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Interesting bit in the Times today which suggests that rap is the new entertainment for middle-class whites to watch with amusement at blacks..dunno about that, but I think this form of "music" is on its way out. It's hardly innovative.
Lifeless Show:
Lifeless Show:
For something billed as the Anger Management Tour, there was very little to get worked up about at the first of Eminem's three gigs in Milton Keynes.
The last time the rapper appeared in Britain he was armed with a chainsaw - this time he entered on a slowly revolving miniature ferris wheel.
It was typical of a show that was full of glossy production but little real energy.
Though he both danced with a computer-generated image of his daughter and attempted mid-song magic tricks, Eminem was either unwilling or unable to make anything sound different to what would have come out of a stereo if someone just pressed play at the right moment.
Instead, he seemed content to rely on an assorted crew of other rappers who regularly interchanged with each other at various points during the show - including his group D12, Obie Trice, and hot new star 50 Cent - to provide the impetus and variety.
And shockingly for a gig into which so much time and money had been pumped into production, there were some appalling technical problems that badly marred the set.
The sound had previously gone down five times during the opening act of Cypress Hill, who eventually resorted to a five-minute drum solo, powerless to use any of their other instruments.
The last time the rapper appeared in Britain he was armed with a chainsaw - this time he entered on a slowly revolving miniature ferris wheel.
It was typical of a show that was full of glossy production but little real energy.
Though he both danced with a computer-generated image of his daughter and attempted mid-song magic tricks, Eminem was either unwilling or unable to make anything sound different to what would have come out of a stereo if someone just pressed play at the right moment.
Instead, he seemed content to rely on an assorted crew of other rappers who regularly interchanged with each other at various points during the show - including his group D12, Obie Trice, and hot new star 50 Cent - to provide the impetus and variety.
And shockingly for a gig into which so much time and money had been pumped into production, there were some appalling technical problems that badly marred the set.
The sound had previously gone down five times during the opening act of Cypress Hill, who eventually resorted to a five-minute drum solo, powerless to use any of their other instruments.
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