Paper Tiger began life many years ago as a bedroom experiment: produced future hip-hop, broken beat and dub incorporating live instruments and musicians. Since then the project has gone from strength to strength, gaining support from Radio 1, 1xtra, Charlie Dark, Daedelus and 6Music, and forthcoming releases include tracks with Foreign Beggars, Juice Aleem (Big Dada), Sabira Jade (DJ Vadim, Hextatic) and Dudley Perkins (Stones Throw).

Over the past 18 months, an 8-piece live band has been performing these productions and more to audiences across Europe. The shows are a fully live, uninterrupted mix of downtempo hip-hop, broken beat, dubstep and more: no sequencers or backing tracks, just furious pushing of buttons and flailing of limbs. The band has shared stages with the likes of Jaga Jazzist, The Bug and Warrior Queen, Rustie, The Herbaliser, Mary-Anne Hobbs, Benji B, Daedelus, Gaslamp Killer, Benga and more.