Our friends Verena & Kara are exhibiting / launching their work this thursday @ the Pure Evil gallery...Verena showing her her Kids of Grime photography over the past 12 months, Kara launching her Y'OH menswear collection.
Most definitely one to check out, catch me at the afterparty (info & lineup below!)
In a very busy weekend for London town (check the events section on your right for alternatives!) catch us at the above spots! Myself spinning alongside Klose One, Khalil, Skillit & more @ The Westbury for Takeover on friday, then at The Bang Bang back at 512 alongside DJ B, Little Man + all the Valentines shennanigans on saturday. Finishing with a solo performance from Nate at Juno for Writer's Block sunday to round off the weekend!
Last night we rolled out to the Nike 'Destroy to Create' event @ the newly refurbed 1948 store, the Nike crew pulled out all the stops for the launch of the new Destroyer jacket (need one!) alotta faces in the place plus performances from The Gallows & Stalley, female boxing, live inking from Frith St tattoos plus the expected free booze flowing!
hold tight all the Nike crew + Tan for hypebeast on the snaps!
So Overproof is a year old this weekend, its gone fast...our 1st party was @ short notice but turned out to be alot of fun...its not to say we outgrew The Macbeth (well we did ram it the F out a few times) but felt it time to keep it moving so we're celebrating out 1st 365 (or thereabouts) @ The Basement of The City Arts & Music Project (CAMP).
Funk Butcher will be vibesing up the place on his birthday (before I get him hammered) as will Smutlee, Cable, Urban Nerd's Ordio Kid + your residents moi + Tim & Barry!
We've reached our limit on concessions, but will extend the offer of £3 entry to anyone who copy & pastes the link from this blogpost into their email to pnblondon@gmail.com with full names & email addys.
Saturday just gone I spent the day @ The Truman Brewery/Vibe Bar on Brick Lane with 1xtra & co for the attempt at breaking the Guiness World Record for Dj relay (59 continuous mixes was the record!)
Now, nervous was an understatement...I only found out what track I'd be mixing the day before, and not only that, I found out on the day that I was in the 1st 10 ten Djs along with Trevor Nelson, Mark Ronson, Seani B & more...needless to say, I was pissing myself!
The way it worked was...you got called into the vibe bar area upstairs to PRACTICE your mix, then record it for the back-up (in case any idiots messed things up on the big stage outside) then you went outside to face the crowd & do it all again!
I didnt have it easy, I found out at the last minute that Bashy was gonna be performing right before me so I basically had to mix with Bish Bash Bosh doing his thing on stage in front of me & adding extra attention (safe) but I handled the mix quickly held it for a few bars & got the hell off stage fast... I admitted to Rampage's Mike Anthony afterwards that my hand was shaking when i faded my mix in & he told me I wasnt alone... its weird, some of the biggest djs in the UK were there, all with confidence in their abilities...but not many will tell you they werent nervous!
Of course, someone had to fuck it up...I heard that someone had pressed stop on the wrong deck in the back up mix & they had to restart, I heard a horrid clang outside too but when a certain dj let the track run out on the main stage the silence was crazy...he flopped & we had to start again (not actually from #1 but #24 or whoever was next became #1) but it was arrright as the 1xtra powers that be had drafted in 118 or so djs to break the record of 59 so starting again was minor!
I got asked to go on again as some djs couldnt make it so up I went up for a 2nd time with my Nu Brand family & loads of friends supporting...handled biz tidily & passed the baton onto DJ Yasmin (which I quite liked being able to do!)
On the whole apart from very nearly touching cloth & the shit djs fucking it up, t'was a very good day & I feel proud to have been a part of it...The Record Now stands at 82 djs for the Guiness World Record, you probably wont see me in the book but still!
The culture of the Fried Chicken shop is something very London. I never realized until quite recently, when I had some friends over from South Africa, and they commented that it’s probably something which is most symbolic of London. I was stunned, the Big Ben, Buckingham Palace and the London Eye are all dwarfed in iconic status by Big Maz’s franchise of Disco Fried Chicken on the corner?!
However, every 5 steps I took, I started to notice yet ANOTHER chicken shop, and I realized these South Africans were completely spot on. Mr Khan is actually the unsung Hero of East London, where else are you going to pick up a grease-spiked piece of not-so-fresh fowl carcass at 3.52 am, and STILL actually derive some pleasure from the experience?!
See, you couldn’t give me an answer...
Chicken Cottage, Sam’s, and any other rip off of the KFC franchise is one of young London’s collective late night guilty pleasure’s. The other being that post-clubbing booty call to that slightly over weight bird who always let’s you bus-a-nut on her chest.
It was a pleasant surprise to hear about an Exhibition in Shorditch which celebrated the Coronary-bypass-palaces as a True-blue cultural phenomenon of my fair city Londinium.
Bangkok (teehee) born Cathlove, is a creative fireball who gives birth to whimsical satirical art, which is accessible to everyone. Now based in Hackney, via Hong Kong, and Australia, Cathlove has quickly established herself amongst the scene as a major talent, having already worked with brands as diverse as Selfridges and WAH amongst others.
Her comical, cute, although often grotesque work, is always charming and thought provoking, without being preachy. The show entitled ‘Greasy Fried Dreams’ is not only a scathing commentary on the unhealthy western habit for gluttony and it's more-more-morementality, but one that pokes the potbelly of rampant capitalist consumerism, and tells it to wipe its dribbly chin, with a lemony-fresh complimentary wet-wipe.
I discovered her while skipping through the cyber-playground of Facebook one day, and was bowled over by the impact of the marriage of simple imagery, with complex, intelligent ideas. And when she invited me to the show at the Jaguar Shoes bar on Kingsland rd, and told me that the project was based around the yummiest of late night binge food, that’s the moment I realized I had found my soul mate!
The work itself include a couple of spectacular pieces, which are effectively wallpaper that take up the whole of the walls in the bar, they are psychedelic commentary on Hiphop, surreal consumer obsessed culture, including the late night smelly pervert, the Big Booty Chicken Head Diva, and even a fat-inflated heart ready for a triple bypass.
In short, what I imagine hell to look like, if Devil provided a Chicken Burger Meal for £3.29.
Catch the work at Dream Bags Jaguar Shoes, 32-36 Kingsland Rd for the next couple of months. It’s well work going there to check out the work in all it’s glory, and studying all of the wonderfully ridiculous details.
Find more of her excellent work at www.cathlove.com
Also follow her personal journey through life on her blog cathlove-cathlove.blogspot.com
You want ketchup on your fries boss? What Kind of drink you want with your meal mate?
Check this amazing video on SpineTV, I think it pretty much says it all about the girls effortless talent!
Monday, 8 March 2010
The ONLY night you should be concerned with this upcoming weekend!
P Money, Tim & Barry, Dont watch that's PWBC, 7oel & a few suprise guests!
Email your names & email addresses to pnblondon@gmail.com to get on our limited £3 concessions list.
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