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Dizzee Rascal has praised the fans at the Leeds Festival that he met at the NME signing tent at the weekend (August 22), saying that he "always" enjoys coming to the north of England.

Dizzee Rascal started a party from the Main Stage at the Reading Festival this afternoon (August 22), which he ended by playing his recent UK Number One single 'Dance Wiv Me'.

The Streets, Dizze Rascal and The Fratellis are among acts who are playing Ibiza Rocks with Sony Ericsson gigs this summer which will be broadcast on British TV in the next few weeks.

Calvin Harris packed out the JJB Arena tent at the Staffordshire leg of V Festival this afternoon (August 16).

While Dizzee Rascal, Wiley, and Tinchy Stryder are (again) fielding chart and major-label interest, JME has gone the MySpace route to respectabililty. Also, dubstep is beginning to reset its balance between grooves and head music.

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Dizzee Rascal, Black Kids, Simian Mobile Disco, Happy Mondays and De La Soul are among the acts announced to be playing gigs as part of the upcoming season of Manchester Warehouse Project gigs.

Dizzee live on radio 1

Man, do I ever feel bad for the dude who turns 19 on August 7. The second-ever Underage Festival goes down August 8 in London's Victoria Park, and if you've ever blown 19 candles off your birthday cake, you're pretty much shit outta luck.

See, many of the Underage organizers are kids themselves, and, sick and tired of being barred from shows for not being old enough, they decided to make sure each and every attendee of their shindig is between the ages of 14 and 18 (inclusive). One pauses a bit at the logic of barring even younger folks from the lineup whilst making some sort of statement against the practice of age discrimination. But hey, somebody's gotta keep those wily eight year olds away from the punchbowl.

Though the lineup's chock full of fresh young talent, the age restriction doesn't necessarily apply to the day's performers. Dizzee Rascal, Four Tet, White Williams, Bonde do Rolê, Foals, Sons & Daughters, the Count and Sinden, Wild Beasts, the Horrors, Mystery Jets, the Rascals, Those Dancing Days, Gallows, Glasvegas, Good Shoes, Florence and the Machine, the Maccabees, DJ Tim Burgess (The Charlatans), and many many others will make their cases to the future world leaders in early August.

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Dizzee Rascal's collaboration with Calvin Harris and Chrome has secured the Number One spot for the fourth week running tonight (July 27).