Cappo
A legend of the UK Hip-Hop scene coming to Wainsgate for a very special Sunday Session
3-6pm 25.01.2026 - pay as you feel - (suggested £15)
Come and spend an afternoon at Wainsgate for this special Sunday Session taking place in the different spaces of Wainsgate Chapel.
Cappo presents extracts from his recent exhibition entitled CAPStone. This installation will be a physical translation of the concepts and themes found in the critically acclaimed music of this hugely important and influential Nottingham rap artist.
Exploring new possibilities for the alignment of hip hop lyricism with more traditional artistic mediums, CAPStone attempts to reevaluate how music is perceived, contemplated, and represented in contemporary settings by deconstructing the sounds, thoughts, and feelings contained within it.
From 3pm: the CAPStone Trilogy exhibition/installation will be open in the Assembly Room and there will be tasty hot food and drinks available in the bar. The exhibition will be open until 6pm
4pm: In place of a sermon: “There’s a War Going on Inside, No Man is Safe From” Cappo will give a talk that he first gave in Paris which details how this rap artist uses sounds and lyrics to reperesent and explore depression.
5pm – Performance of S.T.A.R.V.E in the Sunday School upstairs. S.T.A.R.V.E is a captivating performance which tells a raw and personal story, following a working-class man in Nottingham as he struggles with mental health, heartbreak, and addiction.
There’s plenty of time to hang out in the different spaces at Wainsgate – good food, hot and cold drinks and a licensed bar open throughout.
S.T.A.R.V.E. Performance
S.T.A.R.V.E. invites participants to experience isolation amongst the multitudes as part of an age-old narrative inherited by myriad artists, musicians, poets and authors to highlight the potential of loneliness as catalyst for mental health decline. S.T.A.R.V.E. intertextually engages with multiple artistic movements and eras to helprevise these fundamental elements of the human condition.
Extract from Dr Adam de Paor-Evans (Foreword from CAPStone book):
“Those who elect to enter the CAPStone aura — listeners, readers, consumers, the accidental ethnographers who follow a record or a book into its material hinterland — should expect more than mere gratification: a carefully administered intellectual ambush. What awaits is a concatenation of pleasures and demands — the small electric thrill of a bar that rearranges your associative furniture is presented textually, the slow, tactile delight of an object that refuses instant cataloguing, the hermeneutic labour of aligning breath, beat and page — all of which repay concentrated attention with cumulative effect. Bring lungs and fingers; the work both gives and requisitions attention, and in that exchange the treat becomes a lesson in how to listen.”