packing up shop and moving to:

http://aliveisbetter.blogspot.com/

strollin’ on a sunny saturday afternoon.

Not just some bloke standing around in his living room. If there’s only one 365 picture project you watch, make it this one.

My iphone’s seen better days. I managed to scratch the hell out of the back by generally not giving a fuck so I tried to cover it with a sticker, and managed to scratch that to death too! Ah well, what it lacks in resale value it makes up for in character…

Quick note, if any of you are 18-21 and interested in being in the opening of the next series of Skins head over to http://www.e4.com/takepart/skins4filming.html

This new ad from Absolut is sweeeeeeeet. Makes a refreshing change from some twat trying to demonstrate that he has a WKD side.

I spent saturday at Field Day in Victoria Park. It was wet and muddy and I got caught out by wearing vans with no socks on. It was also filled to the brim with shoreditch’s finest totty which, albeit a bit pretentious, more than made up for my watery pain.

Me and my mates decided it would be a great idea to be thrifty (cheap) and pre-drink outside. In our heads, we were sticking two fingers up to the festival bars and their £3.70 a can madness.

Our mate MJ was obviously a lot more gutsy.

We’re in! Smiles all round.

Here we are with our bar bought cans. Guess our rebellious stand was no match for the allure of lukewarm pear cider. Goodbye £3.70. Hello Mr Drunk.

Santigold’s set was delayed by 30 minutes. Those 30 minutes also happened to coincide with a torrential downpour of hollywood blockbuster proportions. We were not best pleased. We were even waiting so long that a bit of facial hair action started going on. Burt Reynolds has nothin on us.

She came on eventually and the crowd were pretty hype. The whole apology routine went down and although she did the usual crowd pleasers and a cover of The Cure’s ‘Killing an arab‘, her set didn’t feel worth the soggy jeans and wet feet. Might’ve been because her backup singers were made to be moody as fuck and expressionless the whole way through. But I’m probably just bitter that the delay’s with her set meant that Skream’s set was cut to a miniscule 15 minutes as a consequence.

The rain cleared up considerably after Santigold’s set (typical) and it revealed this magnificent sunset. Spirits were lifted – we’re easily pleased.

Mystery Jets were the surprise number 1 set of the day. They got the set list spot on, launching into ‘Hideaway’ complete with the sirens to build up hype and following it up with compulsory singalongs ‘Half in Love With Elizabeth‘ and ‘Two Doors Down‘. Another added bonus was finding the cheeky bevvy that we managed to smuggle in using all our wit and charm. Needless to say, we had a ball!

This is a photo I took walking home at 6:30am the next morning. We all ended back at my mates flat to afterparty which consisted of watching Charlie Sheen’s finest hour in ‘The Wraith’ and Samuel L Jackson being a straight up gee in ‘Jackie Brown‘. Wild.

This is fuuuuuunnnnnnnyyyyyyyy. Although I think I’ll have to watch it again because I missed half of it having a cringe induced fit. Then again, maybe not. I am however inspired, I’m thinking of doing my own version to So Solid Crew’s 21 seconds – that way every member of the wedding party will have a part and it’ll give my wedding an urban edge. Yeahh…I might even rope in an Audi TT to come down the aisle to complete the theme. Props to the happy couple though – they’re the ones who’ll have to face looks of horror and shame when they eventually show the video to their mentally scarred kids.

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I’d like to buy the genius who took this photo a drink. This is the most breathtaking photo of the London skyline I’ve ever seen. Energy? Check. Buzz? Check. Life? Check. And it still manages to show that whilst keeping the overall mood of the photo calm and chilled – a bit like a Mafia boss sitting back sipping on a martini whilst watching the chaos of an underground cage brawl ensue. Gangsta.

Apparently it doesn’t take just milkshake to bring the boys to the yard. Cargo reckon it takes a bit of live music, DJ’s tearing up the wheels of steel and even candyfloss and popcorn! Did I also forget to mention its all for free? I’m game as they definitely know the way to this boys heart, but the real reason why I’m excited comes in the form of genre-defying MPHO. She first came under my radar when she opened for Mr Hudson in Manchester last month and didn’t fail to impress.  Sure, her debut single ‘BoxNLocks‘ is strong – a slick electronic pop tune with an urban edge that almost seems it was written specifically for droptop-down convertible mustang driving. But it was seeing perform her rendition of Kate Bush’s ‘Running Up That Hill’ (above) live that plucked some heartstrings, and live is where MPHO really comes into her element. So do what you must to get down to Cargo tonight, or miss this at your musical peril. Details after the jump.

Cargo Summer Yard Party = Dan Black + MPHO + The RGB’s + Work It! DJ’s
Wednesday 29th July 2009
8PM – 1AM
83 Rivington Street
Shoreditch
London EC2A 3AY
www.cargo-london.com

Fucking finally! You know that feeling when you hear an amazing tune, have it stuck in your head for ages not knowing what it is and hum the 3 seconds that you do know over and over again just to remember the overall greatness of the tune? Yeah, well its shit. Except of course for the one-in-a-million times that you do eventually figure out what the absolute blinder is. The video above is Major Lazer – Pon De Floor, a tune Diplo dropped in his set at Lovebox and I’ve had in my head ever since. I did try and ask a mate as we were leaving what the tune was, but as I started to replicate the electronically mashed up chorus I realized how much of a twat I looked (even next to the paralytic dickheads in pink furry cowboy hats) and that was that. So if you don’t know about this tune in all its bass heavy booty poppin goodness, GET TO KNOW!