Hedging your bets - Rewind

So, last night was the RWD party,( for those that don't know, RWD is a free magazine in England that is all about upfront UK urban talent.) to celebrate their recent increase distribution through footlocker.

Crammed into the seventh floor of Vertigo London, and yes I am afraid of heights - especially when you consider my height of 6'3", we were treated to doughnut's, free alcohol and some shaking of the "narni". Sadly not Narn's which I mis-read at first and got slightly over excited at the prospect of some asian mothers in sari's shaking their narn breads in my face. "bring on the pashwari"

No, it was more up-front (in every sense of the word) than that. The Narni Shakers, Britains answer to the, erm.... yeah.

"Made famous by Ali G"

Erm, wasn't his Narni shakers big black women with proper bums, and not these skinny white sluts that cover their tits in glitter and pose for calander shots?

I'm sorry RWD but I don't think this was the Up Front british talent we where anticipating.

Thankfully they resuced themselves with the impressive street magician and deviant Damien O'Brian. Impressing the Hedges sisters and Maleena with his slight of hand card tricks and pickpoketing skills, hey I even gave a smile to the camera. And as soon as I have my grubby mits on the video footage, I will let you all know.

RWD then kept up this tempo, bringing in Luciana to perform her one hit Yeah Yeah which really got the dancing started.

Me and my gun finger sister Emma, grinding, bopping and jumping to the hip hop, grime and bassline tunes. RWD had redeemed themselves from the Narni Shakers mistake. And with the goody bag giveaway this night could only get so much better.

Lucy was off dancing with a suit, whose moves resembled that of Fergie and her Barracuda just without the flips...Sadly.



And then, how quickly RWD could lose their crown with the introduction of a hip hop singing cat.... oh... sorry... no, It was a hip hop violin?!

Not just any old violin... NO.

It was a hip hop violin that played along to Michael Jackson.... How very hip hop!

To rescue our hearing we decided to call it a night.

I thank RWD for the party, I had fun.

But next time... less of the narni shaking and violins. More of the upfront talent DAWGS!

I better get ready to work the door at MIMB in Dalston.

Ciao.

Mystery Whales and Noah Jets

YAY, a little ray of sunshine for my pain filled, wisdom tooth annoyance of a day, has just arrived. Thanks to my ginger ninja, Allan. My Mystery Jet tickets have just arrived for the XFM All Day Breakfast.

Just look at my excitment.






Looks like this butterfly isn't hanging up his wings early this week.

I have also just seen that Noah and the Whale who I have been following since this time last year will be the support act. Happiness factor is now at 12, and I am ready to hit the town tonight with my unique hip hop style dancing. There is no stopping me now... Not even my hamster face.

Ciao

If this is Wisdom, then I want to be dumb

I didn't get an ounce of sleep last night, not a smidgen. It seems that currently I can't go a week without getting ill. Firstly with a chest infection last week, and this week, one of my wisdom teeth has decided that it's going to show it's pearly white head, and it's going to announce it in style.

So, it left me pondering, whilst staring at my ceeling, how wise do I actually need to be? Infact, What is wisdom? Are third molars really the key to being wise.

As soon as I have worked out the answers to these questions I will let you know.

I may construct a small experiment.

For now I leave you with this genius idea in Birmingham covered by The Guardian

These piano's remind me of a whole term back in Uni of "what is perfromance". If you started playing one of the piano's in Birmingham, would you automatically be performing? and what if no one was watching you?

Enjoy.

Ciao

emancipation of...

Ok, so the title of this post is sadly stolen from a Mariah Carry album. I do not endorse Mariah and her divalious ways. It just seems to suit, albeit a little cliché, but blogs allow that freedom to express yourself. Kind of like Art but for wordsmiths. Which, you can probably tell from my first couple of sentances that I am no way a wordsmith.

I'm not well know for my blogging skillz as a kitteh might say, I have very short attention span. But, recently inspired by my good friend and workmate Cathy. I am determined to make it atleast to July, and then there will be no stopping me.

And what a great day to start.

So, last night was the UK Product Launch for one of my clients. Now, I am not going to be using this blog to promote products by my clients. A) it is in fact Illegal to use blogs to endorse clients products and B) Surely, if I do my job well enough, you will read about them in the papers / magazines.

Anyways back to the launch.

We had a fantastic turn out and met alot of new people and was great to see the usual faces. And thanks to the wonderful Cathy, who documented the entire night with her trusty cameraphone I have couple of photo's to show you.



Me and my very good friend Amy celebrating our very first guest.



Me and Camellia having a destressing moment.



And the dream team, Myself, Camellia and Cathy.

I'm being a bit of a butterfly this week, with another party tomorrow, thankfully one I am attending. But I will have all the news, gossip and photos for you from my trip to the RWD party.

Ciao