INNOVATIVE GRIME/METAL RISING STAR,
NATIVE JAMES RELEASES DEBUT EP REBIRTH
LISTEN HERE/WATCH FIELD VIDEO
DEBUT HEADLINE SHOW AT LONDON’S 93 FEET EAST ON 23RD OCTOBER – TICKETS ON SALE NOW HERE
Credit – William Jupp
Innovative grime/metal rising star, Native James today releases his debut EP, Rebirth via Saviour Music. Spanning 5 tracks, featuring previously released singles including the most recent Field, Power, which was featured in a Co Op advert and also received its first radio spin on Alyx Holcombe’s BBC Introducing Rock show, and his debut punch-to-the-gut single, Hammer, which was unleashed earlier this year. Hammer received its first radio plays on BBC Radio 1’s Rock Show with Daniel P Carter, and Future Alternative show with Nels Hylton on the night of release. Since then, it has received plays on BBC Introducing and BBC Radio 1’s Introducing Rock, and has racked up almost 200k streams on Spotify alone.
Native (real name Aaron James), has also today revealed the visuals for single, Field. Working alongside long-term collaborators Grade A Productions and director Reece Salvadorai, the video sees Native pay homage to 2000’s nu-metal music videos, whilst putting his own spin on it. Watch the video here.
Native has recently announced his long-awaited debut headline show! This will take place at London’s 93 Feet East on 23rd October, and tickets are on sale now here. He will be joined by FMA, 12 Gage, Notrixx and Dreadnought as support.
Next weekend will see Native James play Sounds Good Festival in Chelmsford on 14th September, and also join DeadWax featuring Benji Wild (formerly Astroid Boys) in Leeds at Hyde Park Book Club, on 27thSeptember. Shortly after this, he will play a set at Attitude Festival on 19th October. In May, Native played a packed out show at Brighton’s Great Escape Festival. He performed as part of Escape From The Escape at The Pipeline. This was a free showcase curated by his new label home, and also saw Laura’s Dream, Nuns Of The Tundra, Holocene and Carpark play. It’s hard to believe that Native only played his debut live show last Summer, on the BBC Introducing stage at Reading Festival. Later that year, he played a show at the Waiting Room in Stoke Newington in December.
Most of Native’s songs were born freestyle raps – an awe-inspiring craft Native has been honing since he was at school. He first discovered he could freestyle when he was put on the spot and asked to ‘spit some bars’, a phrase that was then alien to Native. Since this defining moment, Native has been cutting his teeth, performing live in a different iteration to what we see today. Fusing his love of rap, grime, rock and metal, Native is finally creating the music he has always wanted to make.
Native wants to create a tribe and sees his fans as one big united family. He wants his live show to be a space for his fans to feel empowered, and be a space for them to leave their worries at the door; to heal, to rage but most importantly, to engage. Native James welcomes you to the realm…
