Tate! Tinie! Teens!

Here's something rather wonderful.

Tinie Tempah,who at the time was at number one in the UK singles chart, at the Tate Britain rapping about a painting:

http://channel.tate.org.uk/media/73392362001

Please don't be too impressed that I have my finger so on the pulse of modern British pop culture. I know all this because super-cool Ellen (Percival) was actually there and told me about it.

I quote:

I have never experienced so much impassioned teenage girl wailing in my life! amazing.

What made it even more evocative was that he was performing in front of 'the great day of his wrath' by john martin a.k.a. the cover of 1990 dark ambient classic, 'heresy' by lustmord.

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb249/SARGE921/o579709.jpg

http://vatopaidi.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/martin_john_great_day_of_his_wrath.jpg

The whole thing was weirdly atmospheric.

Jinkies!

I suspect it's not every day that there are howls of impassioned wailing at the Tate Britain.

All somehow very quintessentially British.