Ivan Ooze

How did you get your start? I uploaded a video of myself rapping in a car over an instrumental with a midi keyboard and the rest is history!

Sum up your musical sound in four words? Hard hitting boom bap.

If you could support any band in the world – past or present – who would it be? Jimi Hendrix or Louis Jordan.

You’re being sent into space, no iPod, you can bring one album – what would it be? Spark Master Tape – The #SWOUP Serengeti.

Greatest rock’n’roll moment of your career to date? Getting a blood nose mid-set, finishing the set and then giving the bloody microphone back to the stage hand. He wasn’t a happy chappy.

Why should people come and see your band? Because you won’t find another hip hop artist in Melbourne ‘liver’ than me.

When and where for your next gig? I’m at Beyond The Valley in Phillip Island on 31 Dec and then I have my own headline show at Shebeen Bandroom 30 Jan.

Website link for more info? Facebook.com/mcivanooze