DEAR DIARY | NIKE SHAMAN | 1XTRA DJ RELAY

Dear Diary,

After only venturing out for my gigs, i decided as it was summer it was pretty much time to show my face and accept some invites out! Partly work, partly play ( just the way i like it) here is what went down.

THURSDAY 830PM NIKE SHAMAN LAUNCH EVENT.

There i met my boy J2k… He was looking rather dapper in his check shirt so we took a few shots, look at him trying to out pout me by throwing a zoolander pose…

Needless to say i won.. hands down.

Tay and i … there she is, isn’t she a beaut!

Well we wanted to see what all the fuss was about and after J pointed us in the direction of a dark black room we nervously opened the curtains to be greeted by these rather strange intimidating figures.

I considered something…

And i told Tay wouldnt it have been even more genius if they were robots who suddenly broke in to a scary tribal robot dance, like in that car advert or like those weird human statues you get on high streets.

I decided to demonstrate outside but alas due to my stupid shoes i nearly fell over…

Anyway we were running pretty late for my friend Marcus’s art launch, and i had no idea where we were going…

Neither did Tay…so we walked… and walked and walked a bit more…

and finally found it! We were greeted by this sort of art, which made the walk worth it..

Me and Marcus, great art, not sure about the dead thing around his neck, still, no one is perfect.

A quick pit stop to Yoyo to say hi to Leo, then it was bed!.

SATURDAY 4.OOPM 1XTRA DJ WORLD RECORD REELAY. -DJS, MUSIC CURATORS.

Going to the dj reelay for MTV i was super excited to see all my dj heros play, and on the way in i bumped into the lovely twin b who looked like he was having a fine old time…

The whole concept of the DJ relay event got me thinking, DJ’S are pretty much like art curators, in the sense that an art curators job is to select a collection of art and position it together in the most flattering way that makes visual sense, much the same as a DJ who’s job is to take a bunch of music artists work and position it together to make it sound different, interesting, and sometimes even better.

Back in the day it always used to be that geeky dude in the glasses who spent hours in his room fiddling around with dials and playing around with vinyls, kinda nerdy, kinda uncool. Fast forward 20 years, now everyone and their mum wants to be a dj, this was evident at 1xtra, all these youngens ( including myself) hanging about in ore of the veteran former geek djs…it was mighty inspirational i tells ya.

DJ geek Mista jam showing EVERYONE how to do the dam job properly….

ANYWAY, i got chatting to one veteran dj, my boy, Mr Robbo Ranx, who told me that pretty much each dj was bricking it about potentially messing up and being the one to fail the world record attempt..

A few people did, but they managed to break the world record anyways, just as i was about to get some Pimms the likely lads of Nu Brand appeared, and we all matched perfectly, still i don’t know how to rap to save my life, so no forth member people, i’ll be there gogo dancer however, only if its a paid position though.

Anyway we decided to get the heck outa there and get a proper drink, aka southern comfort and ice.

Oh and this was the outfit of choice, to be honest i didnt even care, it was so damn hot i actually wanted to walk around naked. but didnt. obvs.