tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5795779832276320882024-02-21T07:27:16.105-08:00oneintheearJimiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15688355700374700523noreply@blogger.comBlogger607125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579577983227632088.post-42452641092327308012018-08-01T15:21:00.001-07:002018-08-01T15:22:01.257-07:00Question TimeI can't watch Question Time anymore due to all the 'gammon' on there slagging off anyone who doesn't look as red or as grey as they do. But I can certainly listen to Question Time by rising star, Streatham rapper Dave, all the bloody time mate. It's a classic and I was lucky enough to speak with co-writer Fraser T Smith on the blower earlier in the year to discuss how it came about. It's an instant classic make no mistake and Fraser just so happens to be one of the nicest men we've come across in 'the biz'...<br />
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<a href="https://www.m-magazine.co.uk/features/interviews/i-wrote-that-dave-question-time/" target="_blank">Read all about it here</a> and listen to Question Time above...<br />
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Earlier in the spring we headed to the far east for the first time in our tiny, little lives. Flying into Bangkok, after a 12 hour, vomit filled journey, we then nipped over to Hoi An before finally landing in Hanoi for a week and a bit. With our only experience of this part of the world via our tellies and the likes of bloody war films Full Metal Jacket or Apocalypse Now, we weren't sure what to expect other than being very sweaty. And potentially eating dogs? The former happened, the latter didn't but here's some of the highlights condensed into five easily digestible titbits perfect for our now puny attention spans...<br />
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Egg Coffee<br />
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As you may or not know, we're passionate fans of les oeufs on here so the idea of adding it to ANYTHING is always a great idea. Egg and southern fried chicken. Egg pasties. Egg on burgers. Eggs in space. Eggs and cacti. It's all good innit. We had the Vietnamese delicacy near Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum in Hanoi and it was so strong it could have brought his decaying corpse back to life. Zing? Zing.<br />
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Ho Chi Minh<br />
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Original bad man Ho Chi Minh is loved by pretty much everyone in Vietnam. Everyone. His face is all over the place and even though he's well dead, he's still venerated as the absolute big dog. It's hard not to get swept in all the hype.<br />
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Crickets<br />
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The nosh in Vietnam is second to none. From the street corners where you'll find entire families huddled round a little stove, to their legendary Banh Mi butty, there's loads of things you can stuff in your gob. There was a lot of talk about eating pooches but thankfully we were spared pouring salt and pepper over someone's pet. Instead we ended up at a joint doing fried crickets and, after several light ales, decided a plateful would be a good vibe. They taste exactly as you might think. Chewy mate.<br />
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The chaos<br />
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Our host described Hanoi as place resembling somewhere after an earthquake has just given it a good shake up but its people are still trying to get from a to b as fast as humanly possible. It's stuck with us as it seems wholly accurate. Everyone moves at great pace although where they're all going is impossible to fathom. Throw in loads of noise and heat and it's a total mad house. Mega vibes.<br />
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Anywhere that calls its currency 'dong' has to be respected for all of eternity. It's as simple as that isn't it?<br />
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Sun, football, Brexit, Trump and Lionel Richie. Pour moi, these will be the defining vibes that memories of summer 2018 will hang from. <div>
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How so? Well we had the delicious of pleasure of interviewing the king of smooth himself, Lionel Richie earlier in the year. Disappointingly, there was no secretive meeting in a Soho bar, where he slurped on oysters and caviar while regaling a star struck moi with lusty tales of bums and bombast from the seventies. Instead, it was all very ultra safe conducted via email through layers of management leaving both me and Lionel unscathed from coming up to close to the other. But just from the emails, I know we'd get along. </div>
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Jimiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15688355700374700523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579577983227632088.post-18062617444276396632018-07-01T04:17:00.000-07:002018-07-01T04:17:02.923-07:00Raving for the CauseIn 2018, everyone who's anyone is heading to Tottenham to eat, drink or set up their own club or pub.<br />
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As the new stadium for Spurs nears completion, local businesses are getting ready to hopefully cash in from the huge anticipated numbers of additional visitors to the area. It's literally all to play for with the first games due to kick off this September so it's an exciting time for the place. Alongside the likes of Five Miles, The High Cross and the recently opened Bluecoats boozers, The Cause is one of the freshest additions to Tottenham's night time calendar. This new club boasts an incredible soundsystem, unrivalled outside space and late, late 5am licence while also raising dosh for local charities. Sounds good right?<br />
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<a href="http://tottenhamcommunitypress.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/TCP_June18_ForWeb.pdf" target="_blank">Check out a wee interview</a> we did with co-founder Stuart Glen on the venture and what it's doing to put Tottenham on the map for raving...Jimiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15688355700374700523noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579577983227632088.post-35847431110706047572018-06-25T08:45:00.000-07:002018-07-01T04:03:25.955-07:00One giant step for the Arctic Monkeys <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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From kagoule wearing teens to Hollywood dwelling cosmonauts, there are few bands who’ve morphed in the same way as Sheffield’s Arctic Monkeys.<o:p></o:p><br />
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There are also few who we’ve grown with, who’ve soundtracked so many moments, where we can mistily of eye claim to have been there at the beginning (we were – for a bit – but so was everyone else in Sheffield – so it’s no bigs - well it is a little bit to us).<br />
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Now they’re grown hair on their faces and developed a taste for Led Zeppelin-esque fashion but they’re still great. Latest album, Tranquillity Base Hotel and Casino, initially divided but has subsequently conquered with its out-there collection of immaculately tailored songs, shifting more vinyl copies than anything else for years and is their most complete work to date.<br />
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Like their new wardrobes, it’s some distance from those initial teenage rushes of Fake Tales of San Francisco. You can’t help thinking that if you’d shown the young Alex Turner a picture of his adult self and the style tips he’s been taking, he would have snorted with derision. He might have also snorted if you’d said they’d been playing the Royal Albert Hall but the other Thursday we were among the lucky few thousand to pack into the venue for their first gig back on UK soil.<br />
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Organised at the lastish minute for War Child, this charity affair was two hours of new stuff and old stuff led by frontman Alex Turner. While the crowd was made up of lads in shades and Oasis style do's still lusting for the past, the band sounded like they'd gone into the future, and didn't let the pressure drop under the towering roof of the iconic venue. The new material, initially obtuse and difficult to crack, is now up there with their best and have given them a platform to achieve lift off in any direction they want. Boom! We left sweaty and pissed which is the best way to enjoy anything... Phew. One of the best gigs we'd ever been to? You'd better believe it...Jimiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15688355700374700523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579577983227632088.post-62598974325567534232018-04-20T13:54:00.001-07:002018-04-20T13:54:36.235-07:00UK hip hop is having a moment<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's been a while since I moved onto new pastures from <a href="https://www.m-magazine.co.uk/" target="_blank">M magazine</a> but February and March saw us back on the editorial prowl for them, writing this little number about the health of UK hip hop and how a new wave of artists including Ms Banks, Lady Sanity and Yxng Bane...<br />
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Check out the full feature in the latest issue of M mag and <a href="https://www.m-magazine.co.uk/features/formidable-flows-uk-hip-hop-in-2018/" target="_blank">online now</a>.Jimiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15688355700374700523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579577983227632088.post-61783931917945802592018-04-20T13:34:00.001-07:002018-04-20T13:34:51.437-07:00Raver tots: Beats, bass and breast feeding mums in the club<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Fag ends, puddles of manky old ale and a mum breast feeding her little baby. An incongruous combination you'd imagine but one thrown together by the concept of the 'baby rave'.<br />
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While clubs attract dancers of all ages, those with babies and young children may find it harder to get out of a Saturday night, bosh a load of garies and still remain capable of looking after their brood on a few minutes of teeth gnashingly brief shut eye. So step forward the kiddy rave concept. Obviously, they're not full of families all bog eyed and crazy but they do provide two hours of raving vibes, complete with actual DJs in an actual gnarly club. For anyone sans kids, they could well be seen as an appalling attack on the wide eyed evangelical hedonism of early acid house, equally as grotesque as <a href="http://morninggloryville.com/" target="_blank">the sober Morning Glory fitness dances</a>. But for those with them who miss getting loose? It's almost like the real thing. If not pretty fucking weird.<br />
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The baby rave we went to took place at <a href="http://www.hangarlondonfields.com/" target="_blank">Hangar in London Fields</a> on a Sunday afternoon with drum and bass legend Nicky Blackmarket on the ones, the twos and maybe even the threes. Going in at 2pm means rather than a salubrious fitness vibe, it feels more like you're taking your kid to a bizarre after, after hours party at a gritty club. You get searched going in, then park your buggy next to all the others at the door of the club amidst the puddles of detritus from the previous evening. Inside, it's £5 a warm Carlsberg and full of mums necking rum and cokes while their children run totally amok.<br />
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With the soundsystem cranked up to standard club levels, strobes set to stun and Blackmarket laying it down amidst some glitter cannons, it feels pretty similar to a student drum and bass night with the exception of the soft play area and the scally kids throwing themselves around just like their parents used to when they could get off their nuts. We lasted two hours before it all got too weird and we had to leave, clutching our hard fought Carlsbergs and went to the nearest playground to go and decompress. So in many, many ways, not too different from past lives at all...<br />
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While the winter of 2017/18 has been long and deep, alongside our domestic vibes and circle of chums, two key things have been leading us to the spring. One is the above image of Mick Jagger on his holibobs. The other is the <a href="http://www.vulture.com/2018/02/quincy-jones-in-conversation.html" target="_blank">full and frank Quincy Jones interview</a> published back in February. If you look at these two things daily for the six cold months of the year, then it's possible that you'll never scowl or feel cold ever again. Try it.<br />
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<br />Jimiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15688355700374700523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579577983227632088.post-50145545830207878512018-04-20T12:38:00.002-07:002018-04-20T12:38:46.105-07:00Five Miles might well be our favourite place to drink pints<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A shockingly controversial headline I'll think you'll agree as, if we're being totally honest, anywhere we drink pints is usually our favourite place. At least until we leave and begin drinking pints somewhere else. Whether that be the nearest bin or the bar, wherever pours some of those frothy mothers is usually somewhere we adore.<br />
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But Five Miles near Seven Sisters is certainly high up there in our list of beer swilling affections. Not only does it have a huge array of taps and craft but it has a mighty fine sound system, discerning taste in visiting selectors and a welcoming attitude to mid-30-something 'parents' with a penchant for pushing their luck and an addiction to beer. As such, I found some time to get the skinny with them for the latest issue of the Tottenham Community Press to find out more about how they came to land in Seven Sisters and what the vibe is behind the place.<br />
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Check out this <a href="http://tottenhamcommunitypress.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/TCP_MarApr18_ForWeb-1.pdf" target="_blank">latest issue and feature</a> now and visit <a href="http://fivemiles.london/" target="_blank">the Five Miles website</a> for more info on them and their shenanigans...Jimiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15688355700374700523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579577983227632088.post-62048488442133517942018-03-07T13:24:00.000-08:002018-03-07T13:24:01.681-08:00Finding sunshine in the bleakest month<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="text-align: start;">February is short, dark and quick full of dank mornings and ever danker nights. The best way to get through it is to draw the curtains on returning from work, crank up the heating and flick the v's at anything more demanding. Hence the radio silence on here - but never fear, once you're out then it's the homeward ride to spring - hello sunshine! Aside from eating eggs three times a week, here's what helped us thrive in Feb...</span></div>
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<b>UK grime would be a much more boring place without Wiley. </b><br />
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His musical releases might be erratic but his behaviour is entertainingly so, from <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/jul/14/wiley-zip-files-free-downloads" target="_blank">leaking huge Zip Files of music</a> to slagging off Glastonbury (<a href="http://www.nme.com/news/music/wiley-26-1264797" target="_blank">'Fuck your farm'</a>) and uploading YouTube videos of him making his breakfast, there are fewer weirder personalities in grime. Or at least, if there are, they keep it under wraps for fear of losing fans. But not Wiley. He lets it all hang out in the best way possible. So if you read his new <a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1111421/eskiboy/" target="_blank">Eskiboy biog</a>, then you'll be unsurprised to discover that this is all over the place too.<br />
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<b>He compares himself to football clubs and martial arts experts within the same paragraph... </b><br />
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'I was like Ajax. Ajax train players. It's nuts. They put time into people, they work them hard. And then they sell them. That's something that I have done. And no other musician has. But I was just helping people. I didn't expect anything from it. I don't take anything from them. I don't sell them. I'm like a Kung Fu master.'<br />
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'Eskimo Dance used to be mad. It used to be properly underground. It all came from Sting you know.'<br />
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'One day he called me from Manchester. I need you to pay our hotel bill. It's a lot. £48,000. He'd taken over a whole floor of the Hilton in Manchester for a week.'<br />
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'Recently we were out in Cyprus and even just driving down the road with him was hilarious. He was on his phone and he was eating, drinking some kind of slushy red daiquiri thing and bombing down the road with the boot of his car flying open. I was looking at him juggling this ridiculous ice drink in one hand with chips in his mouth and he just looked at me like, 'What?'<br />
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'Yorkshire pudding, my god.'<br />
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Someone needs to give this man his own TV show...<br />
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The latter quarter of 2017 had plenty of highlights including getting some Facebook likes from Lee Scratch Perry (see above), monkeying about on the grave of Jeremy Beadle and consuming some great culinary shit (see below). There was plenty of other slices of action in between but here are what we recorded via our phones innit...<br />
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Soulwax's new live set up has three drummers. Three! It's a lot but were there even three? Were there four? Or ten? Who's counting other than the players themselves?<br />
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For many of us, Soulwax just sounded like one huge Robocop-esque synthetic machine, only intent on taking the very roof of London's Roundhouse off rather than doing any high-end maths.<br />
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We were lucky enough to clock them in the midst of December when they took over the venue for two nights. Their arrival was a relief as they cut through the festive chaos with their white suits and sleek electronics. But we, by contrast, were all over the place, lighting up snouts inside and hollering at every opportunity. We missed Jarvis Cocker's DJ set as were too busy getting pissed in the pub across the road, can just about remember the start of their set, went back to our buddy's with about 30 cans of czech lager, then woke up on the sofa fully clothed and in total disarray the next morning. It took a lot of beige food items, including Scotch eggs, Mcdonald cheeseburgers, chicken burgers, pork pies and even a quiche to feel anywhere near present or correct the following day. Brap to all crew involved. A strong showing indeed...<br />
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So rather than any new pictures online of dogs doing magical things, cooking up bananas or smooching with your wife, you’re gonna get all the old ones you’ve seen before but compiled into a one stop shop for all your dog wife smooching needs. Thank you oh powerful content curators. Without your handy signposting, we would be all lost, adrift in a culturally dank existence.
Amid all the total bollocks of the last 12 months, here’s what we’ve been listening to as Trump felches and May fails. Fuck your blue passports, fuck you Rupert Murdoch capiche? You can’t tell us what to think.
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Been caning this one song by shoegazing returnees Slowdive all year. The rest of the album has gone unheard but this really does it for us...<br />
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Scottish lad Jackmaster is almost as well known for his ability to stay awake forever as he is for his astute choice of tuneage but this Eros moment from his Essential Mix was one of the best...<br />
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Another old bunch of bastards making satisfying guitar music for old farts like me...<br />
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This isn't by Bicep but is taken from their Beats in Space show. Like an italo 10cc...<br />
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He's back and he's still the man. This is the opener from his 2017 mixtape for legendary Ibiza institution Pikes...<br />
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LCD returned to great fanfare in 2017 with their best record yet by miles. Hats off to Murphy et all for pulling it out of the bag...<br />
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Stranger Things returned and was, surprisingly, not shit. Phew. The music was as addictive and as satisfying as anything else made in the '017...<br />
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As celebrity death matches go, a tussle between two elderly veterans of pop music sheen, the very venerable Hall and Oates and even more doddery Steely Dan, couldn't be nicer.<br />
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Both are proponents of tunes smooth enough to buff your best crockery with. Although you might argue that the latter are slightly more prickly than their hair plug sporting counterparts. But whatever, both peddle 'AOR' of the most excellent variety. Rather than watching them putting their dukes up and slugging it out in the ring, we had the pleasure of catching them both play over consecutive nights as part of the Blues Fest at London's cavernous, vertigo inducing arena at the O2.<br />
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Saturday night was all about Hall and Oates who successfully transported some California sunshine to Greenwich. Thankfully, they didn't dilly dally with new material, instead just wheeling out a dazzling set of total bangers from Private Eyes to I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) and sporting some delightfully buffonic hair do's. One of the funnest aspects of watching an old band is the old audience and we felt incredibly young as we went through the airport style security of the arena. We were also the only punters on our side of the stadium to ingest too many Stellas and dance in the aisles while simultaneously shitting it that we might come a cropper and tumble to an almost certain death from our vertigo-inducingly high seats. But we lived to tell the tale. Whoooop.<br />
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Sunday evening was spent feeling a little more stale and watching Steely Dan from the vantage of the BT corporate box on the other side of the stadium.Our contact got us in on the lure of a cheapish ticket, plus free booze and food. But while we were ushered into the venue via the VIP entrance, the promise of gratis stuff to stick in our gobs never materialised. Instead one of our party spent £7.50 on a bowl of nuts and we again got on the Stellas. Steely Dan went through a greatest hits style set with one of the slickest band of session musicians you'd ever did see. And while they'd lost a member in the form of the sadly departed Walter Becker, a lone unused microphone paid tribute while Donald Fagan twitched his way through some of the best, jazzy-pop bits... these guys might be fucking ancient but they've still got it...<br />
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Unless you go to bed at 7pm or don't ever look outside, then you should be well aware of the struggle and strife London's LGBTQ+ venues have been facing in recent times. The capital has lost more than half in the last decade but campaigners are now taking a stand and attempting to block the tide of gentrification running over and exchanging the city's best night spots for shit, luxury flats. </div>
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The battle to save the Joiners Arms pub in Hackney has been at the centre of this fight with campaigners recently winning in their bid to guarantee that a redevelopment must see an LGBTQ+ club included in any plans for at least 25 years. </div>
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Well done to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/friendsofthejoinersarms" target="_blank">the Friends of the Joiners Arms</a> and read this piece I put together for Mixmag on the fight (it was published just before news of the victory)...</div>
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I reached the ripe old age of 36 last month and to get over it, we went to <a href="http://convenanzafestival.com/" target="_blank">the Andrew Weatherall weekender</a> in Sete in the south of France for two nights of nocturnal shits and giggles... here's what happened...<br />
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The dusty old nooks and crannies of Sete's Theatre de la Mer are perhaps more used to dramatic re-enactments of classic tomes and high brow cultural bashes than electronic knees ups.<br />
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But at the end of September this amazing, coast hugging venue throbbed luridly to the beats of Convenanza, Andrew Weatherall's annual music festival.<br />
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Dedicated to the passions and talent of the almost mid fifties acid house veteran, the event was previously located in Carcassone within the walls of a medieval count's castle. You'd walk up through the town past the elderly tourists choffing on snails and red wine with bats circling overhead before entering the lair. This year, the crew exchanged the castle for the theatre, heading to the sea and over two nights, held one of the most spectacular shindigs you could wish for.<br />
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It's obvious that 'the guvnor' (as AW is affectionately referred to by the crew of gnarled ravers in attendance) is well used to throwing a rave in a suitably incongruous location. But while the setting helps, it's the on point musical selections and programming that always makes it special. From the live electronica of Autarkic to Weatherall's own psychobilly sets, the soundtrack riffs and kicks across all bases.<br />
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Sete is a balearic working port in the day, still heated by the late September sun, but when night fell, strobes and smoke beamed out from the venue like electronic sirens urging ravers to come and crash on its salty shores.<br />
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As you'd expect, the crowd was a sausage fest but more than made up for this lack of diversity by being totally up for it. No nobs, as the grizzled late 40 sometings we made friends with gurned at us. They might be old but they were hardened, willing to go in over the two evenings while the baby sitters back in the UK worked as hard as they raved. I know our's did. And of course the line up, all cherry picked by Weatherall's exquisite taste. It was so good I returned to the UK with 35 euros worth of drinks tokens while the only French food we ate was a cheese toastie and a burger. You could buy oysters, dance dangerously on steps and even buy scrambled eggs from the food vendors. It's a bizarre mix of the civilised and deranged and is like nowt else... they even finished with this on the Friday which was a fitting tune to stagger off and have a cry to. Ooof...<br />
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We've been in Tottenham for just over a year and in that time it's gone from being home of the Carling binge drinker to the capital's craftiest postcode. Coincidence? I think not mi familia. We're setting the bench mark for taste buds all over the north of London. With so much good beer on offer and the trendies who over run Hackney yet to take over our environs, we've been out and about sampling many of N17's best aley wares.<br />
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Check out the latest issue of the Tottenham Community Press for a piece exploring Tottenham's new beer mile...<br />
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Summer has gone and we're now bracing ourselves for a winter shit sandwich of Trump, Brexit, May, North Korea, David Davis and more. Turn your televisions off and don the helmets as the gross get grosser and the stupid get even more stupid innit. It's been pretty hectic round these parts hence the catastrophically long gap between posts but vibes are for living right? Right - check out how we do via this handy photo montage...<br />
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Other than world peace, is there anything more palatable than an overfilled meat sandwich? Monty's Deli is in Hoxton, achingly trendy but do a fucking immense butty which comes with a pickle the size of your conk. Check it.<br />
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<a href="http://montys-deli.com/">montys-deli.com</a>Jimiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15688355700374700523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579577983227632088.post-24466184524292959402017-08-19T05:49:00.001-07:002017-08-19T05:49:25.341-07:00A very Scottish wedding <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We travelled up the spine of the UK at the end of July for a wedding in Scotland. The wedding was bo (big up Bron and Phil) but one of the major moments was discovering a new food. The Macaroni pie! Right on Nicola Sturgeon for allowing this to happen in her lands. May - take note you troll.<br />
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It's hard to say how much our gaff loves eggs but in every shape, size and form, we're huge, dedicated fans. From scrambled to scotch, we'll snaffle them up whatever way they come with a snarl on our chops and a wanton disregard for becoming <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=egg%20bound" target="_blank">eggbound</a>.<br />
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So with this kind of fire in our loins, you can imagine how excited we were to learn of the new 'craze' for cloud eggs. They resemble cumulus nimbus with yolks and involve separating the whites and beating them into stiff peaks, then baking the blighters. Who doesn't like getting on that? Yeah mate.Jimiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15688355700374700523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579577983227632088.post-27054958374672120672017-08-06T11:44:00.002-07:002017-08-06T11:44:14.672-07:00Out in the Styx <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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If you go out in the styx today, you're probably going to get a big surprise ... well if you end up in Tottenham Hale you might be surprised to learn that there's more popping than just JD Sports, Pizza Hut and an inexplicably busy Costa Coffee. Arts venue Styx is almost next to the bus station but you'll need to be slightly in the know to discover its mix of clubs, theatre and cocktails. Seek and ye shall find? Or check out this interview with the team behind the venue in the latest issue of the Tottenham Community Press...<br />
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Visit <a href="http://tottenhamcommunitypress.co.uk/">tottenhamcommunitypress.co.uk</a> for the whole shebang...Jimiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15688355700374700523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579577983227632088.post-19624352818664148272017-08-05T11:49:00.000-07:002017-08-06T11:51:44.514-07:00Soho Radio jazz specialI forgot to throw this up online so to speak, but here's the last show we did (as <a href="http://m-magazine.co.uk/" target="_blank">M magazine</a>) on Soho Radio back in June. This was a jazz special and was one of the best installments yet, in part due to the average age in the studio being below 30 for the first time since we started doing it. It smells less stale for sure... You can listen below and check out the archive of the previous episodes by <a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/sohoradio/" target="_blank">heading here</a> and searching for M magazine. It's much missed by me in some ways... however, no longer doing it means my hair is a little less grey than before...<br />
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One of the highlights of my now old job was getting to meet heroes. And meeting soul man Bill Withers was one of the best. </div>
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Yep the duck in a microwave Bill Withers of the very same. He's almost 80 and got the wry cynical sense of humour of a fella at least half his years.<br />
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We spoke in Bill's hotel bar over a couple of waters back in May and spent half an hour deliberating what a tool Donald Trump is. After we finished he took me to the hotel's Starbucks and made the lady serving promise to give me a donut every time I went in. Right on Bill!<br />
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