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“I don’t eat nothing without bacon and eggs in it.  Nothing.”
“What about trifle?”

“NOTHING MATE”

On Friday 24th March Foreign Beggars stopped by Derby to do a show at the city’s only live Hip Hop night, Ill Behaviour, and were supported by local talent Alex Blood.

The lads were short of a producer, but were accompanied by affiliate artist Skrein, who did a solo set leading up to the full show.  After a gruelling and somewhat disparate soundcheck, I managed to grab the guys backstage just as Pav was waking up, and we had an entertaining chat about amateur porn, drug smuggling and smoking faeces – none of which appears here, but we did also chat about this…

Aside from the last Ill Behaviour show you did, has anybody been to Derby before?
Shlomo: Yeah, we’ve been here loads of times…

What are you saying about Derby?
Vulgatron: Derby’s heavy man.
All: FIVE LAMPS…
Vulgatron: And don’t test McTurk and Nads, man.
Shlomo: Yeah Five Lamps, and all the On The On crew, they’re great man…
Vulgatron: Every time we come up north, Derby’s like a safe haven, we come and chill out in Derby for the day; we come and hang out at the Five Lamps.

You did a show in Southampton last night; you’ve got this tonight – anything tomorrow?
Vulgatron: After this show we’re gonna chill for a couple of hours, then we’ve got to drive to Luton – we’re playing in Geneva tomorrow.

What’s the average week like for a Beggar?
Vulgatron: Fucking random
Nonames: There’s no average week at all.
Vulgatron: There’ll be a certain week where we don’t go home at all because we’re on the road.  We end up doing about 2/3 shows a week, so we get back into town pretty tired, but there’s a lot of studio work to do, since we run our own label (Dented Records), there’s a lot of projects on the go.  It’s pretty much non-stop, and plus we need to party, so it’s generally pretty crazy.

How much do you guys party?
Vulgatron: Every day.
Metropolis: We’re always the last people to leave, get the most drunk, cause the most racket, steal the most phones…