New Year, New Pants, New Attitude!

Here's hoping your New Year's celebrations were swell and gay.

I went down to London to see my very best matey, and she took me to a place called 42 Fieldgate Street.

This place is pretty much someone's studio flat in London. He's moved the sofas to the back, installed a bar/a stage/some speakers and turned the ol' place into a club...
It's an intimate affair...there's no door tax, you can smoke!, we were offered absinthe jelly on arrival, and there's quite a random music policy. I heard that the last party had a dub band on, there are definitely pictures of brass instruments on their Facebook page, and Oliver Ho pops down on occasion whenever he's in London, like.
The DJs on NYE were playing a crazy mix of styles...from reggae to Bon Jovi, GnR to Garage...it was fitting for the evening and the atmosphere...random... [At one point in the evening my friend Joe asked us all "Can anyone smell toast?"]
Another big plus was that I got to chat to friendly strangers and dispelled the opinion that London is full of heartless knob'eds that don't smile and are rather rude. And that's always good.

The highlight for me was a girlcore 4-piece called The Berettas
Who RAWKED the first set of the night in the most amazing leggings i have ever seen in my life. Loads of energy - think Juliette & the Licksy/Gossipy/Peachesy-ness...



(forgive the dodgy camerawork)

Their myspace page has only one track on the player, which is a bit of a shame because i WANT MORE and they haven't released anything yet :(

My heart fills with glee to think that all this talk of Credit Crunk is going to bring about a new attitude to music. It's going to get interesting, and free parties are sure to start thriving. Let's hope there will be more places like 42 Fieldgate Street...VIVA LA (free) RAVE!