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After a string of high profile festival dates across Europe including a main stage performance at Exit festival, performances at Glastonbury, Dour and Giles Peterson’s World Wide Festival the Foreign Beggars have further cemented themselves as one of the most diverse and energetic rap outfits from the UK. Blending hip hop, grime, DnB and dubstep to create a live show that smashes you in the face like a wrecking ball.

With Sziget Festival, Royal Arena and Hip Hop Kemp still to come this will wrap up an amazing summer of live shows before they embark on a European tour and hit the studio with Noisia, Alix Perez and Flux Pavilion for further collaborative efforts in 2010/11.

Foreign beggars have recently been Nominated for best European Hip Hop act alongside Roots Manuva, Tinie Tempah and Professor Green.

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Foreign Beggars are a critically acclaimed Rap, Grime and Dubstep group based in London. The group consists of MCs Orifice Vulgatron and Metropolis, producer DagNabbit and DJ Nonames. The group have also worked with various beatboxers including Shlomo, MC Zani, Reepsone, THePETEBOX and FaithSFX.

Individually, Foreign Beggars have achieved a range high profile accomplishments. Appearances on Bjork’s 'Medulla' album and the Gorillaz single 'Tomorrow Never Comes', to remix production for Amp Fiddler, Corinne Bailey Rae and touring the US with James Lavelle's UNKLE outfit.

Collaborations have included a slew of hip hop heavy weights including Stones Throw’s Oh No, Guilty Simpson, Wildchild and Dudley Perkins. They have also worked with a string of producers supreme; the likes of DJ Vadim, Dabrye, Scratch Perverts, Skinnyman, Task Force and Spain’s Griffi and Tote King. Working closely with other genres has seen them work with Vex’d, Virus Sundicate, Natalie Williams, Noisia and Ram Records' Sub Focus.

Their long awaited third release 'United Colours of Beggattron' dropped back in October '09 and has smashed it ever since. A truly genre meshing monster, exactly what you’d expect from one of the underground’s most renowned groups: fresh and experimental hip hop music with a distinctive London twist.

Tony Truand's video direction for crossover track ‘Contact’ (produced by Drum & Bass allstars Noisia) has racked up over 1m hits on YouTube since November and the track was even picked up by E4 for Skins Series 4. In succesion to that, their track 'Prove it' reached no. 2 in the US College radio charts and second single '7 figure swagger' hit no.4 and no.2 respectively in the Beatport and Juno Dubstep/Grime download charts.

Their dynamic live show earned a call up from Prodigy as main support for their January 2010 tour, with the band having already toured internationally from Dubai to Toronto, Shanghai to Sydney. Steadily clocking up over 100 shows a year, every year, every festival, sharing stages with artists including Snoop Dogg, Amy Winehouse, Public Enemy, Ian Brown and De La Soul.

Championed in the UK by BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe, Pete Tong and Tim Westwood. Nonames and Orifice are now also into their second year presenting a weekly hip hop and grime show on the BBC Asian Network. Television credits include Channel 4, ITV and MTV, Shlomo live on Jools Holland and Eastenders, and a live broadcast on the BBC from Glastonbury.

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