Trip Biography

Born in a Wimbledon Hospital weighing a healthy 7 1/2 pounds, Alex Child aka Trip grew up in Hammersmith, West London. After the blur of college and a set of A-levels that spelt DUDE, Trip found himself making and performing music across the capital at mates studios, on pirate radio stations and at open mic nights as a live vocalist and MC. After touring the UK with Drum & bass heavyweights Grooverider and Shy FX, a chance meeting with the Scratch Perverts led to another chance meeting with Killa Kela. Not long after, Trip was touring the world with both acts, supporting bands such as NERD, Justin Timberlake, Busta Rhymes, Red Man and Outkast.

Early 2008 saw a limited 7" release of the irreverent rant that was “Who’s That”, which picked up specialist radio play and was voted Tune of the Week in DJ Magazine. Music Week also tipped Trip as "one to watch".

After moving to Holloway Boulevard in North London, Trip began to pen his debut solo album collaborating with James Rushent from Does It Offend You, Yeah? and producer Lance Thomas (Ladytron etc). Now completed, the album 'ShortCuts' is a tragi-comic kaleidoscope of city life as seen through the eyes of a 24 year old Londoner. Think The Streets v The Clash...

As all the songs on "ShortCuts" are lyrical vignettes based around life on the Holloway Road (aka the Holloway Boulevard!), North London, Trip decided to shoot an entire movie for the album rather than occasional videos for individual singles. Called DayTrip, the movie was shot by 11 different directors over a 24 hour period. The film was shot in album running order and each director had 2 hours with Trip to shoot their video before he moved onto a different location and director to shoot the next song from the album, with the last shot of each video being first shot of the next. Every video has a clock showing real-time as Trip moved through his 24hour journey.

Each director then had 24 hours to edit their short and the entire film was shown 24 hours later in a Soho screening room. 'DayTrip' will be released as a special edition DVD free with the album 'ShortCuts'.