Tuesday, 2 July 2013

There ain't no rain in Spain


It's probably not surprising that when you hit the big 3-0 you get more invites to weddings than you do to raves. But getting hitched is going off big time this year with invites, stag dos, hen dos and the like all raining down like the proverbial cats and dogs. Which is no bad thing don't get me wrong. Does it mean in 18 months time we should expect a deluge of sprogs? Is this how it works? I'm guessing so...

Anyhoo Spain was our port of call for the first wedding bash of 2013. We landed on the Tuesday at Malaga airport, then spent the next five days really taking advantage of Nerja's generous provision for heavy drinkers and heavy smokers.

We did both pretty much continually via hot tubs, tuna salads, BBQs, sweetcorn, taxi rides, dog fish, and jumping into chilly pools. Props and thanks to the bride and groom (now husband and wife Andy and Kirsty) cos it was a total treat. In the heat. Here's a selection of images to prove that yes we did leave the country and didn't just spend the six days hibernating in the nearest Wetherspoons with data roaming switched off the phones.

Flight rider

The snoring man

Our eyes were drawn to the EUR2 bit

The first of about a gazillion

San Miguel butties. Not, as I thought, beer sandwiches

The view - the tuna

That's a big fucking bill

The wedding bash - awwww

Lobster to start

Pork for afters

Our table proved to be the most creative when it came to drawing something romantic

The groom with Jimmy Saville as a yoot - look at that tracksuit

Absent chums

A shitload of cats chilling oot.

The 'notorious' Tooty Fruit square

The view from the back of the 2 EUR a pint joint...

Boar off

Want/Need

Chic @The Kentish Town Forum


We went to go and see Chic play at London's Kentish Town Forum the other week as part of the Red Bull Music Academy's takeover of anything which has a music muscle in its body. The show was a weird one, mainly due to the glorious time we'd had at the Warehouse Project a couple of years back when we'd travelled up to Manchester to see them. Nile Rodgers, the band's mainman, is on the brink of being everywhere and props to him for getting this far. He's staved a crippingly huge drug habit, then cancer to stay at the top of his game - but there was summat about this live outing which fell a bit flat. No matter - check the full review either via the link to the Hyponik website or below in all its glory...

Hyponik Chic review RBMA X Lovebox present Chic

Chic locked in

Arthur Baker wanders on stage looking very much an old man


The big DC

Tuesday, 25 June 2013

SOPHIE

Numbers, lorded over by Scottish party boy Jackmaster, is one of my favourite record labels and their latest release - BIPP by SOPHIE - is one of the best they've stuck out in recent times. It's just so fucking weird. It's the first tune for some time that I've reloaded over and over on YouTube to try and get my puny mind round. 

You can read the full review either below or on the Hyponik website here. Below the review you can check out the lead tune. And get your ears pinned back. It's a biggggyyyy...




Friday, 21 June 2013

Don't Look Now

Yet again we're going through a bit of a purple patch for fresh sounding aural delights. There's almost, dare I say it (yet again), too much to for the ears to chomp on.


Can you remember the first time you used a spoon?


2013 has been characterised by strong displays all round. From the pub to the wardrobe, we've been upping the ante and we're not even half way in. There's plenty of flex still to be found in the '013. Here's just a small handful of visual highlights from the year so far...

Carboot triumphs again

On the chicken

Ahoy there fromage

Five pound doughnut

Brighton's Great Escape. A day of pretending to be a music journalist

Vibes


Weatherall is on our wall

Kebabs vs cops

Lil junior loves his whacky new tee
Bubble and squeak teng
So fly they do their own fridge magnets

On the way to Mary Stopes to deliver this bat. Serious

Flummoxed by food

The Fresh Pooch of London Fields

Twat

Breakfast in N16







Raspberry jam

Haven't you heard


Fucking breakfast la

Spencer rinsing the Tweakaholic

Caught out cross dressing

Waiting in a sweaty basement wth loads of kids to interview Lethal Bizzle

Cheese twist crisis

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