham
Live Review by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 21 May 1994
BRUM RUSH THE SHOW! ...
Primal Scream, Radiohead, Pulp, Manic Street Preachers et al: Reading Festival, Berkshire — Saturday
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 3 September 1994
ON A REMARKABLE autumn's day on which Chelsea go from to two down to three up at Leeds, Everett True gets hospitalised because he's too ...
Report by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 8 July 1995
The last time FUN-DA-MENTAL took a journalist to Pakistan, the writer came home a jibbering wreck and the band split. A return trip anyone? Bribes/blackmail/strict ...
Angry in the UK: Fun-da-mental
Interview by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 4 August 2006
Fun-Da-Mental's new album gives voice to Muslim rage, says its creator Aki Nawaz ...
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