LADeeeeeeeeeeZ night

SPOT ON

YEAH IT IS FAIR ENOUGH, WE ALL BE THE BEST AT WHAT WE DO AND CRAM AS MUCH AS POSS INTO OUR LIVES! NOWADAYS THERE IS SOOOO MUCH TO DO AND THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS. BUT IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO DO EVERYTHING, SO DONT BEAT YOURSELF UP FOR HAVING A BREAK NOW AND AGAIN AND TAKING A STEP BACK. WE ARE NEVER GONNA TAKE OVER THE WORLD SO LETS NOT KILL OURSELVES WHILST TRYING TO DO THE IMPOSSIBLE ;)

SORT OUT

FAR TOO MUCH SHIT

I am designing...

a book about Chinese youth culture, it is taking timmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmme!!!!
Dealing with printers, artworkers, photographers, copywriters etc is bloody hard work and time consuming. And on top of all that i have to design it too, i have never designed such a big book. So its all good experience
The final result is gonna look something like this

PICS AND WORDS I LIKE TODAY

CANT WAIT FOR TONIGHT!!!!

FREE FOOD

I GOT A FREE LUNCH LAST WEEK, DADDY DONKEY!!! ALL I HAD TO DO WAS WEAR A MOUSTACHE ;)
www.daddydonkey.co.uk
THE FOOD WAS AMAZING AND I HIGHLY RECOMMEND A TRIP DOWN LEATHERLANE TO GET STUFFED!
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ALL MY CAMBERWELL CREW!

It is not very often all my Camberwell crew of 1999 get together. As everyone is so busy being FABulous, Matthew is jetting around having exhibitions around the globe, Isa is always busy do something random this year she is playing keyboard for Florence and the machine, god knows what she will be up to next, Boo spends her life dedicated to her art, locked up in her Dalston studio with her paint brushes, Tara is always getting lost somewhere around the world looking for inspiration for her Topshop accessory designs, and Becky oh Becky is off spending her spare time tripping with Shamens in South America. So you get the picture yep everyone is pretty busy doing their own thang.

Which has meant that Taras Birthday has become our annual gathering, god i am so happy i have soo many organised, homely Cancerian friends ;)














Hopefully not until next year!
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YES! IT'S COMING!

SARF SIDEZ!!!!!!!

Yep its time!!!!!
east london is busting at the seams with f'in moustaches and fix friggin gears! Yeah we are all creative but sometimes you just wanna breath some real air, not the trendy stuff! Chat about what bargain you got in Iceland and how much you paid for ya dog, that kinda stuff, normal stuff. Not about how many exhibitions you have had, what amaizng new collaboration is going down at DSM or how many private view invites you got last week. Yeah its all great and i must admit i am a mega ponce when i wanna be, but sometimes i just like to take a step back.
Hence why i work Eastsidez and live Sarfsidez!!!

Check this out, and don't say i didn't tell ya!

Peckham raises the roof

Move over Hackney! London's next creative hotspot, signalled by this bold rooftop sculpture park, could be south of the river, reports Hermione Hoby



It's a hot Tuesday night, and 1,000 twentysomethings have elected to spend it in a multi-storey municipal car park in Peckham. It's a crowd impressive enough to match the big, bold artworks they're here to see. A sculpture park on the roof of the 10-storey building in Rye Lane forms the highlight of the third Bold Tendencies exhibition from the Hannah Barry Gallery, which has joined forces with four local artists' groups for a formidable show.

Coming so soon after the success of Barry's Peckham Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, if anything can substantiate claims of an influential youthful art "scene" in Peckham, this is it. Among the works is James Balmforth's Failed Obelisk, with its detached apex flailing on a spring, and a ziggurat-like piece from Molly Smyth called Motion Towards Collapse: both names suggest defectiveness but the pieces couldn't look more assured of their own clout and strength. The rooftop also boasts a cafe and bar designed by recent architecture graduates Lettice Drake and Paloma Gormley - daughter of Antony Gormley, whose cast-iron bollards (part of Southwark council's Peckham regeneration programme) grace the nearby Bellenden Road.

While Gormley senior is a famous former resident, the south London suburb is more likely to be associated, at best, with fictitious wheeler-dealers Rodney and Del Boy, and worst, Harriet Harman in a stab-proof vest. Soon, though, it may become synonymous with art. Cheap rent and large empty buildings are a classic recipe for attracting young artists, and Peckham's creative boom has also been helped by a stream of graduates from nearby Camberwell and Goldsmiths art colleges.

Felix Petty, who heads a collective called Off Modern, explains that his and other artist-led groups, including Lucky PDF and Sunday Painter, all started work within weeks of each other last year. "We all focused on putting on young artists who wouldn't get a chance to exhibit normally. Instead of being top-down, big exhibitions, it's a real grass-roots thing, and that's why it's blossomed so much. It's also much easier to do stuff to a higher quality if everyone's helping each other out and pooling their resources." Hannah Barry agrees. "There's a particular spirit among these artists of working together yet working separately."

There's certainly a sense of everyone knowing everyone else, and Peckham pride is out in force at the Bold Tendencies opening. Petty admits that the scene can be a little parochial: "It becomes as much about the area as anything else because it's such a factor in the way everything's run here."

Margot Heller, whose South London Gallery is a neighbour of Camberwell College of Art, cites her gallery's forthcoming expansion as well as a new multi-platform arts space, Area 10, as evidence of Peckham's burgeoning creative activity. "It's this coming together of different people and different activities that gives a sense of energy and possibility," Heller says. "Hannah Barry has shown enormous energy and initiative in setting up her gallery, and that really has contributed to a sense of there being a 'scene'."

Barry herself says: "If you don't have any money, you have to find a way to do what it is you're trying to do. I feel strongly that lack of money should not stand in the way. Of anything."

"Of course," she adds, laughing, "we haven't been able to have the plunge pool I wanted, but you have to make some compromises!"

With a sunset gilding an already spectacular view of the capital, the impression from the 10th floor is that Peckham has the whole of London at its feet. As a metaphor, it doesn't seem that far-fetched.

BANGIN'

After my fave musical mastermind OUZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO told me about the lady Cooly G i havet stopped listening to her bangin' tune LOVE DUB, i absolutely love it!!!!

So i was really interested in seeing what she had to say for herself at the Macbeth, unfortunately rather than performing she was dj'in, she seemed pretty nervous and seemed to be worry about the technicalities rather than enjoying her choice of tunes! Unfortunately i did not get to hear the tune i have been rinsing for the past few weeks.

TURN IT UP!!!!! YOU AINT GONNA BE DISAPPOINTED!!!!

Go on KODE9


Here is an interview by Alice Moxom for WAH MAGAZINE

KEEPING IT COOL
Everybody wants a piece of Cooly G. Since becoming the second female artist to sign with Kode 9’s Hyperdub label earlier this year, this South Londoner has been at the centre of an increasingly significant buzz. Not only has she lit up the underground, majors are dueling for Cooly to work her magic on their safe sounding pop. Equally indicative of her wider appeal, The Guardian recently went so far as to name Cooly’s ‘Love Dub’ their single of the week. Taken from her most recent EP, ‘Love Dub’ is a dangerously addictive, sweet sounding, dub enhanced tune. Also featuring on the EP is Narst, a track that indulges in fierce, impatient strings, lined with a rapid snare and enough thumping kicks to set any dancer in motion.

Cooly G, real name Merrisa Campbell, is quite an extraordinary young woman. When not producing, DJing, singing, playing semi-pro football and guiding young kids through troubled times she still finds the time to look after her two year old son - a full time job in its own right but something that comes naturally to the 26-year-old. “I’ve always looked after young people, since I was 17. I want to help people because they just haven’t got any guidance and I don’t know what their parents are doing because they shouldn’t even be feeling like that or even going through situations like that”

As I delve deeper into conversation about the youth of today, Cooly lets slip that she’s been writing a book for the past 10 years. “I want to educate young girls” she tells me “from the age of 16 to 20 I was in a relationship with an older man who completely controlled me. I was left at home to look after his kids when I was 17. There was no Merissa in those years”. This experience has undoubtedly attributed to the moulding of Cooly as the strong independent female she is today. Luckily for us, she is on top of the world right now and people are starting to take notice of this inspirational bright young thing.

From a very young age Cooly knew her way around a mixing desk and turntables- better than most producers today. “I was seven when I bought my first record and tried to scratch because I was watching those American films and tried to copy them”. She also had the advantage of exploring her dad’s old school analogue mixing desk. “I got involved in pressing the buttons, because my dad had equipment at the house. He said I used to play with the mixing desk and it's mad because I know how to control all of that, no-one was telling me how to do it”. Cooly’s instinctive musical nature and technical understanding has led to her becoming one of the most promising producers of the year. Her tribal, dark Grime-like production is something that doesn’t fit easily into one box, but with the likes of Kode 9 and Markus Nasty backing her all the way Cooly G is unquestionably one to keep an eye out for.

As ever, Cooly plays it cool. She’s not letting slip about any future releases but says she has something special lined up for Hyperdub. So, stay tuned this summer and keep your eyes peeled as Cooly G makes her mark, because whether you’re a fan of Funky, House or Dubstep you will quickly see why everyone wants to work with her.. Check her Myspace for future tour dates.

THOUGHT OF THE DAY

OK so all those that know me know that my phone is either broke, dead or lost somewhere in my bedroom. Over the past 6 months i have gone from contract to old school PAY AS YOU GO!!
refused a all paid for work Iphone and contemplated getting a pager.
It has been nearly a week now and i haven't set eyes on my lil shiny sort of friend. I am sorry to say but i aint missing ya!!!! Looks like the landline is my new fav toy.
It is all about HEADSPACE!
We are surrounded with Information overload as it is, lets learn to chillllllll
just like my main man...

I LOVE THE ENGLISH WEATHER

It is tropical baby, sun to rain in an hour!

A GOLDEN NIGHT

FROM A GOLDEN GIRL!!!!!
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TUNE!!!

OLD TUNE WHICH I HAD FORGOT ABOUT IT UNTIL I JUST CAME ACROSS THIS ON GOOD OLDE BNTL

LOVIN' THE VIDEO!

MY FAVE DJ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it does not happen often as he is the invisible man of DUBSTEP!
MR ILLUSIVE AKA OUZO is too busy making and mixing tunes to be out and about!
BUT ON FRIDAY 24TH JULY OUZO Is stepping in and gonna step it up!
CHECK HIS TUNES HERE

MY LOVELY FRIEND THE ACTOR...

ALEXIS RODNEY IS HAVING A BIG PARTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE AND I AM GONNA PLAY SOME TUNES, SHOW HIM HOW IT'S REALLY DONE. NO ACTING!!!!!!
LET ME KNOW IF YOU WANNA COME
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LOOK WHAT I GOT SENT TODAY, CUTE!

thank you girlies at the
www.thetreehouse.org
The best market research company in the world!!!!

DINNER WITH THE MAN OF DESIGN HIMSELF

THE FABULOUS MARK SMITH (DESIGN) TOOK US LADIES FOR A SLAP UP MEAL AT AUTOMAT DOWN DOVER ST, HE PRETENDED TO TALK ABOUT BUSINESS BUT JUST WANTED SOME TOP KNOTCH FEMALE COMPANY INIT

WATCH THIS SPACE

LAST NIGHT

After my fave musical mastermind OUZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO told me about the lady Cooly G i havet stopped listening to her bangin' tune LOVE DUB, i absolutely love it!!!!

So i was really interested in seeing what she had to say for herself at the Macbeth, unfortunately rather than performing she was dj'in, so i did not get to hear the tune i have been rinsing for the past few weeks.
Go on KODE9

CLEVER

Tom is a recently graduated student from Kingston and has some of the nicest student work I’ve seen this year, including a lovely film for Hewlett Packard working in collaboration with Matt Robinson. CHECK OUT HIS LINK AND WATCH THE VID
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRADDERS!!!!!

HOPE YOU HAD A GOOD ONE!!!IT WAS AS GREAT TO SEE YOU AS ALWAYS, JUST A SHAME FOR THE 1ST TIME IN MY LIFE I DID NOT HAVE A CAMERA ;(
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BREAKFAST TIME

IT IS SOOOOOOO DISGUSTING I KNOW BUT I HAVE HAD THE POT NOODLE URGE FOR FAR TOOOO LONG, AND AFTER A COUPLE OF DRINKS AT BRADS BDAY LAST NIGHT AND SOME SERRRIOUS TUNES AT THE MACBETH. I COULD NOT THINK OF A BETTER EXCUSE!!!!
YES I AM GROSS
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