It’s hard work working with Dan. Not because he’s demanding but because he wants to push what we do with every project to do more. It’s great for me; stocking up on new ideas and influences for Dan to come along and let me go wild. And that’s how I end up staying up late, perfecting a transition.
Read MoreI met Adée whilst in Sweden on tour with Elle Exxe last year. We clicked straight away, talking about her and my influences from the Hip Hop world. I talked to her about how her delivery reminded me of Vic Mensa and the content was very Noname-esque. It was refreshing to come across someone who got what I was talking about in ideas, and was very gracious about the fact I was slightly deafened by the venue’s sound system and the fact I’d had something like four hours of sleep the night before.
Read MoreSean and I go way back. Like, all the way back to last summer, on tour with Sarah Darling traversing the British Country festival scene. We got on well from the outset; him impressing me with his yoga-like sleeping position in the van, me impressing him with my knowledge of Tom Cruise and Scientology.
Read MoreIn my first stint in Oz, all the time I hung out with my friend Arow, I never met her boyfriend Chris - one half of Headlines. So, it was weird to stand outside of Horse Bazaar again on my second Oz adventure, waiting for her to appear, only for this guy to precede her, staring at me like he knew me from a different life. I stared back at him because I felt like I knew him too.
Read MoreAdmittedly, I’m writing about my friendship with Jade Helliwell in reverse here. This is the second project that we’ve collaborated on.
Read MoreNot long after I got back from Sweden - like a couple hours or so - I was asked by Tommy, Fatai’s man with a plan for her European-based stuff, to cover her gig at The Lexington later that week. I’d listened to a few tracks before I got to the venue, but didn’t really know much about Fatai herself.
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