So I realize that there are so many changes I want to make to this blog.  The main thing is that I want it to be the main focus of my life again.  I went from writing hundreds of posts a year to a couple dozen.  And that’s no good.  Also I seem to only be writing theory and educational posts.  I don’t want to give you guys the impression that my life has slowed down one bit.  I just made this decision that I should stop writing field reports now that I’m pretty well known as a dating coach.  But man I don’t wanna lose an image I spent years developing as a bad boy.

So let me tell you about last Saturday.  I bring up this night not because it’s exceptional but because it was like a Phoenix rising from the ashes.  I’m often paranoid when I’m around other pickup artists or really good looking guys.  I know it’s something that most other people don’t notice because I have a really highly developed ability for hiding my fears and acting anyways.  It’s what makes me such a force of nature when it comes to pickup.

So I’m about to go out with this new local dude Low0r.  We have talked online and he’s emailed me for advice in the past.  We just haven’t hung out before.  The guy is like a huge my name is earl with no mustache.  And he’s hilarious.  About 20 minutes before we are about to go out together he lets me know that we are going out with 2 other dudes.  So these guys roll into my place at like 8 or something which is wicked early in this country town unfortunately.  I break out the beers and we chill for a few minutes.  One of the friends starts telling me how it’s an honor to meet me and how pickup artists and coaches like me totally changed his life.

Low0r is totally worried that I’ll be embarassed.  That shows exactly how much he doesnt’ know me.  I am getting off on this 100%.  Who doesn’t want to be told that they are awesome.  So when you meet me and the truth is that just about anyone who emails me eventually gets to because I love traveling and partying so much, make sure to say it’s an honor to meet me or something.

It was like when a highlander cuts off another highlander’s head and there is all this lightening and then the guy has like twice as much power.

My game simply exploded.

We went to at least 7 bars.  And each bar I would open a set and be KILLING IT.  And of course the 4th guy who I haven’t mentioned because he was so negative would complain and demand that we change bars.  Normally I hate that.  But I was unstoppable.  Set.  Set.  Set.

I did a couple of things that are especially amazing.  I took a picture of every girl as I got her phone number.  I NEVER remember to do that.  So I woke up Sunday with faces to go with the numbers.  It really helped me to decide which girl I was more attracted to and helped motivate me to call.  Usually I suck about texting a girl because I don’t remember what she looks like.  And I hate the facebook exchange because let’s just say my page isn’t flattering to girls who are looking for boyfriends.  I am a whore when it comes to club pictures with girls.  I don’t care.

So we go from bar to bar to bar.  And this dude is pouring vodka down my throat and who am I to say no?  So I am blasted.

I remember meeting a bunch of girls having a birthday party.  I dropped one of my BEST openers “Are you guys really friendly or really mean, because I don’t want to talk to mean girls” – That’s right.  I’m giving you solid gold in the middle of a story.  It’s like a reward for actually reading this post.  And I’ll tell you right now that that opener works like 100% of the time for me, so it should work at least 90% of the time for you.  Nobody actually admits to being mean.  Most dictators self-justify their actions.

So I bought a round of shots.  I never buy drinks for girls, but I do honor the birthday party.  If you have seen my birthday party pics from 2009 you will understand just how seriously I take this event.

So then we are a bar later.  And I meet this Brazilian girl.  Her sweater matches her hat and that’s all I have to say.  I get her number and take a photo.

And here is where we have a blank space.  Now I spoke to the other dudes this weekend and apparently I was killing it at at least 2-3 more bars.

Then we end up at the late night bar where I am supposed to meet the Giraffe and her roommate who hates me.  Both of these girls are WAY bigger than me.  They are former major athletes and were super successful.  I found out from Low0r that I was killing it with 2 stunning German girls with the Giraffe shows up and I just walked away.  That is CLASSIC me.  I always forget girls and stuff.  It’s why I need a handler.  I can close any set but I forget and get distracted.  I think I have the pickup artist version of ADD.

So everyone goes home and stuff.  I don’t really notice.  I end up with my two giants in another late night dance club.  We are downing drinks but I sure don’t remember.

I made out with both girls and eventually we end up in a big pile in my bed.  Where I pull the classic move of being too drunk to fuck and passing out.

Friday night I went out with a ton of new guys from the lair and a few guys who hadn't been out with me in like 6 months.  I wanted to celebrate as my business has a new contract that means I am sorted for the next year at least.  All my expenses are covered and it's amazing to turn that bend as a business.

So I hit up the usual spot and I'm chatting to this bartender girl.  She's too much car for me but I like to get loose.  My favorite girl looks like a model and hooks me up like crazy, but she wasn't there!  What am I, cursed?

The bar itself was seriously lacking in talent for some reason.  It was a Breast Cancer fundraiser so I was rocking a new pink tie from Express.  I went way out of my way after all my meetings to pick it up.  And people kept asking if it was red.  What kind of world do we live in?

With zero talent to attack I convince 2 of the dudes with me to try another bar 2mins down the road.  The door girl lets me in free as usual, which is awesome.  As I am walking up to the bar I see a blond with a decent body and a brunette.  The blond makes eye contact and the game is afoot my friends!

I roll in and ask if they are in line.  That's right.  I am finally revealing my main pickup line for free.

So there I am chatting and the 2 guys I am with keep coming up and telling me things.  Like one is going to the bathroom and one is going to the front of the bar.  I am actually not sure what they are signaling.  I can tell that we aren't in sync at all. 

I grab one of the dudes and hand him off to the blond.  She had a really nice body, but I am not gonna lie.  She looks like she was rode hard and put away wet.  In the face at least.  She was really cool though.

She saw me switch from her to her friend and she was 100% cool about it all night.  I really respect that.  Because her friend looked like Juno.  Ok I only know that because they both asked me what I thought about that.

So I spend the rest of the night with Juno.  The other dudes all disappear and the friend just goes to hang out with her other friends.  We were dancing and killing it.  More people were watching us than the ban and it was just all in the moment.  She had the most amazing body and she was just so damn skinny.

At one point she even asked why I picked her of all the other girls in the bar.  It's good to know that I still got it.

Eventually she had to cruise home with her friend and she wouldn't give me her number.  Guess it was just a moment kind of thing.

At this point I have no more memory.  I know I went back to the original bar and I couldn't find anyone I knew.  So I started talking to two girls.  I can't remember anything about them, but I just found out something amazing.  I snapped a few photos with them!  Who knew?

It's a pleasant surprise and it turns out the 2nd girl was pretty cute.  It's a shame that I don't remember ANYTHING of that part of the night.  But I still no how to have a blast when I'm riding solo.  Don't know how much longer I am gonna be in this town or what the future holds but there is still some fun out there.

Saturday I finished my dissertation while October slept. I actually slept really good on his couch. Go figure. I mean I honestly had a pretty good time last night and some of that stuff was really funny. Obviously I would have preferred to get my dick wet, but I am all about enjoying the journey.

We spend the day lying on the couch watching comedy central. I forgot what its like to have cable. It was so nice to just do nothing. I am texting this girl back and forth and deciding about coming back to London to see her. In the end I am seeing her Sunday night so I get one more night in Cambridge.

We drink these homemade concoctions of October’s. I rate the guy in a lot of ways but if he offers you a drink, you should say no. I swear I thought he’d poisoned me. On the walk to the clubs I realize I have 13 different kinds of alcohol in my stomach. It was roiling. How often do I get to use that word? October didn’t believe me that it was a real word.

We get to the bar and the lair dudes are there and there is actually one girl with them. She seemed nice enough. Didn’t really get to talk to her though. Stuff started happening hard and fast. This one dude tells us how there are 2 crazy chicks, one hot and one not so much there. Then the not cute one rolls up to talk to him. We start chatting I mean whatever I wanna get my jaw moving.

She was so huge it was unbelievable.  But we are yapping.  October is just leaning against the rail being silent and smooth.  Either that or the poison he drank with me is acting up in his stomach too.  Three cuties stand next to the big girl and she starts saying how she has the same top as one of them.  The girl probably weights 90 pounds.  And their outfits look nothing alike.  I see this as an easy way to upgrade my set.  So I keep saying what are you talking about and then she says something to the girl.  She turns back and tells me she is bored of me and October.  She is going to find more interesting people to talk to.

I jump at the three new girls.  I start talking to the cute, small one.  Tell her what the crazy big girl was on about.  She was freaked out at first when some fat girl started pointing at her.  We chill in this set for a bit and I find out the girl is a rugby player.  A wing.  Whatever that means.  All I know is I think it’s sexy as hell.  We chat to these girls for a while, but I think Oc drifts off.  They tell us to meet them at some club later.  They might have even invited us along, but we we are hoping to stay in this bar til closing.  Just keep it simple.

We go back inside and see a ton of cute ladies.  We decide to do our old trick and start throwing up shapes all over the bar.  Put out a little bait and the girls in this town open us like crazy.  Girls are taking pictures of each other.  October jumps into the back of one and then a few minutes later one of the girls wants a pic with us on either side.  She has the right idea.  We would never force a girl to choose between us.  We know how to share.

We bounce around the bar a bit.  Neither one of us can get a set open.  Again.  It’s so weird.  Fortunately girls keep opening us.  The bar runs out of girls.  They all seem to hit this bar and then go to clubs.  So we head off in search of another club.  The lair is going to one place.  We peel off.  Sometimes a 2man strike team is ideal.

We pass Vodka Revolution.  It’s full of girls.  We gotta pay a few coins to get in but fuck it.  We wanna have fun.  We get inside and I realize that none of the girls are that cute.  We end up outside having a smoke.  I try to open a few girls by sitting next to them, but we get zero love.  I can’t get more than a grunt out of girls here.  Two girls on the other side start pointing at Oc.  I engage them and find out they are talking about girl medical issues….I accelerate and get one sitting next to me.  She looks like a bird.  Chat chat chat.

They invite us to come dance with them.  We say we’ll be inside in a bit.  We bounce around and can’t get any sets opened.  Then these two girls come outside for a smoke.  I get Oc to ask them for a light.  No one is responding to me.  He almost gets them to come over and give us one.  We start talking to them.  Holy crap one of them is so beautiful.  He nickname is Kate Moss and I can see why.  The other girl tells me about her dragon tattoo right above her vagine.  Talk about a dream set.  One beautiful and one kinky.

We chat to them for a long time.  There is a third one that Oc is keeping busy.  It’s a true shame.  One extra.  I am chatting to these two for a while.  They are so cute.  We have some really good dialog and they invite us into dance.  We say we’ll be inside in a bit and develop a game plan.  It’s really smooth.  We both are worried that we will have a repeat of last night, as soon as we walk up the girls will walk away.  Or run away.

We go inside and drop some shapes near the edge of the dance floor.  Two girls are grinding on each other near us trying to get a ton of attention.  One even grabs my tie.  We don’t even bother reacting.  I just can’t be drawn into their game.  Plus the last two girls were so much cuter.  We just can’t find our girls on the dancefloor.  Finally we decide to go searching.

We find them near the back.  They are super cool and love our shapes.  We all get some drinks and chat etc.  It’s all really cool.  At one point the two cuties wanna go smoke and me and Oc are about to go with them.  The 3rd girl says something really amazing that made us stop in our tracks.  “I know I’m not as cute as my friends but please stay with me.”  She didn’t wanna stay watching the drinks all alone.

I really respect when people are real.  So we danced and chilled with her etc.  It was cool.  The other girls back and we keep on having a good time.  Somehow October and I really can’t tell what’s going on.  We keep on dancing and just having a cool time.  I facebook close the beautiful one.  Me and Oc go outside for a smoke and we end up next to a ton of people having a fight.  We have to wait ages to get outside.  Then a huge swarm of people are fighting in the street.

A girl comes over to talk to the two of us and stay away from the fight.  One of her friends is really cute.  So we are trying to get them all to join us.  The cops roll up and it’s a whole situation.  The club closes.  We manage to get back in to look for the girls.  We run into them at the top of the stairs and we all decide to hit another club.

October gets us into one where he used to work and the girls are super impressed.  It’s just a cool night.  More dancing etc.  More stuff happened but I’m tired of typing.  He got the dragon vagina girl’s number and then eventually they jump in a taxi.  I think we should have tried to get them to October’s house but we didn’t try enough maybe.  Hard to be sure.  There was just one extra girl and there were zero sexual vibes.

Hopefully we will connect with these girls again.  I’m hoping the beautiful girl comes down to London to party soon.  Either way it was really amazing.  I am definitely going to spend some more time in Cambridge.

I was sitting at home after my night in the brothel and hitting Movida with gsand. I was thinking about how sick I am of finishing my bastard dissertation and I was like fuck it. So I called October and was like I’m thinking of coming to Cambridge to see whats up. 2 hours later I was on the train with my little eee pc. I worked on my diss like crazy.

We chilled at his house for like 2 hours or something then headed into town. I ended up meeting the whole Cambridge lair. It was like I have heard about other lairs. The guys stood in a circle all night without doing any sets. At one point I did get a guy to open a set. He ended up pointing at me at some point, which I saw coming. I came over and instantly the friend liked me. I don’t know what that dude said but her friend suddenly was like we have to leave NOW.

But that was later in the night. At first I was just standing in a circle with these dudes. They were like ok guys I guess. Only one guy all night asked me a question. I was really surprised. I mean considering people pay me good money for instruction in London I thought these dudes would take advantage of my knowledge or at least ask me about meeting Sinn or something. But nope. I dunno I doubt it’s that I’m intimidating.

After a bit I grabbed October to hit the bar. I was like bro we gotta get opening. First thing I learned in Cambridge. I cannot open in this town. My normal openers were bouncing off concrete. It was really weird. I have a lot more respect for October’s success now. This is honestly a tough town to game in. the thing is, I think a lot of guys use that as an excuse. I was like dudes I just gotta figure this place out and adapt.

The students are still out of town so it was seriously chavvy. And you know I like chav girls. The thing is they have so much attitude. Its always opposite date with them. Like the prefer a poor angry dude to a rich smooth guy. It’s just about adaptation though. Not complaining. As you will see when we get to night two.

To get pumped October and I started throwing some serious shapes near the front door of the bar. We do it about ten minutes and bounce around the bar. No sets are sticking and then at one point this girl eye fucks the shit out of me. She actually stops October. To be honest I assumed she was eyefucking him. He was close enough that I couldn’t be sure and I just assume he’s cuter than me. These two girls loved our shapes.

So we sit down and start talking to them. I spend about an hour in set I think. Chatting about this and that. The girls are really interesting and tell us how we dont fit in this bar. We seem to emo. That’s what happens when I borrow October’s hair products!! his girl was not nearly as cute as mine. But he put in some serious effort. I gotta say that October is def one of the best wings in the UK. Maybe the world.

I take my girl to the bar to get the next round of drinks. It takes ages. I open this really cute chav girl behind me and it bounces off. She is actually aggressive with me. Chav girls just don’t see reality the same way. So I am back chatting to my girl. She is cute but not amazing to be totally honest. Rather than meander with longass details, we chatted to them, facebook close, number close and then eventually split up with the possibility of seeing them in a club later.

We run back into the lair guys. They still aren’t talking to girls. I think the element that is missing is that they don’t push each other. That’s what wings really have to do. It’s more important to me to push October into set. Because then he will push me. We had a good rhythm of alternating going though.

Oh shit. I forgot my first set. I see 2 girls. Both wretched and I’m like Oc lets warm up on them. They have 2 wine bottles and 2 giant vodkas. Turns out they were more beautiful on the outside than on the inside. The super fat one says ‘make yourself useful!’ and has me carry one of her bottles to another table for her. I did it because I wanted to write about it here. It was so funny. It just shows if you believe hard enough anything is possible. Normally I would have never talked to a girl so gross and I would have just walked away from someone who tries to get me to carry her shit like a monkey. But I really wanted to see how it would play out.

Ok back to the present. October and I are upstairs. We see two girls that I can only describe as insanely beautiful. We are bitching about who is going to open. And the girls come over to bum a cigarette. I’m like thank you god!!!

I talk to my girl for 30 minutes. She is super close ot my face. She is so beautiful. I def snapped a pic together later. The set went super well and me and oc both thought it was on. The girls invite us to see them later at a different club and we are like maybe.

We walk around the club and all the girls are gone. So we decide to try some other clubs. We hit three different clubs and get into 2 of them for free somehow. I was wearing trainers but somehow I got away with it. Wicked.

In one club we see the really cute girls. They see us walk by and run over to say hi. It seems so on. We go grab a coupla drinks and walk over to them. Suddenly something is off. We have no idea what. The girls just don’t talk to us and walk right out of the club. We have no idea what the fuck just happened.

I still have no idea. I had a number of one girl from the group and a facebook of the girl I really liked. Needless to say my text the next day got no love. And no facebook add either. But seriously. Normally when I fuck up I have a clue. But me and October still dont know.

So we hit another club because there are no girls in this one. We see the first set of the night. The two girls who stopped us because they loved our shapes. They see us and actually leave the club too. What the shit?

We are beyond baffled. Our stock suddenly crashed. So we keep on trying with new girls. At one point October is outside and talking to these two girls. I walk up and they instantly run away. I was like damn dude. Maybe it’s me?

We still aren’t sure. Actually maybe he is at home right now flaming me on his blog. Haha. On the way home we realize that we didn’t successfully open a single set all night. Our sets all opened us. Even the two girls that ran away from me had come up to him to bum a cigarette.

I nearly head back to London for a date with a new girl, but move it to Sunday. We decide to come out in our dress up duds instead of our cool guy outfits. Aka button down shirt and tie for me and vest for him (American vest, can’t remember the stupid uk word right now). Lets just say we had a much better night Saturday.

The biggest stress of Global Gathering was getting in. You are trapped in a huge press of sweaty people all carrying a weekends worth of gear and chanting to be let in.  Whoever designed the gate policy was an idiot.  If they had searched every person, like they were doing at first, it would have taken 2 full days to let everyone in.  The police seemed totally focused on finding people who had small personal quantities of gear and taking them away.  Super boring.  I mean is it really a good use of a police dog?

Once we got through the whole security thing it was much smoother.  None of us were even searched in the end.  They just started letting people through in waves.  Throughout the weekend I ran into probably 20 dealers.  Holy crap dealers in this country are creepy as fuck.  I mean they all seemed like child molesters or worse to me.  And the police behavior probably forced a lot of people to keep these dudes in business.

Once we got through and set up our 3 tents, things were ok.  Lady Jaye took over my tent.  So I was going to have to share with YumYum.  We all changed and chilled out a little bit.  Needed to relax to recover from our longass car journey.  That was beyond brutal.  We thought it was take around 2 hours, but it took closer to 4.  On the way we discovered that YumYum sucks at giving directions.  It took us ages to find him and we ended up trying to go through the gate at a military base.  That was a little disconcerting.

He didn’t even have a tent or any supplies.  So we hit the Argos near his house.  We somehow managed to leave Argos with the cheapest tent in the universe and a giant Stormtrooper helmet.  That was fun since I wore it most of the way to the festival.  I learned that a lot of people in the UK are so lame.  So many average looking girls gave us dirty looks.  But some cool people waved and YumYum even passed a beer to a car passing us.

So back at the festival we ground our way through a ton of gear and I was rocking a serious smile for two whole days.  It took some of my crew two weeks to recover from all the partying.  Sometimes you just run out of seratonin.  Hehe.  Honestly it was an awesome festival.

We didn’t talk to too many strangers as we had a good crew.  We split up into twos a lot.  Mostly it was me and Lady Jaye as a twoset, since the other guys didn’t really know her.  We hit all the stages and had so much fun.  We tried not to get split up too often, but when you’re all smiles it’s hard you know?

We had a ton of fun and the crowd vibe was really cool.  YumYum’s girlfriend was there and that was really exciting.  Just the other day I was talking to him and it turned out to be her on his facebook.  I feel like that is never ok,  but I guess some people feel that in a relationship you need to be able to pretend to be the other person.

The highlight of the festival was making my first new rave friend in ages.  He lives in Birmingham and is super awesome.  It was so random but we chilled for 3-4 hours on Sat night in the progressive tent.  I randomly ran into him on saturday in London and finally got his number.  Lady Jaye recognized him and saved the day.

The end of the fest was terrifying as YumYum tried to set the tents on fire and then he tried to kiss me.  It was great because it lasted for the entire drive home too.  That was beyond terrifying.  I kept falling asleep in the car and he launched a never-ending assault.

This party was awesome.  I will break it down into sections in a moment, but for me it was a dream come true.  I will right a separate account of my experiences and a field report as well.

The Bad

Let’s get this part out of the way first.  There was a real hassle getting into the festival.  They had a tiny entrance and about 5 tables of security, so searches were taking ages.  People started rioting so they just started letting people in faster and faster.  I actually never got searched.  They did have a police dog working the gate though.  Based on what I saw inside the festival, this was retarded.  The creepiest guys on earth were dealing at this festival.  At least in America the dealers look like the ravers.  Basically if you saw a black person there was a 95% chance they were dealing.  I only saw a few dudes there just having fun.  To be fair there were also really creepy Polish dealers too.The only problem I had with other people in the fest was in the last hour of the final night.  Some chavs were really looking for a fight.  We left 15mins before the last dj finished to just get away from all that crap.  Security wasn’t really paying attention.  But to be fair it was 545am on a Sunday morning.

The People

This festival was more than 80% chavs and tracksuit type people.  I looked around and my first thought was oh crap.  But actually the vibe was really good at this festival.  Everyone was cool until the last hour.  There was a really good energy and everyone was there to have fun.  I didn’t really have to deal with any crap and my mood never shifted.  I have been to a lot of raves and vibe is EVERYTHING.  Overall I rate all the people that came to GG.  Chavs aren’t so bad when they are just out to have fun, instead of ruin everyone else’s. I even met a really cool rave friend at Digweed and hopefully he will add me on facebook.  It reminded me of the rave friends I met at parties when I was 19.  It was a really good memory for me.

The Facilities

There were no showers.  So good lord.  I mean I was so shocked by that.  I guess it is only two days, but seriously!  Otherwise the food was fine and not too expensive.  The booze flowed really well.  They did run out of water at the end of the night saturday.  They had only one pipe to refill water bottles somewhere.  I never even saw it.  I was fine though.  My set never actually ran out.  I stocked up just in time!!

The Music

Let’s be honest this is what you want to hear about.  I have waited almost two weeks to right this so I will still try to stay on point, but we all know I don’t have perfect memory!  I am trying to decide if I should go in order of awesomeness or in order of appearance.  I think I will do the latter, since I can’t decide who was the most awesome! Ok crap.  I can’t really remember the order too good.  But I can remember who I saw! Aahaha

Friday

Chris Lake

I saw him first for only about twenty minutes.  I wanted to check him out because I love a couple of his tunes.  Carry Me Away is so amazing.  His set was ok.  I mean he was playing at like 4pm the 1st day, but he wasn’t dropping amazing trance on my head.  I could only describe what I heard as ok.  I mean I was really catching my vibe and all, but it was a little too housey for me.

Erol Alkan

YumYum fucking loves this guy, so I gotta be careful what I say.  Basically it wasn’t my style.  He was loving it and the crowd was going nutz so I can’t complain really.  I just am not in a good place to judge it.  I’m not into electro.  YumYum can give a better review of the set.  I think for Erol it was just ok.  I will ask Yum again and change that if he says dif.

Fedde le Grand

I can’t remember his set!  Sorry guys.  I will ask Iceberg if he remembers.  Ahaha. (Wait the order is at least 90% right.)

Scratch Perverts

There set was cool but, and I can’t believe I’m saying this, it was a bit obvious.  They were playing mostly DnB with a lil of the hip hop mixed in.  Basically it was tracks I heard ages ago.  They were dropping tracks people really loved over a year ago.  Now the scratching was cool and they actually didn’t overdo it.  That part was nice.  I mean with scratch DJs that is a real risk that they get so caught up in their DMC crap that they forget people like to dance.  Overall I thought the 30mins I saw was good.  It wasn’t life changing but I DID have a good time dancing.

The Prodigy

I have mixed feelings about this set.  I enjoyed the music and that was awesome but the crowd turned nuts.  It makes sense.  The prodigy are the punk band of electronic music.  I mean they played all their badass hits and I was able to hear them between trips to the water tent and toilets etc.  Hehe.  Honestly when they played Breathe I was so happy.  When I got into the front of the crowd it was just too intense.  A ton of dudes were moshing.  The crowd was full of guys even bigger than Iceberg and he left because his feet kept getting stomped. The girl with me was really stressed when we were near the stage so we had to squeeze out.  It was simply too intense.  The music was awesome, I do recommend just chilling near the back of the crowd.  Great sound and a killer show.

David Guetta

I know he’s a big super store, but I kinda don’t really know that much about him.  I know 2 or 3 of his hits.  He wasn’t playing exactly trance though.  It was more like House but damn I loved it.  He played really sexy tunes and got the crowd just going insane.  He played killer tunes and rocked my world.  Simply an amazing set.  Top notch.

Paul van Dyk

He just lived up to his reputation.  It was really good.  I only caught part of the set but it was classic as always.  I guess for me the fact that PvD kinda always sounds the same wears me out.  He plays amazing tunes but I really like different vibes from different DJs.  If you like amazing high-quality trance, then this is a guy worth seeing.  It was really nice.

Stanton Warriors

Only caught 20 minutes but it was really cool.  Some sexy breaks.  I wasn’t super in a breaks mood, but I really enjoyed it for the time I was there.  If you have heard some of their stuff, then you know what to expect.  The crowd was enjoying it and it was all good.

Tiga

I was really excited to see him after reading about him a few years ago.  I really like the tunes of his that I have heard.  Unfortunately, his set simply sucked.  I wasn’t feeling any of the tunes.  I was bored and apparently everyone else was.  The tent was pretty empty.  Oh well.

Saturday

Eric Prydz

His set was really cool.  It was a little bit housey for my taste.  I mean honestly it was a wicked set.  It’s a little bit hard to enjoy it with the sun still out.  He is a wicked Dj.  I can’t remember too much of the set but when he dropped his current hit YumYum went nuts and THAT is a good sign!

Orbital

Fuck me!  They were so awesome I can’t even explain it.  I wish I was going to more of their festivals.  I’m tempted to cancel Creamfields and stay in London to see them again.  Honestly,  they DESTROYED it.  I have heard some of their stuff since my first weekend in the UK.  My first friend here loves them.  And you know what.  He is a genius.  If you like music at all you have to see Orbital.  They really brought the noise at this festival and were the highlight of the main stage and maybe the whole festival.

Armin van Buuren

Boom!  What a killer trance DJ.  His set was awesome and had such a good flow.  I was really feeling it and it was a good time.  He played some sexy tunes and it kept it all smooth.  It was a lovely little trip.  Ironically, the better sets get the shorter review.  It was really smooth.

Markus Schulz

You know he is my favorite DJ and he rocked my world at Ministry and he didn’t disappoint.  He plays such a deep form of progressive.  I really like it and I loved his set.  Unfortunately, the sound in this tent was too quiet and affected all of the DJs throughout the night.  But really he is great and hits me right in the emotions.  Deeeeeep.

Gareth Emery

He was really good.  I listen to his podcast constantly and I was glad to finally hear him live.  I might have seen him before, but I can’t be sure….hehe.  He is a really sound DJ that dropped some really good tunes.  He drops some progressive onto that trance.  It was really smooth.

John Digweed

He simply still has it.  What an amazing DJ.  I need to see him more and more.  I loved Digweed when I saw him 10 years ago.  The tunes he played were so deep and so insane.  Man this guy is a DJ worth seeing.  I feel like maybe people have forgotten that he basically created Progressive House.  My biggest regret of the festival is that I didn’t see 100% of his set.  I can’t wait to see him again.  Really!

Sander Kleinenberg

Total letdown.  When I saw him at Ultra in Miami a few years ago he played with a killer VJ and he destroyed it.  This time he let me down.  The set was supposed to be so cool as he was controlling the visuals.  It was so average.  The visuals were ok and the music was ok.  Seriously I know he has the ability to destroy it so that made the let down even worse.  Especially after what Digweed did.

Menno de Jong

He played the final set I saw.  The tunes were really good.  I  have liked a lot of his stuff in the past.  The sound was simply too quiet.  It’s a shame.  I really liked what he was doing and I would have liked to really feel it, but the sound was just killing me by this point.  I mean I don’t like my music too loud but everyone was complaining.  I will try to see this guy again.  He has good tunes and his mixes were spot on.

Conclusion

Man what a great weekend.  The only problem was the music ended way too early on Friday and the trouble at the gates.  Overall the festival is simply too short.  They overstack the Sat DJs and they just don’t have enough action on Friday night.  I would like a more balanced experience.  I didn’t really like all the rides and that crap but the people with me did and that is good enough for me.  The festival is trying to cater to a mixed crowd and I get that.  They just need nicer toilets. If you like good music then you should hit this fest!  I loved it!!!

So I am chilling on Saturday morning and my phone starts blowing up.  gsand wants to meet near Waterloo for some day game and Tea Bag is going into central for some costume shopping.  I throw on my clothes, get wicked high and meet gsand.  It takes ages to find him.  We meet up with 7/11 after a bit too.  Walking up and down the boardwalk for two hours, no hotties.  Bad luck.

Then I cruise up to meet Tea Bag and my damn bus gets diverted.  So annoying.  We finally link up and mess around in a few shops then grab some sweet Chinese for lunch.  He tells me about a party he’s going to where everyone dresses up like it’s a bad wedding.  Super eighties style.  The vibe is amazing and the girls are so cool.  So I text my student and my lesbian sidekick and tell them tonight is gonna be wicked.  My lesbian can’t make it as she needs to rest and ironically spends the night having “the talk” with a girl she is only mildly interested in.  Shame!

I am like thirty minutes late, but when I get there the party is awesome.  It is at least six girls for every guy.  My student is hating it for some reason, but I force him to stay and he gets laid.  But this story is about me. Ha!

The first smoking hot girl I see at the bar.  Wow.  Short.  Brunette.  Piercing green eyes.  Sexy black hat with lace.  Perfect body.  I tell him to open her and her friend.  My student hesitates and the friend just raises her arm and points right at my face.  I think there is no way anyone is that rude, she must be pointing behind me.  So I step to the side.  The finger follows me.  So I step forward and dive in.  They are two super cool girls and immediately are loving me.  I chat and chat.  There is someone throwing the bouquet so I tell the brunette to go win it.  Unfortunately, a guy in a dress gets it because he is so damn tall.

I don’t see her again for a while.  So I meet a blond who looks like Clair Danes.  Everytime I tell my student to open a girl, she sees him hesitate and opens me.  This is one weird magical venue.  I was loving it!  I see that they won’t take this girls card.  So I just say, they don’t take card here?  She goes no, come with me to the cash point.  I had been trying to get my student in and I couldn’t think of a way to get her to go with him instead of me.  So we went and chatted.  She was really sexy.  She mentions a boyfriend she lives with and asks if I’m gay in the first five minutes.  It’s nice to get the bs out of the way.  She is like amazing you have to date my sister.  I walked onto the set of beauty and the beast.  I won’t describe the sister, but that is enough.

Me and Clair Danes slip away and hit the dance floor for a bit.  It’s nice.  I met a third girl who was standing next to me at the bar.  Don’t really know what I said.  But hey I’m LondonPaladin right?  Plus I looked amazing.  Everyone was complimenting me on the new way I did my hair.  I think I will be doing it like that every time I leave the house from now on.

I’m going to be honest with you right now.  There were several smoking hot girls I didn’t talk to that night.  I was simply overwhelmed.  Also, I’m the kinda guy who locks into one set for a night.  Rather than get like 6 numbers.  I was more like that a year ago when I was running traditional MM game.  Now that I’m really doing what’s natural for me, I like to just focus on one girl a night.  Just my personal style.  So these other two girls were just to chat with and have fun.

Over the course of the night I kept seeing this one big dude chatting all over my initial brunette.  I didn’t feel anything.  No jealousy or stress.  I saw her with him and my thought was ok, she’s busy I’ll chat to her later.  And whenever I would see her and her friend the pointer, I would rock up and dance.  We danced alone at several points during the night and it was just nice.  There is something about dancing with a beautiful woman that I enjoy.

So during this night I am also teaching my student about kino and escalation.  And eventually he leaves with his girl and I am damn proud.  Also I keep chatting and having a few drinks with my man Tea Bag.  He is having a blast with his girl. And also some of his other friends.

At the end of the night I’m outside chilling with the doorman who basically knew my be then because I kept coming outside with hot girls.  He was cool.  I see my beautiful girl going back inside.  She comes up to me and says to wait and she will be right back.  That’s kinda cool.  She takes ages and I finish my smoke, so I go back inside to chat to my friends.  I see she is talking to the big dude again.  So I go dance with my friends in a position where I can see her.  So that when she leaves I can see her outside.  The old me woulda been praying not to see her kiss this dude.  I mean I don’t know if I would have changed anything if they had.  I mean I kiss tons of girls.

So when I see her heading for the door, I beat her and we chat and chat.  I am leaning against the wall and she is close.  We are chatting and I’m trying to extract.  She has work the next day etc.  I keep pushing for it, but it’s just not quite there.  We are both close, but I’m not sure.  Then TeaBag and my mates come out and surround us and just watch.  From like 1 foot away.  TeaBag just says to her that he loves watching me talk to girls.  I could have killed him, if I hadn’t been doing so well.  We were connecting and I didn’t react so it didn’t matter.  I mean from the outside it’s a pretty funny move.

I get her number and it takes like 10 minutes.  I think my phone might be on the fritz.  Anyways, we get it all sorted and go back in to dance.  At one point I drop my final escalation bomb.  And she likes it.  I try to kiss hew a few times, but all I get is cheek.  It’s fine.  It’s just a matter of when.  Eventually she has to leave.  I rarely get numbers, but this one felt pretty solid.

Thirty seconds after she leaves I call her and ask if it’s too soon.  Hopefully, she realized how funny that is.  She said to give it a few days, so I’m gonna go old school and wait til Wednesday.  I think I am gonna shift my call style back.  These days I always text the next day.  More so I can remember which girl is which, but I think I need to start calling and waiting longer.  Either way, I had a beautiful experience with a stunning and intelligent woman. Safe.

So last night I was on my 2nd date with the German.  She went home due to a miscommunication, so I went back to the lesbian bar.  But I'm getting ahead of myself. 

Part 1

I meet up with the lesbian I went out with last fall in Leicester Square.  She has 2 girls with her.  One is a sexy blond she is trying to bang and the other is that girl's friend.  A freckly, young brunette.  They are all gay, so I just chill and don't think about game etc.  We hit up a mixed gay club and find a little spot to toss down a few drinks.  I chat to the blond some and talk about being  dating coach.  She is a writer and will hopefully take me to an opera.  We go for a dance and we start grinding like crazy.  Mostly to torture my friend.

She tells me that she only became gay for her current girlfriend and that the relationship has reached a plateau.  She is wondering what to do next.  I smell opportunity.  We joke about my friend's crush etc.  I say she would freak out if we kiss, the grinding is already bothering her.  She says let's do it and we start frenching.  Now I have two Xs who went gay right after me.  So I feel I am owed some compensation.  Fair enough right?  So we are making out and her hand is on my ass.  It's funny because everything feels a little off, even her dancing.  So I ask if she's the dom in the relationship.  I'm totally right and it explains why she kisses like a man.  She keeps leading.

When we kiss my friend rushes up and breaks us apart and yells at the girl for having a girlfriend.  It's hilarious because we all know my friend wants to bang this blond!  Everyone disappears and I end up alone with the blond for a while.  We are just chilling.  Then we go outside and find them all and I have to go back to my date with the German Girl.

Part 2

After the debacle of the German Girl going home from work early, I head back to the lesbian/gay club.  It takes about 15 minutes.  I would say I was gone for 30-40 minutes.  I can't find any of the girls I know.  I am texting my friend and the cute blond and no love!  I am standing on the middle of the dance floor and wondering where they all are.  I am trying to control my frame and not feel uncomfortable.  It's more that none of my mates are there than it being a gay club.  I mean the first club I ever went to was a gay club on my 18th birthday.  Another lovely tale from my memoirs.

So I am waiting for a text back or something.  I mean it sucks that my date fell apart and now this!  So then I go outside after what feels like a thousand years, but was just 3 songs or something.  I run into two other girls from earlier that I didn't talk to that much.  We start chatting and they are hugging me and screaming.  It's all good.  They drag me inside and buy me 2 shots.  These girls don't play.  They musta bought me like 10 shots last nite!

Things get fuzzy from here.  So I'm not sure about the order of events anymore.

I am standing outside alone while the Freckly girl is all over some other girl I don't know.  This freckly blond comes and asks for a light.  Within 5 minutes she is LOVING me.  She starts asking me about the scene in LA.  I tell her I'm not gay and she tells me that I pull of gay man very well.  I think it's a compliment.  My friend rolls up right then from taking the hot blond to the bus stop and is visibly impressed by me skillz. The girl is telling my mate how she loves me and I'm super amazing.

Some dude tells me I look like wolverine.  Another tells me I look like a guy from Big Brother.  They are both trying to bang me.  I smile and play coy.

I am dancing with a couple girls and a twink, when on of the bartenders starts making out with the freckly girl.  I look away and when I look back he is fingerblasting her.  Impressive.

I am standing at the bar while the two girls are buying me even more shots and the hottest black girl I've ever seen rolls up in between us and starts talking to me.  I'm trying to play it cool.  Ten seconds later she is making out with some other hot chick.  This bar is rocking a lot of hot girl on girl action.  Hopefully, I will see this girl again next time…..

When the night ends I offer to have the girls come to mine for guitar hero and some smoke.  They all decline except for freckly girl, who then asks if she can stay at mine.  We share a cab with another girl who is going a little farther.  We come back to mine, smoke a little and bang for a few hours.  Even some morning bang.  While she was asleep I hit the toilet and was looking for her panties.  I mean we were banging right under the ones I nicked the other week.  She was wearing tights so I guess no panties.  Sigh.

In the morning we bang more and she is like the quietest girl ever.  It's so strange.  I'm like did you come babe?  She says no, so I know what I gotta do.  I bring spider man into bed with us and I make her squirt.  There is a big stain on my bed right now bitches!  I am so glad I took that sex skills class.

Then we are on the couch smoking some and I try to get her to blow me.  I mean what could be cooler than that.  She's like 'I don't know you that well…"  Girls have the strangest arbitrary rules.   I walk her to the bus stop and say I'll see her at the lesbian bar next week.  She asks me not to tell her friends we banged.  She doesn't want to be judged.

So when my friend texted this morning I told her nothing happened.  Also she told me this morning she's not gay. Fair enough.  I think I might be the cure for lesbianism.

Last night was another classic rave night with my club crew.  YumYum, Iceberg and I hit up Hidden in south London for a free hard house party.  Yums had some reservations about the party being full of shaved head troublemakers and I had a feeling there would be good vibes and cute girls in cute costumes.  Turns out we were both right.  There were a lot of creepy people there, but also a lot of cool ones.  The tunes were hard as hell and more than I could normally deal with, but I took a pill and it all worked out in the end.

Everyone was in a really friendly vibe and we just had a good time.  About an hour into the party I see two beautiful girls on the dancefloor right next to the decks, just going for it.  Now since I am really into dancing, I am into freedom of expression.  When people just dance to dance.  That is my scene.  My home.  So these girls were exaclty the kind of girls I got into game to meet.  I’m focused on my boys though, so we have a proper stomp kinda near the girls and then we drift away without thinking about it….

We go outside for a smoke and see them by the heat lamp.  Boom.  We open them in a super casual way.  It didn’t even feel like opening.  This is what I’ve done thousands of time.  We roll into conversation and my girl is just super cool.  She’s really pretty and got good vibes.  We chat about this and that.  She brings up loving travel and other things.  We keep overhearing YumYum.  He is saying the weirdest stuff.  But somehow the girl is loving it.  I learned a lot off him last night.  Talk about not caring.  It is really powerful.  So we chat to the girls for a while and Iceberg is just rolling with it and hanging with us.  Normally 3 guys and 2 girls would be weird.  But this wasn’t a pickup club and none of us had that vibe.  It was just like a group of cool people partying.

We go back inside together for a stomp in the laser room.  I love lasers and at some point texted my house mate demanding to know why we don’t have a laser in our apartment.  Hehe.  So the girls go to the bathroom and I just have a good stomp with the boys.  I didn’t even see them come back in.  We see them by the stage getting hit on by two dudes in matching black vests.  I really just don’t care.  I need to care even less though.  We go up and dance with them a bit and ignore the dudes.  The girls just became part of our good time.

Then I forget what happened, but we split up from them for a while again.  We split up and ran into them 4-5 times.  It’s so good to be in a club doing what I love.  So that even when I’m not talking to girls I can have a really good time.  To be honest if it had been a trance club I wouldn’t have even talked to the girls.  I’m so into that music.  But it was a cool time and we would drift and catch them and dance a bit.  Then drift off and do our thing.  We just went to the room that had the music we liked, rather than the girls in it.

We go outside to talk to our two girls and are sitting snuggled up with them to stay warm.  They confess that Yum’s girl has a scottish fetish and mine has a beard fetish.  Sweet!  I am not acting like my normal self.  I basically didn’t do any kino on my girl.  I was in just such a mellow mood.  I really liked talking to this girl.  She kept filling the silences.  I respect normal conversation.  Plus she’s ridden in a helicopter.  I feel it’s time to split the girls up so I take mine in for a stomp.  We are on the dancefloor and find Iceberg to join us.  We can see Yum getting dragged up the stairs to the balcony by his girl and suddenly she just pulls him down onto the couch.  We start laughing.  Eventually all 5 of us are dancing again then the girls go off to the toilets.

I might have this out of order.  If that’s the case blame the drugs.  But I am dancing with my girl on the dancfloor and the vest guys show up.  They start trying to game our girls and man do I not care.  One tries to amog Yums by saying he smells.  Yums couldn’t care less.  They physically get between us and the girls.  Now I find agression boring and Iceberg is huge.  But whatever.  We are in our own world and ignore the dudes.  I see the guy take off his sunglasses to put on my girl.  He takes a pic of her with her camera.  I’m like oh she is stealing those.  I come up to her a little later and we start grinding right there.  Safe…

We get distracted by music and change rooms some.  We see the girls in the smoking section later and we are snuggled on the ground.  She asks if Yum likes her friend, because she really likes him.  Safe.  I say of course and that I’m just talking to her so he can talk to his girl.  A little push pull.  But it wasn’t strategic.  It was me being my normal jokey self.  Then my girl starts taking pictures and I mention how every dude has taken pictures with them, but not me yet.  So we take 3 photos.  The last one is me in almost kiss position.  Then we do kiss and she is a really sweet kisser.  It was really nice at first there was no tongue and slowly she worked towards it.  It was refreshing.  When I pull away I say “interesting.”  She goes “what?”  I immediately say “interesting good!”  Phew. I explain why I liked it so we kiss some more.  It’s nice.  Then vest boy shows up to ask for his glasses back.  She compains to me about how he wouldn’t leave her alone and he only talked to her about drugs and not normal stuff.  All into my knowledge bank.

We tell the girls we are gonna leave with Iceberg, but then we decide to stay with them for another hour for the main dj.  They dance near the front and Yums and I dance on our own.  The girls didn’t even know we were there.  It really built up their attraction.  His nonchalance is powerful.  I kept wanting to go dance with the girls but he wouldn’t let me.  So with 5 minutes to go we join them at the front for the last song.  Right after they run off so Yums and I slowly go get our coats.  He thinks they’ve gone home, but I know they got stuff in the cloak room so they hit the toilets on the way out.  Ha!  I’ve finally understood something about girls.  I feel so smart today.

We wait outside the exit and have a smoke.  The girls come find us and we jump in a cab to mine.  Unfortunately my girl has to work today.  So they have to take a train back to Oxford right away.  We don’t even go inside my apartment.  My girl tells me that if she comes in she’ll never leave.  It was sweet.  We kissed a lot in the taxi and on the walk to the station.  She pointed out that I always make a noise after we kiss.  Like mmmm.  Delicious noise you know?  So then I am like ok let me try again.  So we kiss really long and then I make no noise.  She is like you want to don’t you!  And I was like No!…….ok Yes!  We are giggling and snuggling.

Then they are off on the train home.  I only got my girl’s number on the way to the station.  I decided when I met them to stick to my plan of not getting numbers.  I know Yum’s girl really likes him so hopefully things will go smooth.  They were really cool, pretty girls that like to do what I like to do.  And I am into that.

Friday night I finally made it to Ministry for a massive trance night.  I assembled a good crew with all the essential elements.  I headed down with Freedom of Speech, Iceberg and YumYum.  We went out to see my favorite DJ in the world, Markus Schulz.  And he did not disappoint.  He really tore it up and I had an amazing time.  I was so deep under water.  It was good to get so fucked again.  It had really been ages.  I didn’t talk to a single girl all night.  It was such a change of pace.  I really didn’t want to.  It was so nice and I was just super introverted and having an amazing time.  I danced and just tore it up all night until dawn.  The crowd was a little strange and it was the first time I failed to connect with anyone on the dance floor.  I have a lot of thought on this, but I really don’t care.  I was there for me and I had a killer time with some new dudes.  I’m glad I have a new clubbing crew.  I see a lot more badass nights for us in the future.

It really helped me to tighten up my inner game to do something I love and not need any other people.  For ages at one point I stood next to Freedom while he hooked up with some girl.  And I felt a total lack of emotion.  I was totally unaffected, by interest or anything else.  I felt like I was one with myself and I was reminded of how much fun I can create within my own universe.  It really clicked with what I have been learning from the Blueprint this week.