SO.....the crowd was just starting to get heated up as myself and Pocketlips came onstage to quickly set the gear up, the venue filling up nicely with loads of heads all willing and able to bounce around to some heavy tuneage!
As soon as the boys had all their kit ready to rock, I started to give the crowd a good Hype-Up by playing some rapid-fire oldschool HipHop favourites and bouncing around like a madman (no change there then....lol).....After around 15 minutes of making the crowd "Jump,Jump,Jump,Jump", el Dave snuck in behind his drums, and gave me the nod.
We had previously discussed some kind of turntable/drums intro to the set, and we had a fairly good idea of what we wanted to pull off, but we didn't manage to get any form of practice in before the gig, so we just freestyled it, and damn, was it sounding heavy for an off the cuff jam!
The plan was this; i drop an angry bass tone, Dave kicks out some ill beats, then i proceed to cut up the bassline and some samples to give it a verse-chorus-verse feel! And yeah, the crowd were well hyped up from it!!
Now the crowd were PROPERLY in the mood for bouncing off the walls, so it was time to bring out the rest of the Pocketlips crew and bang on with the set. NOW i don't know if you have ever seen Pocketlips live, but these boys have massive stage presence....I'ts kinda like watching the Beastie Boys beating themselves up for fun, using anything onstage, including any poor member of the audience who makes it on to the stage! Poor little Margeux (the lovely girlfriend of the dopest geezer around, Andy Roads) got picked up onto Petes shoulders and was given the mother of all whirlygigs....i seriously thought both of them were gonna helicopter themselves off the stage!!!!
AND that wasn't the rowdiest part of the gig....earlier on, Pete had managed to "borrow" some flightcases off of another band for some extra stage height! So there was things onstage that we could all jump off if the need took us (and of course it did!!) Around half way into the set, we suddenly realised that Fred had somehow made it up into the lighting truss, (which was easily 15 Ft off the stage) and was slowly climbing along to the middle of stage, where he then managed to end up hanging by the backs of his knees, upside down, over the band!
I was rather impressed by this act of acrobatism, so i ran out from behind the decks to give him a double high-five. Unfortunately one hand missed it's target, and he managed to slap me straight in the eye lololol!!!!!
Pic 1.....a millisecond before accidental eye-slap!
So yeah....needless to say, this gig was LIVELY!!!After our set we packed up, and went back up to the lovely GreenRoom to raid the fridge of all it's alcoholic content. I started to hear some seriously dope as hell mixing coming through, so i wandered back down to the stage area, and managed to catch one of the best DJ based acts i have ever seen doing their stuff live...They were called Smith&Smart, and boy can they rock a crowd!!!! Pure party vibe hiphop mashups live !!!! Check em out if you ever get the chance, you WON'T be dissapointed!
Pic2.....apres giggidy drinkies with the pocket crew and one of Smith&Smarts.
Big up everyone i met out there, and extra bigups to everyone involved in the gig!
I'm still suffering from Tour Flu, so i'm gonna stop now.........
