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Life is a whirlwind of packing, airports, planes, hotels, and very little sleep at the moment. Mexico-Lancashire-London-Ibiza-Birmingham-London-Suffolk. I am on a heart and soul-searching mission with no idea where I’ll end up. Kerplunk! One thing I do know is that Mexico City stamped its mark on my heart – I wish I could have stayed longer.
The second part of the week was spent chatting with super talented graffiti artists Yoste and Fanzye, wandering around Condesa checking out t-shirt shops and eating delicious sorbet in the hot sun and drinking in wonderfully kitsch cantina Malverde with gallery owners Jose Manuel and Mariana. The crowning glory of the trip was paying a top Mariachi band to play eleven songs specially for our group in a bar on Garibaldi Square. They made me laugh, they made me cry, they made my heart soar and crash and they made me dance with them. It was amazing:
Video to follow, full set of photos from the trip here.
The day I returned from Mexico I went straight up to Lancashire to perform at The Beat-Herder Festival with The Young Punx. It was a tiring but rewarding day – this is what festivals used to be like. One of the organisers told me they’d been approached by companies wanting to sponsor them but had politely declined because they feel that staying independent is worth more than the financial benefits it would bring – that’s the spirit!
This week I popped over to Ibiza with Hal and Nathan from TYP to do a PA at Pacha in the early hours of Thursday morning. All went well when I eventually got let in by security (they didn’t believe I was performing and wanted to charge me 60 euros to enter…); I managed to stay wide awake and sang new track SugarCandySuperNova, MASHitUP and Rock Star (Understand). Next time we perform it’s going to be to 15,000 people at Nano-Mugen festival in Yokohama…in the slot just before Manic Street Preachers! Life is pretty amazing at the moment, I must say.
This morning I was given my very own copy of the wonderful new album “No Idols” by The Super Nashwan Kids, a bright young bunch of North Londoners currently setting stages on fire across the capital. All hail my very first album cover – photographed a couple of months ago in a park in Winchmore Hill. Kudos to Ian for lugging that bass drum across the grass, it really adds something:
Now I’m in Suffolk for just under 24 hours paying my family a visit and getting all the puppy cuddles I can from Benji before heading off to Japan later in the week. There’s a lot to get done beforehand, I’m working on some really interesting video projects at the moment so I might have to invent a few more hours in the day to get it all finished. Then it’s 14 wonderful days of Yokohama-Tokyo-Kyoto-Nara-Osaka-Koya-Tokyo, woo!
How’s everything with you? Do you have jam tarts for eyes? I do!
Photo by Matty Morton.
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