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Grime and UK Garage Maestro Preditah to Go on First North American Tour

"I was gassed when I got my first DJ booking at a local under 18's show back in 2006, so I can't explain how excited I am to be DJing across in the U.S for the first time 10 years later​."
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Birmingham-based grime, house, and garage producer, Preditah, has announced his first-ever North American tour, featuring stops in New York, Montreal, Los Angeles, and more.

Nathan Gerald is an affiliate of Boy Better Know, the grime label and collective founded in 2005 by scene dons Skepta and JME; he is also currently Skepta's tour DJ. He made his name with instrumentals like "The Big Wok" (2011) and "Circles" (2012), and has since gone on to remix everyone from from pop crossover act Disclosure to electronic pop artist Jessie Ware.

"I was gassed when I got my first DJ booking at a local under 18's show back in 2006, so I can't explain how excited I am to be DJing across in the U.S for the first time 10 years later," he said to THUMP via email.

In 2013, Gerald told us about his background in gospel and how grime initially caught his attention; then last year, a little further down the line, he explained how he was embracing housier sounds without losing his grime roots.

Preditah tour dates: May 13 - New York, NY - Trans Pecos
May 14 - Montreal, QB - Newspeak
May 19 - Los Angeles, CA - Union
May 20 - San Francisco CA - 1015 Folsom
May 21 - Baltimore, MD - The Darkroom
May 24 - Denver, CO - Cervantes Other Side

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