Posted: 1 Dec 2004, 2:15pmSubject: Sage Francis (anticon) @ JIVE, Sunday 12 December
Sage Francis has been escaping the real world through music (or so he thought) from a young age. He has since earned a couple of prestigious freestyle battle championships and a few poetry slam titles. His spoken word performances have been featured on ESPN and ABC X-Games commercials (which paid his rent for a year). He has also officially toured the US twice, once with Atmosphere, once with Anticon, and has been on the road booking one-off shows independently for a few years. To pay his rent he bootlegs his own CD-Rs and cassettes, selling thousands upon thousands of copies with minimal distribution and self-promotion.
When he performs, Sage captures the attention of every coffee shop chick, punk rock kid and hip-hop purist in the room because they've never seen anyone rap with such conviction. As a result, Sage has a cult following. He has developed an affinity with his devoted fan base that no marketing staff can buy.
Sage Francis is both a super ego created in the shadows of Paul Francis, and a disembowled head on a stake as a warning to all who seek to find answers to the great abyss. Great people aren't born through handouts, and don't kiss ass to get to the top. Real people know that the top is the bottom, so Sage Francis speaks for all of us even if we think we disagree with him. He is an artist with an indiscribably convincing and honest quality in his work, so describing the music doesn't help. Whether it's books, rapping, reading poems, or serving ice cream, Sage Francis IS his art. To understand the music you must understand him, and to understand him is something none of us may ever accomplish...but at least we can listen to his records, and what we get out of it is for us.
Sage Francis performs at the Jade Monkey Bar, Sunday 12 December
+The Unicorns + Macromantics + Home for the Def + No Through Road
doors open 7pm
Jive Productions
all ages
When he performs, Sage captures the attention of every coffee shop chick, punk rock kid and hip-hop purist in the room because they've never seen anyone rap with such conviction. As a result, Sage has a cult following. He has developed an affinity with his devoted fan base that no marketing staff can buy.
Sage Francis is both a super ego created in the shadows of Paul Francis, and a disembowled head on a stake as a warning to all who seek to find answers to the great abyss. Great people aren't born through handouts, and don't kiss ass to get to the top. Real people know that the top is the bottom, so Sage Francis speaks for all of us even if we think we disagree with him. He is an artist with an indiscribably convincing and honest quality in his work, so describing the music doesn't help. Whether it's books, rapping, reading poems, or serving ice cream, Sage Francis IS his art. To understand the music you must understand him, and to understand him is something none of us may ever accomplish...but at least we can listen to his records, and what we get out of it is for us.
Sage Francis performs at the Jade Monkey Bar, Sunday 12 December
+The Unicorns + Macromantics + Home for the Def + No Through Road
doors open 7pm
Jive Productions
all ages
You think the way you live is okay
You think posing will save your day
You think we don't see that you're running
Better call your boys cause I'm coming
You think that you don't have to ever quit
You think that you can get away with it
You think the light won't be ever lit
It's almost over now, almost over now
Something's on your chest better get it off
There'll be no one left when we set it off
We ain't gonna take it no more
Since it's almost over now, almost over now
Last edited by sway on Tue Dec 07, 2004 2:29 pm; edited 1 time in total
