I spent 24 hours celebrating my 29th birthday with a host of my lovely friends. I have to say that it was one hell of a crazy and hectic night…ok it lasted two nights.
I started by hitting White Wedding. At least 30 or 40 lovely people showed up just for me. From TeaBag to YumYum. It was really amazing. I remember a lot of shots and cocktails. I cut the sleeves off my tuxedo to show off my glamour muscles. I put a new temp tattoo on my right bicep. Lord of the Rings. One ring to rule them all, one ring to bind them. Let’s be honest. I looked badass redneck. [More]
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. [More]
As the only American at Urban Art Forms this year, I think it is my duty to take the time to write out a full and detailed review. So I will cover the basics now.
The Weather
It rained pretty heavily for most of the time I was there. The stages are actually on proper flooring, not on a field, so the festival wasn’t really affected. The tent area however, turned into a mudbath. It was totally crazy. All the locals seemed to have wellies with them, so they adapted nicely. [More]
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…. [More]
