Brighton Events

After winning the Travel Writing competition in the St. Christopher's monthly E-zine;

I have become a regular on the whole scene of travelling things, cos I am well good at writing, and I have been travelling.

I am now contributing on the website, with the monthly reviews of what is a happening in the wonderful South coast town of Brighton.

Read it here:

Events in Brighton

It might make you want to go to Brighton and do some of the things I have mentioned.

Award winning writer = me

Alright,

when I said I was going to stop using this blog, I wasn't telling the truth.

Although I was at the time, I have since changed my mind.

So

I have started uni, which is nice.

Also, like I threatened to, I wrote to the St. Christopher's Group with my tale of Tubing in Laos.

and I'm happy to inform you, that because I am so amazing, I won it.

Here it is, all put up on their website, and dished out to about 180,000 filthy backpackers around the world.

I mean, there wasn't any doubt, cos I'm well good at writing, innit.

So yep, I won two nights in a hostel anywhere, for two people.

Could have had a worse prize I suppose, like having a toe chopped off.

Nevertheless, me & Zara, whom I met in Oz are going to take them beds, go 'a bit mental' up in London, and then roll into our bunk beds, safe in the knowledge that we didn't have to pay £26 for them.

New Places to find me

As you may have realised recently, I haven't been posting on this blog all that much.

But I have recently started up a (somewhat simmilar) blog to this one

Which you will find at Commander Meehan's Streets, Grime & Life - http://streetsgrimeandlife.blogspot.com/

There's also lists of Stuff what pisses me off - http://stuffwhatpissesmeoff.blogspot.com/

and Stuff what makes me smile - http://stuffwhatmakesmesmile.blogspot.com/

I'm also considering writing a more day-to-day account of what's happening in my life

which may or may not be titled: 'the monotonous happenings of Peter the Meehan' - I'd like to know what everyone is thinking of that one

I have previously gone to a night in Egg before for the Always Fridays, and I was a bit 'take it or leave it' about the whole Always Fridays-Egg-Chockablock experience.

But I would give it another chance

Last night it was free to get in as it was some sort of Bank Holiday thingy. It's nice that it wasn't a Carnival special, fuck Carnival.

We went to King's Cross station, only to be confronted by the long walk up by some industrial estate, which was quite desolate, which meant that even in the late August evening, it was still whipping up quite a breeze.

As I look at the flyer now, I see there was a free shuttle bus, which turns out to be a bit of a kick in the teeth.

We got there about midnight, and the queue was pretty long, but it was moving fairly quickly.

We got in about hal f 12. I found out that Elijah & Skilliam had already finished their set, which was another kick in the teeth.

In the event that Elijah, of Butterz fame is reading this...I would have liked to have seen your set, and was pissed I couldn't.

Egg is a really confusing club, it doesn't make any sense...when you get inside the club, you're outside (in the smoking area), then it has two strangely placed rooms and another room somewhere else - It's like a kid built it out of lego but only had certain blocks.

In the end we found the section that would be playing all the urban music, it was the other side of the garden in some next room.

The room was hot, and it smelt of green. but when we went in I could hear some MCing, that turned out to be Blacks, P-Money, Badness, and then Flirta D touched mic as well.

I've never really liked Flirta D, but he certainly got the crowd hype.

I also noticed that the sound system in that room was amazing; the music was really bassy, but nice bassy, and the microphones were really clear...best sound system I've ever heard in grime.

This wasn't last night, but is some sort of Chocablock Grimeyness

They finished or whatever, and the DJ on after them, whom I believe to be Roska started playing Funky.

I'm sorry, I don't think I have it in me to like Funky, I just don't. I wish I could...but I don't.

So I was outside, and I saw Badness, P-Money and the rest hangin' out.

Badness was wearing the most blingingest glitter Yankees New Era, it was heroic.

I heard some good music coming from the room, so I was going back inside, and I walked right past P-Money, who was standing in the hallway. He gave me a look, which I'm not sure what it meant, but as I walked past, I turned and saw him get a photo taken by a geezer with a big old camera, so I'm assuming the look was "I'm trying to get my photo taken, but you're coming past me and longing me out, so hurry up", but I didn't get it.

Anyway, when I got back into the room, I remembered, I've always wanted to know where in Lewisham Borough P-Money is from,

In the event that P-Money is reading this: P-Money, where in Lewisham Borough are you from?

Anyway, the DJ dropped some MASSIVE tracks,

Ms Dynamite, Oh No by So Solid Crew, More Fire Crew, Dizzee Rascal, Top 3 Selected...it was reload after reload after reload.

I don't think I ever remember being in such a hype crowd, it was amazing. I was wearing my jacket, cos I didn't want to put it in the cloakroom, and cos it was so hot, I was just dripping with sweat...but then most of everyone else was.

After that Tempa T got on the mic, and he did pretty much what Tempa T does,

and that's shout and par and be very aggressive and loud, but in a good way.

The crowd was at fever pitch,

he got a reload on 'Won't get none of your CDs back!' which made my night.

After that I didn't have anything left in the tank from the whole amount of crazyness and energy and reloads.

Probably the best grime night I've been to.

That Sky HD ad with Jose Mourinho

Last night I was walking through the train station, and I saw a billboard ad with Jose Mourinho, and he was saying a quote like "Many, many times, the difference between the winner and theloser is a little detail" - Profound.

anyway, I thought something, really bad...and I'm not going to say it because it's not cool.

I'm just going to think it...

Rinse v FWD>> 15th Birthday

Went to this on Friday....wow, that's what I can say...wow.

Turned up a little late, but just in time for the Spyro v Vectra v Silencer 'Dj Off'

and it's probably the best couple of musical minutes I have ever experienced.

One of the three mixed

Dizzee Rascal's I Luv U

into

More Fire Crew - Oi

into

Lethal Bizzle - Pow (Forward Riddim)

It was epic. I'm fairly sure that Pow has been banned by the Metropolitan Police, and is the first time I've heard it in a club. It kinda made me want to punch my friend, which is probably why it was banned in the first place.

Matter has speakers in the floor, and therefore, with the MASSIVE bass, the floor was vibrating and it was good stuff.

No sooner was that all over, when the Newham Generals came on the stage.

I've never really liked the Newham Generals, they have never really captured me.

But their set was pretty good, lots of Dubstep with MCing over the top.

We went up to the second room, where there was some heavy UK Funky being played,

I was away when everyone started on the Funky love, so I've missed out on that,

I'm still a Grime & Dubstep kid.

More DJs played, then we saw Magnetic Man play with Skream & Benga, that was a real banger, I thought it was Skream v Benga, but it wasn't.

We went outside for smokes, and I saw D Double E hanging around looking conspicuous.

Then we went to get some drinks and Ms Dynamite came on stage, by the time we'd bought our drinks, she'd almost finished,

she did three songs, with the last being that 'Boo' song with Sticky.

and she went off the stage, and Boy Better Know came on to some massive hype.

They were the highlight of the evening.

The sound in Matter was still a little bit lacking, which I was kinda unhappy about.

But I've been away for like, a year, so all these new mixtapes and albums have come on the scene, so I knew hardly any of the bars from any of the MCs

but it was good nevertheless.

Here is a video of them that I stole from Butterz.

Cheers Elijah

Camp Bestival

On the weekend, I went to Camp Bestival.

It's the real Bestival's little sister or something.

and there was bare families...and families mean kids, lots of kids.

So I stood there, feeling decidedly un-target market when Florence & the Machine opened up the festival.

Then I mused as to whether the machine ala Florence & the Machine, was the machine that Rage Against the Machine were raging against.

Then thought it was most humorous, and chuckled to myself, and realised I was standing surrounded by kids laughing to myself...so stopped.

Tinchy Stryder was playing, so I went into a tent to see him, and it was full of 14 year old girls.

They were all so white, and when that tune came on that he did with N-Dubz, they all went overly mental (in a white middle-class way), so I left.

The next day I went back into the tent and they were playing some pretty heavy cool dubstep, but once again, the audience was not to my liking.

I want to go to FWD>> soon.

I'm going to this on Friday, it's gonna be a mad ting!

OH YEAH!