Yup, hotpress.com is very taken with ‘Lonely Side Of Life’, one of five tracks that can be found on myspace.com/mavericksabre.

The 18-year-old rhymer in question was born in the Hackney area of London, but moved to Wexford whilst still a nipper. Influenced, so he says, by The Beatles, Tupac Shakur and Bob Dylan, Maverick Sabre has spent two years assembling his own songs, which have earned him Urban Takeover and Me! Orange Unsigned award nominations.

We’ll have more on this whipsmart young gentleman in a coming issue.