Tower Block Dreams

Overview

Tower Block Dreams is a British documentary series that broadcast on BBC Three during January 2004 investigating the underground music scene on council estates in the United Kingdom. The series looks at modern inner city life, through the stories of young musicians trying to make a career in music. The series shows that the underground music scene is fuelled by pirate radio stations and rappers' ambitions to become successful in the future.

Episodes

S01E01 Spitting and Shotting

January 8, 2004 56 min
This edition features London rappers Sloth and Skinnyman, both of whom have criminal pasts, but are striving to stay on the straight and narrow. Sloth grew up on the notorious Somers Town estate in North...

S01E02 Ghetto on Sea

January 15, 2004 56 min
This edition features emcees Killer and Gambit who both live in council estates in Southend. Killer runs Y2K FM, a pirate radio station in Southend that plays house and garage music and broadcasts to Essex,...

S01E03 Grimetime to Primetime

January 22, 2004 56 min
This edition features Scarface and Mini-Me, a teenage rapping duo from a housing estate in Tottenham hoping to make the big time, and Jamieson, a record producer whose latest single, True, produced in his bedroom...

Cast

Alex "Skinnyman" Holland
Himself
Charlie Sloth
Charlie Sloth
Himself

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