Freestylin'
First of all apologies to everyone for the lack of updates. Due to a combination of not eating or drinking for 25 hours and forgetting to pack a certain cable in my bag I haven’t been able to transfer the pictures from my camera to my computer until now but hopefully it will be worth the wait …
I’ve been going to San Diego for a long time now but it wasn’t until this weekend that I found out exactly how they get down over there. As soon as I arrived in town I was greeted by Yons and AJ of the ShitYeahs! who didn’t stop smiling all weekend.
Our first stop was this crazy Japanese restaurant called Ebisu where within five minutes the drinks were flowing and we linked up with Aly of Fiberops and Eric who runs one of San Diego’s freshest boutiques Unsteady.
Then Mr 5 & A Dime himself, Jay Dread, showed up with a few ladies to get the party started right.
With half of San Diego’s female population in tow, Jay led the charge to his regular Friday night jump-off downtown where he cut up everything from classic 70s Soul to 80s Brit-Pop and tore the place apart.
The 5 & A Dime family were up in the club getting down and Aly and Yons had to give me their toughest stares to keep me off the dancefloor.
At around 2.00 AM it was time for me to go home but I ended up getting caught up for about two hours on the sidewalk when I should have been asleep catching up with old friends Damon who is heading up to the Bay to work as the new A&R man at ABB Records and Maria who is now at American Apparel.
After way too little sleep it was time to head back out again and party at the One Year Anniversary for Commissary. Andrew, the man behind both Commissary and Invisible Man, was obviously there running things and very kindly gave me the sickest Commissary tee which will be getting rocked this week.
Snapping at Andrew’s heels was Commissary’s most infamous employee who turned up with her b*tch at her side and was giving it a lot of mouth before Scotty from The Hundreds managed to quieten her down with a sharp kick in the shins.
Angeline, quite possibly the cutest DJ on the planet, then arrived and was representing Twelve Bar to the fullest and, as the Sunday night jam wound down, Maria was generous enough to drive me home as it was looking like a really long walk.
San Diego really is the business and thanks to everyone for all their hospitality. It was smiles all round right until I jumped on the train back to LA.
I’ve been going to San Diego for a long time now but it wasn’t until this weekend that I found out exactly how they get down over there. As soon as I arrived in town I was greeted by Yons and AJ of the ShitYeahs! who didn’t stop smiling all weekend.
Our first stop was this crazy Japanese restaurant called Ebisu where within five minutes the drinks were flowing and we linked up with Aly of Fiberops and Eric who runs one of San Diego’s freshest boutiques Unsteady.
Then Mr 5 & A Dime himself, Jay Dread, showed up with a few ladies to get the party started right.
With half of San Diego’s female population in tow, Jay led the charge to his regular Friday night jump-off downtown where he cut up everything from classic 70s Soul to 80s Brit-Pop and tore the place apart.
The 5 & A Dime family were up in the club getting down and Aly and Yons had to give me their toughest stares to keep me off the dancefloor.
At around 2.00 AM it was time for me to go home but I ended up getting caught up for about two hours on the sidewalk when I should have been asleep catching up with old friends Damon who is heading up to the Bay to work as the new A&R man at ABB Records and Maria who is now at American Apparel.
After way too little sleep it was time to head back out again and party at the One Year Anniversary for Commissary. Andrew, the man behind both Commissary and Invisible Man, was obviously there running things and very kindly gave me the sickest Commissary tee which will be getting rocked this week.
Snapping at Andrew’s heels was Commissary’s most infamous employee who turned up with her b*tch at her side and was giving it a lot of mouth before Scotty from The Hundreds managed to quieten her down with a sharp kick in the shins.
Angeline, quite possibly the cutest DJ on the planet, then arrived and was representing Twelve Bar to the fullest and, as the Sunday night jam wound down, Maria was generous enough to drive me home as it was looking like a really long walk.
San Diego really is the business and thanks to everyone for all their hospitality. It was smiles all round right until I jumped on the train back to LA.
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