Why? Because, for his latest single, Cam dipped back into his most hilarious, oddly-genius, career-spanning schtick: rapping over beautifully cheesy TV theme songs. It’s18-plus and tickets are £12 available from 2-Tone Village, Ball Hill European Mini Market, Gosford Street Skopes Mens wearin West Orchards, Vinyl Destination in Coventry Market and online a tthe day after the new Daft Punk album, Random Access Memories, is streaming in full on iTunes, I am writing about Cam’ron. So if the songs ‘Tears of A Clown’, ‘Save it For Later’ and ‘Mirror In The Bathroom’ float your boat then make sure you do not miss this Teenage Cancer Trust Cov Music Museum Project fundraiser gig at Hush, Gosford Street. * ON Saturday March 16 The Beat return to Coventry.
So little wonder why this Coventry based song stands ten years on as the most successful bhangra single ever made. Even US rap legend Jay-Z has performed on a re-mix version of the song. It’s been estimated that it has sold in excess of ten million world wide.
In the 10 years since I have released a further two albums and I’m working on my third which will be released this year.” I’m proud to be from Coventry and I always talk about my home town.
“For me it has been great because I have an amazing following across the world. It is indeed a very iconic song that has broken all barriers. “However, since then it has remained fresh and still gets played in every club around the world. For many it was the first time they had heard Indian music. “Mundian to Bach Ke or Beware came out into the mainstream in 2003 and went huge globally. I asked Panjabi MC, alias Raj Singh Rai, how it feels to have created that song ten years on. Canadian, Dutch and Swedish record buyers made it a number 10 hit in their respective countries, and it also made the top 20 in Finland, France, Ireland and Norway and number 33 in The USA. It hit number one in Belgium and Italy, number two in Austria and Germany, four in Switzerland, five in Denmark and the UK. Just to prove I’m not getting carried away by this song, here’s its chart resume. However, the song has created something of a life of its own, there’s rarely a week goes by that you don’t hear it on TV somewhere. Ten years on and sadly that hasn’t happened. With a bass line lifted from TV’s Knight Rider Theme and the intriguing vocals sung by Labh Janjua it was a unique beast, one that looked to begin the wave of bhangra crossover hits into the mainstream charts. His song ‘Mundian To Bach Ke’ (Beware of The Boys), was conquering the world country by country. SOME ten years ago this week Coventry was once again lighting up the musical map, thanks to local bhangra star Panjabi MC.
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