2009 COMPETITION

Posted on January 3rd, 2009

Last year was all about cats. First Keith ate Hyperdub, then Prancehall started animournalism, and then Millie came out.  If you listen really hard to this set with bokbok and Ben UFO you can hear bokz bigging up Ben’s cat in a cute little baby voice. Kode 9 even showed me a video of his friend’s old cat at FWD (on his mobile ofc). And Ahu kept telling me she had a couple of cats as her new backing singers.

So I decided to celebrate with a little competition. Match the cats to the cat-owners and you get a special prize. Send the answers here.

OWNERS: Ahu, Ben UFO, Dave Q, Ikonika, Oneman, Prancehall.

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Posted on December 27th, 2008

I would like to dedicate my end of year round-up to The Pope.

(In case you were asleep/really really drunk).

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Posted on December 18th, 2008

I’m SICK AS A DOG

Today I had to ask the pharmacist at Boots for a spare paper bag while she was packing up my antibiotics because I thought I was gonna puke right there. Fortunately I made it home first.

I’ve been trying to write that stuff I promised, but it’s stress-related illness so I am just sitting on my ass reading ‘The Women’s Room’ and Ted Hughes’ ‘The Crow’. DEEP.

Anyway I am fully aware that the frequency of blog posts has much delapidated in the past couple of months, I started teaching you see. AND I have a new format planned, so expect something special and once monthly in the new year. Maybe I will time it to coincide with the full moon.

And HAPPY CHRISTMAS.

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Posted on December 5th, 2008

My Soulja interview is out in here. You got til it sells out. I did the Bomb Squad thing too.

Big up the Woofah dogs.

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GEMMY STEALS THE SHOW!

Posted on December 4th, 2008

Apparently Joker is camera shy. 

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STEVE BRADSHAW

Posted on November 27th, 2008

When Jonathon Ross made that hilarious joke about how he was worth 1000 BBC journalists, I wanted to punch him in the face. I have lost all respect the BBC for not sacking him … and for their stupid management policies which are throwing years of serious, in depth, important journalism in the bin so some ugly mug who can’t talk properly can disrespect women (this is the national media I’m talking about, not a grime track!!).  It’s not about being out of touch with the youth; if you take up that position, you’re just participating in the same media speak which writes off our generation as apathetic before they’ve even tried to engage us. It’s all tragically unfunny.

Yesterday it was my Dad’s 60th. He is a current affairs journalist. He started working at Radio London in 1970, in charge of youth programmes. He hosted a Sunday night show called ‘Breakthrough’ which was an open-ended show about music and alternative london and featured the likes of Adrian Mitchell, Brian Patten, BB. King, Alice Cooper, and The Last Poets. In 1973 he moved to BBC Radio 4 where he pioneered ‘File on Four’, and in the mid 1970s me moved to Newsnight and a programme called ‘People and Power’. In 1979 he moved to Panorama. I don’t even know everything he’s covered… apparently he made over 50 films for them. He left in 2007. His most famous recent programmes were 2004’s ‘When Good Men Do Nothing‘, which told how the west failed to stop the genocide in Rwanda, and won loads of awards including an Emmy; and ‘Sex and The Holy City‘. He also recently made this with my mum.

So here’s to investigative journalism. No surrender.

Obligatory funny photo:

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CHRISTMAS SPEECH!

Posted on November 24th, 2008

No not because I speak like the Queen… just because this is, like, the cutest thing ever.

Can anyone help with the fact my feet are REALLY FUCKING COLD?

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CHANGE?

Posted on November 21st, 2008

Phew for this.  I’m glad there are still some people willing to do some proper journalism and go looking for things before they write them off as non-existent (and that certain editorial sections are willing to redeem themselves by listening to them). **

Alex and I have been up to some adventures lately which I’ve been meaning to tell you about.  Seriously now, I will be serious, and make one of those bloggers excuses for not posting for a while: I’ve just been stuck on an ethical event. Okay?

Expect more in the next few weeks on: Obama and The New Soul, and My Dad versus those c**t Jonathon Ross and Whatsisface With The Disgusting Hair,  The Endless Babble of Egos (in the music world), and Dubstep and Phallic Symbolism (these days, as Manara and I discussed at the latest Night Slugs, you even get gizz-step; basically cockstep as pure ejaculation. Night Slugs have some really good lineups on the way… December 18th is going to be my main Christmas party).

My end of year round up if I ever get round to doing one will probably just go: Crazy Cousinz.

I have developed the most enormous respect ever for boxers. Yesterday I couldn’t type properly because my hands were shaking from training and I had to go to bed at 9pm.

Yesterday before boxing I wrote an email to Kira Cochrane (my new heroine) explaining it was very important that she writes something about how badly Obama needs to appoint some women in his cabinet. If Hilary gets/takes Secretary of State that will be fabulous; same goes for Napolitano and Homeland Security; but in the past week it feels like I’ve woken up every day to hear of a new male appointment/possible appointment. The positions closest to the president have already gone. If ‘Change’ doesn’t include women, it will be a repetitious repetition of, like, the entire of history.

For some strange reason Kira hasn’t replied.

Here is some good news.

Here is some bad news, and here is some more bad news aka ‘one way to deal with the fact female politicians are judged more by their appearance than their policies’, aka ‘Skirt Crime‘. These are among many reasons, which I will be going further into, why I get scared when my girlfriends put their faith in change just some how naturally ‘coming’.

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**UPDATE: There has now been an argument about this over at Dr P-Hall’s. I said my piece.

Fuck it at least it gives us someone to take the piss out of.

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Where I’m at

Posted on November 18th, 2008

None of your business.

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GRACIOUSNESS

Posted on November 3rd, 2008

No other musician has stopped me in my thoughts in the same way as Grace Jones.

Out today.

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