http://www.bigdada.com main news feed from big dada en webmaster@ninjatune.net Preparations for the release of "Jerusalaam Come" continue apace. Juice has arranged launch parties in both hometown Birmingham and London with a whole host of guests to make things bump. Longtime friend and labelmate Roots Manuva will host in London, while guests across the two events include Charlee Brown, Triple Darkness, Cipher from Moorish Delta, Lady Justice, Mz C Brown, R-tillery, Blackitude, The What Supreme, Mad Flow and DJ Moyma. So make sure you're around in August at the following locations: 13th - Gramophone, 60-62 Commercial street, London E1 6LT - £3 22nd - Hare and Hounds, Kings Heath, 106 High St, Birmingham B14 7JZ - £2 First single "First Lesson" is also being mastered today. With a fantastic remix package including re-rubs from Evil 9, Rude Kid, A La Fu and Shadowless Domain, it fuckin' bumps! Check it soon. Marvellousness guaranteed! This Friday you can see Speech Debelle and her excellent band playing live - for free. Thanks to the good people at Time Out, Speech will be playing the Barfly in London's fashionable Camden district(*snigger*) and the tax on the door will be waived. You can get all the details here....If you can't make it, though, pitch your tent in your living room, piss on it, go and roll around in a flowerbed for a while then set your computer up outside the tent and watch Speech at Glastonbury. When you've revelled in her three tracks there, watch her backstage acoustic contribution to BBC2's coverage on iPlayer, 11 and a b it minutes into the chunk stored here. (I was gonna say that those of you without a computer could see this again in the Beeb's Glasto highlight package this weekend but then, er, duh, blibble, I realised). Oh, and watch another very different acoustic performance for the Telegraph here. True dat. Glastonbury is over for another year but the memories live on thanks to the BBC iPlayer! Watch Speech and Roots perform while you wash the mud off your wellies:Speech DebelleBBC Introducing Stage performance (with Micachu for 'Better Days')Performing 'Searching' at BBC backstage (at 11mins 35secs)Roots ManuvaJazz/World stage performance Speech Debelle kicks off the festival season with a cracking video for her new single, "Better Days,"  a harder hitting, more beat-led piece of hip hop than some of her earlier releases, but losing none of their emotional charge.Produced by Plutonic Lab during Speech's stay in Australia, Ms Debelle returned to Blighty without a chorus in place. After various ideas for singers were mooted she settled on Micachu, who could add a distinctive and distinctly British soul to proceedings. The result is blazing – swinging, snapping drums contrasted with deep double bass and acoustic guitar, Speech's clever, incisive, real lyrics and the unexpected twists of Micachu's melancholy chorus. As NME has already put it, it's “a slow-burning slice of pop that's both unsettlingly gloomy and joyously uplifting.”Directed by Rollo Jackson (Hot Chip, Man Like Me, Chris Clark), the video - like the tune itself - features Micachu as well as Speech and was filmed in East London and the badlands of Dagenham.With “Speech Therapy” already being tipped as one of the albums of the year, “Better Days” is a reminder just why so many people are getting so excited about this young South Londoner…. The festival season begins in earnest for Speech and her band this week, with five appearances at Glastonbury in the space of one weekend. As a result, there's really no excuse for being there and not seeing her play, unless you're off yer head on magic mushrooms and crawling round on the floor chatting to blades of grass.Friday sees Ms Debelle performing in the Dance Village Pussy Parlure tent at 6.30pm. Saturday sees her dropping into the Guardian Lounge at midday and the BBC Introducing stage at 6.30pm. Sunday sees her finish things off on the Orange Red Bull stage at midday, followed by the Dirty Boots stage at 5 o'clock. In addition to all this, Speech and crew will be running a video blog of the festival off her YouTube channel, so be sure to check in there: youtube.com/SpeechDebelleTVOr, to put it more simply:Fri 26th Dance Village Parlure tent 6.30pmSat 27th Guardian Lounge 12 middaySat 27th BBC Introducing stage 6.30pmSun 28th Orange Red Bull Stage 12.00 midday.Sun 28th Dirty Boots stage 5.00pm Our man Alastair Siddons (responsible for the Roots Manuva videos for "Too Cold," "Buff Nuff," "Again & Again" and "Let The Spirit") has been working on his debut feature length documentary for the last few years. It tells the story of the World Breakdance Championships in South Africa in 2007 and looks bloomin' amazing. Check the trailer here. The Texas-Dalston axis return with the third single from their marvellous debut album and it's a cracker. “Love Of My Night” details the traumas and madness of the one-night stand and works less as brag about how Trak Bully and Coool get theirs than as a cautionary tale on the (very funny) dangers of mixing Jaeger and Red Bull. Xrabit once again shows his production smarts by mixing pure booty rhythms with sparkling cascades of synth work. It shows why there's such a buzz around this producer. And, if you really weren't sure, check out his superb, housed up remix of the same tune or his original version of the psychedelic drugs tune, “R We Friends.” Album “Helllo World” picked up great press in the UK and is starting to generate some real momentum in the States, with Spin, XLR8R and the hulfe influential allhiphop.com all getting right behind it. With some crazed live shows at SXSW and a US tour with 2 Live Crew in the works, Xrabit & DMG$ are finding love wherever they go… Download "Love of My Night" from the Ninjashop or iTunes now. Juice Aleem, one of the finest MCs the UK has ever produced, is live tonight at GASH! at the Macbeth, London, UK.Catch him live ahead of his new album 'Jerusalaam Come', out on Big Dada on 3rd August.GASH! Friday 5th June, 8pm - 2amLocation: The Macbeth, Hoxton Street, London, UK