User:Badfunk

Paul O'Brien aka Dr Badfunk (born 26th May 1981) is one of the world's top human beatboxers. He defeated Beardyman at the Brighton hip-hop festival beatbox battle in 2005, won the North West heat of the UK Beatbox Championships in 05 and the North-East heat in 06, and has featured on BBC Radio 1 & 1Xtra. Badfunk has performed alongside and collaborated with many of the UK's premier hip hop acts, including Foreign Beggars, Skinnyman, Blade, Stig of the Dump, Dr Syntax, the Scratch Perverts, Blak Twang, Phi Life Cypher and Killa Kela, as well as US hip hop heavyweights M.O.P. and People Under the Stairs. He has also worked with Dave Fielding of seminal indie band the Chameleons and didgeridoo virtuoso Paul Didge. He is part of the hip hop crew Swampfoot, whose debut album 'This Way and That' was released in 2005 to critical acclaim. In 2006, Badfunk performed at a British Heavyweight boxing title fight between Lee Swaby and John 'Buster' Keeton at Don Valley Stadium, Sheffield. He has performed around the world, and has also delivered beatbox workshops for the British Academy of New Music, the Brighton Hip Hop Festival, and Soundstudio in the UK, and for Champion Sound in Australia.