Hunters Moon ritual forest hip-hop!

13th October 2019
secret woodland location near Canterbury

Dom Wolfe a.k.a. Mistah Wolfe opened the evening with a thrilling hour of looping and beatboxing, building up banging dance tracks (and more abstract stuff) with just his voice and time manipulation. This was followed by the first performance from the newly established Templecats (Remi and Humble Pious from the BrewDem collective + Oli and Luke adding unexpected elements of poetry, throat singing, weird costume and theatrical embellishments). It was a Hunters Moon, and all I'd been told was that they were going to perform a healing ritual involving an invocation of the 'divine masculine'. Herne the Hunter and Bacchus got shoutouts, Laszlo (Humble P) dropped some incredible poetry, Remi spat complex bars at an almost alarming rate, Olivia put in a cameo as Eris, goddess of chaos (distributing apples, of course) and eventually the ritual gave way to an unplugged hiphop cypher with Remi and Lasz taking turns spitting over Dom's beats. Fantastic! And thanks once again to the local weather spirits for their ongoing cooperation (it was meant to be raining, but we got a beautiful sunset and bright full moon).