WHAT IS THE IDEOLOGY BEHIND YOUR ‘GARDEN’ PROJECTS?

Conor: The garden was originally an album that I put out which is available now. It was a methodology and ideology. It is a metaphor for the inner garden, because I believe we all have one inside ourselves. It’s a premise that I wanted to put together to celebrate different art forms that I enjoy to take part in and which I’ve always had some type of skill set in. With the garden event I wanted house all of those things, art, spoken word, live music, vibrances, flowers and more. Thats what I aimed to bring, the garden is a metaphor for the inner I wanted to project. Something that had mindfulness at its its core, in an enjoyable circumstance, where people take pleasure in those conversations.

I want you to talk about yourself to your people, but talk about yourself and your issues to someone else to find something, find an outreach. It’s not uncool to talk about your problems, to find some serious help about generational walls, fights, abuses, trauma - all these things and try and clear your place to make your garden a nice place to spend time in and invite other people into. So that’s the idea of the garden and that’s what it stemmed out from. It’s about getting good hearted artists in to perform and bringing it to a crowd of people that can start to acknowledge and take responsibility of things that are effecting them. That’s the premise of the garden.

We’ve noticed you playing some recent DJ sets, DID ANYTHING DRIVE you transition into that role?

Conor: So when I first moved to Manchester a lot of my friends were DJ’s, shout-out Joey Bricks, Tommy Tickle, Inca, Yeshi, loads of my friends were DJ’s and they were always having a great time doing it. I didn’t really have any rapper friends and I’ve come from an environment where all my friends were spitting and I didn’t know any DJ’s. Now I’ve come into Manchester at age 22 and shout to man like Chunky who brought me through to try and get involved in the whole DJ circuit as a rapper. I felt like it wasn’t really my gravy you know what I mean, my mushy peas and roast potatoes. But there was food for thought in it, now I’m at a place where I want to try it because I love music and also I wanna bring something different to PA sets, because we do the live show with the band. I don’t not want to do PA sets but when I do the live stuff now I’m going to be DJ’ing and throwing in some other bits. I Might utilise some instrumental sections where I may do a performance over the top etc.

Like I said, I have a lot of friends who are bad boy DJ’s who I respect highly, so I have to learn that craft and put myself in a situation. I can’t be an artist or a vocalist who now thinks he can DJ, I have to put myself in that world and do some nitty gritty because I understand that’s what it takes. Because its like if you are a MC, you can’t just write bars - I’m sorry it doesn’t work like that. But yeah man its fun and I enjoy it, it also gives me a little time to spend with my bredrins who aren’t involved in the band scene, you know what I mean?