So, I had over a week between finishing my exams and starting Uni again. So I booked loads of single tickets and set off round to visit some friends who don’t live in Newcastle.I just had a rucksack and my bike, and at 8:30am last Friday, I set off from Newcastle!
I’m currently covorting round the UK on trains, seeing all my friends that don’t live in Newcastle. I’ve already been to Hastings to hang out with H Man, I got to ride the 70s ramp, and ride with Baz, Lacey and Nikki, and they KILL it. Watching Nikki and Baz ride that thing is so wild. I’m in Canterbury right now until tomorrow, then it’s on to Huddersfield! The above photo is the only one I have as I have no cables for my cameras. I don’t know what me and Liz are doing either.
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I’ve been at home all weekend for my parents respective birthdays. It’s actually been really good, I got loads of stuff done, rode quite a lot and got some stuff for wejetset done, so Taj will be stoked. I did however avoid my essay, which needs to be in on Thursday. In fact I still am, erm…. Loads more photos after the jump.
New Years Eve meant going to Manchester to the Warehouse Project. It was really good, if a little cold, and by the time 5am rolled around I started to truly believe that I would never be warm again. Still, it was a good time and thanks to Liz’s Uni friends for being cool and thanks to Jen’s boyfriend Pete for being awesome and letting us stay at his house.
Some choice Manc graffiti.
baaaaaaaaar. EXPENSIVE. Nobody wants to pay £3.80 for a CAN of Budwiser. NOBODY.
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Some random snaps from Bosworth Hall. Two all you can eat buffets in 12 hours makes you feel ill. I have eyes bigger then my stomach.
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Currently kickin’ it in Warwickshire, in a hotel in some random ass village with Liz and her family. Pretty good actually, hotel spa was awesome. Went down PDB style.
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I’m back home for a bit for Christmas and New Year. My village is boring and nothing happens, I haven’t got my bike with me so I can’t even ride the skatepark. Still, it’s been good seeing my family and spending every day with Liz. It was also good to go into York and see people I haven’t seen in ages.
I went down to London on Wednesday for an interview, I set off nice and early to make the most of the day, so by the time I got home I was shattered!
I met up with Rob Loeber who’s moved to London to work as a graphic designer for Urban Outfitters, we went to this cool pizza and pasta place around the corner from his office. They have an open kitchen where they make whatever you order right in front of you, and for London, it’s cheap!
I also had a completely surprise run in with Mellon while in Urban Outfitters. We waited outside for his girlfriend to finish shopping and he managed to stop looking from left to right and moaning long enough for me to get this photo, which was ultimately ruined by the bus in the background.
I also found a Banksey. Pretty stoked.
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This weekend gone I was in Manchester to see Liz, hang out with her Uni mates and go to the Chibuku Party at the Warehouse Project. Playing was Justice, Busy P, DJ Mehdi, So-Me, The Presets, Fake Blood and Yuksek. I.e pretty much the best line up I’ve ever seen in one night. I was pretty convinced prior to the gig that I would enjoy Justice the most, especially after their live set at Leeds Fest, which was, in short, amazing. However Busy P and Mehdi were way way better, Busy looked genuinely like he was stoked to be there, and really got the crowd going, plus he played the soulwax remix of ‘kids’ and ‘to protect and enterain’ albiet minus the hilarious vocals from Murs. Mehdi was simialrly entertaining, and when he dropped ‘signatune’ it was nothing short of epic. Don’t get me wrong, Justice were good, just not as good as they are live (they were doing a DJ set) and I think I was just happy to be seeing Busy P and Mehdi for the first time.
The warehouse project itself is amazing, it’s actually under Piccadilly Station, and used to be a car park. It’s all brick, no windows, portaloos, and really high vaulted ceilings, plus it has the Funkton 1 soundsystem, that Digital has in Newcastle, and is the loudest in Europe.
Sometimes opportunities come along where there’s just no way you’re going to say no. Like the opportunity to go to London to a private Red Bull party, all expenses paid free bar and it’s at Fabrics new club ‘Matter’ at the o2. Add in to that the evenings entertainment, Annie Mac, Wiley, Roll Deep and Scratch and you’re on to a winner. The company wasn’t to shabby either, I went down with Marc who’s one of the dudes behind Prefab 77 and a girl called Amy who I’ve been introduced to before, but rather embarrassingly had forgotten about, and we met Danny down there. The night was seriously amazing, I can’t thank Danny enough for inviting me down. I took a few snaps and I wrote some more stuff after the link.
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