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Joshua Yon AKA Saje Mode

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This interview with Joshua Yon, also known as Saje Mode, explores his musical background, creative influences and role in supporting Milton Keynes’ emerging hip-hop and neo-soul scene. Born in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1997, he moved to Milton Keynes as a child and has lived there consistently since his mid-teens. Music was a central part of ...
Jenn Catterall AKA The Seven Sentinels

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This interview with Jenn Catterall, also known as The Seven Sentinels, explores her path into hip-hop, her creative development as a lyricist and performer, and her role in Milton Keynes’ music community. Born in Oxford in 1984, she moved to Milton Keynes in 1991. Her early connection to hip-hop came through a love of rhythm, ...
Jason Parish AKA Paranoia MC

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This interview with Jason Parish, also known as Paranoia MC, traces his journey through the early Milton Keynes hip-hop scene, from his childhood influences to his later collaborations and reflections on how the culture has evolved. Born in Lusaka, Zambia, he moved to the UK at the age of six and grew up in Conniburrow, ...
James Jessop

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This interview with James Jessop traces his early immersion in hip-hop culture and how it shaped his life, creativity and career as an artist. Growing up in Leighton Buzzard in the mid-1980s, he first encountered hip-hop around 1985 at age eleven, inspired by early electro music, breakdancing on television, and seeing dancers and boombox culture ...
Harry Webley AKA DJ Moschops

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This interview with Harry Webley, also known as DJ Moschops, explores his lifelong connection to music, his development as a DJ and producer, and his experiences within the Milton Keynes hip-hop scene and beyond. Raised in Milton Keynes in a musical household, Webley grew up surrounded by instruments and studio equipment through his father, musician ...
Seek Wiz-dum

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This interview with the Milton Keynes–born rapper who performs under the name Seek Wiz-dum explores his personal journey into hip-hop, his artistic identity, and his views on the local music scene. Born in 1995 and raised in Milton Keynes, he grew up during the early 2000s when hip-hop was highly visible in mainstream culture through ...
Hannah Olarewaju

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This interview with Hannah Olarewaju explores her journey into the music industry, her role in developing live music culture in Milton Keynes, and her wider work in community building and inclusion. Born in London in 1994 and raised in Peckham within a close-knit Nigerian community, she moved to Milton Keynes as a young teenager, finding ...
Barry Watson AKA Kraze One

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This interview with Barry Watson (artist name Kraze One), born in 1976 in Aylesbury and raised in Buckingham, traces his journey into hip-hop culture and music-making in and around Milton Keynes from the 1980s onward. As a child, he first encountered music through records and radio recordings, but his interest in hip-hop was sparked by ...
MK HipHop - Interviews

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Summaries of filmed interviews with individuals we recorded as part of this project, whose stories comprise the upcoming MK HipHop documentary film.
Why We Celebrate Before Christmas (22 December 1978)

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I will be surprised if, among your Christmas cards, you do not receive one with a village church pictured on it, and from the start I warn you that this piece is not going to comprise the kind of tinselled trivia that passes as Christmassy, but is going to be about a village church and ...
Playing The Simpson Name Game (15 December 1978)

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I had not been in North Bucks many weeks when I found there was something distinctly odd about the local ecclesiastical parish boundaries. I think it was the late Mr Leopold Durran who first brought the matter to my attention in the form of a mild rebuke. Mr Durran described himself as an ophthalmic optician ...
Mr Sherwood, The Town Clerk (8 December 1978)

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The other day I was very surprised to learn that it is now ten years since Sherwood Drive, Bletchley, was opened for all its length and 18 years since the man after whom it is named retired to the south coast. The late Mr Reginald Leuty Sherwood will never be forgotten by those who knew him ...

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