MC Hammersmith, the world's leading freestyle rapper to emerge from the ghetto of middle-class West London, has announced his first ever UK tour after wowing the fans and critics alike with his new show ‘‘Straight Outta Brompton’ at the Edinburgh Fringe this month. The tour starts in his hometown of Edinburgh on 19th March at The Stand and culminates on 28th April at Brighton’s Old Market.

MC Hammersmith (a.k.a. Will Naameh) was born to an English mother and a Syrian father. He attended an all-male, middle class private school in Hammersmith. After escaping this, he took up improv classes and started performing freestyle rap comedy. Although technically mixed race, his middle class English accent and pale skin tone means he has always passed for white. This, combined with his awkward personality, made for the perfect framing device to draw comedy from his Hop Hop performances.

He has a Master's degree in Linguistics, specializing in phonology, from the University of Edinburgh. He was studying at the same time he started rapping. His Linguistics expertise helped him become a full-time freestyle rapper, as he combined his love of hip hop with his academic studies into the mechanics of rhyming.

Since then, he has performed at Fringe and comedy festivals all around the world, headlined at major comedy clubs across the UK, and has won multiple comedy awards for his freestyle rap performances.  Being a freestyle rapper meaning he raps spontaneously, unscripted, with absolutely no preparation and at lightning speed. The lyrics and rhymes of his raps are 100% improvised. He has just released his debut single which is taken from his forthcoming debut album ‘Mother’s Fettuccine’ on 6th October via Distro Kid.   

He also has OCD - in particular to do with obsessive thoughts. He has since discovered one of the benefits of OCD was developing an obsession with rhyming: if he had a thought of a rhyme, he wrote it down. He now has his own personal rhyming dictionary (and memorised it), and at last count it was 15,000 words long! 

Outside of rapping, MC Hammersmith trained in improv at Second City and iO Chicago, the Annoyance Theatre in Chicago, and UCB New York. He regularly performs improvised comedy shows in one of the UK's leading improv comedy shows including Spontaneous Potter: The Unofficial Improvised Parody. He has also supported comedy big wigs Jason Manford and John Bishop on tour. 

The dates are as follows:

MARCH            WHERE                                                BOX OFFICE

Tues 19th         EDINBURGH - Stand Comedy Club       0131 558 7272

Thurs 21st        GLASGOW - Stand Comedy Club          0131 558 7272

Sat 23rd             STOCKTON – Arc                                 01642 525199

Sun 24th           HULL – Comedy Lounge                       07835 054873

Wed 27th          NEWCASTLE – Stand Comedy Club      0131 558 7272

Thurs 28th        BLACKPOOL – Comedy Station            01253 381381

Fri 29th             LIVERPOOL - Philharmonic                   0151 709 3789

Sat 30th            SALFORD – The Lowry                         0343 208 6000

Sun 31st           SHEFFIELD - Leadmill                          0114 272 7040

 

APRIL

Thurs 18th         LEEDS – Wardrobe                               0113 383 8800

Fri 19th             BRISTOL – Hen & Chickens                  01275 375056

Sat 20th            LEICESTER – Y Theatre                       0116 255 7066

Sun 21st             BIRMINGHAM – Glee Club                    0871 472 0400

Thurs 25th        OXFORD – Glee Club                           0871 472 0400

Fri 26th             CAMBRIDGE - Junction                        01223 511511

Sat 27th            LONDON – Leicester Square Theatre     020 7734 2222

Sun 28th           BRIGHTON – The Old Market                01273 201801