Sunday, 8 July 2012

Truly Kind

I forgot to mention Field Day Festival this year. After last year which ended with me wanting to curl up into a ball and cry after accidentally taking acid, this year was a much bigger success. Namely due to the fact that I got to fulfill a life long dream. My best friend didn't have a ticket so we were loitering expecting someone to just hand her one (it does happen, she's very cute). After no offers, and being scouted by Abercrombie and Fitch, I nearly decided to throw the towel in.

However my friend Paulie aka The PSM gave me a shout and said we managed to get my bessie in. Paulie even came to meet us at the gate. However when he arrived I realised that he was supposed to be playing on stage in a matter of minutes. He was reluctant to remember the name of the stage he was playing on. After deciphering his waffle we worked out that his stage was on the other side of the site. In Hollywood meets Glastonbury fashion, I managed to hail down a buggy with an older Scottish female security guard behind the wheel. We explained, 'This man has to be on stage in 3 minutes! Pray help us!'. She paused for a moment, smiled and said 'Get in'. Best friend and I hopped on to the back, where there were no actual seats. Paulie sat in the front, as a talented musician should. Within seconds we were flailing around the back as our savior sped across the site to the stage. At one point where I really nearly fell out she cackled 'I'm not actually meant to do this, ha ha ha!' She was my favourite person ever. We arrived at the stage at the nick of time. It was like something out of an advert. Paulie jumped out of the buggy, grabbed his sticks and ran on stage. 

This is my favourite song by the band. It doesn't feauture Paulie in the video, but after the story above, you'll appreciate him anyway.

Sunday, 1 July 2012

Praise the Lord

I go through stages of being utterly bored and then genuinely excited at the creativity coming out of these 'collectives' around at the moment.

For quite a while I believed that Rocky was the only real talent in the A$AP Mob - especially after the crazy shit that went down at SxSW (where my best friend and I ended up with one member in a car who was bleeding after fighting someone in the audience - essentially being accomplices in helping him escape from the crime scene. Not ideal.)

Anyway, seems I was wrong. Sort of. Dominic Lord has just dropped this video for 'Pierce'. From what I can tell, Dominic was at some point part of the A$AP crew but left to pursue solo endeavors. I'm not massively impressed with the video, but the song is amazing. I can't help but notice the tone of his voice being comparable to Tyler The Creator in the gravely somewhat monotone sense(sue me). Check out the song for yourself. I'd actually love to see a A$AP Rocky & Dominic Lord colabo as I think they would go really well. Maybe one exists and my internet skills are slacking.

 http://www.dominiclord.us/